2025-02-12- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 2: This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 1: Now here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 3: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. I'm Matt Jones. Wednesday, February the twelfth, the night of a full moon according to my book. Here you can give us a shower. The Clarks Puppy Shop fault line eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two seven to seven four five two five four. In this distion sponsored by the T. J. Smith Love is called TJ. He'll make them pay. We are here at Caspar Grill. It is Wings Day, Dollar Wings all day and night. You're not gonna get a better deal in Lexington and a nice post win crowd already here this morning to celebrate another big win by the Cats, this time against the Balls, sweeping the season series five of the last six against Tennessee as they win eighty five seventy four. Ryan, you know, it was a party atmosphere in Lexington. It was a party here before the game. It was a party at Rupperena. I think when otega Oway got that dunk at the end, that's one of the louder pops as they used in wrestling, that I've heard in Rupperena in quite some time. The two Kentucky kids combined for nineteen points. Kobe Brea makes big shots, Ansley on the norm maybe makes the biggest play of the game. What a bizarre way to win against your rival in Rupperena.

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Speaker 4: You're right, man, it is a great day to celebrate for all those ridgs you just listed. You're playing short handed. You basically your top three point guard druggle are out, and you had to go with two Kentucky kids off the bench and Ansley Almanor to carry in.

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Speaker 3: Those three guys came through for you. I mean, you could make a strong argument that the four biggest players in the game were all dudes that in the first game didn't start. I mean, you could really say that the Kobe Brea, Almanor and and Perry and Noah were the two. I mean, Butler played really well on Oway too, But I mean, if you're just talking about, like made the plays that were most important in the moments Drew, it's four guys. As I said on the postgame show, you had dudes that at the beginning of the year were the ninth, tenth, and eleventh men on the team. In Almanor, Perry, and Noah combined for thirty two points against the best defensive team in the country.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy, Yeah, especially there at the end, Tennessee was up I guess three, and then it felt like there was a run of a couple of Almanor buckets, a couple of Brea threes, the captain of the lobda oweyh. But a lot of the secondary players were the ones making the big plays down the stretch, which just made it so much more fun to see knowing that they had the shorthanded roster and they really went by the next man up.

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Speaker 3: I mean everybody here had to think when it was fifty eight fifty five Tennessee, after we'd been up nine or ten and we let them come back, they take the lead. I think they had scored on eight straight possessions and Butler goes down. There has to be a sense that everybody was like, well, this is over right, Like we've lost Butler, we don't have Robinson. Car is still not close to one hundred percent. We had a few possessions where we had no movement on offense and it was like, well, this is it. And then out of nowhere, Ansley Almonor beats a guy off the dribble and gets an A and one like, I mean, you could not have seen that happen.

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Speaker 4: The Andley Almanor play. We've not seen that all year long. For him to beat anybody off the dribble a huge point of the game.

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Speaker 3: He didn't get that three point play. That was that one got a fist pump for me at home home, And I don't always fist pump, but that was that was a fist pump. I couldn't believe it. And then you know Mount Mambo with three first half threes. I mean that he still looks like he's twelve years old, and he gets three first half threes, makes free throws down the stretch. You know, Travis Perry taking dudes off the bounce and banking in shots. Kobe Brea just keep scooping back and making far. Was just an amazing victory.

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Speaker 2: Oddly, Yeah, career high for Travis Perry, did all on the first half. And I love the Noah free throws late in the game where they're two minutes left. I mean, that kid wasn't even supposed to be on this team a year ago.

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Speaker 3: First free throws of the year. Yeah, not shot a free throw all season.

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Speaker 2: Then you put him on the team. It's like, well, maybe year three he'll be something. No at Tennessee hitting from the logo and when Tennessee comes here knocking down two clutch free throws down the stretch. It's been amazing seeing the two guys that were in last year's KHSAA Sweet sixteen step up in year one.

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Speaker 3: I said on the postgame show that I know who he is. He is our kid, like that dude at Clempson. He's gonna be that guy. You know, the dude at Clemson that like you look at him, you how's that guy good? Yeah, Shefflin, I think he's his name, And and because he doesn't have a body that would make you think he's good, it doesn't look like he could be quick, and yet he's really good. That's gonna be Trent, Noah. Trent's a better shooter than Sheflin. Sheffeld's probably better, rebounder, stronger. But I think that's gonna be Noah. He's gonna be one of these guys when he's a junior and senior people like, how did he just score eighteen points against US? I kind of feel like that's gonna be here. He is.

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Speaker 4: He's one of those guys that just has the ability to get his hands on balls, whether it's deflections or steals or rebounds or something. He's always at the right spot at the right time. And I think I don't know if it was Tom or somebody said last night, you know, the dude didn't even play one minute in the first four SEC games this year.

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Speaker 3: That's crazy, that's crazy. And he was in down like he was in the last five and he should have been should have been and he should have been. I mean, he was making the plays to be in there at the end. It was it was just bizarre to see how they were, how they were playing. And then I don't know, we have some sort of voodoo on Tennessee this year. I don't think people realize because we have hit fifty percent of our threes in both games. But that's the number one three point defense in the country. They are number one in the country, and yet we've made twenty five threes against them. And then while they can't shoot, they shoot like they've never seen a basketball against us. It's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we I mean, we wanted to recreate what happened in Knoxville when they went eleven for forty five. We knew that wasn't likely, but somehow they managed to have a worse percentage. They didn't take as many. Lanier and Zigler went oh for nine from three to last for eleven or oh for eleven, excuse me. And then there were four for twenty one in the other game. So add that up and those guys were just throwing bricks in these games. And that's how you beat Tennessee's. Make them shoot. And even though Zigler came in this game seven for eight in his last two games, there's something about that Kentucky logos.

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Speaker 3: He just cannot play well, he just cannot. They just can't do it. And it was clear that they had made made the decision we're not gonna shoot his him. It was interesting, I think once again Pope out schemed Barnes. So Barnes clearly told his team, we're not shooting forty five threes. That's not what we do. Because you could tell when those guys had open threes they didn't want to take them. So you could tell Barnes and said, you're gonna go to the But we then decided, you know what, well, we'll just back up farther. We'll let you shoot long twos. And they shot a ton of Now, they made a bunch of them. They actually shot long twos pretty well. But I think Pope was probably like, I'm good with them shooting long twos. If they make them, they make them. And they ended up finding a way to make Barnes take worse shots than they took the week before.

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Speaker 4: You're right that their offense early was that they were gonna take whoever was guarding, if he was Breer or one of the weak defenders, they were gonna go right at him.

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Speaker 3: Gainey.

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Speaker 4: He would I don't know how many times he was driving. He drove to the basket every time Perry came in. Zigler would try to go right and they did take but those were defensive mismatches. By the time we had the right line up in, they were shooting fifteen feet free throw.

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Speaker 3: Line jumpers and they made a bunch of it did but I think they were I think Pope was probably alright with that as a strategy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And there was a couple of times where Tennessee did go to the lane or make a long two and you're like and then it bang a three on the other end, You're like, well, okay, we can keep doing this if they want to play that game. Three is worth more than two. It's just the the philosophy of the formula, whatever you call it, is there to beat Tennessee. And it was just so fun to watch them throw bricks again all night. I want to play them again in Nashville. That might get a little cocky. Yeah, it's a little cock I said. I was so confident going into that game. I just think it's a good matchup. I don't think Barnes can which is crazy because.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was going to be a bad matchup. I kind of thought at the beginning of the year they were the worst matchup for US, But it seems to me it's turned out that they are the best. And I think it's their lineup they don't really have. They don't really have great athletes like Arkansas killed us with athletes. Their dudes are not great athletes and the ones that are are short. So we seem to be able to you know, our best defenders are Butler in no way They're players are at the one and the two, so that probably helps. Their center is the only dude who's played well against US in these games, milchick.

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Speaker 2: But uh, I think they thought Lanier was Dalton connect round two and he's not. He's fine, but I mean he's he's not the star that they need him to be.

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Speaker 4: You really see how good Kentucky can be when Bray is hitting no shots, though, man, when he's hitting the different we're.

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Speaker 3: A different team. Yep, we're a different team. So first of all, when you Billy sets up on the postgame show, was the halftime show the best thing.

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Speaker 2: To grace thing ever. It's the greatest thing ever. Pee Juggler, Man, I was there witchcraft so free? I don't know. I'm still I was up all night. I couldn't sleep. I started the ceiling like, how'd she do that? But but what did she do? She laid on her back and then she took kind of like your boy Darlington, but used her feet. She took a chair and just started spinning it with her feet like okay, it was unbelievable just the chair alone. But then they brought out this basketball goal that was probably twenty thirty feet high, and it had three level to it, and she kicked the ball and it would land on one level, and then she'd juggle it and land on the next one, and then the next one, and then it went in a hoop at the top. Now, I know that sounds like it doesn't make sense. Go to my Twitter to see the video. But Red Panda's on the hot seat, Billy, I love you. We have a new number one.

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Speaker 3: Billy said. He it was the most impressive thing.

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Speaker 2: He's ever I don't even know how you would begin to learn you have this talent, how you would practice it?

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Speaker 3: Always I always wonder with things like that, what's the first time you do it? Like the very first time you do it. You gotta be like, what am I doing?

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Speaker 4: The and the thing about when Drew is saying like she went from platform to platform. Those platforms are on like a swivel. They weren't like station. They want to swivel. She'd put it near it, it would like it would like move on.

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Speaker 3: It's all.

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 3: I watched his video. Oh you are his video? Okay, Well, so besides that, I mean that was talking about it.

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Speaker 2: I'm serious.

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Speaker 3: Talk about the crowd.

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Speaker 2: They liked Paypey too. We were all big paype fans.

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Speaker 3: That's what gay. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, And it was a great out. The rain, the slush did not hold them back at all. That was just as good as I don't want to say Arkansas close, but the Florida game, that was so awesome. The biggest home games of the year, it's right there with them, if not the best.

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Speaker 3: This has been a great run of home games. I mean, if you start the crowd we had for Louisville, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, I mean that's a heck of a run of We still got Auburn, still got Auburn coming up. I mean that's you got your money's worth with season tickets this year, Ryan, in terms of the games you get in Rubbed.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, we were all a little concerned what the crowd was actually going to be like, but then we got to feel during the pregame show here at the restaurant that it was.

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Speaker 3: I was shocked. I was shocked. I mean, I kind of this restaurant before the game tends to be a pretty good judge. And I pulled up here at four I was like, man, there's more cars that I thought. And we were full three hours for the game. And I went on a weeknight that's it usually gets full by the end of our show, but it's not always at the start. And it was a line at the beginning, and I went, oh, this weather's not gonna keep the crowd it what.

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Speaker 2: I was shocked too. I mean, you're talking four o'clock Lexington in the rain. People were in here. It was a Saturday night crowd is what it felt like. There's a little too much orange. But you know, I'm glad they came and visited, spent a little money and enjoyed their night in Lexington. But that was just a prelude to what happened at rub.

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Speaker 3: So after the game Mark Pope said about Lamont Butler and Jackson Robinson it would be a little while, but he did think they'd be back ready. So I sort of saw that as to say, those last couple of games the regular season, maybe Auburn, LSU, Missouri, maybe we have those guys, but that I think we have to mentally prepare going into Texas, Vandy and maybe even Alabama on the road that we're not gonna have those dudes. Alabama on the road without those dudes is gonna be a tough task. But Texas and Vandy, I think we can beat them with the lineup we have. It won't be easy, but I think you can win those games.

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Speaker 4: Ryan especially, Yeah, if Brave you're shooting the way he's shooting, and you get that contribution to those three guys off the bench. They shown they completely be at a very high level without those guys, which if you told me before the game that we're gonna lose them both, I would think we're in big trouble. Gets to this city.

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Speaker 3: Oh, when Butler went down, I thought we're losing this one. And then I looked at the schedule and I was like, are we gonna be all right? You know and and and now you know you won this one. I said, we need to win one game this week. We already did. I think at Texas. If you can get that one, be great. Then you have Vandy at home. That's not easy, but it's at home, so you know ourched. We've gotten through a lot of the tough schedule. This was that was a big win last night.

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Speaker 2: I've been promoting my four game win streak here, we're halfway there. Uh, the Butler news that hurts it a little bit. I'm sticking with it though. The one time I saw a whole Texas game, they don't play a lot of defense, which gives me a little hope there.

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Speaker 3: They've gotten destroyed. Yeah, they got destroyed last night and Arkansas beat them there and then they got destroyed by Band So they're on a pretty big downhill run. So hopefully we can take advantage of that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when that one, you gotta feel good about Vandy at home and at that point, just see if you can knock off Auburn Alabama and really make the season special.

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Speaker 3: You got seven laugh you got at Alabama. I'm gonna put that one as a loss. I don't know that we can win that one, but then at Oklahoma, at Texas, at Missouri. None of those are obvious wins, but you could win them all if you play well. L Sho at home, I feel good about Vandy at home, you feel good about Then you got Auburn at home, and we'll see what happens with that one.

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Speaker 4: So I feel a lot better about the Texas game after watching them last night against Alabama. That came on right after the Kentucky games, so you got to watch in law while listening to your postgame show. Yeah, they're having some issues. They're seem like they're going the wrong direction. Yeah, I thought they played pretty well earlier in the season, but they're going back.

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Speaker 3: I was thinking about the league last night. I mean, part of why the league is so good is if you look at the sixteen teams in the league, there's a strong argument that fourteen of the sixteen are either kind of what we thought or better. That really only Texas in Arkansas are worse. But Texas is worse, and we already lost Arkansas. So it would be nice if we can, you know, get the win against Texas. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. We are here at ks Bar and Grill celebrating a sweep of the vaults, sweep first time we've swept them since like twenty twelve, but we were twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 2: To the the we did two years ago. It's only two times.

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Speaker 3: I will never mind shut up, Well go to twice since Barts is doing me. I don't need you with all the facts. Okay, two years ago. We'll take a break and be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio. Walking back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. A couple other things about the game before we go. The phones. First of all, got the ol Way. They got the O Way chant going thank you to all the fans. I wondered when that was gonna happen. And then they did it during those free throws at the end. That made me happy. Finally, after all this time, we got that uh loud enough you could hear it even here on the TV broadcast. Yeah here here heard it on the TV. I didn't want to talk for a second about the two kids from Kentucky, because you know, I think it's important when we talk about them to like realize, I mean, look, they are the seventh eighth guys. I mean, I'm not trying to say that they're the key to the team, but there is certainly it is certainly the case that for citizens of Kentucky, having two Kentucky kids on the team playing well is really important. Then you throw in that they're from small towns, right like, they're not just from Lexington and Louisville. They're from Harlan and they're from Eddieville, right Like that matters. One of them's in eastern Kentucky, one of them's in western Kentucky. They played in the state championship in the finals, like it's almost like a storybook thing. And then neither of them the last coach really didn't want eat one of them. He ended up recruiting Perry, but that was almost forced on him, didn't recruit Noah. Then they end up on the team with the guy that played at Kentucky bringing them in, so it's almost like a perfect story. But then for them to actually contribute in their first year and to do it like bean dudes from Kentucky. I mean, Trent Noah looks like a dude that plays in the thirteenth Region. You know, he doesn't. He's not like a super athlete, he but he works hard and he makes shots and then to beat Tennessee. You know, Trent Noah said, my mama gets her hair done in Knoxville. Like I love that. That's such a that's like, that's like such a thing. Someone in the thirteenth region would say. People's moms in Middlesbrough and Harlan they get their hair done in Knoxville. I get it. I just think that makes it so much more special, especially to rural Kentuckians, like rural part of why then we love the ninety two team so much. They were rural Kentuckians and we just, I mean, we just don't get a lot of those, right, I mean, it just it just doesn't happen very much. Had Darius Miller and Dante Allen played a little bit Patrick Sparks back in the day, it just doesn't happen, though, And to have two of them on one team, Ryan, I just think it's really kind of a special thing for fans to watch.

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Speaker 4: It, watch it take place, and then, like you said, not just sitting on the bench contributing, playing meaningful minutes. You know, these two guys probably would never have got one minute last year if Cal was here, he just wouldn't play those guys. Pope has put him in early enough, get their feet wet, knock the rust off, so when he needs them they could contribute.

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Speaker 3: And that's exactly what happened last night. And I think we can all see a world where in like two years, they're really part like they're they're either starters or six men. I mean, I think I've become more and more convinced. I think Noah could be really good. I mean, I think Perry can be a really good role player. His defense is always gonna hurt him a little bit, but I think Noah can like be one of your best players at some point.

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Speaker 2: I think it's just exciting to see. Yeah, with the them been from Kentucky. I mean, more than half the fan base grew up wanting to be a Kentucky basketball player, and the percentage of that happening is less than half a percent. But these two actually lived it, so it's almost like they're living in the crowds dream. We were all on the driveway thinking that we were gonna be that, or dreaming we'd be that they're actually doing it. So it just kind of when your whole life you've wanted to be that and you're seeing someone actually live it, it's a lot easier to root for us.

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Speaker 3: I said this on the Postgame Show that I think somewhere after the Fox Monk here because I think kids really liked Fox and Monk. But between that year and like before last season, I feel like when I was around kids in Kentucky, they just weren't as excited about it as they were when I was a kid, and they it just didn't It felt like they were still Kentucky fans, but I just didn't see kids like growing up with that this is the most important thing in the world that I did. And then I think last year with Reid and Rob, some of that came back. Kids really liked Reed Shepherd and Rob dealing him. They felt a connection to them. And now I think this group, you're seeing it again. Otega Oway. Kids seemed to really like him, maybe just because of his I don't know his hair, just the way he plays. And then they you know, kids in Kentucky can look at Trent Noah and they can look at Travis Perry and say that can be me. And I think that really has made Between Read and Rob last year and those guys this year, I think it's really made I just I see more kids in here before the game. They're wearing the jersey. It just you know what I mean, It just if I feel that thing back, which I really like. And I do think Read and Rob had a lot to judge that last year.

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Speaker 6: I do.

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Speaker 4: And how about your thirteenth region, man, back to back years, Read last year and Trent this year coming out of the thirteenth region.

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Speaker 3: I mean you probably you guys probably listening get tired of me talking about the thirteenth region. But and it's not just the thirteenth, the fourteenth has this the fifthe I mean, I'm not trying to like monopolize it, but Southeastern Kentucky. No place in America has been hit harder by the change in the economy than Southeast Kentucky. The cole just being off Inner States, you know, having really no political representation for reasons that are beyond this year, like really none, and to have Read last year and now Trent Noah this year. Just the pride that that brings in a group of people. I think it's immensely important. And I just and I love that read last year, but Noah this year as well, Like Noah is Harlan when you say, my mama gets her hair done in Knoxville, like that's a Harlan thing and I and I love that that's.

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Speaker 2: Happening outside of Pepe. Last night, my biggest smile might have been Trent Noah saying his mom gets done his hair, her her hair done in Knoxville. I mean, that is the most Kentucky.

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Speaker 3: Even the phrase get your hair done is a mountain phrase, right, like like I just that's a mountain thing to say.

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Speaker 2: And then with Travis for a little different reasons. But on the other side of the state, you know, Eddieville ain't that big, but you know you're Regions thirteen mins Region two. I grew up going to Venture River water Park in Lion County. Have several friends around there and they're beaming with pride too. At the whole miss game, a whole tru went down of them. So having each end of the state makes it even more special too.

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Speaker 3: Well it's it's it's a fun team to be around. And whatever happens the rest of the year, you know, we got seven games. We got the SEC Tournament in the NCAA Tournament. I don't know what's gonna happen. I mean, honestly, anything could happen. There is a reignity of that flame that I think makes Kentucky different, right. I mean, you saw it during the Patino era, most of the Tubby era, slipped a little bit at the end, certainly the first few years of the Caliar, but it's not been the same in the last five or six years. And it kind of got reignited last year. But I think it's fully a flame again this year. And Mark and those guys, you know, I think people like having these players. They're kind of misfits from all these random schools and they come together and work. I just think it's neat to have that back, and I'll thank Pope for that this year. No matter what happens the rest of the season, We'll take a call. Be right back. This is KSR. TJ.

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00:23:06
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Speaker 3: Walk ame back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Uh text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. This is gonna be my text today because I you know, I can't. This is hard for me to fath This person writes, what if I told you before the game that Butler, Carr, Robinson and Williams would combine for fourteen points and we'd beat Tennessee.

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Speaker 4: Huh say you're dreaming probably hard you.

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Speaker 3: I would have had to think, well, Kobe Braa went for thirty, that's the only way we could have won that game. And uh, and we still won. And even though he made what he had fourteen, like, he's still like, I mean, he scored, but he did go off. So yeah, I mean that is amazing that those dudes. I mean that's that's basically four of your five starters to start the season combined for fourteen points and you still win the game.

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Speaker 4: So, you know, we've kind of been critical of saying Pope should levy starters in there more often.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I still believe that not necessarily. Well, my problem is only with the line changes, Like I don't like the put all five of those guys in together. I don't think that works, and it didn't work last night. I mean, we were up ten, they put all five of those guys in together and then it was a three point game. You just can't do that. But what I what we've seen is though those guys combined with starters, I think can really work well.

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Speaker 4: I haven't seen the plus minus, but i'd say Trent Noah must have been.

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Speaker 3: Noah was first. Actually actually Carr was first.

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Speaker 2: I think Noah Car Williams and cars at sixteen, Trent Noah eighteen. He's the leader.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Noah, Carr and Williams, And that makes watching the game, you know, not trying to be critical. I thought Brandon Garrison was bad. I thought he played really poorly, So it doesn't surprise me that we were a lot better with Williams. Yeah, i'd say was Perry was probably a negative? Is he a negative? Non sine? But that was in part because they put him in in those line changes, and those line changes just don't I don't think they work for this this team.

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Speaker 2: And mister automatic oh way, another double digit game. We had thirteen, But it's every single game this season the only person in the SEC was done.

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Speaker 3: Let's note that for a second, this is an amazing statistic. I mean, he he has gotten double figures in every game. They're the last person to get twenty four straight games was Malik Monk, who, if you remember, was pretty amazing. I said the wrong stat on the air last night. Antonio Reeves last year had double figures in every game but one. He had nine points in one game. Oh wait, doesn't put up the big numbers that Reeves does. But that's an amazing thing for that kid to be double figures every game. You talk about something I wouldn't have seen. I didn't even think he was gonna start before the season starts.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this summer, we're talking about potential starting lineups. We never put him in the starting line. Now he's the guy who's been the most consistent all year. And do we get him back?

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I think he'll be a big piece.

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Speaker 3: Yeah next year. So next year we could have Oway, Garrison and then whatever happens with kr, Right, that's it, and then yeah, yeah, Away and Garrison and Hill. All right, who's up first hit?

00:26:13
Speaker 1: All right, let's start with Jay and Lennon, Jay and Lyndon, how are you?

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Speaker 5: I'm okay. The only disappointing thing last night is I had the flu and I couldn't go to the game, but now I wanted to see this. The best thing to come on the show in a while is you, being from eastern Kentucky coming up with the mountain mamba names.

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Speaker 3: I didn't come up with it. I didn't come up with I don't want to take credit for it. It was a guy or a person on the ks board, Kippy Skippy. So we got to give credit to Skippy on ks board. I'll take you know, I'll take credit for anything I do. I'm not humble about it. But I didn't do that one. It says you got to give that to Skippy who came up with mountain Bamba.

00:26:49
Speaker 5: Well, I mean you vetting it. So I want to throw down a gauntlet here. Since Travis Perry's from Western Kentucky, I think fans need to share their nicknames for Travis Perry, not to be Drew, with Drew being Western Kentucky, and Drew's gonna help get the nickname for Travis Perry because we need a nickname for both of them.

00:27:08
Speaker 3: All Right, I let Drew. We'll let Drew. If I sort of vetted the mountain Mamba, We'll let Drew at the Western Kentucky Travis Perry name. Send all your suggestions to Travis, to Drew Franklin. That's a good idea, Jay, I appreciate that.

00:27:24
Speaker 2: There's been a few that are okay, We're not ready to commit to any. None are quite like Mountain Mamba.

00:27:28
Speaker 3: Oh yaw.

00:27:28
Speaker 2: The leader is Venture River Monster, because Venture rivers the water park there.

00:27:32
Speaker 3: I think that's gonna be hard to Venture River Monsters a lot. I need to say something to Mark Pope. Love you, Mark Pope. We all adore you. Stop trying to switch it to Hollerballer. We have all settled on Mountain Mamba. He keeps saying, I prefer Hollerballer. No, sorry, Mountain Mamba is already one. Don't confuse us with the second one. Let's just stay with the one that people like. Nochs st No likes it too, he said he likes it. They do.

00:28:00
Speaker 4: I think Jack asked me about it last night in the postgame show, and he Trent embraced it like he thought it was awesome.

00:28:05
Speaker 3: Plus holler and Baller don't rhyme right. You can go Bower Holler Baller, but like you're trying a little hard there. Mountain Mamba is the way to get I.

00:28:14
Speaker 2: Didn't see him Mountain Mamba T shirts last night, but I saw baby T shirt.

00:28:19
Speaker 3: Have they not been selling those? Like, come on, Skippy, get on it. Kentucky Brandon, what are you doing?

00:28:24
Speaker 2: I like Tom Leitch, who doesn't even tweet that much, tweeted out like a song about Mountain Mamba last night. I mean, everybody's all in on it.

00:28:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's the that's the way to go. Who's next.

00:28:34
Speaker 1: Let's go to Greg?

00:28:35
Speaker 3: Greg? Go ahead, Greg?

00:28:38
Speaker 7: Hey, can you hear me?

00:28:39
Speaker 5: Yes?

00:28:40
Speaker 3: I can.

00:28:42
Speaker 7: Yeah, thanks for taking my call. Just wanting to mention two things real quick. So twelve to twenty four from the three point line. That was the same exact same we shot at Tennessee. So that was awesome to see, like catching ready to shoot. Really didn't take a bunch of bad threes, No, not really. To see one, especially to see won't go in for o way is huge because you know, he went through a bunch of struggles I feel like, especially in the middle of the season, and to see him hit one this game, in the last game, I think is huge for his confidence.

00:29:15
Speaker 3: Totally agree. I appreciate the call. I like the point about being ready to shoot. There were a couple times I saw I thought that was obvious Trent Noah's third three, as Jay Millis noted, he knew he was gonna shoot it before he even got it, like he that's confidence. Ansley Almanor got it a couple times. It's going up. He hit one at the top of the key where I knew, you saw two passes before it got to him. He was like, I'm gonna catch this and it's gonna go in. O way did not want to shoot his three, but he did and it went in, and that's good. I need him to get that confidence going because he needs to shoot. And then Kobe Brea looks so smooth on those two long threes. You know, our offense, our offense was struggling to get movement, and Kobe Brea got us the movement in the last five minutes basically the threes, and then they came out so far on him, he took him off the dribble through the lob to Otaga. Kobe Braya kind of ran the show in those last few minutes.

00:30:10
Speaker 4: He did, and he would step back a little further hit it, and then the next one step back a little further. Hit that We've talked about his three point shooting with the alley oop and he threw up the way.

00:30:19
Speaker 3: I think that was the that was the dagger that I think that was the dagger. But he only gets to do that, I think because he hits the threes before.

00:30:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had a bad angle on that, so I didn't even realize until this morning. Like the close up, he's it's a look away aliop too. I mean that was really playing the game outside of paypay.

00:30:36
Speaker 3: And this is not a team that's been good at the alliops. You in pay pay, I mean, you have something you need to tell us.

00:30:43
Speaker 2: Oh, but when you are somewhere and you see greatness, you have how I didn't see if she like she could be twelve, she could be ninety.

00:30:50
Speaker 3: I don't know.

00:30:51
Speaker 2: I don't know, no clue. But when you when you see greatness in front of you doesn't come around often and you're trying to like reach out to her, is this maybe I just I have questions. I'm telling you my mind has not been right.

00:31:05
Speaker 3: So you're saying she's gonna be at the women's.

00:31:07
Speaker 2: Game, She's gonna Yeah, I'm trying to trying to arrange a how how the hell did you do that between now and Thursday?

00:31:13
Speaker 3: Dont she asked?

00:31:13
Speaker 2: If she wants to come here tomorrow, d I want her to teach me to spend I'll spend a chass part.

00:31:18
Speaker 3: I can't give her any money, but if she wants to.

00:31:20
Speaker 2: Super money, I'm telling you just whatever whatever she needs, and we'll put her up downtown. I'm telling my brain has it was completely changed last night and halftime of that game.

00:31:29
Speaker 3: By the way, Uh, Georgia, amore, Wait a minute, is it today or tomorrow? She's gonna be here? And maybe today? Well, actually I think it is today. You will make it. And she was gonna come before the Texas game. I don't think she would come the day of the game. No, probably not, So it's probably today. Well, let's I guess. Well, if she walks in here at eleven thirty, you'll know. I know she's coming at eleven thirty. Okay, but I'm not sure if it's today or tomorrow. Hey, tension bourbon lovers. Commonwealth Causes is back with their February bourbon raffle, twenty thousand dollars worth of bourbon. It's amazing how much burd The drawing takes place February twenty seventh. It includes the Weller Millennium. Do you know what the Weller Millennium is?

00:32:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one bourbon. I'll never get to touched. It's a good one.

00:32:15
Speaker 3: Well you could if you win this raffle. They also have the twenty twenty four Double Eagle, very rare, a complete Weller Vertical, and more big bourbon. Big prizes go to Commonwealth causes dot org and enter the raffle. Commonwealth causes dot org. Money goes to UK nil into charity. Commonwealth causes dot org. The February Bourbon Raffle. There's always a that seems like pretty good prizes.

00:32:40
Speaker 2: Right, Oh yeah, I mean those are some bourbons you can't just go and get anywhere.

00:32:44
Speaker 4: It's amazing they get this every time they do a raffle. They've got this kind of a package.

00:32:47
Speaker 3: I'm gonna see if this is today, she's coming, Yeah, it's today less so at eleven thirty Georgia Amore will be here. I'm glad, I reminded myself. She might have just walked in and I would have gone, wow, what are you doing? You came for lunch, and then I would remember that she's supposed to do the show. We'll take a break, be right back. This is KSR. Work it back. It is Turk you Sports Radio. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine seven seven two seven seven four five to two five four, let me tell you how much I wasn't gonna miss the Kentucky the Kentucky game last night? All right? What happened? I got a message, you know, I I, uh, we did that little thing yesterday where I did the talked about the Constitution, yes, and I put a couple of tweets out, et cetera. I got a message from one of the news networks that wanted me to come on one of their primetime shows last night. I'm not gonna say which one, but the Fox, CNN, MSNBC one of those shows that wanted me to have that conversation from my tweets and from this show. And I said, all right, I'll do that, and they were like, uh, we'll tape it about eight thirty. I was like, you can't do it now, what do you mean you can't do I was like, Kentucky's playing and they said yeah, but this is this show and it'll be and I was like, I'm sorry, it's like Kentucky's playing Tennessee and I go, I'll do it tomorrow and they're like, well, it'll be over tomorrow, and I was like, well then I won't be on.

00:34:12
Speaker 4: You couldn't at age thirty, that's when things were really happening. You would have missed the most of the crucial points of the.

00:34:17
Speaker 3: Exactly you think I'm missed, Kobe Bryan making no shots to talk about, you know, the executive like I've got there's a game going on for everybody who like tweets me, Oh you you liberal? I know my priorities. Okay, first place is beating Kentucky basketball.

00:34:35
Speaker 6: Yeah.

00:34:36
Speaker 3: I might be a sneaking liberal, but first time a Kentucky fan, I'm not missing the game to go talk about the Constitution. Come on, there'll be other constitutions.

00:34:47
Speaker 2: The Constitution has been around a while.

00:34:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, condosition, that's exactly conserution that need me ansley almanor Amen? Did you watch the during the post game show? I watched. Did you watch Create and Yu Khan at All? I did not. Okay, so, first of all, two things I liked about Creighton Yukon. Creighton was playing Yukon in Omaha. It was at nine o'clock. They decided to have dollar Beer night. Oh boy, so the crowd, the crowd was the I mean you by the end of the game, I was like, these people are going have to be escorted out of here. I mean, Omaha hadn't seen that excitement since they started making those steaks there. I mean, that was the last time. Then Yukon wins. Danny Hurley like, it's good for the sport. He's there. I think he's a jerk, but it is good for the sport to have him. We need villain coaches like, we need somebody like that. He walks off the court and people are yelling at him. He won, they won the game. They're yelling at him, and he just looks up at the crowd and goes two rings beeping. He beep two rings, and then he looks at the guy in the crowd and goes, shut up, baldy. Danny Hurry Danny himself has no hair, says shut up, baldy. I thought like that, there just has no I don't know if he has no self awareness or if he doesn't care, but like yell and shut up Baldy to the guy in the crowd when you yourself are bald is a pretty astounding move.

00:36:20
Speaker 2: Drew, Yeah, I saw that clip. He he was doing well with the two rings. Stick with that point, the bald on bald crime. His whole argument went out the window. They're calling again.

00:36:30
Speaker 3: And they asked him after the game, They said, you know, hey, you yelled two rings and shut up Baldy. Do you think that was a good thing to do? And his answer was yes, I just wish there were more people to hear it because they all left. It's like he just doubles down like I On some level, you almost have to respect what a jerk he is. It would not have worked here, by the way, It just would not have worked here. But he is kind of he's like the perfect Yukon coach. In some way.

00:36:57
Speaker 4: We need a villain. We need somebody like that in college basketball too. We can everybody Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky all can.

00:37:05
Speaker 3: Again. The only thing it would better is if he was at Duke, Like if he was doing that stuff at Duke, it would be like even more. But Ukon, I mean, you know, we've you and I've had interactions with Yukon punched, like if your goot a dude like that is kind of perfect for Yukon.

00:37:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, my original KSR. No, somebody had like Drew's bloody lip that's from a Yukon game.

00:37:23
Speaker 3: I thought about you. I went to the hockey game. So people may not remember this, but many years ago Drew and I went to was it Kentucky Yukon Walls here a different.

00:37:32
Speaker 2: Year it was the Wall Years Square Garden.

00:37:35
Speaker 3: And if you've ever been to Madison Square Garden for a modern like for an arena that's historic, the way you get up and down is really like old school and kind of bizarre. It's like these elevators and it's a very condensed space. I mean, you would think you were in the like it's you would not think you were in the world's most famous arena to get when you get up and down and Drew, you got punched in the crowd, right, and then we were trying to walk out, and I think you were still angry about having been punched in the crowd, so there was more mouthing going on, you know, and you can't get away. The problem is you're stuck. Yeah, and there were a lot more Yukon fans than there were Kentucky fans. And I and you and I hadn't been working together that long. At that point. I was there with my roommate, but I was with you on the way out, and I was like, this dude's gonna get me beat up in the middle of mess. Let me defend. I've told this before.

00:38:26
Speaker 2: I was with a young woman and they called her something we don't say, and I turned around. I was like, hey, man, keep it on me. Don't call her that again. And he said, oh blank. And I was like, I wish you hadn't have done that. And at that point, me and my friend we made a decision.

00:38:39
Speaker 3: That may have been how it starts. But later on in the on the walkway, I don't know how it started, but there were a lot of people yelling, and I thought to myself this.

00:38:50
Speaker 2: It wasn't just me. I watched and people there were knowing. I've talked to people that I didn't know back then that saw it. I watch an elderly man. I don't mean someone like fifty, I mean this guy was at least seventy five eighty. He got completely sucker punched by a college kid and just folded him in Madison Square Garden. They were in there hitting everybody. There were fights on the subway. We saw someone reach in and punch a Kentucky fan as the door we're closed, and he took off running. That's why I will always hit you konk. So, Dandy Hurley is a perfect coach for that group. I think he fits in well with him.

00:39:19
Speaker 3: Who's up next, Brian, Go ahead, Brian, Yeah.

00:39:24
Speaker 6: I just want to make a quick comment about Trentonola. One of the big things that I absolutely love about that guy's game is his effort. He comes in defensively, he's in a guarding position clapping, and I think that that plays a big row into his defense in the offense kind of mentality. And I really think that I'm not saying that he takes Kobe Bray's place or anything like that, but when they need that energy and that spark, he's definitely a guy that can help produce that for the For this team.

00:39:56
Speaker 3: He's done a great job. I mean, he's done a great job. I appreciate the call of the injuries. I think really the injury to Carr kind of opened up his opportunity to get minutes, and he's been able to take it. Let me ask you though about injuries in general, Like, you know, you heard the comments last night about Robinson and Butler. Are you feeling like we will get a healthy Robinson and Butler for March.

00:40:21
Speaker 4: I absolutely think they'll be back for March. I don't think we're gonna see him anytime soon. And we all saw what happened to Butler. You know, he was hustle play, diving for a loose ball, but then that shoulder kind of got twisted up underneath him. Just can tell you to tweak it immediately.

00:40:34
Speaker 3: That worries me.

00:40:35
Speaker 4: He may be out for longer than Robinson Robinson's wrist, maybe something like after a week. He might be coming back.

00:40:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, as long as I'm at the point now, as long as they're here in March, right, as long as they're here in March. I mean, I'd love to have him in this regular season, but we need him in March because our ceiling is low without them. I'm not saying they can't win a game or two, but like we got to have them to be consistently to get six four straight wins, right, But I did feel good that Pope said pretty definitively that he thought they would they would be ready in March.

00:41:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you of if I need to rest and rest, though your tournament seeding is good. Leonardi, even before last night, called him a lock. I know some Kentucky fans were worried long term. I mean, if you got to go to a Missouri or play some of these games without them, the March postseason run is much more important.

00:41:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think you're exactly right if you might say if we played them both, we'd beat Texas, But I'd rather take the loss at Texas and keep them healthy than risk losing one of them for the year to try to win that game. I think the South Carolina game was a must win. You know, maybe the Vandy game next week's a must win, but this Saturday, it's really more important to me that we keep this team healthy. Although I definitely want to win, we need to keep.

00:41:53
Speaker 4: Them, hell, keep them healthy, because those two guys are the two main factors for us to maybe doing something in March, so we need them both as healthy as possible.

00:42:00
Speaker 3: One of my buddies, who's uh, who's uh, who's married? Woman says, I too, almost got in a fistfight that night versus Yukon.

00:42:08
Speaker 2: I feel Drew's pain. I'm not exactly I've been to a lot of sporting events. I've never seen anything like that Game of the Garden. There were fights everywhere.

00:42:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, they are, They're a nasty lot. All right, we'll take a break. Eight five nine twenty two eighty seven. It's Wingsday. Bar will open here just a few minutes. Georgia A. Moore in the second hour as well. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.