2026-02-25- 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: All right, let's do this Wednesday, February to twenty fifth. I'm Matt Jones.

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Speaker 2: Still little voice struggling.

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Speaker 6: It is that a little better than yesterday?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I did.

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Speaker 5: I did not have a voice last night. It was gone and now a little better today. Hopefully I'm doing a steroid treatment tomorrow. You know I have diagnosed myself.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we heard this.

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Speaker 5: Where's the Clark's pumpminsh O bow line is eight five nine two twenty two eighty seven A vision autoglass text Machine seven seven two four five two five four in this edition sponsored by the T J Smith of Office. If you called DJIL make them pay. I believe Ryan, you have two vocal cords. Am I right about that? I'm not aware you are you a doctor, ma'am. You work for a doctor, so she basically a doctor. She can confirm. I think my right one is working, okay, my left one is weak.

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Speaker 6: The left one's letting you down.

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Speaker 5: And the left one I think does my high volume, like the high pitch, and the right one does the low volume. So the right one is working. But then when I tried, now this is how it works, ma'am, you may not. You weren't there that day when they taught this. And then the left one when I try to go well, and then it doesn't.

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Speaker 4: Work, like cord is your doufin Schmirtz cord.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's my doffin Schmirtz cord, and it's not working right now, and so it's only the other one.

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Speaker 2: So different.

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Speaker 7: Smirts on the IR today. Yeah, keep a low it's going to be like you know late I didn't ask you.

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Speaker 5: Uh, this is gonna be like you know late night with Matt for today.

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Speaker 7: Well, good, look forward to hearing it. You do sound much better, even though it's still got a little ways to go. There's progress.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's deep. You know. This is kind of how I talk in life.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think people think sometimes I'll meet somebody and then they'll hear my show and they go they don't. That doesn't sound like you, but it's because it's like, but I'm not gonna be able to yeah today, but.

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Speaker 6: You feel fine.

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Speaker 2: It's just your voice a little congested, but I feel fine.

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Speaker 5: I'm not sick. It's weird like last night. You know, the game's going on and I'm wanting I'm like, you know, you feel like you could do the shows because I feel fine, But when you can't talk, you can't talk about. Like I said, I'm taking a steroid. Do it like my Mark McGuire and hopefully tomorrow because I want you know, if it's like this, I couldn't do the show in Madisonville Friday, which we're of course going to your hometown.

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Speaker 7: It's right, 're excited about going to my hometown. We'll get you back. That steroid sounds like it will help. I mean you you.

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Speaker 5: Know, yeah, I do this about once a year again, ma'am. I mean I can help you left vocal cord right and the left one needs some work.

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Speaker 6: The left one is the high voice vocal cord.

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Speaker 2: To you, it's science, okay.

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Speaker 5: Can no, no, no, could we listen? I don't need your facts. I did my own research. I learned from RFK. You do your own research.

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Speaker 6: You did learn last time or two dames? Do not drink a lot of water to help.

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Speaker 5: No, no, no, I mean no no. Don't flood yourself. I've been drinking water because you need to do that. But don't flood yourself like I did a few years ago. Cats win last night. What was the final score? Seventy three six two sixty three, seventy two sixty three. You know, not the prettiest basketball game in the world. But the thing Ryan was to win, and we did that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. It was a It was an ugly game, hard to watch, especially that first half first half. Both teams were pretty bad. But they had to win. It had to, had to, had to. I don't care how ugly it was. They walked out there with a win, which is desperately what they needed. Our fan base needed as we had down these last three games of the year.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that was an ugly game. But before I just said, as Ryan just said, get out of there with a win. I don't care what it looks like. I even predicted it being closer than it was, so I can't switch up and nitpick. I'm just glad they got out of that losing funk and got out of the bubble talk about just by getting the victory and then we'll worry about what needs to so the fixed moving forward.

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Speaker 2: The key.

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Speaker 5: The key is now they're in the tournament, right like now, I think they could lose every game and that and they would be in the tournament. They needed that one, and I think it's important you won, Ryan, without oh wait, really playing well. I mean, oh wait, played bad and they still won. And I don't know that would have happened a month.

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Speaker 6: Ago, right, Yeah, with all the way all he's going eight points, you found a way to win without you know, South kind did a good job on him, shutting him down and keeping him away. But Aberdeen stepped up. Diabate his best game he's played in a long time. He stepped up. That's some guys step up. We still had some guy to struggled, but some guys channel hit another big shot. I mean he had like two threes the first three of the game, then the big shot at the end of the game.

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Speaker 2: Aberdeen and Diabate to me, won of the game.

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Speaker 6: They did.

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Speaker 5: Aberdeen hitting the threes in the first half when we just could not score, and then Diabate in the last six or eight minutes making big plays. And then Chandler obviously hits the big shot. He didn't play great, but he hit the shot. Win At hit the shot at the beginning of the game and the one at the end of the game that I thought were big.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Aberdeen and Chandler helped make up for Oway, Aberdeen especially, but I left. The big difference was they finally got help from the four with yellowvinch more so in the first half than Diabate in the second. They combined for like twenty three to twenty four points. I think that was a big help. And if they're gonna put together any kind of run, they're gonna need more of that for those guys, because the Guards just need help, and they finally got it last night.

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Speaker 5: Did you you know when they did you ever think we were gonna lose?

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Speaker 6: I felt like South Carolina was so bad there's no way they're going to lose the game. I mean it was uncomfortably close for a while, and we struggled. I thought South Carolina is just a bad basketball team, so I know.

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Speaker 5: I mean, they did not play well. No, I mean South Carolina. First of all, Shinnon, there was a little child on South Carolina.

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Speaker 4: Yeah there was.

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Speaker 2: And people tell me that guy's famous. Did you know that?

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Speaker 6: What's for being a little child?

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Speaker 8: He?

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Speaker 2: What is his name? Ellis?

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Speaker 7: That's what you're talking about?

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Speaker 2: That guy?

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Speaker 6: Why?

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Speaker 2: Why is he famous?

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Speaker 7: I didn't know he was famous. I just couldn't believe.

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Speaker 5: He was in the SEC When I tweeted about I didn't even mention his name. But there were people like put respect on Eli says his name, put respect on his name. He's famous. But then I looked him up and I couldn't find him. So is he famous?

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Speaker 2: Mario? For what? Nah?

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Speaker 5: It's probably tiktoks. It's tiktoks. Well, anyway, looks like a child. I honestly thought that like somebody, you know, like rich donors, their kids will get to clean the floor and stuff during games. That I thought that's what happened. I thought they had a donor who they decided would let a fourteen year old play that their whole team. I mean, I don't say this to be rude to him, because they almost beat us. It looked like the team from Team Wolf. Have you seen you know there's one guy whose jersey's a little too tight and he's big little. They had that guy and he kind of ate us up for a few They had like they had like kids a guy from the Science Fair.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of what they look like.

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Speaker 5: Uh, Buddy Mine texted and said that they is South Carolina's an il group on because it was it did look like kind of a Team Wolf group.

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Speaker 7: I was trying to stay excited about the win and not downplay Kentucky winning on the road in the SEC because that's hard. But South Carolina is really bad. I know that guy the I don't know that Elijah Strong. He had a little run where he scored like seven points, but outside of that he was zero for seven from three. He in that capit trure how you say his name. They had ten feet of space. We're taking open threes and just breaking them one after another. Now Kentucky was doing a little bit of that too, but both teams had wide open shots from deep and could not make them. South Carolina hit four to start the game and finished with eight for the game. They just went absolutely cold.

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Speaker 5: I'd like to do like a player by player, not just this game, because I don't know how much there is to analyze this game, but just in general state of the players. Okay, all right, oh wait, did not play well, but that's been great this year?

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Speaker 2: Would you agree?

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Speaker 6: And he, you know, evenly didn't play well offensively, he still was guarded MITCHI Johnson a lot of the games.

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Speaker 2: He didn't do a good job, did a good.

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Speaker 6: Job locking him up, and I think he had five steels steals, yeah, last night. So the defensive end for Alway was good. Offensive end, they just shut him down.

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Speaker 5: He once or twice a game just dribbles into three people and loses the ball. Like that's gonna happen. You just have to accept it. But good Aberdeen is my He is my MVP of the SEC play. Not because he's been our best player. Alway has, but Aberdeen. The reason we don't stink is because of Aberdeen.

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Speaker 2: Do you agree with that?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 7: South Carolina led for most of the game early. I think they were up first ten minutes, went up early and then they had that ten oher run and part of it was he hit those back to back threes and that was the first time we got the go big Blue chant from the crowd, that completely flip theme.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that shout out not many South Carolina fans, but a lot of Kentucky fans.

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Speaker 7: Four dollars tickets, four dollars, four dollars to go see Kentucky basketball on the road.

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Speaker 6: A lot of empty seats available. Yeah, this is bad. Aberdeen to zero turnovers last night.

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Speaker 5: I love the kid. Yeah, and I couldn't stand watching him play in the first half of the year.

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Speaker 2: Agreed, I'm with you and I love him Now he's played great.

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Speaker 5: Chandler not played great, but hit shots when it matters, and uh has been important for the team.

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Speaker 6: Very important. And yeah, like you said, he did, he kind of struggled, but he still hit the big shot at the end of the game. He just got that knack for at the end of the game making the big play, and he did it again last night.

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Speaker 2: Malachai has been.

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Speaker 5: Much better than I would have thought, and good You've started to see in the last five or six games. His lack of strength is starting to hurt him because guys are taking the ball from him there there. But he had what eleven rebounds last night, so that was that was big for him as well.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, they won the rebounding battle forty eight to twenty eight. That's that's nuts. I mean, like the South camp to the players even have arms, like, how do you lose that? Bad inside?

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Speaker 6: For Malachi?

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Speaker 2: Team Wolf, they don't re that's true, that's true. They don't. They don't feel the need to.

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Speaker 3: Turn into their guys haven't turned into the wolf yet.

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Speaker 5: They'll do that at the SEC tournament. That's when the little child becomes a wolf. That you don't remember the storyline out of.

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Speaker 7: Dude, I just what I didn't get the connection to South Carolina, but I see it now.

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Speaker 5: Diabadte inconsistent, but brings a level of toughness that nobody else on the team has that I think is big.

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Speaker 2: And you saw that last night.

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Speaker 6: What he took over last night on them. He just bullying, bullying in inside, playing good defense, getting big rebounds. Now when he gets the ball, he ain't gonna pass it back out, but.

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Speaker 2: He hits the ball. I mean you can see it.

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Speaker 5: He will get the ball sometimes and it's like this is going up and he dribbles, he puts his head down, his head down, dribbles it very low to the ground, like he's almost a below his knee, and he just and they could send five people, a police department, guard dogs.

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Speaker 2: He shoot, he's going up and ain't nothing that's gonna stop him. And he shoots probably twenty percent on those shots. But when he gets something, they tend to be an and one. That's right and so. But I like his rebounding, his toughness.

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Speaker 7: Football could have used him on the goal line last year. I think that lower of my head and run through anything could have worked on the other side of campus. But it became very clear in the second half they realized they had a big advantage inside and they just bullied their way in. I mean, he even had the breakaway where he went into end, got the and one finished. He cut a few times. They hit him on passes inside, but they made him part of the attext.

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Speaker 2: He meant that one of the biggest plays the game. He made a move.

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Speaker 5: It was another I'm not gonna pass move missed, but Garrison was able to get the put back and got him in one and that was really Diabate created that play.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Dbata, when you talk about he makes that movie the lot of time, he just didn't even shoot it. He just throws.

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Speaker 2: All of it. Didn't play great, but hit a couple of big threes, missed a few as well.

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Speaker 6: Was he won one of six or something, It.

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Speaker 7: Didn't matter how I finished.

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Speaker 2: The one was felt good.

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Speaker 7: I think the one was the sixth one he started over five.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you know, we got to talk about it.

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Speaker 7: It's not fun to talk about.

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Speaker 2: So Trent has made three baskets in February. No, he's made zero.

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Speaker 7: He has two free throws. It's all he has.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's in the last two weeks.

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Speaker 7: It has no made field goals since January.

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Speaker 5: That's even worse. Those shots last night made me cry. I mean there was his first three, the one in the corner, maybe the worst shot that's ever been taken. It was like three feet short left, so.

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Speaker 7: I didn't see it. I'd stepped out of the room and I got don't watch well. I got a bunch of texts about it, and I'm like, well, I have to go rewind this now to see how bad it was. And I wish I hadn't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was bad.

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Speaker 6: Breaks all of our hearts too, and we see that.

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Speaker 5: I think Brandon Garrison, I you know, it's Mario's fault.

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Speaker 2: He brings it, he brings it out of me.

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Speaker 5: Although he did hit well, I think was the shot that put us in the lead for good last night.

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Speaker 6: He hit a big bucket, had a big and one player there lading the game.

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Speaker 2: But he's frustrated.

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Speaker 6: He made some good passes, had a couple of good passes, you're right.

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Speaker 2: And then Jasper. I don't know, man, I.

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Speaker 6: Don't know either of Jasper. You know, I've been trying to be his number one supporter, but he's he's he's struggling right now for sure, you know, missing some shots he's he normally hits. I don't know if he just lost his confidence and he's shooting and that's effects overall struggling.

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Speaker 7: I mean, he can't dribble. They just trap him and take it from him. They just take the they just take the ball from him. Well, one of them is almost back to back. He got lucky the ball rolled over to Diabatte on the block, but he almost got stripped on back to back plays.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I mean, he's getting the point where it's becoming unplayable.

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Speaker 6: Let's how those guys played. A couple guys played over thirty seven minutes last night. I think Colin and Away and Aberdeen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, can we make it? Thirty nine?

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Speaker 7: Uh did Botay save the bitch? But the Noah Jasper Garrison group went one for eleven from the field in zero for six from three those three guys.

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Speaker 5: Ouch ouch yeah, ouch is right? Eight five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We're gonna take a break seven seven two seven seven four five two five four.

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Speaker 2: We are here.

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Speaker 5: I'm teaching this woman who used to work for a doctor all about Madison and we will be right back. Uh, this is Kentucky Sports Radio. We are hanging by a moment here on Kentucky Sports Radio. Eight five nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven. Love me some life outs? Are they a larger than life?

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Speaker 3: Louder than life? No, they're not, they're not. I think they'd be more of a bourbon to beyond band.

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Speaker 2: But bast I wonder if they still play.

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Speaker 4: I think they do.

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Speaker 2: I'm will see you, but.

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Speaker 5: I would only want to hear this song the rest of it. Is, yeah, but this is the only when it matters.

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Speaker 7: That's mitz. I loved Lighthouse, not enough to Lighthouse, not enough to buy their CD by burn them all had all the burdens.

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Speaker 4: He liked them enough to steal their music.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like a band to buy their music, especially today, stealing their music. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean like I bought one album in fifteen years and it was the Tyler Childers Purgatory on vinyl because I felt vinyl. Okay, he signed it for me. It's actually my house. That's verty cool, but but that's it.

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Speaker 7: See, growing up, I only had singles money. So I get a song and I go by the single and it would have like the remix the Spanish one, and the instrumental like the Spanish one, but the full album just I didn't have many of those.

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Speaker 2: They're not on tour right now, so oh that's too bad.

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Speaker 5: Eui Llis apparently played with Jasper Johnson at Overtime Elite.

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Speaker 7: And he's seven hundred thousand followers on Instagram?

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Speaker 2: Is it just like me? He's a child? I mean, is he good good.

00:17:02
Speaker 7: At basketball or at Instagram? At TikTok he seems to be better at Instagram, Okay, now it looks like he does a lot with sunglasses on.

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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe that makes him more because.

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Speaker 7: I got a beamer thing going on.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's not spending the money on his decorations in his room. If I'm nine to two eighth, twenty two eighty seven, one person rights Matt. We all love Jasper and Noah because they're from Kentucky. But can you play those guys in the postseason? I mean, I don't think you have a choice to, at least for a few minutes. But I don't know. It's tough. I feel bad for him. I mean, you know, look, trentonha was starting at the beginning of the year. You know he was starting.

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Speaker 7: Yep, he's at least rebounded. He had five again last night. That's ten and five in the first half. So he finds something else to do. But it's clear he has the yips or something mental. I don't know how you break him out of it. Heck, well, I guess you got some tough opponents left. But I'd try to just feed him some shots and try to get him out of the funk, because I do think you'll need him to hit some shots if.

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Speaker 6: You're gonna go on any kind of run and like you said, you don't know if you said it off the air on the air those after he banked that one off the side of the board. The other two threes he had were wide open. I mean he had wide open, great looks. Those are shots that he would hit down an his sleep. So he's got to have his confidence issue. I think the same thing with Jasper. I think the confidence with him is maybe effecting the whole game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, one time, Yellowvich and Noah were oh for eight from three, which is not what you want. No and most of them were open.

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Speaker 7: Yellowch made all his toos. He drove a lot. I want a little more yellow it. I wish we'd take a few more Garrison minute. We'll pass them over.

00:18:33
Speaker 5: I'm fine handing some Garrisons to some Yellowitches. Yellowitch has some mistakes, but I don't think they rub it my soul as much as the garrison ones do.

00:18:46
Speaker 7: He's had a lot of turnovers in the last week, but he's getting a little better.

00:18:50
Speaker 5: One person, rightes Matt, what about Peter Burns burning you at halftime? Okay, that was a big thing to everybody last night.

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Speaker 2: It was really funny, he said for people who didn't hear it coming out of the break Aberdeen is hotter than Matt Jones watching the State of the Union.

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Speaker 6: A great line. Great line.

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Speaker 5: First of all, I'm I'm glad the fan base knows me well enough to know that it means like angry and not like Trump's getting me in a ladder to use Shannon's or to use Ryan's words. But I was really surprised he said it. I'm kind of surprised because you know, they saved during games, don't bring up polity, you know, don't do any of that. So I think it was funny, you know, Peter, I like Peter, we're friends. Made me laugh. But it was also like our fan base knows what that means and he's cool.

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Speaker 2: Like I liked it. I thought it was funny.

00:19:48
Speaker 7: There's a lot of them, though, does he does he owe you money or something? He was trying to make up.

00:19:52
Speaker 3: Listener, you do realize other people are watching this game other than Mad Jones, right, It's.

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Speaker 4: Like, yeah, it was just catering it to you.

00:19:59
Speaker 2: I just he did it three times.

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Speaker 6: I missed the third one, I guess. I was in the car driving home when he.

00:20:06
Speaker 2: Talked about a tweeted sent about diabate.

00:20:09
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, both times I was watching the game and I heard it, Like shitting, were.

00:20:12
Speaker 2: You jealous to say something about you?

00:20:16
Speaker 3: The guy named Peter Burns might mention STD, but he didn't, so.

00:20:22
Speaker 2: You would think that.

00:20:23
Speaker 7: I think he sees what Tom Hart has with the fan base, and he might be like, I would like to have some of that too.

00:20:29
Speaker 5: I'll drop some nuggets what smart like he's I wonder if Tom might be.

00:20:33
Speaker 2: A little jealous.

00:20:35
Speaker 7: And I think we have Tom Saturday.

00:20:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do.

00:20:37
Speaker 7: Maybe we get it back and forth.

00:20:38
Speaker 5: Peter Burns, I'll tell you having spent some time with immaculate dresser, best dresser, see the best dresser in broadcasting, and he dresses like that Southern like he dresses like he's going.

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Speaker 6: To Keenland, Yes he does.

00:20:54
Speaker 5: Yeah, so he dresses like his life is perpetually going to King Paisley.

00:20:59
Speaker 7: Yeah, Pastels.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

00:21:01
Speaker 4: A budding bromance going on here between you two.

00:21:03
Speaker 2: Just like you haven't you hosted with him before? Yeah? Yeah? So so I mean like it sounds like it sounds to me like Shannon is complete jealousy.

00:21:13
Speaker 4: He no, I like Peter, I like it.

00:21:16
Speaker 3: He has mentioned you like every time they went to break if a jew, Well, it was what I thought.

00:21:21
Speaker 4: Maybe he had like a bet on how many times we're.

00:21:23
Speaker 2: Talking about it. I enjoyed it.

00:21:24
Speaker 7: Not a complaint, just I wondered what.

00:21:26
Speaker 2: Was going on.

00:21:26
Speaker 5: Website Awful Announcing put out the video of him saying that about the state of the union.

00:21:33
Speaker 6: It would not have been made a difference as another team. But he knows Kentucky fans, he knows we're watching.

00:21:37
Speaker 2: It.

00:21:37
Speaker 6: Didn't do it for South Carolina fans.

00:21:39
Speaker 2: Watching, guy, we just don't recognize the reference.

00:21:44
Speaker 4: By the way, how hot were you watching that last night?

00:21:46
Speaker 2: I didn't watch it. I'm not gonna watch the stadia Are you kidding me?

00:21:52
Speaker 7: Billy was watching it.

00:21:53
Speaker 5: When I saw When I saw the the thing said he was going to be too maybe three hours.

00:22:01
Speaker 2: I was like, are you yeah? Why would I do that?

00:22:04
Speaker 6: Yeah? I don't care who's talking. I'm not listing for dude.

00:22:07
Speaker 5: I hate it, not just him, I hate the whole thing. I hate that, Like they all get in line like children to take selfies with the picture and then they clap and stand and sit and like, you know, I mean what that was in the past. That was like forty minutes and everybody shut up, just speak and get out.

00:22:28
Speaker 2: But now it's like a whole show. And then they bring in, you know, sad stories, happy stories. You know.

00:22:36
Speaker 5: I just I've never liked it, to be honest with you, Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton ruined it because Bill Clinton like was so good at it that it then became like a production and I don't like it.

00:22:47
Speaker 6: They and they introduced the hockey team right as a part, but.

00:22:49
Speaker 5: They didn't give them seats. Then they have to walk in and then leave get out here, or maybe they were like, I ain't staying here, just give us some two hours. It's too it's two hours. South Carolina's We'll take a break. Right back, KISR.

00:23:03
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00:23:06
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00:23:07
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00:23:11
Speaker 4: Here's Matt Jones.

00:23:12
Speaker 5: Welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio. Eight five to nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, text Machine seven seven two seven to seven four five two five four. One person writes. Ryan said he wouldn't listen to anyone speak for two hours, Yet he's on the radio for two hours every single day.

00:23:28
Speaker 6: Well, we have a conversation. To sit to listen to one guy talk for two hours, I don't care who it is. I'm probably gonna struggle to stay alert.

00:23:35
Speaker 2: So you don't listen to like a Big Blue Insider.

00:23:38
Speaker 7: You never heard of podcast?

00:23:39
Speaker 6: I don't listen to podcasts very often.

00:23:41
Speaker 2: You don't listen to Big Blue Insider.

00:23:43
Speaker 6: Well, they have a discussion.

00:23:45
Speaker 2: So you just don't want to listen to one person?

00:23:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, yeah, Like sit in front of a TV and watch somebody speak for two hours. That's a lot.

00:23:54
Speaker 2: You know.

00:23:54
Speaker 5: We have Friday people coming to hear us speak at a in Madisonville. But we have people watching us speak right now in front of you.

00:24:02
Speaker 7: Have you ever seen a comedy special?

00:24:04
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:24:05
Speaker 7: You ever like those? Didn't you go see a comedy show in Cincinnati?

00:24:07
Speaker 2: You see a guy talk to his puppets for two hours?

00:24:10
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, that's entertainment right there.

00:24:14
Speaker 5: We got people here from Irvine, Irvin, not Irvine, Irvin, Irvin, Oldham County, Nicholsville. Oh, I'm sorry where Carrollton. That's right, Carlton and Nicholsville. So here at the bar, it's wings Day. It is wings day, dollar wings all day a five, nine, two eighty seven when versus rights Matt, I love Jasper Trent. It makes me sad not to see them play well. But the reality is not everyone can play. And I think we go six guys and Garrison and Jasper and Noah only when people need a quick breather, and that's what I would do. I mean, you gotta remember, go back to our national championship team in twenty twelve. We only played six guys. ELOI var I guess was kind of the occasional seventh, but they basically played what lamb Gil Chris Miller, t Davis, Terrence Jones, I guess. Kyle Wilcher was the seventh. He played a little, Eloy would play a little, but they basically were a six man rotation.

00:25:19
Speaker 7: Yeah, and it's not ideal, but we we see what these guys are doing right now. Unless just a light goes off with Trent and the shot keeps going in, he could play a little more because he has been rebounding. But I mean, Jasper's gotten to the point where it seems like he just can't even bring the ball up. I don't know if that can be fixed in a couple weeks.

00:25:36
Speaker 5: Now that we're in the tournament before we go the phone, do these last three games like they matter? I mean they kind of obviously they matter, but like, we're not gonna be higher than a six at most, and we're not gonna be lower than probably a ten or eleven.

00:25:53
Speaker 2: Does it matter?

00:25:54
Speaker 6: Can it help us keep from playing on Wednesday night at the SEC tournament?

00:25:58
Speaker 2: We win, that.

00:25:58
Speaker 5: Matters, That matters right now. Look, I looked at it. Assuming the games finished tonight like I think they will, we would be a seven seed right now in the SEC NUMAN, which would give you a bye. But our schedules are harder than everyone. I mean, if you don't want to play on Wednesday, what you're sitting there hoping is Texas loses games, Missouri loses games.

00:26:25
Speaker 2: Missouri winning last night, Missouri winning didn't help us.

00:26:27
Speaker 5: That was bad for us, although it now made it to where if we kept winning in Tennessee were to lose because Tennessee has a couple of hard games. We have the tiebreaker against true, but Missouri winning did not help us because they have the tiebreaker against us.

00:26:40
Speaker 7: It matters for seeding. But if you're one of these people, whether a fan or you're on the damn team. If you think you have a run in March, you need to turn a corner now and fight some of these games and show you're capable and get some momentum going.

00:26:52
Speaker 5: I just want us to be a six to seven or ten eleven seed. I don't want us to be an eight and nine because we ain't beating these.

00:27:01
Speaker 2: One seeds, right, yeah.

00:27:04
Speaker 5: I mean, I've always thought you'd be better off being an eleven seed than being an eight, because you got because you're gonna play a six and a three instead of a one, and the ones are so good this year, in my opinion, there's so much better than the other teams.

00:27:20
Speaker 6: I want. I want to win this game Saturday, just for him to show me something. You know, Vanderbilt punked you. They they not just beat you, they embarrassed you down to Nashville. You played horrible. Show some pride. Man man up and come out and try to win win this not just try win this game on Saturday game.

00:27:34
Speaker 2: Shut up Shannon since he thought my name was mentioned too much, and it.

00:27:40
Speaker 4: Was maybe maybe can mentioned it four times next game?

00:27:43
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm gonna challenge him to do that. Who's up, Who's up first? Will will go ahead, Will.

00:27:51
Speaker 2: Wow.

00:27:51
Speaker 9: I was not expecting to be the first caller chosen.

00:27:55
Speaker 10: I feel honored.

00:27:57
Speaker 2: Thank you.

00:27:59
Speaker 9: Well, I'll just say I called yesterday and I have to do a little bit of a victory lap because I said we have a little.

00:28:04
Speaker 10: Bit of a rivalry.

00:28:05
Speaker 9: We was South Carolina and it was a close game, just like I thought it would be. And really and truly this was when we lost CALIPERI was when we lost to South Carolina. So that was a pivotal turning point in that rivalry. And honestly, when I saw that Michi Johnson was still on that roster, that's when I thought we could lose because I talked shit to him at that game.

00:28:25
Speaker 5: I appreciate, Kyle, I appreciate the call. You can't you can't cuss we do not have a rivalry with South Carolina.

00:28:31
Speaker 2: We got to stop with that. It's not.

00:28:35
Speaker 5: If I were to list our SEC basketball rivals football a little different, Yeah, I actually think we are a little bit of a rival with them in football basketball. If you were ranked the SEC rivals Tennessee one, Florida to Andy, Vandy three, Arkansas.

00:28:58
Speaker 7: Four, I'd even go Mississippi State above South Carolina, even though there's not much there either.

00:29:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean South Carolina and me would be the only ones. Last are like.

00:29:08
Speaker 5: Oklahoma, but even Texas, A and M. I can remember games more than South Carolina. I mean Texas, no Oklahoma, no.

00:29:18
Speaker 2: Missouri. I mean like would they be like tenth in the SEC for me?

00:29:22
Speaker 7: But most teams you named are pretty new and he had time.

00:29:24
Speaker 2: To yah time.

00:29:25
Speaker 7: So yeah, tickets for four dollars. You can't call yourself a rivalry if it's four dollars to get.

00:29:29
Speaker 2: Into the game.

00:29:30
Speaker 6: There were a lot of empty seats last night. Did that game.

00:29:32
Speaker 7: I didn't expect a good crowd. I couldn't believe how many empties were in the lower bowl when they would zoom out of.

00:29:37
Speaker 2: I mean, did we have did we have as many people as they did?

00:29:40
Speaker 7: It looked like we had several people call in on their way home, said like, there's just an entire section of UK fans. That's what we kept here in on the broadcast.

00:29:48
Speaker 5: You know, when I was in law school, I went to that game every year. We played them twice a year, and I went. I remember I was there once when the Space Shuttle cried crashed. I don't know why I'm telling you that, But I just and we were playing South Carolina.

00:30:01
Speaker 7: Was it didn't crash there?

00:30:02
Speaker 2: Right? No? But I think I was.

00:30:04
Speaker 5: I was in Colombia, and I think it was the Space Shuttle Columbia.

00:30:09
Speaker 2: Right that crashed.

00:30:12
Speaker 5: Interesting, people don't seem as interested about that as I thought they would be.

00:30:15
Speaker 7: I've been Tobia more than any other SEC town.

00:30:17
Speaker 2: For in the Space Shuttle.

00:30:19
Speaker 6: Columbia flood in eighteen eighty six, though, that's the challenger. Was the challenger?

00:30:24
Speaker 2: Yes, that was a pretty big one.

00:30:27
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I thought you were talking about.

00:30:29
Speaker 5: Now Colombia. Look it up, Shannon, see when or Drew see when the Space shuttle cal and see if it was like January February, because I think we were playing I was at Duke. I think we were playing South Carolina.

00:30:42
Speaker 4: February first, two thousand and three.

00:30:44
Speaker 2: Three.

00:30:44
Speaker 6: But there you go.

00:30:46
Speaker 2: And was it the Space Shuttle Columbia.

00:30:48
Speaker 6: Yeah, yes, that's why Peter Bones dropped. Peter Bone dropped, Peter Bones.

00:30:52
Speaker 2: Peter, that's why Peter Bones dropped.

00:30:56
Speaker 6: Bobby Bones added Peter Peter Bones.

00:30:59
Speaker 2: Oh.

00:30:59
Speaker 7: We also we all we did play on that day and we won by Do you remember one eighteen Big Games from UH Marquise Estell, Keith Bogan's and Eric Daniels.

00:31:11
Speaker 6: There we go.

00:31:12
Speaker 2: You got two major errors there, Yeah, the Space Shutter Shuttle Challenger and Peter Bones. Peter Bones and I remember the exact. That was just a lot of you and I right there. Who's next, Ben, Ben? Go ahead? Ben?

00:31:27
Speaker 8: Hey, guys, I was really happy that we won last night overall trying to change directions here. I was watching a YouTube or TikTok video last night and this guy suggest said for the NBA All Star Game next year, they do the Team World and then Team Kentucky.

00:31:44
Speaker 5: I saw that. Yeah, so it was Max Max Kellerman. He's doing UH an interview with Rich Paul, I appreciate the call Lebron's agent, and they're talking about the All Star Game and they suggested next year Team USA, Team World, Team Canucky. And it was like Team World was like Luca Joannie Jokic, really good. Team Team USA was like Lebron, Durant, Curry Tatum and then Team Kentucky and Rich Paul's like Kentucky's not gonna be and they were like, hang on, and he was like Shay Booker, Maxie Towns Bam Randall and he was.

00:32:24
Speaker 6: Like, oh yeah.

00:32:26
Speaker 2: He was like, yeah, that would be a good game, the good little game.

00:32:29
Speaker 6: The little squad yo.

00:32:30
Speaker 7: When Darren Fox is like your eighth man, uh huh, got a pretty good squad.

00:32:33
Speaker 5: Yeah, Darren Fox was on it. I mean he didn't even have read or any any of that. I mean that's you know, if you if you were to look at the the way they had it set up, the USA and the World team would be better, but not by a lot. I mean we we would put a competitive game against him.

00:32:51
Speaker 7: Kawall and Cousins coach and just be a part of it somehow.

00:32:54
Speaker 2: Oh Davis obviously Davis was on the team, was on the team too.

00:32:58
Speaker 6: I'd love to see it. Of course, the Kentucky like we'd love to see just see how they.

00:33:01
Speaker 5: And all those guys they mentioned have been All Stars in the last two years, So it wasn't like it wasn't like it was crazy. I mean, all those guys had been All Stars.

00:33:10
Speaker 7: Shade and Sharp, he's had a great year in the NBA.

00:33:15
Speaker 2: We taken him, Yes, Shandon, would you count Shad and Sharp?

00:33:20
Speaker 4: Probably not?

00:33:21
Speaker 3: Hep line at one point, is he on the team.

00:33:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean.

00:33:33
Speaker 5: Shadon Sharp is not. I don't consider shading Sharp a Kentucky player, but I don't have anything against the guy, but I feel like you have to play like I will consider Jaden Quainton's a Kentucky player, even though it was only three games he played.

00:33:49
Speaker 2: He played.

00:33:50
Speaker 5: I don't think I consider shading Sharp one, but but I do kind of consider Inenus one even though he didn't play well.

00:33:58
Speaker 2: He was trying.

00:33:59
Speaker 7: There's see nothing in Shadon's way, tried his agent.

00:34:03
Speaker 5: So I do consider him one, but I don't Shadon is that bad of me?

00:34:07
Speaker 9: Well?

00:34:07
Speaker 6: Yeah, we all got to Reperena early to watch him warm up and go through the layup.

00:34:11
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00:34:46
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00:35:15
Speaker 2: Take you Sports Radio when versus rights.

00:35:17
Speaker 5: Matt, My favorite thing of the day yesterday was Indiana is likely out of the tournament.

00:35:21
Speaker 2: All right.

00:35:23
Speaker 5: It's a it's a common talking point, Drew for people to go, oh, we're becoming Indiana. People need to understand what Indiana is. Okay, Indiana hasn't made the final four since nineteen ninety six, Okay or ninety five something like that.

00:35:37
Speaker 2: Men forever. But they also they're not just like bad, they're really bad.

00:35:45
Speaker 5: They are now firmly on the cut line of the bubble maybe out. Last night they lost to Northwestern and the stat that came up was amazing to me. They have lost to Northwestern Indiana six straight times.

00:36:02
Speaker 6: Wow, whole man away.

00:36:06
Speaker 2: Six straight times Northwestern. That's amazing group.

00:36:12
Speaker 6: It's embarrassing.

00:36:13
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think, well, now this year, Nebraska's got a good team. But I think to even when they were losing to those Nebraska team, we went to one of them. Yeah, we were at a game in Nebraska, went on Senior Day, and I was excited because I hate Indiana, but I kept thinking, how far if this program is following and I'm sitting there watching Nebraska celebrate in Bloomington.

00:36:29
Speaker 5: So I'm not trying to like downplay the concerns people have. Like this guy right here was talking about how he has season tickets and he can't even make himself go to the nine o'clock games.

00:36:39
Speaker 2: And I get all that, but I just we've got to stop.

00:36:42
Speaker 5: Saying we're gonna become Indiana. Indiana is like Indiana's on a different I mean, if you were to rank the programs of the last twenty years, is Indiana even.

00:36:56
Speaker 6: In the top forty Maybe not?

00:37:00
Speaker 2: I mean maybe not.

00:37:02
Speaker 6: They had that one good run that one year, but that was about it.

00:37:05
Speaker 5: I mean that's so, you know, it is perspective because you would not want to be Indiana and they just keep hiring new coaches and it doesn't work.

00:37:12
Speaker 7: They did just hire GM. Though, if I could copy one thing Indiana's doing, I would like to do that.

00:37:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's true, we need to do that.

00:37:19
Speaker 5: What about by the way, people when they talk about GM, I keep seeing the name Tayshawn Prince. You know, normally I don't like the idea of when you get a guy because he went here, But take Shawn's the assistant GM for the Grizzly like that actually is one that would be kind of good.

00:37:34
Speaker 6: Yeah, He's got a resume that can back up putting him in that position. He knows about roster development, roster management, budgeting for players and stuff. That's what that's his life.

00:37:43
Speaker 5: And also just love him, Yeah, I mean he maybe he's top five all time for me and just person.

00:37:50
Speaker 2: I love Tayshan Prince.

00:37:53
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't put him in that category of like the list of former players. He's a legit candidate if you look at him. I think Nausey's in that territory. Those two are like beloved around the NBA, been at a lot of stops, played a lot, and worked for a lot of teams. I can't even imagine the connections they have in the league. So those are two that I would put aside from the typical don't get a former player conversation.

00:38:12
Speaker 2: Ye, who's next, Mike, Mike, Go ahead, Mike, Mike? All right? Who's next?

00:38:23
Speaker 3: Alex?

00:38:24
Speaker 2: Alex? Go ahead? Alex? You can feel the left course.

00:38:28
Speaker 10: My name's Alex Green. We're setting up here at the We're setting up for the state wrestling tournament this weekend Thursday, Friday's The Boys Girls is on Saturday here at the horse Park. If you guys, anybody listening, is able to come, we'd love to have you. We've got the Randy Brothers going for six and five time, respectfully. We have two girls going for three timers. We have several guys this year that have signed the wrestled Division one. We're setting the mats up all tech arena. You guys come be a part of it.

00:38:59
Speaker 2: All right? Shape the call the brothers, aren't they like going to Iowa or something? Signed to begin? I L deal? Am I right? About that. All right, there you go. Never mind.

00:39:12
Speaker 6: They are, without a doubt, the best wrestlers this state has ever produced. I mean, they're not just state champions.

00:39:17
Speaker 2: But they won world so I feel like they're gonna win this year.

00:39:22
Speaker 6: They're world champions. These guys are just amazing. It'll probably be in the Olympics. Are world champions? Yes, yeah, yeah, And they're from where Union County.

00:39:32
Speaker 2: But they got something in the water there they do.

00:39:35
Speaker 7: That's that's my area. I don't know as a Union county.

00:39:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't.

00:39:39
Speaker 5: I don't fight people from Clay County or Union County, Amen, or really any of the counties.

00:39:45
Speaker 7: If you had to fight a county, which county are you fighting?

00:39:48
Speaker 2: That's a great question.

00:39:48
Speaker 6: That is a good question.

00:39:50
Speaker 2: All right.

00:39:50
Speaker 5: So you're saying, I get a random county and I can and I the average citizen in that county.

00:39:57
Speaker 7: You're fighting for humanity and you have to pick it the county.

00:40:00
Speaker 5: So we're basically saying, what is the weakest county in Kentucky.

00:40:05
Speaker 4: I got the answer.

00:40:05
Speaker 2: I think before you do it.

00:40:07
Speaker 5: I'm not going anywhere in the eastern Kentucky, forget it. I'm not going out in western Kentucky because they're out there in their farms with detractors and the hay and I'm not doing that, So I gotta go. I'm probably gonna fight somebody from Jessamine County. Well, I mean it's it's Suburby, right, there's a Christian college there. They don't fight, right, the Lord doesn't want them to do that. When Will Morris, I'm gonna say, And Jared Poulsen, he's not he's not a fighter. I'm gonna say, Jessmin, what about you?

00:40:43
Speaker 2: I think I just going old. Here's the problem with hold them.

00:40:52
Speaker 5: There's some country old people too like that. Like it's not we all think of the rich people. But like I almost got shot in Lagrange, remember at the court House, Like there there's some so yeah, there's a lot of rich people, but they got some other people that so I hold them.

00:41:12
Speaker 4: I'm hand to hand combat.

00:41:15
Speaker 5: Listen, this dude could have beat me in the hand to hand combat. You should.

00:41:23
Speaker 7: I'm thinking a risk reward though, Like do I get Papa John's castle if I win with that? Like eagle clock in the rotating driveway, I'm looking at.

00:41:30
Speaker 2: Part of Oldham County though, then what about.

00:41:32
Speaker 6: You it's the answers Oldham County. There is no doubt, guys here it is with no.

00:41:37
Speaker 2: Are there any like redneck Jessmine County.

00:41:40
Speaker 6: Though yes, well yes out in the county like where in the county, like you want you to get well, even Nicholas Field itself, city of Nicholasville, Nicholsville can't fight. Oh yes they can.

00:41:50
Speaker 7: Honestly. My second one is Fair County. I'll step outside all right now.

00:41:54
Speaker 2: Somebody hadn't been to Georgetown Road. What are you talking about?

00:41:58
Speaker 7: I mean the spots. I'm only gonna lose, but of all the counties, I think my best shot would be right.

00:42:03
Speaker 2: I think we all agree though.

00:42:04
Speaker 5: The suburbs, Yes, the suburb counties are the place.

00:42:10
Speaker 6: And eliminate all of the eastern Kentucky counties.

00:42:12
Speaker 2: In West. We don't spend as much time in West, but you get out there towards the river. Ye.

00:42:18
Speaker 5: So I mean again we're talking about UNIONCA. There's some hosses out there.

00:42:22
Speaker 7: Mines and farms.

00:42:23
Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll take a break, come back, stay on topic. Our number two's KSR