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Speaker 3: here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 2: Welcome everyone. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Wednesday, November the nineteenth.

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Speaker 2: I am Matt Jones here at the Ks Bar and Grill.

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Speaker 2: It is Wingsday, Dollar Wings starting at eleven o'clock. When

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Speaker 2: we opened the door last night, this place was packed

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Speaker 2: with Kentucky fans excited, but it didn't turn out well

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Speaker 2: for them or for all the folks uh listening at home.

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Speaker 2: of calls today. I want to see the pulse of

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Speaker 2: the fan base. I don't think it's good, but I

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Speaker 2: would like to see it a vision autoglass text machine

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Speaker 2: In this disition sponsored by the T J. Smith Office.

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Speaker 2: You call TJ. I'll make them pay. We want to recognize. First,

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Speaker 2: we've got a couple folks in here. First of all,

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Speaker 2: this guy's from Jupiter, Florida. Yeah, came to visit his

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Speaker 2: cousin and this is his first trip to the bar.

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Speaker 2: Tough day, but that's okay because you're still gonna enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: And then three generations of this family. You want to

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Speaker 2: talk about a family looking like each other. This is grandmother, mother,

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Speaker 2: daughter and they all. If you can't tell those three

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Speaker 2: are related, then you're not. Then you're not trying.

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Speaker 4: We all knew it as soon as they walked in

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Speaker 4: the door. Yeah, I know that is.

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Speaker 5: Boy over here is listen to our show on six

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Speaker 5: different continents.

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Speaker 2: Six different Which one Antarctica is the only one? That

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Speaker 2: one you've done?

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Speaker 6: Well?

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Speaker 2: Which one haven't you done? Australia? All right, well you

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Speaker 2: we can't have had a mini Antarctica listeners. So, uh,

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Speaker 2: when I get the little map, I never see that

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Speaker 2: on there, so I appreciate it. Well, look, last night

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Speaker 2: was a disaster on all fronts. In some ways, I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure it could have gone much worse unless something

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Speaker 2: had happened to the building. I mean, it was, it was.

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Speaker 2: It was awful. The team played terrible, the players looked

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Speaker 2: disengaged and awful, and and then after the game, somehow

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Speaker 2: I almost felt like was worse than the game, with

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Speaker 2: the with the with the way the Pope postgame comments went,

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Speaker 2: you know, we can There's a lot of different directions

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Speaker 2: is the basketball because it was so bad. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it was an absolute pitiful display of basketball on all sides.

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Speaker 2: Defense was terrible. I mean, you know, Jay Billis said

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Speaker 2: was a shoot around, and I think that's probably correct.

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Speaker 2: Shot the ball poorly, and an effort, especially in the

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Speaker 2: second half, seemed non existent. Ryan, I mean, I expected

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Speaker 2: that we could lose yesterday. I mean I thought we

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Speaker 2: I foresaw me neither.

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Speaker 5: You're right, that was a beatdown. That was an embarrassing

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Speaker 5: beat down by a team. You know, after the Louisville

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Speaker 5: loss was a bad loss, But I didn't feel any

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Speaker 5: I feel a lot different about our team because there's

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Speaker 5: know we'll get into it, but there's just something not

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Speaker 5: gonna be this poor defensive team. I really thought they

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Speaker 5: were gonna be a really good defensive team start to season.

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Speaker 2: I thought they were gonna be like, potentially an elite deficsion.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think said that. And while I was very

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Speaker 2: we were much worse. That was a disaster.

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Speaker 4: It was a disaster.

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Speaker 7: I was getting shots for saying Michigan State can't shoot.

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Speaker 7: They can shoot if you just let them have target practice.

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Speaker 7: Anyone at that level of basketball can hit wide open threes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and and they knocked them. I mean had four

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Speaker 2: very stagnant, and I don't know that's the one thing.

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Speaker 2: real problem with guys beating beating people off the dribble.

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Speaker 2: And unlike last year, which couldn't really beat teams off

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Speaker 2: that combination is not a is not a good combination.

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Speaker 2: Brandon Garrison had one of the sort of epically bad

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Speaker 2: performances I've seen in a while, including some there's some

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Speaker 2: loggi gag. And we still don't know what's happened with

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Speaker 2: Otega away. Uh, And it's it's just not good now.

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Speaker 2: The more I think interesting conversation, the one people were

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Speaker 2: the team. This looks like for me three things number

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Speaker 2: one and most importantly, it looks like Mark and I

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Speaker 2: can't believe I'm saying this, but it looks like he's

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Speaker 2: completely lost as to what to do. He just completely

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Speaker 2: and just completely like the other team's getting layups and

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Speaker 2: like his whole demeanor. I mean, I you know, we

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Speaker 2: I prefer that over well, at least I go get

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Speaker 2: got to go, get to see my dogs. But sometimes

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Speaker 2: you can take things, you know, a little sit. And

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Speaker 2: I have to tell you, if you only saw the

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Speaker 2: said that I don't want to say it takes it

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Speaker 2: the whole vibe of you know, now the twenty two

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Speaker 2: when it's saying the money. These other teams are making

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Speaker 2: It maybe it's our specific reaction to it, but other

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Speaker 5: And about the players, you know, the uh, the mass

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Speaker 5: They hated them last year, but they seemed to be

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Speaker 2: I felt like we were having this conversation last year

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Speaker 5: The mass substitution this year definitely just kills every vibe,

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Speaker 4: When the money does it.

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Speaker 5: But about Pope, you know, uh, in a time of crisis,

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Speaker 5: we look to our leaders, and so we're looking to

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Speaker 5: the Louisville game, he made it worse, and after the

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Speaker 5: last night he made it worse.

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Speaker 4: We need we need he's our leader.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: What's all we look for him for guidance, for to help.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's a middle ground between like bag Dad, Bob,

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Speaker 2: everything is fine, we are winning, it's great, and you know,

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Speaker 2: fine line there. You have to project confidence while also

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Speaker 2: acknowledging pain. And I'm trying to think. You know, they

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Speaker 2: don't know. I'm not sure. Who do you think is

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Speaker 2: really good at that? Kind of when they lose, you

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Speaker 2: still feel like this is gonna. I don't know. There's

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Speaker 2: no way comes to mind immediately, but I know whatever

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Speaker 2: it is is not what I saw last night.

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Speaker 7: Now I'm glad he feels it when they lose. That's

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Speaker 7: what you want. But you can't just I don't wanna

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Speaker 7: say he's a baby and going and hiding. But Tom

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Speaker 7: Bleach waited for like an hour. They had to get

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Speaker 7: Darren Headrick to call in from a car. It sounded

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Speaker 7: like to fill Tom.

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Speaker 2: If you were listening to radio broadcast, they did like

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Speaker 2: a seventeen minute interview trying to fill time because he

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Speaker 2: was so late. I mean, you have a child this

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Speaker 2: better than anybody, Drew. There's never been a coach that

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Speaker 2: took longer to come out than Pope did last night.

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Speaker 7: And I would say the two closest people to Pope

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Speaker 7: and his staff in the national media right now are

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Speaker 7: a good minute of Norlander, and they're the ones tweeting

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Speaker 7: like where is the Norlander? But like forty five minutes

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Speaker 7: still waiting on Pope. I get your hurt, and I

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Speaker 7: like that you're hurt, but I just think that's a

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Speaker 7: bad look, not just making the people wait, but kind

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Speaker 7: of to Ryan's point, you need to come out and

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Speaker 7: show it, put a put on a good front and

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Speaker 7: kind of give some confidence even though it was so bad,

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Speaker 7: or some kind of an explanation not what he did.

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Speaker 7: I texted Billy during the radio interview with Tom Leach.

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Speaker 7: It was like two minutes in. I was like, Billy,

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Speaker 7: he's doing Tom wrong here, He's given one word answers

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Speaker 7: in Tom's tripping over questions, and it's almost like he

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Speaker 7: was I don't want to say smart elect but that

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Speaker 7: was the quote you brought up on post A Mark that.

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Speaker 2: Was bad as he said, what did you say to

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Speaker 2: the team in the locker room? And he said, we

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Speaker 2: said some things and then just paused. I mean, that's

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying Mark is this because I don't think

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Speaker 2: he is. I think Mark's a really good guy. But

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Speaker 2: that's the kind of thing a jerk would say. Like,

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Speaker 2: that's what a jerk would say if you said to

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Speaker 2: what did you say to him? We said some things

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Speaker 2: and just and then just stop, like that would be

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Speaker 2: what a jerk would say. Now, Mark's not a jerk,

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Speaker 2: and he didn't even say it in that tone. But

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Speaker 2: if you just read that quote, that's the that's that's

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Speaker 2: a horrible quote. If Cola Perry said that quote, I

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Speaker 2: would have said, cal, you're being a jerk. If Billy

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Speaker 2: Gillispie said that quote, we would have been like, that's

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Speaker 2: why you gotta be fired. You're an ass. Now Mark

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Speaker 2: didn't say it in that tone, but the words are

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Speaker 7: I'm like putting Darren back on at the drive through

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Speaker 2: A little behind the scenes. I mean, the JMI post

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Speaker 5: No, you know, standing in the locker room for fifty

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Speaker 2: That wasn't good. It was not that at allson inspiring

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Speaker 7: And adding to that last year and Pope says this

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Speaker 2: It's just in saying what was his final thing, like,

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Speaker 2: He mad. It was like a very definitive I'll look

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Speaker 5: That's a very strong statement. Well that's what we need

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Speaker 5: hear more of that. Yes, we're mad. He's obviously mad.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure you could have gone worse lessness.

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Speaker 2: It was awful. I mean it was awful, And if

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Speaker 7: I was so jealous of everyone in New York. I

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Speaker 2: Drilled, absolutely seal act. Well it was that was bad,

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio. Welcome back Kentucky Sports Radio. All right, I

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Speaker 2: just need to say a couple of things. This is

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Speaker 2: or saying we're suggesting that I'm having reasonable discussions. All right,

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Speaker 2: he can have a terrible year. He not going anywhere

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Speaker 2: and he shouldn't, right, Like, that's just the reality. But

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Speaker 2: we gotta talk about this as adults. And when you

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Speaker 8: Go five pound Mark vat Donalds try five pout like

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Speaker 8: I'm just no, I'm just saying, but you call a

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Speaker 2: I'm saying, hey, Arby's make a better roast beef sandwich. Right,

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Speaker 2: That's kind of what this is, Mark, Let's make a

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Speaker 7: When they should bring the five for five back.

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Speaker 2: I don't need arby a long time to be fair,

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Speaker 5: When Mark Pope met with you before he coaches first game,

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Speaker 5: he said, when you when I need to be ripped,

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Speaker 2: Well, he said that, and he's getting his request, yes,

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Speaker 2: I just don't want him to be so sad because

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Speaker 2: use up another political on nine eleven. Okay, that was

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Speaker 2: a sad day. I know that was much sadder than this.

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Speaker 2: But one of the things I always thought George Bush

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Speaker 4: Yeah, right right, and.

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Speaker 2: There was that was probably his finest hour, right that's

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Speaker 2: you know, Nick Saban does a good job about that.

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Speaker 2: all right now we're we're coming where. It's like Dabbo

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Speaker 2: is always like, we're fine, the Lord's going Mike Show,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 5: I don't want what we saw last night from Pope,

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Speaker 5: There's got to be a middle gay and Tubby when

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Speaker 2: A couple of things I need to happen immediately. Number one,

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Speaker 4: He's getting worse.

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Speaker 7: It seems like that was my big point on pregame.

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Speaker 2: So he goes to horn to move somebody else and stry.

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Speaker 2: And I need Moda Batte to never shoot ever ever,

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Speaker 2: Like he has the worst shot I've ever seen. He

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Speaker 2: if in Pope's system, can you have a four that

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Speaker 7: That's my big question. I loved you, Bote. I don't know,

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Speaker 7: I think you forgot the shooters to go in that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we don't have our stup has three guys

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Speaker 7: When that man misses, he's gonna miss He had another

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Speaker 2: You know, as Cedric the entertainer would say, when we break,

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Speaker 7: He's gotta be a chasing a record for air ball threes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, if I'm nine twenty two eighty seven,

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Speaker 2: who's up first, Let's go to Mike. Mike, go ahead, Mike,

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Speaker 2: Good morning. Everyone.

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Speaker 4: Did you say Park mo I'm it wouldn't surprise me

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Speaker 5: We're saying you said Park Moll. I didn't hear that, maw.

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Speaker 5: We know who we're talking about for today, he's Park Mote.

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Speaker 2: Man, So this may be your fault, the your UK

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Speaker 9: what this is what I want to say. This is

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Speaker 9: what Brandon Garrison trash.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. We don't we don't we don't call players names.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm okay saying the way he plays is,

435
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Speaker 2: but like we can't do that.

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Speaker 9: Okay, Brandon Garrison is. The way he played was track.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'll give you that Marino.

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Speaker 9: Needs to be starting. He's a freshman. I get it,

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Speaker 9: but he's got there's so much ceiling. You know, he

440
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Speaker 9: likes he can do so much more. But this is

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Speaker 9: my thing, the chemistry of this team. There's there is

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Speaker 9: some huge issues, man. And you can just tell the

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Speaker 9: pre game, before the game started, the the I was watching,

444
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Speaker 9: like you know, they were panning over to the UK

445
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Speaker 9: bench and they were looking at Mississippi or Michigan State.

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Speaker 9: And I've seen the Michigan State players all up and

447
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Speaker 9: in uniform ready to go. I look over here at

448
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Speaker 9: Kentucky's bench and there this is before they introduced players.

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Speaker 9: They're all just like kind of laid back, setting back

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Speaker 9: on them ball.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about that for a minute. But I appreciate

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Speaker 2: the call. Let's talk about that. Chemistry clearly an issue.

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Speaker 2: Why do you think that's the case. Something's going on.

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Speaker 2: I don't know it.

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Speaker 7: And I was hesitant to just start believing stuff after

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Speaker 7: Louisville because I thought that's a true road game. There

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Speaker 7: probably was something, but it probably wasn't anything big. Now

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Speaker 7: for seeing that, something's gotta be going on. I don't

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Speaker 7: have the answer, but something is going on.

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Speaker 2: Something's going on. I mean, I don't know what it is.

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Speaker 2: You know, I knew Oscar and Severe didn't like each

462
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Speaker 2: other and the team was split, with most people on

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Speaker 2: severe side, but Oscar was the good player, so like

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Speaker 2: I could pinpoint with that. I don't know what this is.

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Speaker 2: I don't know who's on whose side. I don't know

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Speaker 2: who doesn't like each other. They're rumors flying around. I

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Speaker 2: don't think they're true, but I don't know, Like I

468
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Speaker 2: don't know if there was a fight in the locker room.

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Speaker 2: Jack seemed to suggest maybe there was, but I don't know.

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Speaker 2: If he's just throwing that out there. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I have no idea, but I know this, whatever it is,

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Speaker 2: it wasn't handled correctly cause because clearly the team I

473
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Speaker 2: watched run onto the Floor versus Purdue is not the

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Speaker 2: team I'm watching now, and they don't seem to like

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Speaker 2: each other.

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Speaker 5: Something's off, and when Jack Gibbons brings it up, you can, well,

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Speaker 5: let's talk.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about what Jack and Travis said,

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Speaker 2: because Jack Gibbons and Travis Ford both said something and

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Speaker 2: I give them a lot of credibility, and we'll talk

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Speaker 2: about why that is. Right after this to be right back. TJ. Smith,

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Speaker 2: personal injury attorney, called TJ. He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 3: Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.

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Speaker 1: Here's Matt Jones.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Tukey Sports Radio. EPUN nine two eight oh

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Speaker 2: twenty two eighty seven, Text Machine seven seven two seven,

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Speaker 2: Sivy four five two five four. Okay, so you did

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Speaker 2: say Park Mope.

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Speaker 4: I think last night it's a perfect name for him,

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Speaker 4: Park Mope.

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Speaker 2: I mean, actually, if you're gonna ever say Park Mope

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Speaker 2: last night because he did kind of mope.

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Speaker 5: He did kind of mope. When Dukes got beat, we

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Speaker 5: called him Mark Poops a couple of times. So now

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Speaker 5: it's I think we all have done it before.

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Speaker 2: I've never done it. Yeah, Like, don't don't say, Shannon,

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Speaker 2: did I ever call him Mark Poops? I did not.

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Speaker 6: That is.

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Speaker 2: I can guarantee you that I've never said it. I

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Speaker 2: do not believe Drew's ever said it. You have, you

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Speaker 2: know I've said Mark poops, Shon says, and I don't

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Speaker 2: think you we all said I have not said it.

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Speaker 4: You did one time.

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Speaker 2: That is a complete line, mister Mope. All right, so

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Speaker 2: let's talk about what Jack Giffons and Travis Ford's okay.

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Speaker 2: So Jack Gibbons said he he said on the postgame

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Speaker 2: press conference, or excuse me, in the post game when

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Speaker 2: they were filling time to try to get till Mark

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Speaker 2: got there. That last year, that team, Remember, Jack is

510
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Speaker 2: around practice like every day. So this is not a

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Speaker 2: guy who's just This isn't just us giving a pat.

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Speaker 2: He is in practice every day. He said last year,

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Speaker 2: all of those guys had an intense need to prove

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Speaker 2: that they should be at Kentucky. That all those guys

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Speaker 2: they had played at Drexel and all these schools, and

516
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Speaker 2: they wanted to prove that they were needed to be

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Speaker 2: at Kentucky. And that's why they gave such energy. And

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Speaker 2: he said this group just doesn't have That was essentially

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Speaker 2: what he said. I tried to just call Jack and

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Speaker 2: ask him, come on, he's in a meeting and said

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Speaker 2: he couldn't do it today, but he did another time.

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Speaker 2: Travis Ford apparently said in an interview last week that

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Speaker 2: this team just had no chemistry and didn't get along. Now,

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Speaker 2: he too, has been in practice. That's not an opinion.

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Speaker 2: He has called three of our games, and as such

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Speaker 2: he gets to go to practice in the days leading

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Speaker 2: up to it. So that's two guys who are seeing practice, right,

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Speaker 2: this is not just random people. How much of aalidity

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Speaker 2: do you give to those two things.

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Speaker 5: I give a lot of validity to it because he

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Speaker 5: said nobody's closure to that team outside of the players

532
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Speaker 5: and the coaches than Jack Gibbons. He travels with them,

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Speaker 5: He's there at every practice. When he says something, I listen.

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Speaker 7: I heard Travis on the chemistry thing. I think he

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Speaker 7: meant more basketball chemistry, but it's still a problem.

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Speaker 2: But he didn't. He wasn't talking.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I can't speak for him, but what he

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Speaker 7: might have said it in a different interview, But I

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Speaker 7: did hear him do an interview, but he was saying,

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Speaker 7: like basketball chemistry, they still have to figure out, which

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Speaker 7: is a problem in itself.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that that's clear.

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Speaker 7: I am starting to Hey, something's going on that I

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Speaker 7: don't know. But I think even if they liked each other,

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Speaker 7: I think they have a big problem just with how

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Speaker 7: the roster's built.

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Speaker 2: I think I think in the NIL era, your general

548
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Speaker 2: manager constructioning of this becomes very very important, maybe as

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Speaker 2: important as coaching. And I agree with you, I don't

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Speaker 2: think there they I had a nagging suspicion about the

551
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Speaker 2: shooting going into this year, and it's not. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if that's gonna get better. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, what are you gonna do to make

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Speaker 2: this team shoot, especially if Low doesn't come back. I mean,

555
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Speaker 2: if Low doesn't come back, they're gonna have a real

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Speaker 2: shooting problem.

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Speaker 7: A light needs to go off for Cam Williams and

558
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Speaker 7: he needs to be the four now right now, that

559
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Speaker 7: light hadn't really gone off. He's gotten a little better,

560
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Speaker 7: but they have to have more shooters. I think always

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Speaker 7: the biggest problem. Everybody's trying to figure out if it's money,

562
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Speaker 7: NBA whatever. I just think he don't have any lanes.

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Speaker 7: If you go watch his highlights last year, he'd get

564
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Speaker 7: the ball going downhill, no thinking, straight to the rim

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Speaker 7: and finish. It's just clogged in the offense. The ball

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Speaker 7: is sticking on offense. They need shooters to for how

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Speaker 7: Pope runs that.

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Speaker 2: I was also a play early in the game where

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Speaker 2: he beat his man and he had his lane and

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Speaker 2: he let the guy block him from behind. I don't

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Speaker 2: remember him ever doing that last year. I mean, usually

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Speaker 2: if he got a step on you he was scoring

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Speaker 2: and probably getting an A in one, and he let

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Speaker 2: let him block him.

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Speaker 5: Last, do you take anything from that video clip of

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Speaker 5: o Way last night on the post game?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so, if you saw the press conference, it looked

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Speaker 2: like he was rolling his eyes. There were two angles.

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Speaker 2: There's the angle right below him where it definitely looks

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Speaker 2: like he's rolling his eyes. But then somebody else posted

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Speaker 2: an angle from the other side and it didn't really

582
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Speaker 2: look like that there. And so as Mario's video videoing,

583
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Speaker 2: sometimes show life is about angles, you know. Sometimes Mario

584
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Speaker 2: can put a video out of me where I'm like, man,

585
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Speaker 2: I gotta do something, and then last night he put

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Speaker 2: one out so good somebody thought I was on I

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Speaker 2: had botox and so, which I haven't. I mean, maybe

588
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Speaker 2: I should, But so I think a life is about angles.

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Speaker 2: So maybe the angles, you know, maybe he didn't roll

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Speaker 2: his eyes. I don't know, but it looked like he

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Speaker 2: rolled his eyes from the one video.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, the way thing didn't bother as much. They just

593
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Speaker 7: got whooped. I was rolling my eyes too. Let's all

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Speaker 7: roll her eyes after that game. One thing that I

595
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Speaker 7: did have concerns. A couple of people texted me before

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Speaker 7: the gameam tipped off, and you said it on the

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Speaker 7: postgame show, Pope walking into that arena looked like a

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Speaker 7: man walking into a job he hates.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so let's talk about that.

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Speaker 7: That concerned me more than the way postgame clip.

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Speaker 2: It looked like a guy that so I didn't see

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Speaker 2: that before it happened. I didn't see it till after

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Speaker 2: the game. But there's a video of him walking in

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Speaker 2: BEFO for the game and he looks like a man

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Speaker 2: who life has beaten up and he's going into his

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Speaker 2: accounting job, going what have I done with my youth?

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Speaker 2: He did? That's what he looked like. I know that's

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Speaker 2: not how he feels, but he looked awful, didn't he? Okay,

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Speaker 2: I have a theory, all right, I want to hear it.

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Speaker 5: My theory is that they know Jalen Lowe is not

611
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Speaker 5: coming back, and he's already for the second in a row,

612
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Speaker 5: he's gonna have to do this deal without his star

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Speaker 5: point guard. They built everything around Jalen Lowe. You've called

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Speaker 5: him on the MVP of the team. I think they've

615
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Speaker 5: made the decision he's not gonna play.

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Speaker 2: All right? Is that scoop? Or is that.

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Speaker 4: Scuttle maybe a little scuttle.

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Speaker 2: But maybe maybe is a word that you just need to.

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Speaker 2: I give you the chance to do scoop or scuttle,

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Speaker 2: but you can't then go even further to maybe I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna go get it scoop or is it scuttle?

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Speaker 5: No, because they, of course they could change their mind

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Speaker 5: today or is it a gas. I think there's a

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Speaker 5: strong possibility that he's not come back, okay, and I

625
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Speaker 5: think maybe that well, can you say scuttle but though, well,

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Speaker 5: I think maybe because like I said, they they could

627
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Speaker 5: change their mind today. After last night, they mad like, okay,

628
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Speaker 5: I gotta come back and save this team.

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Speaker 2: You know, So you would say, all right, let me

630
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Speaker 2: put a different way. You would say, going into last

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Speaker 2: night's game, he wasn't coming up.

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Speaker 4: I think that was a very strong possibility.

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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, that's not you're giving yourself an out. The

634
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Speaker 2: Lamar Wilkinson thing is still hard.

635
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Speaker 4: Yes it is.

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Speaker 2: Now he's not now he's not doing his thing. I'll

637
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Speaker 2: give you some backup. Uh, yesterday afternoon he was floating

638
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Speaker 2: around Lexton. He's not coming back and and that's that's

639
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 2: what everybody was saying. And if you listen to Mark

640
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Speaker 2: Pope's answer in the post game, he says, I don't

641
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Speaker 2: have anything for you on that. That doesn't mean he

642
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 2: doesn't have an answer. Maybe they look at this after

643
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Speaker 2: last night and they do otherwise. But I I am

644
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Speaker 2: now moving my brain into the Jalen Low is not

645
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Speaker 2: gonna play. And if Jallen Loan does not play, my

646
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Speaker 2: ceiling for this team is different. Even if they get

647
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Speaker 2: all their stuff together, We're not winning national championship without

648
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 2: Jalen Lowe Jay, if you listen to me all year,

649
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 2: the key to this team, what did I say all year?

650
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 2: You have to have Jalen Low. You have to and

651
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 2: if we don't, it's a different team. I'm not saying

652
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 2: it's a team that can be good. I'm not even

653
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 2: saying it's a team that can be great, But I

654
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 2: don't think it's a team that can reach its full

655
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 2: But you have to have that guy. And if you

656
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 2: don't have him, I think you gotta go find somebody,

657
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 2: Like if he's not playing, I gotta go. And I

658
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 2: mean now you can find people in the G League.

659
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe Briani can play like you can

660
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 2: you're you're I mean the rules of change. You gotta

661
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 2: go get somebody. In my opinion, Drew, if if you

662
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 2: don't have Jalen Low.

663
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've never expected him back. I said that day

664
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 7: at Skybar. Someone should infinity. Someone should already be in

665
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 7: Europe right now. I mean, I know as fans we

666
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 7: want him back. But if you're Jalen Low and you

667
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 7: write your pros and cons down, there are a lot

668
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 7: more pros for not playing, then right you should play.

669
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Speaker 2: Well, you got an extra ear, I mean one and

670
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 2: again people may not like this, but you got to

671
00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 2: put yourself in the arm, in the in the position

672
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 2: of the kid. You can get yourself healthy. B you

673
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 2: now get another year at college basketball. If you come

674
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 2: back and play six more games, you've now used up

675
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 2: your year of eligibility. He's only played two games. He

676
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 2: can get another year of eligibility. Now he could play

677
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 2: two more years. And for a kid like that who's

678
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 2: probably not going to the pros, that could be a

679
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 2: three four million dollars decision. I mean, I couldn't blame him,

680
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 2: could you.

681
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 7: Well, even before last night, I said I would sit

682
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 7: out if I were Jayalen Low. And now that we

683
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 7: see the team has problems, why would I risk my

684
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 7: arm for a team that doesn't even like each other.

685
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 2: That's true. If you're sitting there watching the team fight,

686
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 2: you're like.

687
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 7: Well, I start looking out for my shoulder at that point.

688
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 7: Not selfish as a person, but he if he plays

689
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,239
Speaker 7: until January toughing it out and then reinters it and

690
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 7: needs surgery in February, now he's hurt himself for next

691
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 7: year and set the team back. So he's got to

692
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 7: look out for himself. And with the two results they've

693
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 7: had in the meaningful games, he pushes him farther away.

694
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 2: We have to go get a point guard.

695
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 5: They have to because even though I think got to

696
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 5: be somebody, Denzel is a good backup, he's not the

697
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 5: guy that's gonna rea due to a big run.

698
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 4: I think a point guard.

699
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 5: So I think it's plausible that the Jalen Low hangover

700
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 5: had a little bit of effect on Pope going into

701
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 5: last night.

702
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 2: Now what I mean? That's not a terrible explanation. Who's next? Jackson? Jackson?

703
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Jackson.

704
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 10: Hey guys, how's it going this morning? H Yeah, that's

705
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 10: the way I feel too. I ain't got a quick

706
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 10: question and a comment for you, Matt, Maybe the difference

707
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 10: between scuttle butt and rumor. But I was reading on

708
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 10: Mario's video of some of the comments there last night,

709
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 10: and someone had commented, and I don't know what if.

710
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 2: You're gonna do something, If you're gonna do something about

711
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 2: personal interactions with players, if that's what you're gonna do,

712
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 2: I don't want to put that on the air. If

713
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 2: you're if you've got it, If it's something else, I'm

714
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 2: glad to hear it. But if it's like this person

715
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 2: did this, I'd rather not. I hope you understand. I

716
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 2: don't want to spread that.

717
00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 11: No, just just thinking about the team chemistry and stuff.

718
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 11: That's just a comment that was interesting about the issues

719
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 11: behind the scenes, something personal going on between team mates

720
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 11: or whatever, might be over a woman or something like that.

721
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 2: I want to get into that. I know I wouldn't

722
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 2: think so. I wouldn't think so. I appreciate it.

723
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 11: I understand, generally.

724
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 2: Speak, I appreciate the call. Generally speaking, this is a

725
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 2: long standing thing. When teams have chemistry issues, people always

726
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 2: blame a woman. That's always been the case. I'm not

727
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 2: saying that's never been the case. There's one time I

728
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 2: think it was the case. You're right, but in general

729
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 2: there's like, well, they must be fighting over a woman,

730
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 2: and I don't I don't think that's I think that's

731
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 2: most of the time not true. Generally speaking. There are

732
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 2: plenty of fish in the sea for UK basketball players,

733
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 2: so I think it'll be. It'll be.

734
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Speaker 5: But then we agree there's something off, something's not right,

735
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 5: and I don't know if we can figure it out

736
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 5: by the next big game we've got, but they need

737
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 5: to be figured out quickly out.

738
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 2: I think we're going to and Mark, if you do

739
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 2: nothing else, just tell us what happened in that stupid

740
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 2: locker room.

741
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 4: Wipe the slate clean.

742
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 2: Let's not make this the Epstein files, all right, let's

743
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 2: just just say it. Okay, just just do.

744
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 7: It, and let's move on, right, Just lay the locker

745
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 7: room files out.

746
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 2: Whoever is evolved, all right.

747
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 7: We predicted this when he was being all coy about that,

748
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 7: like it's gonna linger in the next week and if

749
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 7: you have a bad game, it's just gonna be magnified.

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Speaker 2: Mark you, ma'am okay. I was just making sure. I mean,

763
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Speaker 2: this is where it's not. We're not freeloading here. This

764
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Speaker 2: is okay. I didn't think you didn't look like someone

765
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Speaker 2: they would do that. We'll take a break and be

766
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 2: right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. Ryan is doubling

767
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 2: down on the the Mark poops thing. We've all said

768
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 2: it knowledge he said it once. I was confused.

769
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 7: I thought Ron was saying we did it when Stoop

770
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 7: wasn't good. Now, I've had to slip during the Dion

771
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 7: Walker interview that everyone remembers, I've never done.

772
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 5: You let it slip one time because then you started

773
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 5: laughing at yourself. You're sitting right there in that spot

774
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 5: right there.

775
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,280
Speaker 2: Well, I said, sit in this spot like every day.

776
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's said here.

777
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 2: It's not a different spot. I remember.

778
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 4: I can remember the moment when it happened, because you

779
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 4: were kind of laughing at yourself.

780
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think that happened. We have Quiz Night

781
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 2: to hit here at the bar. It's Quiz Night Drew

782
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 2: with a guy named Quiz.

783
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 4: It's gotta be good then, right, it's that is right.

784
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 2: His name is Quiz So the guy that gives the

785
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 2: quiz name is Quiz So. Uh so you can come out.

786
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 2: It's different than my trivia. It's a little easier and

787
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 2: it's a little different. So it's Quiz Night with Quiz

788
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 2: tonight at Chaos. I mean, I'm told it's Quiz Night

789
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:21,399
Speaker 2: with Quiz though tonight you can come on out. And

790
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 2: we also have Wings Day so you can quiz and

791
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 2: dollar wings and burgers, et cetera. Uh. By the way,

792
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 2: we got good reviews on our NFL episode from our boss.

793
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 2: So we're Drew and I are happy about that. We

794
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 2: got to think from the NFL because we didn't know

795
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,439
Speaker 2: because we really didn't talk about football at all during

796
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 2: any of the stuff. And they they still they liked it, so.

797
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,879
Speaker 7: That was good, and they had a little like they

798
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 7: proved they listened. Like at one point I said ranch

799
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 7: instead of blue cheese. They called me out on that.

800
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 7: They mentioned about Billy's shoes.

801
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 2: The guy from the NFL specifically said, uh, tell Billy

802
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 2: I like his Dick Van Dyke shift. So they were

803
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,439
Speaker 2: dialed in. Which is uh? Which? Nice? Text machine seven

804
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 2: seven two seven four five two five four h one

805
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 2: person rights, Matt. I've seen all this about fights about

806
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 2: all different things. You said you don't think it was women.

807
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 2: Could it be religion? No, come on, come on, but

808
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 2: come on, like be reasonable. That doesn't happen either. We've

809
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 2: had players over the years that were every religion. That

810
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 2: people are just people, just wwar in twenty don't just

811
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 2: start fighting like they're not like people on the internet

812
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 2: who get mad about everything like that. These dudes know

813
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 2: each other. If they don't like each other, it may

814
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 2: just be it's it's I guarantee you. It is very

815
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 2: likely just personality based, like I don't like you, You're

816
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 2: not someone I want to be around. That's what usually

817
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,839
Speaker 2: ends up beating You know, when when Oscar was here,

818
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 2: and again I like Oscar, they didn't dislike him because

819
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 2: of religion. They didn't like him because they thought he

820
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 2: kind of thought he was better than everybody, and there

821
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 2: were different rules for Oscar than there were for everybody

822
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 2: else in their mind. I'm not even saying they were right,

823
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 2: but that's what they thought. That's why they didn't like

824
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 2: each other. So it's not the things people like. This

825
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 2: is not people arguing about the latest comment from Keen Jefferies.

826
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 2: These are people who just like you annoy me, and

827
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:17,280
Speaker 2: I don't like you.

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Speaker 7: You know what's so weird about it is in the

829
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 7: few things we've been to, they seemed close. And usually

830
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 7: when their locker room problems, you know it right away

831
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 7: and that stuff leaks out before they even start playing games.

832
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 7: Everything seemed just fine up until a week or two

833
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 7: ago it did. That's what's so weird about all of this.

834
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 2: The women's team won though, by forty, so that's a lot.

835
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 5: Maybe we'll look back on last night after the heart

836
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 5: to heart fifty minute meeting after the game, maybe things

837
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 5: turn around. We can all point back to that night

838
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 5: that everything turned around for this team and they've joined

839
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 5: four way.

840
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 2: So see, I would have thought that maybe, But then

841
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 2: how do you explain Pope afterwards? Like if they came

842
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 2: out of that meeting like, okay, here we go, Wildcats,

843
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,800
Speaker 2: year we go, then why did he come out being

844
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 2: park Mobe.

845
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 7: We didn't know it was a meeting, could have just

846
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:08,399
Speaker 7: been sitting in the back in the dark.

847
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 2: If they might have all just been sitting there listening

848
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 2: to Morrissey that it.

849
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,399
Speaker 7: Would have been nice, though, with it taking so long,

850
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 7: if you did come out and be like, sorry, I'm late.

851
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 7: The guys stood up start talking about what's wrong, how

852
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 7: they're gonna fix it. I didn't want to break it up.

853
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 7: It was a good moment for a locker room.

854
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:25,320
Speaker 2: But he was like, oh, no, I don't know what

855
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 2: we talked. Yeah, that's that's that's partially kind of why

856
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:35,359
Speaker 2: it doesn't doesn't feel great. Who's next, Joseph, Joseph, go ahead, Joseph, morning, guys,

857
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 2: how are you? I'm doing good? All right?

858
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 6: Before I before I get to my main point, which

859
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 6: is mostly negative. Can I just try to say something positive?

860
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 6: Of course you can, all right, So what a luxury

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Speaker 6: is it to have a coach that actually cares about losing?

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Speaker 2: Agree?

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Speaker 6: You know, we aren't that we aren't that far removed

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Speaker 6: from a guy who would want to go watch The

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Speaker 6: Little House on the Prairie after every law So whatever.

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Speaker 2: The hell it was.

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Speaker 6: So I'm happy that Pope cares. But with that being said,

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Speaker 6: I was praying that when he came out to that

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Speaker 6: press or he wouldn't talk about how disappointed they are

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Speaker 6: and the typical song and dance that he does after

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Speaker 6: we lose. I wanted to see some fire and frankly,

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Speaker 6: some anger, yeah, because I feel like this, this like

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Speaker 6: moping around rubs off on this team in the wrong way,

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Speaker 6: and you see it in their body language and how

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Speaker 6: they react to things, and I just wanted I wanted

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Speaker 6: some anger.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 6: I just don't think this team responds well to the I.

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Speaker 2: Actually think that's a really good way to put it.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate the call. I don't know, I don't know

881
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 2: that this team responds well to sadness. But then again,

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Speaker 2: I mean for back to the locker room pregame story,

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Speaker 2: The story that I heard that again may not be correct,

884
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Speaker 2: was that people were used to one kind of pope

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Speaker 2: and then a different pope walked in the locker room

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Speaker 2: and they were like, who's this dude? You know? The

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Speaker 2: story was that he went up to like Jayalen Lowe

888
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 2: and was like, Mickel Brown's better than you. Don't you

889
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 2: want to prove it? Don't you want to prove it?

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Speaker 2: And they were like who are you? Like like like stop,

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Speaker 2: and it maybe threw them off again. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: So you do have to be within your personality Drew,

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Speaker 2: whatever that is.

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Speaker 7: And Pope has a lot of strengths. We saw them

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Speaker 7: last year. But I'm really starting to question him getting

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Speaker 7: ready for these big games and how he's going to

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Speaker 7: handle a deep roster where he's got to manage minutes.

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00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 7: He didn't have to do that last year. This year,

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Speaker 7: he's got a lot of dudes that need to play,

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Speaker 7: and he has not figured out rotations yet.

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Speaker 9: No.

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Speaker 2: Patino just did an interview where he said he didn't

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Speaker 2: think we paid twenty two million dollars for the roster,

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Speaker 2: that he thinks that's exaggerated. So maybe that's good. I

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Speaker 2: don't know. We'll be right back number two ks Ry