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Speaker 1: Well, welcome everyone. It is the local Towity Dealers KSR

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Speaker 1: postgame show. The Cats finished their season with a disappointing

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Speaker 1: and somewhat embarrassing loss to Iowa State eighty two sixty

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Speaker 1: three in Saint Louis, and the Cats finished the season

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Speaker 1: twenty two and fourteen. Kentucky one of those games that

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Speaker 1: will be kind of hard for the fan base to digest.

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Speaker 1: If I'm nine two to eight, zho twenty two to

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Speaker 1: eighty seven, we are here. It's me and Ryan and Mario.

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Speaker 1: We are stopped in Mount Vernon, Illinois. We actually took

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Speaker 1: off right as the game ended and headed on our

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Speaker 2: I like a lot of ways to go about this game.

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Speaker 1: I think what I will do is talk a minute,

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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes about the game, and then kind

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Speaker 1: of overall about the season as a whole. First of all,

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Speaker 1: the game, Tucky came out really well, started led twenty

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Speaker 1: to eight. I felt like, for the first time all year,

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Speaker 1: I set directly courtside, when you get kind of a

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Speaker 1: different view. When you sit there, you can see the

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Speaker 1: game in a way that I actually think is a

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Speaker 1: lot more helpful in watching. And I thought Kentucky came

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Speaker 1: out defensively and was great in the first half. Intense,

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Speaker 1: got out on the shooters. I was very, very impressed

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Speaker 1: and offensively early they shared the ball, they passed to

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Speaker 1: the off side, which is what Mark Popit said they

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Speaker 1: the court, and I thought they looked great. And then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Iowa State changed their defense. And

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Speaker 1: I think this is worth noting. I talked on the

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Speaker 1: pregame show today about how when I talked to Tom

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Speaker 1: Crane and then Seth Greenberg said this on TV that

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Speaker 1: the way Iowa State was going to play is they

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Speaker 1: were going to double everything when people made drive, try

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Speaker 1: to cut off the basket and make Kentucky shoot threes.

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Speaker 1: And at the start of the game that's what they did.

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Speaker 1: And then Kentucky made six threes to start the game.

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Speaker 1: And after they did that, time out was called and

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Speaker 1: Iowa State switched their defense. After having a game plan

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Speaker 1: that clearly the coaches had said to broadcasters because many

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Speaker 1: broadcasters said it right, they came out and completely switched

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Speaker 1: their defense. They made a coaching adjustment they did and

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Speaker 1: they decided to pressure the ball handler at the point

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Speaker 1: of attack whoever it was every time, and then when

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Speaker 1: they did, the pressure just wilted Kentucky. The guards couldn't

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Speaker 1: handle it, the bigs really couldn't handle it, and Kentucky

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Speaker 1: ended up with twenty turnovers, twelve in the first half.

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Speaker 1: That's an outrageous amount. I mean, we Kentucky only won

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Speaker 1: one game all year where they had more than eleven turnovers,

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Speaker 1: and we had twenty. And that game plan Kentucky was

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Speaker 1: just not able to adjust to. And when they switched it,

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Speaker 1: when they switched from kind of daring Kentucky to shoot

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Speaker 1: threes to saying, okay, beaus, beat our pressure, Kentucky was

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Speaker 1: not able to do it. And offensively, then every shot

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Speaker 1: seemed like it was a miracle to get one off.

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Speaker 2: Much less make it.

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Speaker 1: It was wilting. It was one of the best defensive

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Speaker 1: performances after that adjustment I've seen a team play against

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Speaker 1: Kentucky in a long time. And then understandably, when the

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Speaker 1: offense suffers, the defense suffered on the other end. Cats

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Speaker 1: were up one at halftime. I thought there were two

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Speaker 1: key sequences in the game. Number one, and we've said

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Speaker 1: this all year, the substitution patterns. Now, this was not

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Speaker 1: a mass substitution, because that's been an issue for a

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Speaker 1: I think only three guards could play Aberdeen, Away and Chandler.

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Speaker 1: And when they tried and understand why Pope did this,

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Speaker 1: when he tried to steal minutes for those guys, it

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Speaker 1: just didn't work. Put in Jasper Johnson. He was minus

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Speaker 1: was a brutal minus nine. Moreno really struggle all game.

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Speaker 1: Shot free throws well, but otherwise really struggle. Couldn't get

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Speaker 1: second key sequence up seven. Great defense on a possession missshot,

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Speaker 1: the glass, taps the rebound, taps it into Moreno's hands,

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Speaker 1: Instead it's four. We come down Russia's shot, no understanding

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Speaker 1: So Kentucky loses. So that's the game. Ryan thoughts on

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Speaker 1: the game. You nailed it.

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Speaker 3: Came out great start, and we said in the pregame

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Speaker 1: They did.

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Speaker 3: We said Colin Town's got to come out hit some shots,

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Speaker 3: and he did. He did. You know, offense looked great,

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Speaker 3: but you nailed it.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 3: Iowa State. Maybe adjustment when they put that trapping defensive

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Speaker 1: And you saw the weaknesses that the team had. The

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Speaker 1: Now some of that is having a couple of injuries,

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Speaker 1: but a big part of it is they didn't have

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Speaker 3: He went him in there. They pushed our offense out.

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Speaker 3: It was starting nearly at half courts.

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Speaker 1: By the way, we lost by nineteen and Aberdeen was

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Speaker 1: and he only set out four minutes. Wow. So think

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Speaker 1: bad it was when he wasn't on the court. It

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Speaker 2: So that was number one.

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Speaker 1: Pope addressed that after the game said, well, we thought

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Speaker 1: something was gonna happen in our spring situation, and then

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Speaker 1: it fell through. I guess he's referencing a Caden Lewis

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Speaker 1: not coming here. But when a Cayden Lewis didn't come,

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Speaker 1: you gotta go do something. There's still plenty of time.

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Speaker 1: There's guys all over the world, right Yeah, and they

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Speaker 1: didn't do it. And you saw that. And let me

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Speaker 1: say salute to Aberdeen for making that. Like I actually

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Speaker 1: And while I'm on that phase, salute o way. Yes,

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Speaker 1: one of the best two year runs as a player

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Speaker 1: in Kentucky history. He was, you know, wasn't perfect, but

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Speaker 1: and so salute to him. He had thirty what is

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Speaker 1: it how many games we played? We played thirty six

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Speaker 1: season for him. Now, bigger picture, the season as a whole,

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Speaker 1: and ultimately this, ultimately, this is the most important thing.

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Speaker 2: The season as a whole was a huge discipline.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you can say that the season

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Speaker 1: coach said, we were a ferrari We had national championship

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Speaker 1: or Final four expectations. Yes, we had two major injuries.

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Speaker 1: Was at the point guard. But they did make a

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Speaker 1: Pope said in the post game, we knew our weakness

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Speaker 1: should have fixed that. That hurts you, quaintance, that's a loss,

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Speaker 1: But you know what, I don't find that as much

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Speaker 1: a freak accident. But Quaintans, you knew he was coming

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Speaker 1: do it. So while I do give some sympathy for

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Speaker 1: the low thing, ultimately you didn't construct this roster correctly.

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Speaker 1: Even when we were at our best. I will remind

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Speaker 1: We beat Saint John's, but we lost by like twenty

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Speaker 3: Yes, were people just bring up the wolf.

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Speaker 2: We had our whole team.

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Speaker 1: We were zero to two in the one game where

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Speaker 1: And I will go further, I think what we had

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Speaker 1: John's playing. Rick has a team of dudes who can't shoot.

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Speaker 1: to potentially the Sweet six team. We'll see how the

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Speaker 1: game ends. And they won the Big East because he

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Speaker 3: Lay your stings right.

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Speaker 1: This team actually ended up shooting okay some of the year,

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Speaker 1: but we were not able to adjust, and it was

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Speaker 1: a very disappointing year. I thought last year was ultimately

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Speaker 1: Mark Pope, there are there was a couple discouraging comments

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Speaker 1: in the post In the postgame, I might have to

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Speaker 1: was asked about going forward, and he said, we've got

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Speaker 1: to find guys who want to come here because of

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Speaker 1: what Kentucky is. I hate that philosophy. That philosophy may

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Speaker 1: have been true ten years ago, although I don't think

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Speaker 1: it was maybe twenty years ago. We need to get

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Speaker 1: the best players and then teach them to quote Terrence

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Speaker 1: Jones about Kentuck, right, Yeah, then teach them about Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: Get the best guys here, bring them here, and then

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Speaker 1: make them fall in love with it. Because when you

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Speaker 1: bring guys who this is the peak of what they want.

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Speaker 1: That's nice, it makes our heart feel good. But we lose,

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Speaker 1: right Illinoi's got a team full of serbians that probably

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Speaker 1: didn't even know worse Illinois was on the map when

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Speaker 1: they came here, and they're in the sweet sixteenth, right right,

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Speaker 1: So teach them about Kentucky. I don't. I'm worried. I'm

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Speaker 1: worried about the building of the off season. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: more about later this week. But Eli Cappaluto made a

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Speaker 1: video yesterday. The basics of it were, we gotta cut expenses,

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Speaker 1: We gotta cut expenses. Jack Givens said on the post game,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they're gonna have as much money

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Speaker 1: for NIL next year. That's a little concern. Ouch Jack

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Speaker 1: would know, Yes, he would, that's a little concerning. And

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Speaker 1: then when you hear Mark say, well, we got to

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Speaker 1: start getting people who want to be here for what Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: Is that sounds like it's saying we may not be

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Speaker 1: able to get these guys that cost a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: All of those things are things that make it hard

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Speaker 1: But I don't need somebody who's in love with us immediately.

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Speaker 1: is there anything that you can say that is positive

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Speaker 1: he couldn't do that this year away An Aberdeen could.

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Speaker 1: I think there's more there and I think when he

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Speaker 1: he was really good. This year. I think that six man,

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00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: aggressive like physical role is actually a really good role

438
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 1: for him.

439
00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:32,120
Speaker 3: When he settled into that role, he was very productive

440
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 3: off the bench for us.

441
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 1: So so that's my feelings on the roster and then

442
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,120
Speaker 1: everything else. Then, I you know, we'll see, we'll see

443
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 1: what Pope wants to do and how everything fits. You're

444
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: gonna have to go get whether it's whether you think

445
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 1: it's Jalen Lowe. You're gonna have to get a point guard,

446
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: right and you probably And at this point I need

447
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 1: two point guards, even if the second one's not a star.

448
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,399
Speaker 1: I still need two because we can't go into these

449
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 1: years with one and.

450
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 3: Hope because Dangel Aberdeen was not a point guard.

451
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 1: Which is why I'm so would, which is why I

452
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,919
Speaker 1: we'll think of him very fun. Absolutely, he was not

453
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 1: a point guard. And then the second half of that year, Yep,

454
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: he was a good point.

455
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 3: He really grew on me. I think I even sat

456
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 3: on the show one time. He's one of my least

457
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,919
Speaker 3: favorite players. He grew on me. He grew up a

458
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 3: good point guard.

459
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: Go look at the plus minus for this game. When

460
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: he was out, we fell apart. Yeah, the whole game.

461
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 2: All right, Billy, who's up first?

462
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: John? John? Go ahead, John, Oh, I can't hear you,

463
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 1: my man, Like, so put the phone up to your

464
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 1: mouth and like like talk into it.

465
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:38,640
Speaker 7: We need we need you, like we can go back,

466
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 7: but we cannot just stitch it right now. Like, uh,

467
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 7: everyone wants to talk. They say, they say, uh, we

468
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 7: pushed cal Perry.

469
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:52,400
Speaker 1: Up for this. We put Billy is that just going

470
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: in and out or is that just what it's him?

471
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,400
Speaker 1: It's yeah, I appreciate the call. Your phone is going

472
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: in and out, so I can't hear what you're saying.

473
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 1: Go ahead, who's that?

474
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:02,160
Speaker 3: Don is up there?

475
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 1: Don? Go ahead? Don?

476
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 4: Yeah him, Matt, thank you for taking my call. I'm

477
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 4: seventy seven years old. I've been listening to UK basketball

478
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 4: since I was a twelve or thirteen year old boy

479
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,639
Speaker 4: on a little transistor radio. I remember Adolph Rupp, I

480
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 4: remember Taywood Leford very well. And I don't even know

481
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 4: where to start. I mean, I really don't. I'm so disgusted.

482
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 4: We shouldn't have even been playing Iowa State today. That

483
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 4: lucky shot got us there. We shouldn't even been there.

484
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 4: I don't even know what to say about the team.

485
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,359
Speaker 4: About Mark Kolk. I like Mark, I'm just not sure

486
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 4: he's the fit. I really don't know, Matt. I just

487
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 4: I'm so upset about the style of play. I wish

488
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 4: we had two good guards. Guards are college guards are

489
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 4: what makes colleagues teams work, and we still't have them.

490
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Speaker 1: And I would disagree with you that we didn't have guards.

491
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 1: I mean, I think our two best players were guards.

492
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 1: You know, we may not have had enough of them,

493
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: and we didn't necessarily have great shooters. But I think

494
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,119
Speaker 1: our guards, especially Oway and Aberdeen, became the least of

495
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 1: our problems. But in general, I agree with you, and

496
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: your point is, like, is Pope the guy? You know?

497
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to that question.

498
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 1: Like I would have said going into this year, yes,

499
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 1: Now I'm kind of.

500
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:31,919
Speaker 2: In the I don't know. To be honest with you,

501
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 2: I don't know.

502
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 4: I love the guy. I just I just am not

503
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 4: positive that he's the fifth that we need.

504
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: Matt.

505
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 4: I just don't think he is. I wish, you know.

506
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 4: I mean, other teams get good coaches and they rebuild

507
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 4: the program, they find good players. Why can't we? I mean,

508
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 4: we used to be krim de la krim Uk basketball

509
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 4: was the top. And where are we? I don't even

510
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 4: We're not even in the top thirty or forty. I

511
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 4: don't believe. And it just it just bugs the peanuts

512
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 4: out of me, you know what I'm saying.

513
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, I understand what you're saying. I appreciate the call.

514
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: I mean, I think if you were to rank where

515
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,360
Speaker 1: are we right now? It all depends on what you mean.

516
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 1: If you mean performance, we're not in the top fifteen

517
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: of the programs in recent years. If you're talking about

518
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: sort of prestige, that's a little different. I think we

519
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 1: still are. But you know, as far as mark, I'm

520
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 1: gonna say, I thought a lot about this between the

521
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: SEC tournament and the NCAA tournament. But I really value

522
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: Ryan people that I can think are good people, good hearts,

523
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,239
Speaker 1: good humans, treat each other well. I think at our

524
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: current society, where that happens less and less, I value

525
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: it more and more. Okay, but I don't know if

526
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: college sports is like there's value in being a good person,

527
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: be kind to people. But you also got to push

528
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: the envelope open college sports right like you can't. You

529
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: don't get any rewards in college sports for like best sportsmanship.

530
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: You get rewards in life, but in college sports you

531
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 1: gotta go win, right and in college basketball, especially especially

532
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: until we have set in stone rules that like Congress passes,

533
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: which is gonna happen sometime, but it may not happen

534
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: for the next couple of years. You got to push

535
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: the envelope. What's what's the thing? I say a lot

536
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: ask for forgiveness. Excuse me, beg for forgiveness, don't ask

537
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: for permission. Let's start doing some stuff that will ask

538
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: us to beg for forgiveness, and let's stop waiting for permission.

539
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 2: Nobody else is and they're winning.

540
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 1: And maybe one of the things with the change of

541
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: leadership is there'll be a change of thoughts on that.

542
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: But that also means, hey, Mark Pope, go you know

543
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: whatever it is like, do what you whatever. Pushed the

544
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: envelope and let's stop going, well, can we do this?

545
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 1: Do it, and then we'll deal with it on the

546
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: back end. You know, Alabama played a player that was

547
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 1: not the court. Alabama played a player that they specifically

548
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 1: said they cannot and then you know what they didn't.

549
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 2: They didn't unpunish them.

550
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 3: Nope, none at all.

551
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: They're still in the term, they have the same seed

552
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: they would have had him.

553
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 3: Yep, didn't matter.

554
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 1: So go for it.

555
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 3: I'm in the boat. I want it to work for

556
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 3: Mark Polpo.

557
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: I do too, everybody does.

558
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 3: I want it to happen for him. But I think

559
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 3: he's got, like you said, look in the mirror. He's

560
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 3: got to make some changes. He's got to adapt to

561
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 3: some things in modern basketball. And to hear his comments

562
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 3: today makes me kind of still scratch my head about

563
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 3: where he's thinking.

564
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of different ways to relate

565
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: to modern athletes. You can be like John Shire and

566
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: be their friend. You can be like one of the

567
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: boys maybe, or you can be a disciplinarian still maybe

568
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: if they respect you, like Rick Patino or Tom Izzo.

569
00:30:58,760 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can.

570
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: Be like.

571
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 2: Gollie. G guys, let's go. I don't know.

572
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: Maybe you can. Last year it worked. I'm not sure

573
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: that it worked this year. Didn't work with this group.

574
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: With this group last year, I think it kind of did.

575
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: So maybe it's who you get, right, Yeah, but I think,

576
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: you know.

577
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 3: Maybe they was a more mature group last year.

578
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,959
Speaker 1: Maybe, but I don't think it really worked with this

579
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: it didn't. So who's next, Nathan, Nathan go ahead, and Nathan.

580
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 6: Hey, Matt.

581
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 8: I am twenty four years old. I just wanted to

582
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 8: call in, get my get my thoughts. So when Mark

583
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 8: Pope was hired, I was really mad at my dad,

584
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 8: his friends, everybody, everybody that thought Mark Pope was a

585
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 8: good hire was I thought older and I wanted cal gone.

586
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 8: So I will say that so did all my friends.

587
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 8: Maybe unique for me at my age, I thought Calsh

588
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:04,239
Speaker 8: to be gone, but I had an idea that we

589
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 8: were going to get a good hire. And when he

590
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 8: was hired, I said, this guy's won zero tournament games.

591
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 8: He coach said b yu while also winning zero games

592
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 8: in the tournament. And I was upset, and I got

593
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 8: all my dad, my dad, my dad's friends, my family,

594
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 8: dad's older that loved UK got to witness him play

595
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 8: at UK. I understood why they loved him. The press

596
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 8: conference won everyone over. It was really cool. I loved

597
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 8: and it even won me over a little bit. But

598
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 8: we're here now and you're seeing the results when you

599
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 8: hire a guy that has not won zero that when

600
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 8: you hire a guy that has won zero tournament games

601
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 8: before he came to Kentucky. If anybody else was hired

602
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 8: that has won zero tournament games before they came to Kentucky,

603
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 8: this fan base would have been in shambles. And they

604
00:32:56,120 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 8: were in shambles when we hired Mark Pope. And that's what.

605
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to cut you off.

606
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: But I want to say you that's a great call

607
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of great points there. Again, I

608
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: thought about this between the SEC and the NCAA tournament.

609
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: I violated some of my rules of coaching to get

610
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: really excited about Mark Pope.

611
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 2: What are you?

612
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: What are there?

613
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 2: Some rules you've heard me say over the years about coaching.

614
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 3: Don't hire a former player.

615
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: Don't hire a player who played there unless they've killed

616
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: it a lah Roy Williams somewhere else. The biggest mistake

617
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: people make is hiring a former player. Caroline is about

618
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: to fire another one. Yep. Right, We've seen it over

619
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: and over and over, and it rarely works. It might

620
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 1: work with John Shire, we'll see, but it rarely works.

621
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 2: So my rule has always.

622
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: Been don't do that. I and my initial reaction was

623
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: don't do that, right, But then I like the caller,

624
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: talking myself into the second rule I always have for

625
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: Kentucky basketball.

626
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 2: Now this may not be true in other schools, but for.

627
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 1: Kentucky basketball, I need you to have won somewhere, preferably

628
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 1: at a really good school, but I need you to

629
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: have won big somewhere. Mark hadn't. Okay, he won some,

630
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: but he never won to turnament game. He won some

631
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:35,959
Speaker 1: at Utah Valley State, but if he didn't play here,

632
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:40,959
Speaker 1: that wasn't the resume, right, So now, I still hope

633
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 1: it works. I do too.

634
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 2: I still think it can.

635
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: But maybe the lesson is, don't violate your rules just

636
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: because you want it to work.

637
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 3: What can you say to all the people like on

638
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 3: my timeline that wont him gone?

639
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 1: Now?

640
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 2: Well, what I would say is, I think.

641
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: Coaches need three years to see if it's unless it's

642
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: just a disaster, you need three years, and he needs

643
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: a third year. The other thing is it's not gonna happen, right,

644
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: So you can say it and be angry, or you

645
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: can just say, well, okay, it's not gonna happen, So

646
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 1: what do we do for next year? If I was

647
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: in charge, I would not fire Mark Pup. First of all,

648
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: we owe people too much money as it is. We

649
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,879
Speaker 1: owe Mark Stoops thirty five million dollars. We now owe

650
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: Mitch Barnhardt money. Yes, we're gonna be paying money out

651
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: the wazoo. You know it's not gonna happen, and I

652
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: wouldn't do it. But I will say, for me, next

653
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:46,240
Speaker 1: year will be determined.

654
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 3: We talk about you know Mark Story's article, his legacy

655
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Speaker 3: would starts on March first. Well, if you had step one,

656
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Speaker 3: step two, we're getting ready to go to step three

657
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Speaker 3: about the roster for next season.

658
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Speaker 1: Step one was a yeah, yeah, uh wasn't It wasn't terrible,

659
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 1: but it wasn't great. This next month is the month.

660
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 1: It is how they build this roster.

661
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:08,240
Speaker 3: Yep.

662
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: What they do is the ad. They're about to restructure

663
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 1: things in athletics in a way that I don't think

664
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Speaker 1: people realize and how that works.

665
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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be crucial.

666
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: We will come back July first, August first, and it

667
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 1: will be a different thing. And what that looks like,

668
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: we'll see who's next. Stub stub go ahead, stub.

669
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Speaker 4: Man. I don't understand how you can watch a film

670
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 4: of Iowa State and not understand that moreno Yellowitch Chandler

671
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 4: are going to.

672
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Speaker 9: Get their lunch taken from them. Yeah, you know, it's

673
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 9: one thing. It's one thing to have a misconstructed roster,

674
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 9: it's a it's another thing to totally mismanaged that roster

675
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:07,360
Speaker 9: like today should have been from the good go. It

676
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 9: should have been oh way, Aberdeen, will if Bote, Garrison

677
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 9: and then the Couples guys off the bench.

678
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 4: That's it.

679
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Speaker 1: I kind of agree with you. I mean, I think

680
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: you had to play Taylor because you have to have

681
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Speaker 1: that threat. But I would just alter it and say

682
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: it's Aberdeen, Oway, Chandler, Diabate, Garrison, Yellowitch and moreno spot minutes.

683
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: That's what I Williams. Williams a six man. Yeah, but

684
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: you're right. I was shocked how little Garrison played in

685
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: important moments because even though like this is his kind

686
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:40,839
Speaker 1: of game, right.

687
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Speaker 9: Also, I mean Chandler was no threat with this matchup,

688
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 9: Like he was totally outmatched, so he was not a threat.

689
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,720
Speaker 9: The three made early in the game were fools gold

690
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 9: And I called it a halftime. I said, I will

691
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 9: faced on the win by seven teams, and they won

692
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 9: by nineteen. But and we just need to throw Tyron

693
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 9: Stokes whatever money he wants. But at the end of

694
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 9: the day, he'll probably come and he'll get like an

695
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 9: impacted tooth or something and he'll be injured all the year,

696
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 9: won't play it.

697
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Speaker 1: Well, that's a danger. I appreciate the call. I mean,

698
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: that's a danger of getting him. You know, you look

699
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: at these great freshmen, they've gone a couple different paths.

700
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: Cameron Boozer may take his team to have a shot

701
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,839
Speaker 1: at the national title. Darius A. Cuff has done good

702
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: stuff at Arkansas. Kingston Flemings has been really good at Houston.

703
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 1: The kid at Illinois has been really good. Caleb Wilson

704
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: was good before he got hurt. And then you have

705
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 1: and day Ja Dea Bontes was good. Then you have

706
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 1: Darren Peterson on again, off again, Mickel Brown and Louisville

707
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: on again, off again. So there is a risk when

708
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: you get one of those guys.

709
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Speaker 3: There is, And I think we're all just a little

710
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 3: gun shy about what happened with Quainton's this year. Paying

711
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 3: a lot of money, didn't even get to play.

712
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: That's our own fault. I mean I was for him

713
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,840
Speaker 1: doing it. But if they genuinely were building around the

714
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: team around Quayton playing, that's on them. Yeah, right, I

715
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 1: always considered Quainton's a bonus. If they really thought he

716
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: was going to be like their best player, then that's

717
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: on them. You just you're taking a guy who just

718
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,839
Speaker 1: he just tore his ACL last season.

719
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Speaker 3: They were telling us, you remember, like in August September,

720
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 3: you know he's on the court. Now he's we're running

721
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,240
Speaker 3: up and down the floor, blit, leading us to believe

722
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 3: he was gonna play. That's why I wonder if he

723
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 3: reinjured it when those three games he played in.

724
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: I think that's the most likely scenario. Is it something

725
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: that there's no way he doesn't play the rest of

726
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Speaker 1: the year.

727
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 2: I agree, unless he may be reinjured it, who's next? Luke, Luke,

728
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:34,359
Speaker 2: go ahead, Luke.

729
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 10: Hey, guys, I know Pop's not gonna get fired because frankly,

730
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 10: we don't have the fact to do it, or maybe

731
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 10: the money as well, that's part of it. But I

732
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Speaker 10: was gonna make the case for why you should.

733
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Speaker 11: It's pretty simple.

734
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 10: One, you should have hired him in the first place.

735
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 11: And when you have a massive reach higher, why would

736
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 11: you have a long leash with that guy?

737
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Speaker 10: I mean, why why would you do that?

738
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Speaker 11: Doesn't make any sense. Number Two, he's seven feet tall.

739
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 11: There no seven foot tall coaches in the Hall of Fame.

740
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 11: John Thompson at six ten is the tallest. And it

741
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 11: takes a Hall of Fame coach for it to work.

742
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 11: Here it does, We're very close to a Hall of

743
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Speaker 11: Fame coach at the very least.

744
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 1: Do you think do you think it's because of height?

745
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: You think it's cause of height?

746
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 11: Yes, yes, I'm serious. I think plays a serious factor

747
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 11: in being a good basketball coach. Okay, how many?

748
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 2: Well there's not.

749
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, there's not a lot of seven

750
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 1: foot people in the world, so, like your your sample

751
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 1: size is pretty small. I mean, John Thompson was a

752
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 1: really good coach, but there I mean, how many seven

753
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: There are not a lot of seven footers in the world, period, and.

754
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,320
Speaker 11: None of them have been Hall of Fame coaches.

755
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 8: None of them.

756
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 12: You wouldn't think that there would be one.

757
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 4: That would be a Hall of Famer. Okay, that's what

758
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:46,280
Speaker 4: I'm saying.

759
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Speaker 1: Ok.

760
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Speaker 7: And not to mention.

761
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Speaker 8: Here's another thing.

762
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Speaker 1: Go look at.

763
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Speaker 13: I encourage everybody to go do this.

764
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Speaker 11: Go to Basketball reference dot com and pull up Mark

765
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Speaker 11: Coaches Pope, Mark Poke's coaching record and tell me if

766
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Speaker 11: that's the guy that should be leading can Die. If

767
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 11: you come away with a yes, then you're looking at

768
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 11: a different page than I am, because the guy has

769
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Speaker 11: lost double digit games almost every single season of his

770
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Speaker 11: coaching career.

771
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 8: The two seasons he didn't one of them was the.

772
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Speaker 11: COVID shortened season, which they would have had a conference

773
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 11: tournament and an NCAA tournament where he would have lost

774
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Speaker 11: two games. That was his first year at BYU and

775
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 11: his second year at BYU was another.

776
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 9: Year that they didn't that they didn't lose double digit.

777
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 11: Games, and that's when they were in the West Coast Conference.

778
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:27,240
Speaker 11: They weren't even in the Big twelve.

779
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Speaker 14: This guy has no business being a coach in lections,

780
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 14: and I.

781
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 10: Think we got to get rid of them.

782
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Speaker 13: And if we don't, we're just waiting the year.

783
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Speaker 1: Appreciate the call. So that's the case. On the other side, man.

784
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:40,280
Speaker 3: There's people like that, a lot of our fan bases

785
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 3: on that side, they just don't think he's the right

786
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 3: guy to handle this job.

787
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 2: Well, I don't have confidence he's the right guy. Let

788
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 2: me be clear. I want I think everybody wants him

789
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 2: to be right.

790
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:50,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, but.

791
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a no win I mean it's a no

792
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 2: win situation.

793
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 3: That this whole season, going back from high handled whatever

794
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 3: happened at the Louisville game, to talk with the media,

795
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 3: to substitution patterns, the whole season has just been odd.

796
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 2: I would just counsel people.

797
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: Go watch videos of him talking to the media last

798
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: year versus talking to the media this year.

799
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, just just watch how different he is.

800
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 1: And I don't know why, Like, I don't know, I

801
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 1: don't think it has anything to do with the media.

802
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: It's just that's the only time we hear him talk.

803
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 1: Really go just the difference between how he talks to

804
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: Tom Leach after games last year versus this year. It's

805
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,760
Speaker 1: just different. And and so we're not the only ones

806
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: thinking it. I mean, you can see it if you

807
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: go look at the just the difference.

808
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 2: Who's next, Michael, Michael, go ahead.

809
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Speaker 14: Michael, Hey, I think your grades are very generous, and

810
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:57,879
Speaker 14: I think your comments about oh, it's risky to get

811
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:04,359
Speaker 14: I think it speaks to a drop in standard here.

812
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 14: You know, your grades are acceptable from twenty twenty on.

813
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 14: But the reality is this has been a complete embarrassment

814
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 14: since twenty twenty and this is an f season for Kentucky.

815
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 14: It is ridiculous to lose like we lost today, of

816
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 14: all the bad stats of Pope's time here, to blowout

817
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 14: losses in the NCAA Tournament.

818
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 12: Last year we were.

819
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 14: Non competitive against Tennessee, and we were non competitive this year.

820
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 14: And people glossed over that non competitive loss last year.

821
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 14: But that was embarrassing, and it was embarrassing today. And

822
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 14: I understand that. You know, you guys can't just sit

823
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 14: here and be like it's an S and this is miserable.

824
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 14: But the reality is is that it is.

825
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: Let me just say about the grades for me, like

826
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: for me, just so you know, And this maybe because

827
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,879
Speaker 1: I'm a dork, Like I think a D is unacceptable,

828
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: and I think a Kentucky a D is really unacceptable.

829
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: I think an F is like like the COVID year

830
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: to me is in half. But I still think you don't.

831
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: I mean, you get a coach that gives you consistent c's,

832
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: then you got to replace him. At Kentucky, this is

833
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,399
Speaker 1: a place that needs a's, right, So so don't get

834
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: me wrong. It may just be the difference in the

835
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 1: way you and I look at grades, but I'm I

836
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: don't think that, Like I'm not saying like a C

837
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: or a C minus is because like that's good. If

838
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: a coach at Kentucky continues to get sezed, then you

839
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: go get a new coach. Yeah.

840
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 14: Yeah, And I liked what Drew said all year. I

841
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 14: mean that's how you know. I don't think we're Indiana,

842
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:39,360
Speaker 14: but that's how you become Indiana.

843
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 2: Is you draw that is true, you know that is true,

844
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 2: and you accept Yeah, that's.

845
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 14: Like this, and that's why you know. I just want

846
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 14: to know from your perspective, because this is where I'm at.

847
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 14: We talk about year three. To me, we have to

848
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 14: be a contender in year three or we have to

849
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:59,359
Speaker 14: move on from him because we cannot continue this run

850
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 14: since twenty twenty of this performance. So if we are

851
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 14: not a contender next year, do you think Kentucky should

852
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 14: move on from him or keep them?

853
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I that's a that's a good question, I think.

854
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: So let me put it like this. I think we

855
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 1: need to be a team next year. That is the equipal.

856
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,919
Speaker 1: Like I'm watching Saint John's in Kansas, that's a four

857
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: and a five seed to some extent haven't quite been

858
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: like they wanted. But both of those teams could make

859
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: a Final four. They both have the makeup of a

860
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 1: team like Duke's not going to play either one of

861
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 1: these teams in the next round.

862
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:38,399
Speaker 2: True, right, we got to at least be that.

863
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:40,799
Speaker 3: We're a long way from that, it feels like.

864
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 2: I agree, but we gotta at least be that.

865
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know if we can beat Duke or

866
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:48,839
Speaker 1: Michigan or Arizona next year, Well we gotta at least

867
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: be that. We got to at least be what I'm

868
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: sitting here and watching right now. Yeah, and if we're not,

869
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: then yeah, I think you have to move on a

870
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Speaker 1: f I've nine two eight, twenty two eighty seven. We'll

871
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Speaker 1: take a break. Be right back. Local Toy Dealers KSR

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Speaker 1: Post game Show. Welcome back. It is a Local Toy

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Speaker 1: Dealers KSR post game show. Looks like my tweet has

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Speaker 1: kind of gone viral that I was talking about that

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Speaker 1: I came close to talking trash to a referee on

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Speaker 1: press row, so I decided it was my time to

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Speaker 1: leave the building. I didn't Kentucky fans understand what I

878
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Speaker 1: mean about that. The other fan bases don't really get

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Speaker 1: the history, like you know. I mean, it's kind of

880
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Speaker 1: a cheeky reference to the to the UH referee a

881
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Speaker 1: decade ago. And then it's also that I leave the

882
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Speaker 1: building during games. It's not like I was leaving, but

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Speaker 1: I did. Ryan knows I was about to talk trash today,

884
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Speaker 1: guy like I was very close to doing it. And

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Speaker 1: then I was like, I'm sitting on press row. I

886
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Speaker 1: will certainly get in trouble if I talked trash in

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Speaker 1: this room. But I was close. I wanted to We.

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Speaker 3: Were so close you could have reached out and tapped

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Speaker 3: him on the shoulder.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, sir, but it's after he called like five

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Speaker 1: fouls and four minutes.

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Speaker 3: You know what to me goes nobody's calling anything but

893
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Speaker 3: that guy.

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Speaker 1: He called every foul, and I was like, lly, I

895
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 1: felt myself like wanting to make fun of like how

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Speaker 1: he wore his pants and stuff.

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Speaker 2: And then I was like, all right, I just need

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Speaker 2: to go outside.

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Speaker 3: You did make a good joke about his pants to me,

900
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Speaker 3: his pants. I just you know, somebody looked it up.

901
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Speaker 3: We were like five and two in games he had refereed.

902
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Speaker 2: I mean, listen, we didn't lose because the rest that

903
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Speaker 2: was just I mean, I just but.

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Speaker 1: I probably needed to leave anyway, because like I was

905
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Speaker 1: getting nervous. But when I was like legitimately thinking should

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Speaker 1: I say something to this referee, then I was like,

907
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Speaker 1: you know what, I just need to go outside.

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Speaker 3: And you made it through the whole first half, made

909
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Speaker 3: it to the first TV time out of the second half.

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Speaker 3: That's when things were going to.

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Speaker 1: Sell the whole game. But I could just feel it.

912
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Speaker 1: I could feel it slipping away from it. Honestly, you

913
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Speaker 1: when we were up twenty to eight, I looked at

914
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Speaker 1: you and said, we're up twenty day, but we can't

915
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Speaker 1: can't keep playing like this. It just I could tell

916
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Speaker 1: that we not that we were lucky, but that we were.

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Speaker 2: The moment they changed defenses, I knew we were in trouble.

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Speaker 3: Well the end of the first half, we had that

919
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Speaker 3: seven point ly with the men have to go and

920
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Speaker 3: things are falling apart. They're down to with a couple

921
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Speaker 3: of seconds left. You said they're gonna hit a three,

922
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Speaker 3: go up by one a half time, and it's exactly

923
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Speaker 3: what happened.

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Speaker 1: Well, you can feel it and just feel what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: They hit that three when the locker room up won

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Speaker 3: and you could.

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Speaker 1: Feel it and we we are are our time and

928
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Speaker 1: clock was so bad during that period. Like you you want,

929
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Speaker 1: you have to go into halftime leading, and they did

930
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Speaker 1: everything possible to not lead. I do think the most

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Speaker 1: important play of the game was moreno dropping that rebound

932
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Speaker 1: and the guy hit hit the three three, because I

933
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Speaker 1: think if if he keeps that and then we run

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Speaker 1: all thirty seconds, we're going into halftime with at least

935
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Speaker 1: a six or seven point lead.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and instead we went down one. Who's next Aaron.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Aaron.

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Speaker 13: Hey Man, thanks for taking the call. I just want

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Speaker 13: to say, uh, Polk doesn't have the demeanor or the

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Speaker 13: attitude to coach at Kentucky in my opinion. I'm watching

941
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Speaker 13: the game today, Ottholberger's screaming at his team, screaming his

942
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Speaker 13: head off. Meanwhile, we're down thirteen and I see Mark

943
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Speaker 13: Pope clapping his hands. Let's go seeing it off seasons.

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Speaker 13: It's just that attitude. He's the guy to coach it.

945
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know I've said that. You're right, that is

946
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Speaker 1: what he does. He thinks that sort of positive motivation works,

947
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Speaker 1: and I think that can work. Again, I bring up

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Speaker 1: John Shire, like, he doesn't scream at people, you know,

949
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Speaker 1: he just kind of talks to them.

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Speaker 3: It works.

951
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Speaker 1: So I think there's many different ways to do it.

952
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Speaker 1: But does Mark's form of it work. It's to your point,

953
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Speaker 1: and I'm not sure if it does. I don't think

954
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Speaker 1: you have to scream. I think there are guys out

955
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Speaker 1: there that scream and succeeding, and there are guys that aren't.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Kelvin Sampson isn't really a screamer, right, But

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Speaker 1: I do think though for whatever reason, sir it's not

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Speaker 1: working right now.

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Speaker 13: All right, thanks taking a call, man.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate the call now. But like Dan Hurley and Todd

961
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Speaker 1: Golden and i'm oh and Rick Tino, they scream and

962
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Speaker 1: it's working. So you know, I think everybody's got different

963
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Speaker 1: ways of doing it.

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Speaker 3: They're valid criticism. I think you can have a coach pope.

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Speaker 3: My biggest concern is just there was no offensive identity

966
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Speaker 3: at all whatsoever, Like all season long, I don't know,

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Speaker 3: I still don't know what kind offensive team we were

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Speaker 3: supposed to be. They never go feature Guy Otega.

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Speaker 1: That was like our only off Imagine if Otaga and

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Speaker 1: Aberdeen like yeah, I mean they were the only The

971
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Speaker 1: only identity was Otaga, take your guys, that was it.

972
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Speaker 1: Aberdeen try to dribble and find somebody seriously like that

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Speaker 1: was There really wasn't a lot of ideas.

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Speaker 3: And when we were sitting, man, you got to see

975
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Speaker 3: Iowa state what they were doing offensively, and they had.

976
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Speaker 2: The ball so much.

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Speaker 1: Even at the beginning when we were playing really good defense,

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Speaker 1: they still moved the ball. They well, they we played

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Speaker 1: well on them, but they moved the ball. Great, who's next.

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Speaker 15: On that note, Let's give our Johnny Rocker personal injury Attorney,

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Speaker 15: with big city results when you call the Rocker at

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Speaker 15: two seven zero three two one four four two nine.

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Speaker 15: And while it was Oway on Friday, Today's is Denzel Aberdeen.

985
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Speaker 15: He led the team with twenty points. He was four

986
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Speaker 15: of nine from three and four or five from the

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Speaker 15: free throw line. In thirty seven minutes, he was minus

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Speaker 15: five and he is our Johnny Rocker personal injury attorney,

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Speaker 15: money maker of the game, Ryan Lemon's favorite player.

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Speaker 2: Let me read that. I want to read that stat again.

991
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Speaker 1: Played thirty seven minutes in a game we lost by nineteen,

992
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: and he was minus five, which means the three minutes

993
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: he was out was minus fourteen. Ouch. If you don't

994
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Speaker 1: think that kid like, everybody's gonna love O way. I

995
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Speaker 1: hope people have a good spot in their heart for Aberdeen.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Cauz.

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Speaker 1: For thirty seven minutes he was on the court and

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Speaker 1: we were minus five, and for three he was off

999
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Speaker 1: and we were minus fourteen.

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Speaker 3: That's that's no coincidence.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy.

1002
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Speaker 3: I'll say this. You know, I think Bill said it

1003
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Speaker 3: was four of nine and three's he took two at

1004
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 3: the shot clock buzzer because he had to we couldn't

1005
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Speaker 3: get a shot off.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Who's next? D C, d C? What's up? DC?

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Speaker 5: Hey man, I think we're gonna play that game ten

1008
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Speaker 5: out of ten times when we were lost every time.

1009
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Speaker 5: I think you're their best player was hurt and we

1010
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Speaker 5: started the game great and we still ended up losing it.

1011
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 5: Chandler turns into a ghost too often. And did you

1012
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 5: see Tyler or Tyrese Haliburton's tweet about uh, did you

1013
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 5: want to talk stuff the old UK players but they're

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Speaker 5: Arkansas fans now?

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Speaker 2: Thank you?

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00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 1: Yeah? I saw that. And look you know that video

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Speaker 1: that happened with Shay and in Casey Wallace is why

1018
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: he says that. And of course Haliburton played them in

1019
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:47,319
Speaker 1: the Championship Series last year, which is probably where that

1020
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Speaker 1: comes from as well.

1021
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Speaker 3: Haliburton played at Iowa.

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Speaker 1: The deal you make with the Devil with col is

1023
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Speaker 1: you will have success, but it is about him, and

1024
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Speaker 1: so we see the counter to that, and it'll be

1025
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Speaker 1: that way about Arkansas. Like those guys that play at

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Speaker 1: Arkansas will be loyal to him. It won't because they're

1027
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: loyal to Arkansas. Yeah, right, that's just what you get.

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Speaker 1: And I appreciate the call, and you know, is it

1029
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Speaker 1: worth it? Yeah, it's it's worth it because you had

1030
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 1: a lot of success with him. But the counter to

1031
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: that is you get situations where when he leaved, he said,

1032
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Speaker 1: well when he leaved, when he leaved, when he left,

1033
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Speaker 1: you get people going, I'm big in Arkansas. I don't think,

1034
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Speaker 1: by the way, though, I don't think that's many. And

1035
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Speaker 1: I don't even really blame Case and Wallace. They just

1036
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Speaker 1: got they came up to him, and.

1037
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Speaker 3: I think it's very small number of guys that actually

1038
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 3: feel that way. Do you leaned towards me?

1039
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Speaker 1: I don't think there's anybody that played here that in

1040
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:50,360
Speaker 1: seven years is going to be rooting for Arkansas.

1041
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 2: I agree, not one.

1042
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:53,399
Speaker 3: When call Lee, he's not gonna be right for wan Saw.

1043
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Speaker 1: Now will they come back here? Maybe he's cut a

1044
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 1: couple of guys won't, But there will be guys that

1045
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 1: come here, yes, and lot of times the guys that

1046
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 1: feel that way or dudes that didn't have success here.

1047
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 1: Shay had success here, but you know, Case Wats unfortunately

1048
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:09,560
Speaker 1: was on a disappointing team. I don't blame him, but

1049
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,400
Speaker 1: like he didn't get to experience, and that was a

1050
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: tumultuous year in terms of what the internal dynamics of

1051
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:19,560
Speaker 1: that team were like. That was that was that was

1052
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 1: an odd year. And so you know, you had half

1053
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:26,560
Speaker 1: the team that was Oscar, half the team that was Severe.

1054
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: Cason was kind of in the middle. He really wasn't

1055
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Speaker 1: on either side of it. It was just a weird year.

1056
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Speaker 1: I feel like this year was just as weird. It

1057
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: just kind of felt weird. Now it's all we can

1058
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:40,520
Speaker 1: talk about it. The whole season just felt odd. It did,

1059
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: although I think that got better. I think the team

1060
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 1: was a lot more connected at the end than they were.

1061
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 1: I think when you had were like mid season, the

1062
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: team was all over the place. Yes, and I do

1063
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Speaker 1: think they kind of came together at the so I

1064
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: think some of that weirdness went away as the season

1065
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Speaker 1: went on.

1066
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Speaker 2: Who's next, Michael, Michael, Go ahead, Michael.

1067
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Speaker 16: Hey Man, thanks for taking my call. I ain't the

1068
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Speaker 16: most educated. I ain't the most educated guy in the world,

1069
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Speaker 16: but when made that substitution in the first half. I've

1070
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Speaker 16: been watching them all year. Am I the only one

1071
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Speaker 16: that thinks that the team just don't I mean, they

1072
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 16: fall apart. I mean they when he put Johnson in

1073
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Speaker 16: there and he turned the ball over. I think back

1074
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Speaker 16: to back possessions. I mean, I don't I don't mean

1075
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Speaker 16: a bash a kid, but I mean he could barely draw,

1076
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 16: he could barely dribble the ball up the court, and

1077
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Speaker 16: he fell over. And it just when he made that

1078
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Speaker 16: mass substitution. I think I always say went on a

1079
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Speaker 16: nine or eleven overrun. Then I think that's when we

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Speaker 16: lost the game right there.

1081
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Speaker 1: Well, that sequence, that sequence, that minute and a half

1082
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Speaker 1: was a bad sequence. I appreciate the call. I'm not

1083
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Speaker 1: gonna say that's when we lost the game because we

1084
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Speaker 1: didn't play a lot. But in the second half the

1085
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:57,400
Speaker 1: game was essentially tied. You had a chance to steal.

1086
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: But there's no doubt that that sequence where they took

1087
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: Aberdeen now and they put Jasper in, we.

1088
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:08,399
Speaker 3: Had six or seven empty possessions in a row.

1089
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:11,400
Speaker 1: I mean it was a nine point swing in a

1090
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: minute and thirty seconds. Quick. That was quick. You take

1091
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 1: that nine point swing and then you take the eight

1092
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:19,879
Speaker 1: to oho run in the last minute and a half

1093
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:22,840
Speaker 1: the first half, that's seventeen points, which was the difference

1094
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:25,760
Speaker 1: in the game. You go those two swings.

1095
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:27,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, that's big.

1096
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: It's big. We should have gone into half up eight

1097
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 1: or ten. I felt like we had that and we

1098
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 1: were down with just.

1099
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 3: Somehow slipped away.

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00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:36,359
Speaker 2: And how in the.

1101
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 1: World did they just turn that Kansas game off?

1102
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 3: Looked over to Florida, Iowa.

1103
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 1: Looked over to Florida, Iowa.

1104
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 3: We're in Illinois, right, We're in Illinois.

1105
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:48,719
Speaker 2: All right, Well, okay, let's take a break.

1106
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Speaker 1: If I'm nine to eighth twenty two eighty seven, we

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Speaker 1: will come back for the final segment of the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five twenty twenty sixth season. This is the Local

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00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:00,880
Speaker 1: Toy Dealers KSR post game Show, Welcome Back. It is

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00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:03,680
Speaker 1: the Local Toy Dealer's KSR post game Show. Saint John's

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00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:06,239
Speaker 1: up seven with four minutes ago? You rooting for Rick

1112
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:07,360
Speaker 1: and the Johnnys.

1113
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 3: I actually am. I don't know why, but I have

1114
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:12,879
Speaker 3: found myself rooting for him ever since we beat him.

1115
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 1: Why would they say that was out on on Saint

1116
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 1: John's anyway?

1117
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:19,840
Speaker 2: Yes, I am, I am too. I kind of want

1118
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 2: him to win.

1119
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 1: That's uh. I don't know if that well, if you

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00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:24,680
Speaker 1: had told me that a few years Agould, I never

1121
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 1: imagine I'm not gonna read him on the air just

1122
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 1: for I'm just not gonna do it.

1123
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:32,439
Speaker 2: But uh, Oscar Comb's choosing violence on line?

1124
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 3: What Oscar comb?

1125
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: Oscar Combs. He's probably the strongest shots I've ever seen

1126
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 1: Oscar Combs taken about UK athletics.

1127
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 3: It's not a fake Oscar Combs.

1128
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 1: This is the real Oscar Combs. So i'll let you all.

1129
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:47,320
Speaker 1: You can look up on Twitter.

1130
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 3: Look it up.

1131
00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 1: It includes the sentence they're fleecing Kentuckians from Paduca to Virgie.

1132
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 3: Wasn't he gotta throw Virgie under the bus?

1133
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:59,880
Speaker 1: No, he's saying Virgie's being fleeced we because he that

1134
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:03,080
Speaker 1: they don't like the folks. Really, it should be from

1135
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:07,480
Speaker 1: Fulton to Virgie because put Pikeel to Paducah leaves out

1136
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 1: the little tip of both states.

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00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:12,880
Speaker 3: It does. Yes, well, it should be Fulton the Virgie,

1138
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 3: Fulton the Virgie.

1139
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 2: He makes sure to put Virgie in there. But he's

1140
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 2: choosing violence.

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00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 1: Bill you reading this, I'm surprised to see that, but.

1142
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 2: I'll let you read it.

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00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 1: Oscar Combes. Well, there you go. Who's next?

1144
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:29,320
Speaker 2: Wes Wes go ahead, Wes.

1145
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 17: Hey, Matt first time long time who I want to say,

1146
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 17: he is a tough, disappointing loss for us and Mark folks.

1147
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 17: He's aka momentum killing. Can you please and light me

1148
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:47,560
Speaker 17: Matt on Mark folk substitution patterns. I mean, they've kind

1149
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:50,400
Speaker 17: of plagued this all year, but you know, not playing

1150
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:53,040
Speaker 17: Moe there at the first half. I just don't understand

1151
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 17: where Mark's head is with the substitution patterns because.

1152
00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 1: I didn't understand either. I I don't have an explanation

1153
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 1: because I I think his substitution patterns earlier in the

1154
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:13,680
Speaker 1: year were just hideous, and then today it was for

1155
00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 1: me a matter of timing. So I'm just pulling up

1156
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 1: the box score here to see minutes played. So Yellovich

1157
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 1: played fourteen minutes Moreno played eighteen, Garrison played twenty two

1158
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 1: in diabate eighteen. I don't know how you look at

1159
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 1: this matchup and you see how physical Iowa State is

1160
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,080
Speaker 1: and you say, Mo Diabte needs to play eighteen minutes.

1161
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:37,960
Speaker 1: To me, this is a game Mo diabates thirty three minutes,

1162
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 1: absolutely right. I mean he had one foul, so he

1163
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 1: wasn't in foul trouble. My man was two for three

1164
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: from the field. And he only got three rebounds. But

1165
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:48,800
Speaker 1: I can think of three or four plays myself where

1166
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 1: he tipped the rebound to somebody that got it. I

1167
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:56,280
Speaker 1: don't know what world you played Diabate eighteen minutes in

1168
00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: Yellovich fourteen against this team. Now, there are other games

1169
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 1: where maybe you don't play it Diabata as much. A

1170
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:05,160
Speaker 1: team that's you know, shoots threes and but but in

1171
01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 1: this game and Garrison, you know, Garrison has his ups

1172
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 1: and downs.

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01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:13,360
Speaker 2: But if there's a Garrison game, this.

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01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: Is the game, right, this is the this is the

1175
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:18,360
Speaker 1: game I watched when we were sitting up close. Garrison

1176
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:22,240
Speaker 1: can switch on perimeter defenders, probably as good as any

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01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 1: of the bigs we have, right.

1178
01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 3: Well, I think so probably the best, probably the best.

1179
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:28,560
Speaker 2: So to me, those two guys should play a lot.

1180
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:32,400
Speaker 1: And then you know, I mean, the nine oh run

1181
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:34,720
Speaker 1: in the first half is the nine oh run you

1182
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 1: cannot take Aberdeen.

1183
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:36,680
Speaker 2: Here's the thing.

1184
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 1: If you think that people have fatigue issues, how much

1185
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:45,800
Speaker 1: rest is Aberdeen getting in forty thirty seven minutes versus

1186
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 1: forty If you're gonna play in thirty seven, then just

1187
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 1: playing forty, especially if in those three minutes we're gonna

1188
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 1: be minus fourteen.

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01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, just playing.

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Speaker 1: Forty Okay, Like how much rest did he really get?

1191
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 1: I know what happened. We lost fourteen points while he said,

1192
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:06,400
Speaker 1: how much more tired could he possibly have been? So

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01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:09,720
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call Aberdeen today was you just could

1194
01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:11,880
Speaker 1: not take him out, but they still did.

1195
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:15,040
Speaker 3: With their guards that they had. Aberdeen was the only

1196
01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:16,640
Speaker 3: guy that can kind of handle that pressure they were

1197
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:17,080
Speaker 3: putting on it.

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01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, even O Way tries to dribble through pressure, he does,

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01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 1: which he will lose the ball when he does that.

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01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:23,920
Speaker 3: Colin tried the same thing.

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01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 1: Aberdeen's the only guy that, for whatever reason seems to

1202
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:29,960
Speaker 1: have the presence of mind to jump and pass, and

1203
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 1: like those other guys always tries to fight through it.

1204
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:36,480
Speaker 1: Diabata tries to dribble through it. Garrison just hands him

1205
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 1: the ball. Yellow bitch gets it taken from him. Like,

1206
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:41,439
Speaker 1: Aberdeen's the one guy who can.

1207
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:43,160
Speaker 3: Hand he and they were putting on all kind of

1208
01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:45,200
Speaker 3: pressure on him. They got to him a little bit.

1209
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:46,920
Speaker 3: Be least he's the one guy handled at the best.

1210
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:50,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, now a three point game here, Kans is coming back.

1211
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:52,920
Speaker 1: Who's next, Chris, Chris? Go ahead, Chris?

1212
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 18: Yeah, Hey, this is Chris hey Man. I'm making this

1213
01:01:57,200 --> 01:02:02,240
Speaker 18: call in honor of coach Larry Sturgell's Boon's Camp, Kentucky

1214
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 18: and paintsful. He's retired now. But you made the point

1215
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:11,840
Speaker 18: about the substitution pattern by coach Pope and coach Sturgill

1216
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:16,160
Speaker 18: and I have talked about this. When Aberdeen hit two

1217
01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 18: threes early in that game and was on fire, and

1218
01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 18: when Pope substituted him out, he totally took the momentum

1219
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:26,760
Speaker 18: away from that team. Avererdeen came back in the game

1220
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 18: three minutes later and missed his next three shots. Now,

1221
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 18: the point that coach Sturgill and I have seen in

1222
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 18: what he has made is when he lost those players,

1223
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:41,439
Speaker 18: he still had the players to have an excellent team

1224
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:46,440
Speaker 18: this year. He should have gone to a triangle and

1225
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:50,000
Speaker 18: put elevantch at the foul line and put two big

1226
01:02:50,040 --> 01:02:53,439
Speaker 18: men at the basement down on the post, and then

1227
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:57,200
Speaker 18: he could play you know, the rest of his players.

1228
01:02:57,560 --> 01:03:00,880
Speaker 18: But he could have crafted an offense that would have

1229
01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:04,680
Speaker 18: been I mean, my goodness, Garrison and Moreno can score

1230
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:08,680
Speaker 18: the ball in the in the paint and he's running

1231
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:12,720
Speaker 18: those two centers out there sixty And this was not

1232
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 18: in the key.

1233
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, in my opinion, that we got spoiled last year

1234
01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:20,200
Speaker 1: with Amari yep, and that we'll think all these bigs

1235
01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:21,919
Speaker 1: can handle the ball at the top of the key.

1236
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:24,400
Speaker 1: And I know Pope system. He needs guys to do that,

1237
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 1: he wants them. But this ain't the group of guys.

1238
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:31,280
Speaker 1: I mean, amar Mari was. Amari was the guy, and

1239
01:03:31,320 --> 01:03:33,400
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call, and I was skeptical of that,

1240
01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:36,160
Speaker 1: and then I got convinced as hear went on, Amari's

1241
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:39,400
Speaker 1: special at this. But the garrison and the like, that's

1242
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:42,480
Speaker 1: not that's not them. That garrison turnover at the top

1243
01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:44,960
Speaker 1: of the key like that, that system. It feels like

1244
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:47,280
Speaker 1: to me, Pope was trying to force these guys into

1245
01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:49,480
Speaker 1: a system that they did not have the talent for.

1246
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:51,880
Speaker 3: It would work once in a while, they would hit

1247
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 3: a back door pass or.

1248
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:55,280
Speaker 1: So Everyson's a pretty good passer, so he could throw

1249
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:57,760
Speaker 1: like a back door pass or a bounce pass, but.

1250
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:00,080
Speaker 3: In general, general, in general.

1251
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:01,760
Speaker 2: It's that's just not what he's good at.

1252
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 1: And I you know, I mean, I'm not an offensive genius,

1253
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:08,600
Speaker 1: but and today they were pushing I would have kept

1254
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 1: Aberdeen and I'm enough to do that today.

1255
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:14,440
Speaker 3: They were pushing our big guys so far out of

1256
01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:16,400
Speaker 3: the almost like they could say the half court. They

1257
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:19,040
Speaker 3: were just initiate the offense out way out there.

1258
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 1: I just cannot get over it that it was minus

1259
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:23,600
Speaker 1: fourteen in the three minutes he was out.

1260
01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:25,800
Speaker 3: That's almost unbelievable.

1261
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:28,240
Speaker 2: Could unbelievable stat.

1262
01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:29,320
Speaker 3: I'm just giving them layups.

1263
01:04:29,320 --> 01:04:32,080
Speaker 2: Who's say, John's now at one point game, Who's next?

1264
01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 1: Rooney? Go ahead, Rooney? Hey? Uh.

1265
01:04:38,200 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 19: Not overly disappointed about the lost the night because I

1266
01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:43,440
Speaker 19: feel like probably should have lost the first game we

1267
01:04:43,520 --> 01:04:46,960
Speaker 19: got beat to eye, probably won the next game. But

1268
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 19: my question is, if we next year have the exact

1269
01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 19: same season as we do this year, do you think

1270
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:56,400
Speaker 19: Pope's gone? And I know you probably want to answer this,

1271
01:04:57,040 --> 01:04:58,920
Speaker 19: but how do you feel about Jay Lucas?

1272
01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:01,120
Speaker 2: That's all I got.

1273
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 1: That's a great question. If we had the exact same

1274
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:11,600
Speaker 1: season next year, I I think they'd probably make a change,

1275
01:05:11,680 --> 01:05:13,720
Speaker 1: but I don't know that that's certain. I think it

1276
01:05:13,720 --> 01:05:15,920
Speaker 1: would depend on who the new athletic director is, what

1277
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:20,120
Speaker 1: their philosophy is. I think if Mitch Barnhardt were the coach,

1278
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:24,280
Speaker 1: then they probably wouldn't or a D but he won't

1279
01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:26,919
Speaker 1: be the ad, So I don't know what they're gonna hire.

1280
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:31,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, fourteen losses and a first round or a second

1281
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:34,320
Speaker 3: round exit Natty in the NCAA tournament may not be

1282
01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:35,360
Speaker 3: acceptable next year.

1283
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1284
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:37,560
Speaker 2: Bryce Hopkins just hit a big three.

1285
01:05:37,720 --> 01:05:39,120
Speaker 3: That was Bryce Hopkins. It hit that three.

1286
01:05:39,160 --> 01:05:40,320
Speaker 1: It was Bryce Hopkins.

1287
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:43,640
Speaker 3: Wow. By the way, lots of former Cats still in it. Yeah,

1288
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:47,520
Speaker 3: Bryce Hopkins, Cameron Fletcher, J. Wagner just played last night.

1289
01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:52,120
Speaker 2: For Hugo is playing Yeah Florid and Burks.

1290
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:54,160
Speaker 3: Was playing for South Florida or Central Florida.

1291
01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:56,560
Speaker 1: All right, Kansas got the ball down too with the

1292
01:05:56,680 --> 01:05:58,920
Speaker 1: chance to tire or take the lead, and they're not.

1293
01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:01,080
Speaker 1: They're gonna play it out nine. No, they're gonna talk

1294
01:06:01,080 --> 01:06:03,440
Speaker 1: to him out a fun nine to eight, oh twenty

1295
01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 1: eighty seven. Who's next? We'll do four more? Cathead, Cathead,

1296
01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:07,880
Speaker 1: go ahead, Cadhead.

1297
01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:10,919
Speaker 12: Hey guys, how's it going?

1298
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 1: Man?

1299
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:13,920
Speaker 12: This is old CADTHEAD sitting up here in Georgetown. Look,

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01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:16,720
Speaker 12: it's might sound like a rents and refeat, but I

1301
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:20,280
Speaker 12: agree with everybody else, like the substitution pattern all this stuff,

1302
01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 12: Like you know we're up ten, you take Aberdeen out

1303
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:27,000
Speaker 12: and you put JJ in like he is. He just

1304
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:29,440
Speaker 12: weep with the ball, you know. And I hate talk

1305
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:31,720
Speaker 12: about these kids because they are kids. But they make

1306
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:34,080
Speaker 12: money now right, I mean, they make money, so you

1307
01:06:34,120 --> 01:06:38,160
Speaker 12: know we should be able to, you know, say what's

1308
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:38,800
Speaker 12: what's wrong?

1309
01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:39,280
Speaker 1: You know.

1310
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:43,680
Speaker 12: And then you know you touched on Casino and Saint John's. Yeah,

1311
01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:47,320
Speaker 12: we're I think I am. I'm rooting for them. I

1312
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 12: hated him when he went to Louisville, but I fort

1313
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:52,680
Speaker 12: of god, he's probably the best coach and he's probably

1314
01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:57,520
Speaker 12: the best coaching college basketball. I mean Auestley, but we

1315
01:06:57,560 --> 01:07:01,800
Speaker 12: need somebody of that staff. I know he will never

1316
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:03,640
Speaker 12: come back, We will never get him come back. But

1317
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:06,480
Speaker 12: you know he always talks about Camlock because this is

1318
01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:10,960
Speaker 12: this is basketball, this BBN place. Man, everybody talks about it.

1319
01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 12: Even on CD yesterday they were talking about, oh, they

1320
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,840
Speaker 12: have the greatest fans, big blue knaves and this and that.

1321
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:20,840
Speaker 12: Everybody knows it, right, But we're we're just putting that,

1322
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:25,080
Speaker 12: We're putting out a subpar theme some part, you know.

1323
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:28,840
Speaker 12: And then the analytics, I know, I know Pope is

1324
01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:32,040
Speaker 12: big on analytics. You know, play this guy on me, men,

1325
01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 12: this play this guy's on me men's but look, sometimes

1326
01:07:34,720 --> 01:07:35,920
Speaker 12: you got to coach with your eyes.

1327
01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:39,600
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you about that. I don't disagree

1328
01:07:39,640 --> 01:07:41,760
Speaker 1: with you about that. The way I look at analytics

1329
01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:44,680
Speaker 1: is like this. I think they're a hugely useful tool.

1330
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:49,640
Speaker 1: But just think about life. You can make all the

1331
01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 1: best decisions in the world, and you can read all

1332
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:54,400
Speaker 1: the books, and you can like, you know, you can

1333
01:07:54,440 --> 01:07:57,160
Speaker 1: do all the study, and I enjoy doing. But sometimes

1334
01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:59,880
Speaker 1: the difference between success and not success is just how

1335
01:07:59,920 --> 01:08:02,640
Speaker 1: you relate to another person, right, do they like you

1336
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:02,960
Speaker 1: or not?

1337
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:08,080
Speaker 2: And sometimes and all the numbers.

1338
01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:11,760
Speaker 12: Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, ma'am. I'm sorry.

1339
01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:13,479
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, all the numbers in the world

1340
01:08:13,600 --> 01:08:16,599
Speaker 1: can tell you to do this or that, but I'm

1341
01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:19,920
Speaker 1: not a basketball genius. And I said on that court,

1342
01:08:20,120 --> 01:08:22,680
Speaker 1: and the moment Aberdeen looked went out, I looked at

1343
01:08:22,920 --> 01:08:27,640
Speaker 1: mine and goes, uh, oh.

1344
01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:28,679
Speaker 2: You know, so there should be a part where people

1345
01:08:28,840 --> 01:08:31,000
Speaker 2: just kind of go, I don't know if this is

1346
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:31,559
Speaker 2: gonna work.

1347
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 12: Yes, me and me and my buddy were sitting here,

1348
01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:38,000
Speaker 12: and as soon as that happened, I'm like, oh, this

1349
01:08:38,479 --> 01:08:40,880
Speaker 12: is And then Jasper and you know, he gets the

1350
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:42,760
Speaker 12: ball just take it from him like he falls down.

1351
01:08:42,920 --> 01:08:44,880
Speaker 1: You know, here's the ball, dud.

1352
01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:47,639
Speaker 2: The coach for the history.

1353
01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:50,760
Speaker 12: I played sports my whole life. I played sports my

1354
01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:53,559
Speaker 12: whole life. And like you said, I'm not a genius

1355
01:08:53,640 --> 01:08:56,600
Speaker 12: or whatever, but you have to coach with your eyes sometimes,

1356
01:08:56,920 --> 01:09:00,000
Speaker 12: Like you said, Garrison, why don't we go big sometimes?

1357
01:09:00,120 --> 01:09:02,360
Speaker 12: You put Garrison and Marino in there. I mean, I

1358
01:09:02,360 --> 01:09:06,080
Speaker 12: love Moreno. I watched him club through middle school, high school.

1359
01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:08,080
Speaker 12: I mean, he's a great player. He needs a little

1360
01:09:08,080 --> 01:09:10,400
Speaker 12: boom meat on his bones. But you know he's a

1361
01:09:10,439 --> 01:09:12,759
Speaker 12: great player. But why don't you go big sometimes? Because

1362
01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:16,400
Speaker 12: you know Garrison? Right now, this this game was garrisonal game.

1363
01:09:17,080 --> 01:09:21,040
Speaker 1: Uh, I appreciate the call. I agree with you. This

1364
01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:24,120
Speaker 1: was a Garrison Theabonte game. It was to me games tied.

1365
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:27,240
Speaker 1: Now came diab was fighting his butt off, and I

1366
01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:29,000
Speaker 1: watched the Abate on the bench.

1367
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:32,040
Speaker 2: When he was on the bench, he was sitting there.

1368
01:09:32,160 --> 01:09:35,000
Speaker 1: His leg was tapping like he it was like give

1369
01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:36,760
Speaker 1: me back in, Like you could just see it, like

1370
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:38,519
Speaker 1: his leg was just sitting there tapping, going.

1371
01:09:38,400 --> 01:09:39,960
Speaker 2: Like give me back in, give me back in, give

1372
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:42,200
Speaker 2: me back in. And and then of course they didn't

1373
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:43,120
Speaker 2: so he did.

1374
01:09:43,160 --> 01:09:45,479
Speaker 3: He plays his butt off some time he's in there, fought,

1375
01:09:45,600 --> 01:09:48,439
Speaker 3: fought down the post. Garrison I think also did a

1376
01:09:48,439 --> 01:09:50,479
Speaker 3: good job, and he needed to square a lot of points,

1377
01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:51,120
Speaker 3: but he didn't have to.

1378
01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:52,519
Speaker 1: You know, let me give you an example of a

1379
01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:57,320
Speaker 1: coach doing something really good. Kansas is tied. They only

1380
01:09:57,320 --> 01:10:01,040
Speaker 1: had two team fouls thirteen seconds left. They are sitting

1381
01:10:01,040 --> 01:10:04,280
Speaker 1: there and slowly having Saint John's bring up the court

1382
01:10:04,360 --> 01:10:07,320
Speaker 1: and then foul him, and self told I watched him

1383
01:10:07,360 --> 01:10:10,719
Speaker 1: tell the Kansas player fouling before he crosses half court,

1384
01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:13,280
Speaker 1: so then they have to imbound it going the full

1385
01:10:13,360 --> 01:10:15,240
Speaker 1: length of the court. And now they're doing it again

1386
01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:18,200
Speaker 1: before he goes across half court, so now once again

1387
01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:20,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to imbound it before half court. That is,

1388
01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:24,360
Speaker 1: it's a little thing, but Bill self just ran off

1389
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:27,920
Speaker 1: ten seconds and by fouling them before they crossed half

1390
01:10:27,920 --> 01:10:31,200
Speaker 1: court every time, Saint John's never got to cross half court.

1391
01:10:31,439 --> 01:10:33,840
Speaker 1: And look how far away they are now with three

1392
01:10:33,880 --> 01:10:37,200
Speaker 1: point nine seconds left, and Saint John's is driving and

1393
01:10:37,240 --> 01:10:38,720
Speaker 1: the guy hits a layup at the buzzer, So you

1394
01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:39,639
Speaker 1: know what, it didn't matter.

1395
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:44,680
Speaker 3: Wow, rick Petina.

1396
01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:47,639
Speaker 1: Wow, Ricky P. With the layup at the buzzer, all

1397
01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:49,759
Speaker 1: that good coaching, and you know what, it didn't matter.

1398
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:55,080
Speaker 1: That little dude beat his man off the drop on hilarious.

1399
01:10:55,080 --> 01:10:57,080
Speaker 1: Here I am praising him because I do think that

1400
01:10:57,200 --> 01:10:59,960
Speaker 1: was smart play. And then that little kid just takes

1401
01:11:00,120 --> 01:11:02,040
Speaker 1: who even made that shot? Who was it?

1402
01:11:02,080 --> 01:11:05,160
Speaker 3: Their little point guard, their little little point guard.

1403
01:11:05,280 --> 01:11:07,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, look at that.

1404
01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:09,080
Speaker 2: Well there's another buzzer beater.

1405
01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:10,559
Speaker 1: Look at Ricky, look at it.

1406
01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:12,760
Speaker 3: Look He's like, yeah, I knew it.

1407
01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:17,320
Speaker 1: Unbelievable. Three more's next dayne Dwayne, Go ahead, Dwayne?

1408
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:20,559
Speaker 2: How did he How did they get to the rim?

1409
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:25,080
Speaker 2: And how did they second? So, how in the world

1410
01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:26,559
Speaker 2: did they let him get to the rim?

1411
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:27,439
Speaker 1: All right, go ahead?

1412
01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:31,720
Speaker 20: He just went to the rack. I just I'm just

1413
01:11:31,760 --> 01:11:33,400
Speaker 20: watching it right now. He just took it to the

1414
01:11:33,520 --> 01:11:34,720
Speaker 20: rack and laid it straight in.

1415
01:11:35,479 --> 01:11:36,639
Speaker 1: Unbelievable. Go ahead.

1416
01:11:36,760 --> 01:11:41,160
Speaker 20: Yeah, I'm rooting for Patino the rest of the rest

1417
01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:43,679
Speaker 20: of the tournament. I hope they hope they make a run.

1418
01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:50,960
Speaker 20: As in Freddy Magert was saying after action review, we

1419
01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:55,640
Speaker 20: didn't play very good this game. And when you like

1420
01:11:55,720 --> 01:11:57,880
Speaker 20: you say it's about Jimmy's and Joe's and when you

1421
01:11:57,960 --> 01:12:01,680
Speaker 20: took out our Jimmy's and our Joe's came play. You

1422
01:12:01,800 --> 01:12:05,120
Speaker 20: see what happened. We had ten point, we had a

1423
01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 20: ten point lead, go to nothing quick. We're gonna have

1424
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:12,000
Speaker 20: to have more players if we're gonna have substitution patterns

1425
01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:15,559
Speaker 20: like this. And the last thing I got to say

1426
01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:18,960
Speaker 20: is everybody says the last game was the Otega O

1427
01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:21,560
Speaker 20: Way game. The only thing I'm gonna say it was

1428
01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:22,719
Speaker 20: the Billy Flu game.

1429
01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:25,840
Speaker 2: Have a good night, appreciate the call.

1430
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:26,760
Speaker 1: I don't get that.

1431
01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:28,799
Speaker 3: The Billy our billy flu.

1432
01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:30,840
Speaker 1: Game, Flu game, Billy flu game. He did go through

1433
01:12:30,880 --> 01:12:33,040
Speaker 1: the flu. Well done, Billy. You feeling better?

1434
01:12:33,400 --> 01:12:33,760
Speaker 2: I am?

1435
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:35,360
Speaker 1: I am, thank you.

1436
01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:36,400
Speaker 3: You sound a lot better.

1437
01:12:36,439 --> 01:12:38,960
Speaker 1: He sounds a lot better. I can't believe they just

1438
01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:42,280
Speaker 1: let him get to that either. Duke Saint John's in Washington,

1439
01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:44,720
Speaker 1: d C. Friday night, Oh my godness, that's gonna be great.

1440
01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:45,720
Speaker 3: Right, let's go.

1441
01:12:46,120 --> 01:12:47,840
Speaker 2: Although we're gonna see a lot of Lightner shot.

1442
01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:52,360
Speaker 1: We will a lot of Lightner shots. And I cannot

1443
01:12:52,439 --> 01:12:54,919
Speaker 1: believe Kansas just let that dude get to the rim.

1444
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 3: Like I said, I hope we see a lot of

1445
01:12:56,360 --> 01:12:59,240
Speaker 3: the Boozer brother commercials though that would I really enjoy

1446
01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:00,840
Speaker 3: the those to.

1447
01:13:00,840 --> 01:13:02,000
Speaker 1: Get a bunch of them? Two more?

1448
01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:06,880
Speaker 2: Who's next, Steve, Steve, go ahead, Steve first time?

1449
01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 4: Long time?

1450
01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:09,040
Speaker 2: Who are what's up?

1451
01:13:09,320 --> 01:13:09,800
Speaker 21: What's up?

1452
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:11,000
Speaker 18: Hey?

1453
01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:14,240
Speaker 21: Why don't we reach out to pat Riley to get

1454
01:13:14,280 --> 01:13:18,240
Speaker 21: a GM in here that he knows it's young enough

1455
01:13:18,280 --> 01:13:20,519
Speaker 21: and coming to fix a lot of these problems. So

1456
01:13:20,720 --> 01:13:24,360
Speaker 21: in two years, whether Mark Cooby's coach or whoever's coached,

1457
01:13:24,439 --> 01:13:26,639
Speaker 21: that we're ready to rote.

1458
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:31,040
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I I don't think it has to

1459
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:35,120
Speaker 1: be pat Riley. Like I I want you to go

1460
01:13:36,360 --> 01:13:38,360
Speaker 1: during this off week. I want you to go read.

1461
01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:40,760
Speaker 1: Let me, let me give you let me. I want

1462
01:13:40,800 --> 01:13:42,200
Speaker 1: you to go read. And I hate to say this

1463
01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:43,920
Speaker 1: because it's Duke. I want you to go read about

1464
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:47,559
Speaker 1: how Duke runs their athletic department. Now just take just

1465
01:13:47,920 --> 01:13:49,640
Speaker 1: there was an article, I don't remember what public, I

1466
01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 1: think it was the New York Times. They have a

1467
01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:54,040
Speaker 1: woman running their athletic department who came from the world

1468
01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:56,960
Speaker 1: of business. She just went from business to running the

1469
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:59,960
Speaker 1: athletic department. And then they hired this so it's two women.

1470
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:03,200
Speaker 1: And they hired this woman from Nike to come be

1471
01:14:03,360 --> 01:14:07,599
Speaker 1: the Nile person, right, two women, neither of which had

1472
01:14:07,600 --> 01:14:12,160
Speaker 1: a background in basketball. Okay, they were just smart people

1473
01:14:13,720 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 1: and they have created the infrastructure that every team in

1474
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:21,439
Speaker 1: the country is now copying. And they just went and

1475
01:14:21,479 --> 01:14:26,400
Speaker 1: got two smart minds who were innovative, not stuck in

1476
01:14:26,439 --> 01:14:30,120
Speaker 1: their ways, and they did it. There's no reason we

1477
01:14:30,280 --> 01:14:34,200
Speaker 1: can't do something like that. There's no reason they went

1478
01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:37,280
Speaker 1: and they were innovative. They didn't sit there and go, well,

1479
01:14:37,280 --> 01:14:39,439
Speaker 1: what's the way we do this, Let's keep it, let's

1480
01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:42,280
Speaker 1: keep it in the family, let's find someone who was

1481
01:14:42,320 --> 01:14:46,360
Speaker 1: groomed under rad They just went out and said, who

1482
01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:48,720
Speaker 1: are the too smart people that we can find? And

1483
01:14:48,760 --> 01:14:51,479
Speaker 1: they got them. It reminds me of I've told this

1484
01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:55,240
Speaker 1: story before, but we decided we needed a new CEO

1485
01:14:55,479 --> 01:15:00,240
Speaker 1: of KSR many years ago, and I hired Maria, who

1486
01:15:00,320 --> 01:15:03,040
Speaker 1: was answering the phone with us, and I said, I

1487
01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:04,880
Speaker 1: want you to be our CEO, and she goes, well,

1488
01:15:04,880 --> 01:15:05,320
Speaker 1: what do you do?

1489
01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:06,599
Speaker 2: And I said, I don't really know.

1490
01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:08,640
Speaker 1: You're gonna kind of figure it out, but I know

1491
01:15:08,760 --> 01:15:12,799
Speaker 1: you're smart and I can tell you got your stuff together,

1492
01:15:13,200 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 1: and I'm going to give you this and you're gonna

1493
01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:17,559
Speaker 1: figure it out because you're smart, fast forward.

1494
01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:19,200
Speaker 2: She's an executive now at on three.

1495
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:21,639
Speaker 1: Put her on the fast track, and how'd she get

1496
01:15:21,680 --> 01:15:23,720
Speaker 1: the job? She was answering the phone and I was like,

1497
01:15:24,000 --> 01:15:25,960
Speaker 1: but she's smart. I know she is.

1498
01:15:26,080 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 2: She'll figure it out.

1499
01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:31,760
Speaker 1: Right. There is somebody out there that we can give

1500
01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:33,960
Speaker 1: this stuff to, and we shouldn't give it to them

1501
01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:36,240
Speaker 1: because they happen to be in the room and they're like, hey,

1502
01:15:36,280 --> 01:15:38,559
Speaker 1: you doing, buddy, Like it needs to be somebody who's

1503
01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:42,040
Speaker 1: that innovative thinker on all this, and then I think

1504
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:44,120
Speaker 1: a lot of the problems take care of themselves.

1505
01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:48,360
Speaker 3: The big question is, if that's the way modern basketball is,

1506
01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:51,479
Speaker 3: why are we so slow to adapt to it.

1507
01:15:51,640 --> 01:15:52,120
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1508
01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:55,160
Speaker 2: I thought Mark what I'm describing.

1509
01:15:55,360 --> 01:15:57,679
Speaker 1: I kind of thought Mark was that I did too,

1510
01:15:58,280 --> 01:16:02,639
Speaker 1: But I think he's kind of stuck in his ways,

1511
01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:07,640
Speaker 1: oddly for a relatively young man. So I don't know.

1512
01:16:08,080 --> 01:16:09,920
Speaker 3: History is showing these other schools, if.

1513
01:16:09,800 --> 01:16:13,200
Speaker 1: These other schools have adapted. If you right now, go

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Speaker 1: look at go look at how Duke runs their athletic

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01:16:16,360 --> 01:16:20,000
Speaker 1: department Florida. Go look at what Tommy Lloyd's doing in Arizona.

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01:16:20,120 --> 01:16:22,719
Speaker 1: Go look at what Dusty May is doing at Michigan.

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Speaker 1: All four of them took the modern system and said,

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01:16:27,479 --> 01:16:30,280
Speaker 1: how do we make this work? And we're still sitting

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Speaker 1: there going how do we maximize profit while bringing down

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Speaker 1: cost and protecting our trademark against the copyright of that?

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Speaker 3: Like, what are you talking about?

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Speaker 2: Go in?

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Speaker 1: Who's next? Last one?

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Speaker 15: Chris?

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Speaker 2: Chris? Go ahead, Chris?

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Speaker 22: Hey man, Hey guys. One thing that I want to

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Speaker 22: talk about is obviously, you know you want to get

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Speaker 22: as much talent as you can. But I think one

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Speaker 22: of the glaring things this season is basketball IQ rights.

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Speaker 22: As smart as Mark Pope is, here's gonna be a surgeon,

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01:17:08,560 --> 01:17:11,120
Speaker 22: as smart as he is with the analytics, How can

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Speaker 22: you be an evaluator of players to build your roster

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01:17:14,760 --> 01:17:18,920
Speaker 22: when and you can't see that basketball IQ is not

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Speaker 22: part of their game and you let the talent that

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Speaker 22: you thought you evaluated circumvent that. So I think there's

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Speaker 22: a sweet spot between talent and basketball IQ.

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Speaker 1: But we are very talented, like like I feel like

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01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:38,200
Speaker 1: sometimes this year we didn't have great basketball IQ, but

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01:17:38,240 --> 01:17:42,320
Speaker 1: we also weren't talented Like like, I agree with you, you

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Speaker 1: need a balance, but we didn't seem at times to

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Speaker 1: have either.

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Speaker 22: And the crazy thing is is I think last year's

1543
01:17:49,439 --> 01:17:53,799
Speaker 22: team was less talented but had the basketball IQ toal

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Speaker 22: had better results.

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Speaker 1: Last year's team was a team that whatever their ability was,

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01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:05,840
Speaker 1: they each maximize their ability. You saw Kobe Braa be

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01:18:05,920 --> 01:18:08,839
Speaker 1: the best version of Kobe Brayan, Amari Williams, and Andrew

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01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:12,880
Speaker 1: Carr and Jackson Robinson and Lamont Butler, like all those

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01:18:12,920 --> 01:18:17,000
Speaker 1: guys and Oway played like to the best of what

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Speaker 1: they were. Yep. Sometimes this year I have to be

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01:18:20,240 --> 01:18:23,080
Speaker 1: honest if you said to me who played to the

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Speaker 1: best of their ability this year? Away Aberdeen?

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Speaker 3: Is there anybody else?

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Speaker 1: Maybe half the year Diabatee and maybe a half the

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Speaker 1: year Channeler.

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Speaker 2: But really just Away? And I think that's kind of

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Speaker 2: a problem.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 22: I just hope that they think about basketball IQ in

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01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:52,639
Speaker 22: maybe a little bit different lens than what they did

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01:18:52,680 --> 01:18:55,120
Speaker 22: in the previous year in the transfer portal. I think

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Speaker 22: it goes a long way.

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Speaker 1: I agree, and I appreciate the call. We went along today,

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01:18:59,280 --> 01:19:00,960
Speaker 1: but there was a lot talk about.

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Speaker 3: Show, the last post game show of the year.

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Speaker 1: Yes, but we'll be back on the air tomorrow. We're

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01:19:07,960 --> 01:19:10,280
Speaker 1: right back to it. Let me say a couple of

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Speaker 1: things real quick. We'll take a check. By the way,

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Speaker 1: whenever you get a chat. I can't mean to say

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01:19:14,120 --> 01:19:16,559
Speaker 1: that on the air. You know what, it's the last

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Speaker 1: show of the year. What we're gonna do a couple

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Speaker 1: of things. First of all, thank all of you for

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01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:28,479
Speaker 1: listening again this year, even when other parts of UK

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01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:34,200
Speaker 1: Athletics disappoint us performance. The one thing that never fails

1575
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Speaker 1: is there's no fan base like this and you guys

1576
01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:40,960
Speaker 1: are We saw it again in Saint Louis, Like how

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01:19:41,600 --> 01:19:46,720
Speaker 1: kind and just great fans people are We deserve success,

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01:19:46,960 --> 01:19:51,360
Speaker 1: meaning Kentucky, because you all deserve success. Also, I want

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Speaker 1: to thank everybody that's on been on this show, on

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Speaker 1: this show, going back to Paul, this is really the

1581
01:19:56,960 --> 01:20:01,160
Speaker 1: end of us of a seven month sprint that starts

1582
01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:05,439
Speaker 1: in September. Ryan Lemon's been with me forever and is

1583
01:20:06,479 --> 01:20:10,920
Speaker 1: awesome as a person and a great host and great

1584
01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:14,840
Speaker 1: co hosting is why this show works. Drew obviously about

1585
01:20:14,840 --> 01:20:16,960
Speaker 1: to have a baby who I've been with even longer

1586
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:20,120
Speaker 1: than Ryan. Billy comes in with the flu still gives

1587
01:20:20,160 --> 01:20:23,280
Speaker 1: it as all the time, Shannon and I solved every

1588
01:20:23,360 --> 01:20:27,439
Speaker 1: relationship problem this weekend. And then of course Mario, who

1589
01:20:28,160 --> 01:20:30,160
Speaker 1: has been a great addition and has made it to

1590
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:33,320
Speaker 1: where we are close to being in the modern era

1591
01:20:34,720 --> 01:20:38,160
Speaker 1: of athletics. They could use him over there at the

1592
01:20:38,200 --> 01:20:40,400
Speaker 1: institution we're talking about, but we're not gonna let him go.

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Speaker 1: All of you guys, thank you all, thank all of

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01:20:43,439 --> 01:20:46,759
Speaker 1: you that listen. We'll have a great spring, a great summer.

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01:20:47,120 --> 01:20:50,040
Speaker 1: And will Stein's first game is five months from now.

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Speaker 3: Well, it'll go by fast, ready to go.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right, Thank you guys very much. Kat's in

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01:20:54,640 --> 01:20:58,880
Speaker 1: the season on a disappointment, losing by nineteen to Iowa State.

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Speaker 1: This has been the local Toy Dealers KSR post game

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Speaker 1: show