Speaker 1: Welcome everyone.
Speaker 2: It is the Local Toy Dealers KSR Postgame Show. Why
Speaker 2: don't you tell me this before I start, Billy, It's
Speaker 2: a KSR Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show. We are
Speaker 2: here after a ninety five sixty four Kentucky absolute beatdown
Speaker 2: of the Vanderbilt Commodores in rupp Arena on Senior Night,
Speaker 2: a feel good game where Kentucky basically did everything they
Speaker 2: wanted to do against an LSU team that was not
Speaker 2: up to the task of playing in the game. We're
Speaker 2: gonna talk about the game, but there's a lot going
Speaker 2: on that effects Kentucky right now, including a Texas Mississippi
Speaker 2: State game that it looked like Texas was going to
Speaker 2: win and they absolutely blew in a way that was
Speaker 2: amazing to watch, and they're going to overtime now. And
Speaker 2: if Texas had won, it would have guaranteed Kentucky a
Speaker 2: bye in the SEC Tournament. And now I don't know
Speaker 2: if that's gonna happen, but Arkansas's playing Vandy. If Arkansas
Speaker 2: were to win, I think we're close to Garreta. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of different ramifications, but there are games that
Speaker 2: put Kentucky with a chance to have a buy in
Speaker 2: the first round of the SEC tournament, but none of
Speaker 2: it would have mattered if Kentucky lost, and they did
Speaker 2: not ninety five sixty four win in which they dominated.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a feel good game.
Speaker 2: Obviously Away had twenty four, but no other starter had
Speaker 2: double digits. So after the last game when it felt
Speaker 2: like no one except the starters played well, this was
Speaker 2: a game where three guys off the bench had double
Speaker 2: digits Ansley Aminor fifteen, Brandon Garrison, fifteen, Colin Chandler eleven.
Speaker 2: And you go from five points off the bench to
Speaker 2: just those guys with forty one points off the bench.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good change.
Speaker 2: And it was senior night for six guys that, as
Speaker 2: we talked about multiple times today, both on the regular
Speaker 2: show and the pregame show.
Speaker 1: You know, these are.
Speaker 2: Guys who basically I think brought back the fan excitement
Speaker 2: that had been missing the last few years around the program.
Speaker 2: Still remains to be seen, what they'll do in March
Speaker 2: still remains to be seen, how the season will be remembered,
Speaker 2: but regardless, this was a program that needed an injection
Speaker 2: of life, and this group of transfers did it. And
Speaker 2: I thought it was great to have them go out
Speaker 2: with a victory like this. Some thoughts just on the
Speaker 2: game going forward. I thought the key was Kentucky getting
Speaker 2: the pace where they wanted to. They were able to
Speaker 2: get out and transition. It did not look to me
Speaker 2: like LSU, especially in the first half, had the energy
Speaker 2: Kentucky did, and Kentucky was able to take advantage of
Speaker 2: that and get up and down the floor, play with pace,
Speaker 2: get an extra step. They made threes. Obviously it was
Speaker 2: the seventeenth game they hit double digit threes. Maybe, but
Speaker 2: they made twelve and they took thirty two. And you know,
Speaker 2: we've talked a lot about getting that thirty to thirty
Speaker 2: five to three point mark. When you do and then
Speaker 2: you make twelve, this team can be pretty tough to beat.
Speaker 1: So I like that.
Speaker 2: I loved a couple things I really loved. I loved
Speaker 2: how Brandon Garrison played. I did not think he played
Speaker 2: well against Auburn, but now he's two out of the
Speaker 2: last three games played well. If you consider Oklahoma, that's
Speaker 2: good going in the postseason. You know, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: get too frisky about Colin Chandler because I don't want to,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, he hasn't played a lot of
Speaker 2: the year, but I'll tell you what, the Colin Chandler
Speaker 2: you saw tonight is a guy who could He's not
Speaker 2: gonna he's not gonna like you know, change, He's not
Speaker 2: gonna substitute for Jackson Robinson. But man, if he could
Speaker 2: give you games like that on a regular basis in March,
Speaker 2: even though I'd have to score eleven points, if he
Speaker 2: can just hit knockdown open threes and if he can
Speaker 2: play defense, he can be a key contributor. I've kind
Speaker 2: of felt like without when they had Robinson, I felt.
Speaker 1: Like they had only eight guys that they.
Speaker 2: Could rely on, and I've kind of felt like we were
Speaker 2: a guy short. And I'm not saying Colin Chandler can
Speaker 2: be that guy every game, but if he can be
Speaker 2: it in some games, his athleticism allows him not to
Speaker 2: kind of get taken on defense like some of the
Speaker 2: other guys, and you'd have a lot more freedom for
Speaker 2: Mark Pope to do stuff.
Speaker 1: So I was very excited that.
Speaker 2: To me, he's the biggest takeaway of the game because
Speaker 2: if he can play anywhere close to that the.
Speaker 1: Rest of this year.
Speaker 2: Okay, now you're talking about something. They hit the boards
Speaker 2: well shot well, Crod was into it. It was a
Speaker 2: great night and I love the story Mark Pope told
Speaker 2: at the end, which maybe you heard during his comments
Speaker 2: about the young man Zach Tal who is from I mean,
Speaker 2: it's a great story from Madisonville. Mark Pope had open
Speaker 2: tryouts for a walk on this year. Zach got picked.
Speaker 2: They intentionally, I wondered, because even though he was at everything,
Speaker 2: they never listed him as exactly on the team, and
Speaker 2: so I didn't know was he on the team.
Speaker 1: He didn't dress out for games. It was hard to
Speaker 1: really know what was going on.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess they made the decision to let him
Speaker 2: dress out on senior night. Lamont Butler presented him the
Speaker 2: jersey right before the game. And as I was litting,
Speaker 2: and you know, that's a kid from Kentucky who now
Speaker 2: because not only he got to wear the jersey, because
Speaker 2: he got to check in with point two seconds left,
Speaker 2: he will now go down as a Kentucky basketball player. Officially.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he would have done that unless
Speaker 2: he had gotten in the game. That's what this whole
Speaker 2: thing is about. And you go and look at this
Speaker 2: year again, We'll see what happens in March. We'll see
Speaker 2: what happens in the SEC tournament, We'll see what happens
Speaker 2: in the NCAA tournament. But what has become clear is
Speaker 2: something that I think had been lost a.
Speaker 1: Little bit in recent years.
Speaker 2: This name on the front, overname on the back right,
Speaker 2: that really kind of came back in this in this season.
Speaker 2: And you had a lot of players who were very
Speaker 2: appreciative to be on this roster, a lot of players
Speaker 2: who were very excited to get a chance to be
Speaker 2: at Kentucky. And this group did that, and then they
Speaker 2: also won a lot against really good teams.
Speaker 1: And now we go into March, who knows with a
Speaker 1: chance to make a run. I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 2: Mark Pope said, you know, we're gonna miss Jackson Robinson,
Speaker 2: but now we at least know who our team is.
Speaker 1: And that's right. This is our team.
Speaker 2: We're not fully healthy, we don't have Kreasa or Robinson,
Speaker 2: but we are fully healthy with the guys that are
Speaker 2: on the team. And now we see what we have.
Speaker 2: You got five starters that can all play. I think
Speaker 2: you got five starters that can compete with anybody in
Speaker 2: the country.
Speaker 1: Can we get three bench guys to play with them.
Speaker 2: I think if we can, this team can really make
Speaker 2: a little bit of noise. Af I'm nine two eighth
Speaker 2: twenty two eighty seven. Texas has not given up yet.
Speaker 2: They're up three with a minute and a half to go,
Speaker 2: although Billy, they once again turned the ball over and
Speaker 2: ends up in a dunk on the other side.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: They don't want to win this game, but hopefully they
Speaker 2: do because if they do, I'm looking.
Speaker 1: At this if they can.
Speaker 2: If if they lose and then Arkansas beats Vandy, Billy,
Speaker 2: I think we're guaranteed to buy in the SEC tournament.
Speaker 3: That's what I was gonna ask. Are we rooting for
Speaker 3: Arkansas to eight two?
Speaker 1: I am? I am? I mean, I think.
Speaker 2: Even even if Mississippi State wins, I'm still rooting for
Speaker 2: Arkansas because we have the tie breaker on Mississippi State.
Speaker 2: We Vandy we split with, so the tiebreaker becomes a
Speaker 2: little complicated when Vandy's in it. Who Doessissippi State play
Speaker 2: in their next game? Mississippi State plays at Arkansas, So
Speaker 2: again we almost need to root couch tights in order
Speaker 2: to make sure we get our ye they found nine
Speaker 2: to two eight oh, twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 1: We will take a break and be right back. This
Speaker 1: is the Local Toy Dealers KSR post game Show. Welcome back.
Speaker 2: It is the Local Toy Dealer's KSR postgame Show. Since
Speaker 2: we took a break, the Texassissippi State game has been
Speaker 2: at the monitor the entire time.
Speaker 1: So there you go.
Speaker 2: That's a good thing that's consistent in college basketball is
Speaker 2: we do need to spend a lot of time at
Speaker 2: the monitor because that ultimately is where it is. They're
Speaker 2: looking to see if Texas stepped out of bounds, and
Speaker 2: they've been looking at it for three or four minutes.
Speaker 2: And in my view, if you can't see him out
Speaker 2: of bounds in three or four minutes, Billy, he's not
Speaker 2: out of bounds, right, just make a call. Just look
Speaker 2: at it, Like, what are you looking at, Doug shows
Speaker 2: are you doing long division?
Speaker 1: Like, get off the camera.
Speaker 2: These guys driving me crazy that there is nothing in
Speaker 2: my that is frustrating me more about college basketball. I mean,
Speaker 2: look at that they're still looking at this billion it's
Speaker 2: been going off for four minutes.
Speaker 1: What could they be looking at? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm just surprised that you're not watching the Trump address
Speaker 4: right now, you've got basketball line.
Speaker 2: I haven't watched the State of the Union since Obama,
Speaker 2: and I don't expect to start anytime soon. Like there,
Speaker 2: it's like those things used to have dignity and now
Speaker 2: everybody screamed at each other.
Speaker 1: It's not not worth it.
Speaker 2: But I'd rather look at that than Doug Shalls looking
Speaker 2: into that microphone.
Speaker 1: Who's next? Soul train?
Speaker 5: Sole train?
Speaker 1: He was at the bar today. How are you soul trained?
Speaker 6: Yes, I am doing fine, Matt Jones. It was awesome
Speaker 6: at the game tonight. I'll tell you. I got the
Speaker 6: crowd pumped up and I haven't had them had their
Speaker 6: hands up every time we went to the free throw line,
Speaker 6: and guess what they made every single free throw. It's
Speaker 6: my first yep, it was the first UK game I
Speaker 6: went too since the since twenty eighteen, well actually twenty seventeen,
Speaker 6: twenty eighteen, somewhere around there. But like, it's an awesome experience.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you had a good time. It looked
Speaker 1: like like a good crowd. Uh.
Speaker 2: And it was nice to see you today, And I'm
Speaker 2: glad you enjoyed it.
Speaker 6: I'm glad I enjoyed it. Too, and this is my
Speaker 6: first time ever calling your show. And you know I
Speaker 6: listened to it and I enjoyed every minute of it.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Thank you very much, soul trade. If I'm nine,
Speaker 2: did he say this is the first time calling?
Speaker 1: Oh? Who are? I thought you said it was the
Speaker 1: first time listening? I thought, but that would have been
Speaker 1: nice too, write if it was the first time.
Speaker 2: Uh, if I'm nine to eight twenty two eighty seven, boy,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you man Texas coach looks like Gus Freeing
Speaker 2: on Americas.
Speaker 1: I mean, he looks just liking what's his name, Rodney Terry? Yes,
Speaker 1: just like you. All right, go ahead, Who's next?
Speaker 3: Miranda?
Speaker 1: Miranda? Go ahead? Miranda.
Speaker 7: Hey, guys, Sorry, the first time I've called.
Speaker 1: Who what's up?
Speaker 7: Sorry?
Speaker 1: Sorry? Just give me god?
Speaker 7: Yes, Oh got you Kentucky's first And I was explaining
Speaker 7: that at Repperena Elice, you didn't have a chance to
Speaker 7: settle in. Oh yeah, anyone.
Speaker 8: You have fun at the game, Miranda, but no, really embarrassed?
Speaker 2: Hang up?
Speaker 1: You all go that? Wow?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 7: I just I wanted to call in really badly, and
Speaker 7: I just didn't want to sound stupid.
Speaker 2: So you don't sound stupid. You sound excited, so I appreciate,
Speaker 2: appreciate the call. Thank you, Miranda.
Speaker 1: You keep telling me to turn it down, Billy, I
Speaker 1: cannot turn this down.
Speaker 3: I may need you to turn down even more.
Speaker 2: There's no there's there's no other volume level to go.
Speaker 1: It is on the lowest level.
Speaker 3: We've got to fix something here.
Speaker 1: What do you want me to do? I don't know
Speaker 1: what you want.
Speaker 3: Me to turn it down a little bit more.
Speaker 2: There's I might have to turn it off, and seriously,
Speaker 2: if you don't, I mean, this is all I got.
Speaker 1: Who's next?
Speaker 4: Ed?
Speaker 1: Ed? Go ahead?
Speaker 4: Ed?
Speaker 10: Hey, Matt, first time caller.
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 10: A couple of things you said last week has one
Speaker 10: of the piggyback off of is to make up for
Speaker 10: Jackson Robinson. You talked about the first five guys, the starters,
Speaker 10: what they need to do in the second tier being Alan,
Speaker 10: Moore and Garrison, and then the three freshmen had to
Speaker 10: produce more than one point, which I thought tonight. You know,
Speaker 10: with Chandler, it was amazing watching him and he seems
Speaker 10: to be one that's kind of coming into his own
Speaker 10: as a freshman, which is great to see and see
Speaker 10: his confidence rise. But do you think and I'll share
Speaker 10: this real quick let you all talk about it. Do
Speaker 10: you think with all the starters that if they could
Speaker 10: average about four to six points above their average with
Speaker 10: the next two probably about the same. And with what
Speaker 10: Channeler did tonight with the three freshmen, maybe for them
Speaker 10: to try to combine for ten to twelve points coming
Speaker 10: off the bench in the roles that they play. And
Speaker 10: also you know with the rebounding and the city.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean you're.
Speaker 2: Asking them to You're you're asking them to have like
Speaker 2: a crazy amount of points there. I mean like if
Speaker 2: you have each starter gets six more points, that's thirty
Speaker 2: more points. And then you do the same for the bench,
Speaker 2: you're scoring fifty more points. Yes, if we score fifty
Speaker 2: more points, we will win more games. But I guess
Speaker 2: I'm not doing much yeah thirty so but yes, we
Speaker 2: need them to play better. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: could expect them to to and O play that.
Speaker 1: Level of better.
Speaker 10: Okay, yeah, that makes sense that yeah, yeah, I probably
Speaker 10: exaggerated a little bit.
Speaker 11: I'm glad you know.
Speaker 10: That's what I want to bounce off to you. And
Speaker 10: but hey, I just want to thank you guys.
Speaker 11: Because you know, being in.
Speaker 10: I was a retired middle terry. I was deployed for
Speaker 10: three years from twenty eighteen to twenty in the Middle East,
Speaker 10: and you all really kept kept my spirits up in
Speaker 10: staying engaged. And I just appreciate your alls pre and
Speaker 10: postgame shows and your afternoon call in shows. So thank
Speaker 10: you for everything you all do.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, appreciate it. Eight five nine, and
Speaker 2: thank you for your service. Sir a f I've nine
Speaker 2: two eighth twenty two eighty seven. Texas once again, they're
Speaker 2: gonna blow it again. They were up five points with
Speaker 2: a minute fifteen and now Mississippi State's about the tide.
Speaker 2: This Texas may be the worst clutch How did we lose?
Speaker 2: And did we lose to them in the clutch?
Speaker 1: Yeah? We did.
Speaker 2: They're the worst clutch team I've ever seen and they
Speaker 2: beat us in the clutch.
Speaker 1: How did that happen? All right? Who's next?
Speaker 3: Duncan?
Speaker 1: Duncan, go ahead, Duncan.
Speaker 12: Hey, what's up, Matt? I love the show. I just
Speaker 12: had a quick question. So now we only have one
Speaker 12: more game left in the season, and we obviously still
Speaker 12: have the SEC Time Tournament, But where do you see
Speaker 12: us at this point?
Speaker 11: Like in March.
Speaker 12: Do you think maybe this is a sweet sixteen, Elite
Speaker 12: eight year we can get things going, or do you
Speaker 12: think that as I say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as I say, I feel I say, every time
Speaker 2: this comes up, the tournament is random, so it's all
Speaker 2: going to depend on the matchups, and uh, you know,
Speaker 2: I need to see what the bracket is. I think
Speaker 2: there's a big difference between this year being a three
Speaker 2: seed and being a four seed. I think if we
Speaker 2: beat Missouri on Saturday, we'll be a three seed, and
Speaker 2: if we are a three seed, I think if you
Speaker 2: look at the teams that could be the twos, we
Speaker 2: got a real shot to make a run to the
Speaker 2: Elite eate. If you're a four, then it's gonna depend
Speaker 2: on who your five is and who your one seed is.
Speaker 2: So I think the Missouri game is important. And then
Speaker 2: I think if you don't win the Missouri game, you know,
Speaker 2: getting a run and in the in the SEC tournament
Speaker 2: is important because I do think there's a big difference
Speaker 2: between it being a three and four because I think
Speaker 2: the one seeds are really good this year, but I
Speaker 2: think the two seeds are are gonna be beatable, and
Speaker 2: so I think it's just gonna depend on which which
Speaker 2: seed we get.
Speaker 12: And the thing is too with the SEC tournament. I mean,
Speaker 12: if we get one or two games, I mean I
Speaker 12: would pretty much solidify us as I having a higher
Speaker 12: or a better seed. And that's going into the tournament.
Speaker 12: I'm just be I'm getting nervous with the things.
Speaker 2: But if we're an eight seed, and and I appreciate
Speaker 2: the call, if we're an eight seed and you're playing
Speaker 2: Auburn in the second game, it's gonna be it's gonna
Speaker 2: be hard. And you know, we need some of these
Speaker 2: teams to help us, but Texas could not be helping
Speaker 2: us less uh here in the in the final moment.
Speaker 2: Let me, since I'm saying the negative, let me give
Speaker 2: you some positives that could happen out of the bracket.
Speaker 2: All right, If Mississippi State could somehow win this game,
Speaker 2: excuse me. If Texas could win this game, and Arkansas
Speaker 2: could beat Pandy, if Auburn come back and beats A
Speaker 2: and M. You know, there's a world, Billy, we could
Speaker 2: get all the way up to a five seed in
Speaker 2: the SEC tournament. That world exists.
Speaker 3: I would love that and avoid Auburn in that.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's that a lot of things have to happen,
Speaker 2: but there's a world that you could get up to
Speaker 2: a five, and there's a real world you can get
Speaker 2: to a six. So uh in now, Mississippi State, just
Speaker 2: this is two free throws. It is boy, this is
Speaker 2: a This is a which team can throw this away
Speaker 2: the most game? Who's next?
Speaker 3: Farmer?
Speaker 1: Farmer, go ahead, farmer.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I just wanted to say I really enjoyed the fact
Speaker 13: that we actually shot the three. We got above that
Speaker 13: thirty mark that we're looking for. We shot thirty two
Speaker 13: of them, and we just out hustled them throughout the
Speaker 13: entire day. We hustled them and we shut down Damian Collins.
Speaker 13: They're a big man. Yeah, they really did.
Speaker 2: They really played well against Damien, who had some success
Speaker 2: against us last year when we played against him.
Speaker 13: Yeah, former Cat, we love him. We know he's going
Speaker 13: through hard times when he was a Cat, but we
Speaker 13: love him. But we shut him down this time. Get
Speaker 13: him two points and go Cats.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. They five nine, two eighty seven. Let's
Speaker 2: take a break and come right back. The Cats with
Speaker 2: a massive win first of one of the very few
Speaker 2: comfortable SEC games we've had all year. I mean, we
Speaker 2: haven't had too many where we just had a lead
Speaker 2: at home and just one going away.
Speaker 1: Is this right? I guess this one in South Carolina.
Speaker 2: Really are only two that have been like that, so
Speaker 2: it was nice to get it. We'll take a break
Speaker 2: right back. I'm not sure I've ever seen an uglier
Speaker 2: basketball game than the end of this Texassissippi State game.
Speaker 1: But with all of it said, they got two free
Speaker 1: throws here to.
Speaker 2: Mississippi State will take the loss, and it looks like
Speaker 2: they will, so that's good for Kentucky. So now Mississippi
Speaker 2: State has lost, so that means that Kentucky they'll win
Speaker 2: a tiebreaker versus them. So really, now, if we can
Speaker 2: get Vanderbilt to get a loss either tonight or in
Speaker 2: their next game, then Kentucky will be guaranteed to buy
Speaker 2: in the SEC Tournament, which would be I think very
Speaker 2: important for them going forward. So Vandy is playing Arkansas.
Speaker 2: If Vandy either loses to Arkansas or if they lose well,
Speaker 2: if they play at Georgia, I don't know if they'll
Speaker 2: lose that one or not. So we need come on,
Speaker 2: John Calperry, like, you know, can you give us one here,
Speaker 2: like just for old time's sake, you just just get
Speaker 2: one for us here on the road, all right? Who's
Speaker 2: up next? Trevor, Trevor, go ahead, Trevor and Texas wins.
Speaker 1: Go ahead A.
Speaker 8: Matt first time?
Speaker 1: Long time? Who are hey?
Speaker 8: I could be crazy because it's displayed into the season,
Speaker 8: and it could because I grew up in the Southeast Kentucky.
Speaker 8: We beating and banging around down low, and Coach cal
Speaker 8: had a lot of those athletes. But I'm still not.
Speaker 8: I enjoy watching it, but I'm still not super confident
Speaker 8: in the three point game on the offense. Can you
Speaker 8: take some time to just boost my confidence a little bit?
Speaker 1: What do you mean when you say when you say
Speaker 1: on the three point game? What do you mean?
Speaker 8: I'm used to watching ball back in the day. I
Speaker 8: can't watch the NBA anymore. I am used to playing
Speaker 8: ball under the basket, not shooting.
Speaker 1: Now. That's just not what basketball is anymore.
Speaker 2: I mean, like it's I mean, it doesn't make sense
Speaker 2: to shoot under the basket unless you're open. Like, if
Speaker 2: you look at the numbers, back to the basket, basketball
Speaker 2: is next to long two's the worst shot you can take.
Speaker 2: So I mean, this is basketball now it's shooting threes
Speaker 2: and threes and layups.
Speaker 1: That's basketball.
Speaker 8: I did that and that definitely helps I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's not like, you know, we have
Speaker 2: not shot the ball as well in SEC play for
Speaker 2: a variety of different reasons. But I do think the
Speaker 2: offensive style that Mark Pope plays is the right style
Speaker 2: for the future.
Speaker 1: It really is.
Speaker 2: I mean you, I think the way Auburn plays is
Speaker 2: honestly the way modern basketball on the college level is played.
Speaker 1: They shoot threes.
Speaker 2: Everybody on the team can shoot, but they have one
Speaker 2: big who can kind of go inside outside with Broom.
Speaker 2: And I think when Mark I think if you were
Speaker 2: to ask Mark Pope at its best, what would you
Speaker 2: like your offense to look like, he'd probably say a
Speaker 2: lot like that Auburn team is so I mean, I
Speaker 2: think the days of going okay, we've got I mean,
Speaker 2: when you have Anthony Davis, it's a little different because
Speaker 2: he's a special talent. But you remember that Yukon team
Speaker 2: that won with a Mecca Oka four at the center
Speaker 2: and the offense went through him. I would be surprised
Speaker 2: if another team ever wins like that. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: it won't happen, but it would surprise me because it's
Speaker 2: just not the right way to play.
Speaker 1: To be honest, I got you.
Speaker 8: You were an attorney at heart, my friend.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call, you know. I mean, they like
Speaker 2: you look at like a team like Purdue. Like last
Speaker 2: year Zach Edie was like, he's like seven foot three,
Speaker 2: he would still shoot three, you know. I mean that's
Speaker 2: just what it is now, Like these guys like the
Speaker 2: old days of you know, twin towers and playing through
Speaker 2: the post. I just I don't think you're going to
Speaker 2: see that very much unless you have a super special
Speaker 2: talent like an Anthony Davis type, and there just aren't
Speaker 2: many of those kind of guys that come around.
Speaker 1: Who's up next, Henry, Henry, go ahead, Henry.
Speaker 5: Hey, Matt, do you think LSU is just really bad
Speaker 5: or do you think we might be playing with the
Speaker 5: little extra after losing Jackson that sort of lockluster locks
Speaker 5: against Auburn.
Speaker 2: I think what happened is we got up big on
Speaker 2: LSU early and they kind of quit. To be honest
Speaker 2: with you, I think that was this was a game.
Speaker 2: We're getting off to that early start. You know, we
Speaker 2: were up I think twenty we were up like thirteen
Speaker 2: to start the game, maybe twenty one to eight or something.
Speaker 2: They put a mass sub in or maybe it was
Speaker 2: eighteen to five, whatever it was, they put a mass
Speaker 2: sub in and then they kind of came back, and
Speaker 2: then Pope went back to the starters and we put
Speaker 2: the foot on the gas again. Then I think they
Speaker 2: just quit. I think somewhere with about six minutes left
Speaker 2: in the first half, LSU just quit and really just
Speaker 2: kind of mailed it in the rest of the game.
Speaker 1: So they're not good.
Speaker 2: I don't think they're as bad as they were tonight,
Speaker 2: but part of it was us. We put our foot
Speaker 2: on the gas and they quit. Basically they stopped as
Speaker 2: as I think Jack Gibbons said on the post game
Speaker 2: that they just didn't look like they cared about playing defense,
Speaker 2: and we took advantage of it.
Speaker 13: Yep, completely agree.
Speaker 14: He thinks that.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it, Yeah, I mean that's I think that's our offense,
Speaker 2: if not at its best, pretty close to it. I
Speaker 2: mean that that our offense looked good, and when we
Speaker 2: had Butler and Oway in it looked really good. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's the best we are. That's the best our offense
Speaker 2: has looked in quite some time. Now. Again, the opponent
Speaker 2: is not very good, so you do have to keep
Speaker 2: that in mind. I mean, well they're okay, but they're not.
Speaker 1: But they quit. But part of that was what we
Speaker 1: did too. Who's next? DJ? DJ? How are you DJ?
Speaker 9: I'm doing good, Matt.
Speaker 15: I just want to say I got to go to
Speaker 15: the game tonight. My brother in law gave me my
Speaker 15: dad some tickets, so thank you to Jacob. But what
Speaker 15: an incredible atmosphere.
Speaker 10: It was awesome.
Speaker 15: And then even after the game, I mean, we could
Speaker 15: talk about the game all day.
Speaker 14: It was awesome.
Speaker 15: But even after the game, me and my dad probably
Speaker 15: left thirty thirty minutes ago, and Mark Tope and the
Speaker 15: guys were still signing autographs. And some of the guys
Speaker 15: did leave, but Mark Pope was out there signing the
Speaker 15: autographs and I'm I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 15: he was still signing autographs. And he's just awesome coach,
Speaker 15: And just shout out.
Speaker 6: To Mark Pope.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one thing that's great about him, is he
Speaker 2: you know, we talked about he gets the job and
Speaker 2: they do that. They do that after every win, after
Speaker 2: every win home and away, they stay out there and
Speaker 2: sign Sometimes they do it after losses, but they do
Speaker 2: it after every win. And uh, you know, I don't
Speaker 2: even think people realize often how long they stay for that.
Speaker 2: And tonight, with it being senior Night, a lot of
Speaker 2: people stayed longer. And I think they were there about
Speaker 2: as long as they could be.
Speaker 15: Yes, sir, and you guys have a wonderful night.
Speaker 2: Go big Blue at eight five nine two eight h
Speaker 2: twenty two eighty seven. See right now they're saying, like
Speaker 2: at the State of the Union, people are just getting
Speaker 2: up and walking out.
Speaker 1: Like they It didn't used to be like that, Billy.
Speaker 1: It used to be literally a speech that was not
Speaker 1: a political speech. It was a state of the Union.
Speaker 3: Well, the one guy got kicked out like five minutes in, think, yeah.
Speaker 1: What's hee? What are you doing yelling?
Speaker 2: Like, stop yelling the I remember what was like fifteen
Speaker 2: years ago one of those dudes got yelled and in
Speaker 2: each it's just a it makes me sad. I used
Speaker 2: to really like politics, Billy, and they've made it sad.
Speaker 2: But I do like march madness, which is much more fun. Anyway,
Speaker 2: who's next.
Speaker 3: It's a good thing he didn't run. Then let's go
Speaker 3: to Bradley.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would have been a bad decision.
Speaker 2: It would have been, uh take something that this would
Speaker 2: be like the worst time to be in it too.
Speaker 1: So all right, go ahead, Bradley, Go ahead, Bradley.
Speaker 5: Hey, Matt, great start to the game once again, at
Speaker 5: the first seven eight minutes, I thought I was gonna
Speaker 5: go nutty with those substitutions.
Speaker 10: Overall, we played good.
Speaker 16: I'm glad we got to win.
Speaker 5: Uh, it's March, now, what what's your prediction for the tournament?
Speaker 5: I'd love to see at sweet sixteen. I bet everybody
Speaker 5: in Big Blue Natan would love to get in the
Speaker 5: stick and weekend.
Speaker 15: What's your prediction, Matt from.
Speaker 2: Mar Well, I gotta see the Like I said, I
Speaker 2: gotta see the bracket. I appreciate the call. I think
Speaker 2: this is a team that's very dependent on matchups. I'll
Speaker 2: make a prediction after the Missouri game because I I
Speaker 2: think the Missouri game will determine our seed probably. I
Speaker 2: think if we beat Missouri, I think we're definitely a
Speaker 2: three seed. If we lose, we could still be a.
Speaker 1: Three seed, but will probably be a four. And so.
Speaker 2: Ask me after the Missouri game, because I think we're
Speaker 2: a three seed. I like our chances because those twos,
Speaker 2: and you're looking at the twos right now, it's probably
Speaker 2: gonna be what Iowa State, Michigan State.
Speaker 1: Then what maybe Alabama they won't pair us with them.
Speaker 2: So Iowa State, Michigan State are those are teams we
Speaker 2: can beat, So i Wisconsin we can beat those teams.
Speaker 2: So I really hope we can find a way to
Speaker 2: get a three seed. And if we're a three seed,
Speaker 2: we'll play closer to home. We'll play either in Providence
Speaker 2: or Denver. We won't go all the way to Seattle.
Speaker 2: So that's what I'm hoping for.
Speaker 1: There's next, Dwayne, Dwayne, go ahead, Dwayne.
Speaker 5: Hey, there's a great one by the cast night.
Speaker 14: But I ask you a question.
Speaker 5: JD Vans he's from eastern Kentucky.
Speaker 1: And he's not. He's not He's from Ohio.
Speaker 13: Well, I mean he was born there, wasn't he.
Speaker 1: No, his grandparents moved.
Speaker 2: Yeah, his grandparents were lived in Eastern He might have
Speaker 2: been born there, but he lived in Ohio growing up.
Speaker 2: And then his grandparents lived in eastern Kentucky, so he
Speaker 2: would go, he would visit them, and that's where that
Speaker 2: book came from.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just telling Kentucky or he's from Ohio. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I mean I don't know what else you
Speaker 1: want me to say.
Speaker 2: I think he may have been born in Kentucky, but
Speaker 2: he lived he grew up in like outside of Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: in Ohio.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 3: Was he was still there. I think he just left
Speaker 3: him speechless.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, it's spot the book is about.
Speaker 2: He would live in Ohio and then in the summers
Speaker 2: he would visit his grandparents and he would talk about
Speaker 2: the difference in the two cultures and all that. I mean,
Speaker 2: he has Kentucky connections, that that part is true, but
Speaker 2: he's I mean, I moved to Middlesbrough when I was five,
Speaker 2: so I consider myself from Middlesbrough. I was technically born
Speaker 2: in Lexington, but I grew up in Middlesbrough.
Speaker 3: So born in Middletown, Ohio. According to wikipeople, he.
Speaker 1: Was born in Ohio. That's what I said. He was
Speaker 1: born in Ohio. Like, what do you think his point was?
Speaker 1: What was he going to be asking?
Speaker 4: I don't know, he's a Kentuckian. We need to support him.
Speaker 1: And even if he.
Speaker 2: Was like you don't I mean you said, well, okay,
Speaker 2: let's get back to basketball.
Speaker 1: Who's next, Melissa, Melissa, go ahead and Melissa. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't know why everybody's trying to talk politics tonight.
Speaker 12: Here we are trying to.
Speaker 13: Like watch a basketball game.
Speaker 2: Let me read you, U how you do before you
Speaker 2: do your thing? Let me read you the bracket right now,
Speaker 2: because this was my point I was making a minute ago.
Speaker 2: The bracketology right now with Joe Lonardi has this is
Speaker 2: the three seed playing Utah Valley in Denver. If we won,
Speaker 2: the winner would be Saint the winner we would play
Speaker 2: the winner of Saint Mary's and Indiana. Feel good about
Speaker 2: that game, and if we won that play Iowa State.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know about you, but I think
Speaker 2: we got a real good shot in that scenario.
Speaker 8: But go ahead, Yes, first time, long time, look super.
Speaker 7: Do like Lexington transplant really.
Speaker 16: Into the Cats this season, and yes, I feel like
Speaker 16: they came ready today for March.
Speaker 1: So all right, well there you go.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, am, I am I offer a little
Speaker 2: like billion. This is an interesting set of calls tonight,
Speaker 2: if you go back even to the start.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I've been an interesting show for a couple
Speaker 4: of reasons.
Speaker 2: It's just an interesting senior night show, right, like you
Speaker 2: get We've had four I think first time callers, uh
Speaker 2: maybe even five, and so you never know what. That's
Speaker 2: the thing I do love about this post gap show.
Speaker 2: You never know what's gonna be on the other end
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 1: Foe. Let's do one more then we'll take a break.
Speaker 3: As long as we avoid tears, we'll be fine tonight.
Speaker 1: That's up to you. Darlene is next, so Zachy He
Speaker 1: only took one three at Perdue.
Speaker 2: Never mind, I feel like he took more than that.
Speaker 2: I know he takes a handful of him in the NBA,
Speaker 2: but go ahead, Darlene.
Speaker 16: Hey, Matt, I spoke to you after the Oklahoma win.
Speaker 1: I was just so excited about being able to speak
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 11: I just make a lot of good points itself. I
Speaker 11: wanted to call in tonight to make a good point
Speaker 11: about our coach, Mark Pope.
Speaker 13: Twenty wins.
Speaker 11: I don't care what people are saying, first year coach.
Speaker 14: Gotta give him credy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty wins when he only had a handful of
Speaker 2: weeks to build the roster and what is certainly the
Speaker 2: best sec of all time and arguably one of the
Speaker 2: best conferences of all time. And in the process, you
Speaker 2: beat Duke, you beat Tennessee twice, you beat Louisville, you
Speaker 2: beat Gonzaga, you beat Florida, You win seven games against
Speaker 2: top twenty five teams. As we said on the pregame show,
Speaker 2: I think if you took out the Arkansas game, you
Speaker 2: could almost argue you won every game that you went
Speaker 2: into the season really wanting to win. So I have
Speaker 2: to agree with you, Darlene. I think it all things considered,
Speaker 2: you can't help but say it is a successful year.
Speaker 11: Thanks Matt for saying everything I wanted to say tonight.
Speaker 10: You're the best journey.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, Darlene. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: If I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven, Arkansas
Speaker 2: is down three, are you not gonna pull for Arkansas, Billy?
Speaker 2: I mean, I know it's I know it's cow, but like,
Speaker 2: we need them to win. If we win, we don't
Speaker 2: have to play on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, we're I definitely will. I'll pull for them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we I think we need to, uh,
Speaker 2: we need to get it because I think, and again
Speaker 2: I could be doing the math room, but I'm fairly
Speaker 2: certain if we win. If they lose, then we would
Speaker 2: win all the time breakers. So we have play on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll take a break. If I'm nine two
Speaker 2: a twenty to eighty seven, it's a Local Toy Dealers
Speaker 2: KSR postgame show, all right? Well back, it is the
Speaker 2: local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show. We apologize there is
Speaker 2: I think maybe because of the wind outside. Uh, the
Speaker 2: service coming in at bit so if I go away
Speaker 2: for a second, that's why.
Speaker 1: But it's a windy night outside.
Speaker 2: Everybody be careful, especially if you're in like the summrset area.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of wind warnings this evening and then
Speaker 2: it's supposed to be Did I hear snow Thursday morning?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 3: I don't say that?
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 2: What somebody told me today? I don't know if they
Speaker 2: knew what they were talking about. But good graef. We
Speaker 2: just can't get away from it, all right. If I'm
Speaker 2: not two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, Who's up next?
Speaker 3: Jimbo?
Speaker 1: Jimbo, go ahead, Jimbo.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm more man. I'm sorry, man, his first time
Speaker 5: I ever called.
Speaker 16: I'm a little nervous, but I just.
Speaker 5: Want to say, I uh, I love the fact that
Speaker 5: we booed.
Speaker 14: That boy they called the Star of Fish Sam.
Speaker 1: Appreciate the all right, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 2: Like listen, man, if you're going to try to, like
Speaker 2: you know, if you're going to try to like do
Speaker 2: a joke call, you gotta be better than that.
Speaker 1: Like I was almost certain that was a joke from
Speaker 1: the beginning.
Speaker 2: But like, you know, safe satire unless you're actually good
Speaker 2: at it, all right, I'm not gonna make that one.
Speaker 1: Of the final calls. Leave us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like unless you're really funny, like I know, you
Speaker 2: think it's full, Oh, I'll call it's it's not all right,
Speaker 2: so we'll do us.
Speaker 1: We'll do so. You can put some mails on. But
Speaker 1: who's next.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's go to Brian.
Speaker 1: Brian, go ahead, Brian.
Speaker 17: Hey Man here in Nashville on a treehouse.
Speaker 8: I think's gonna get blown over by the wind.
Speaker 17: Smoking the victory cigar.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 17: I mean, uh, I mean, I just say, it felt
Speaker 17: like a real senior day. That's the first thing I say.
Speaker 17: I mean, you actually knew the players who are seniors
Speaker 17: this year.
Speaker 11: That was cool.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean they've only been here a year. That's
Speaker 2: no different than it is. That's not I mean, all
Speaker 2: of our senior days have been guys who transferred in
Speaker 2: in the last seven or eight years, and we're here
Speaker 2: for a year.
Speaker 17: Most of those guys were playing and that was that
Speaker 17: was cool. The other thing I want to say is
Speaker 17: is that Pope set up Brandon Garrison and his post
Speaker 17: conference interview.
Speaker 1: He says, what do you think about.
Speaker 17: Brandon when he shoots the three? I mean, personally, every
Speaker 17: time he shoots that, I'm afraid and it's not going in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I was, I think at the beginning
Speaker 2: of the year. But he's shooting such a good percentage
Speaker 2: now that if he's open.
Speaker 1: Now, I actually don't like when he gets it in
Speaker 1: the block and decides to do something.
Speaker 2: But when he but when he shoots an open three,
Speaker 2: I've actually become almost.
Speaker 1: And I think he I think he actually does. He's
Speaker 1: got good form. It's when he's open. He's he next
Speaker 1: to Bray. He probably makes it as much as anybody.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I think the numbers speak the truth. But it
Speaker 17: just makes me nervous.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 2: I get nervous when he dribbles. That's that's when I
Speaker 2: get nervous. I'd much prefer him shoot a three. When
Speaker 2: he starts handling the ball and he's dribbling it like
Speaker 2: stan Lee way out in front of him from the office,
Speaker 2: that's when I get nervous.
Speaker 17: It's like one of those times where you're like, uh,
Speaker 17: you don't want to do it, but it goes in
Speaker 17: and you're like, yes, I'm glad I was wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well I appreciate the call. Uh yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know. It's interesting. It's interesting to hear Pope talk
Speaker 2: about the players that might come back. Because he talks
Speaker 2: about them, you kind of get a sense of if
Speaker 2: he thinks they're coming back. He he talks about Garrison
Speaker 2: like a guy who is gonna come back next year
Speaker 2: to Kentucky.
Speaker 1: So that's interesting.
Speaker 2: That's good to see an interesting I think same with
Speaker 2: o Way, although when he talks about Cresa, it's harder
Speaker 2: to tell.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I think, uh, I think they probably.
Speaker 2: I think one of the things that might be a
Speaker 2: little different with Pope in the last regimes, I think
Speaker 2: they know. I think they know what guys are gonna do,
Speaker 2: and I think they might I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 2: they might already know who they're gonna get from other teams.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. A and M is now up eleven
Speaker 2: on Auburn. Uh, you know, we we hold the tie
Speaker 2: breaker on A and M. So if they had taken
Speaker 2: this loss tonight with that would have been good. But
Speaker 2: looks like they may win. Who did they play in
Speaker 2: their last.
Speaker 1: Game, Billy? They played at LSU.
Speaker 2: See, that's unfortunate because we owned the time breaker on them.
Speaker 2: I thought we they'd lost tonight, we might have had
Speaker 2: a chance to pass them in the standings. Who's next?
Speaker 3: Steve is next?
Speaker 1: Steve? Go ahead? Steve?
Speaker 5: A Hi, Matt. First, I wanted to express my displeasure
Speaker 5: on ABC putting the rest of the game on ESPN
Speaker 5: News Saturday after they put their fire out. I thought
Speaker 5: that was kind of sucky.
Speaker 2: But they did they end up putting any of it
Speaker 2: on TV.
Speaker 1: I didn't know any of it got on TV.
Speaker 5: Yes, the end of it was played on ESPN News.
Speaker 5: My Papa and I had slipped over and was watching
Speaker 5: a dodgeball on the ochow and I had come back
Speaker 5: from the bathroom and the game was just on.
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't run, so we couldn't walk.
Speaker 5: But that was after the fire was put out. But
Speaker 5: tonight's game, I wanted to point out that you had
Speaker 5: mentioned we had went up early in the game, and
Speaker 5: then Pope put in all the subs, and and you know,
Speaker 5: we started to lose that lead a little bit after
Speaker 5: that point. He never mass subbed again.
Speaker 1: Agree much.
Speaker 5: Every time I saw bench players in, I saw three
Speaker 5: starters and two bench players, I think, yeah.
Speaker 2: He I totally agree with you. And he not only
Speaker 2: went to the bench again. Far be it from me,
Speaker 2: like he knows more than I do. I always want
Speaker 2: to say that.
Speaker 1: But.
Speaker 2: He literally had the worst defensive lineup that we could
Speaker 2: possibly put on the floor together because the only starter
Speaker 2: he had left in was Brea, who is our worst
Speaker 2: defender of the starters. So the lineup he had in
Speaker 2: was Perry, Breya, Noah, Almanor, and Garrison. Like you can't
Speaker 2: have a worst defensive lineup. He had the four starters
Speaker 2: out and then the one decent defender coming off the bench,
Speaker 2: which is is Chandler. So I think he quickly realized
Speaker 2: that you're right. He didn't do it again, but like, literally,
Speaker 2: you couldn't draw up a worse defensive unit than that,
Speaker 2: and he just can't play all those guys at the
Speaker 2: same time.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm just hoping he learned something tonight. Until the
Speaker 5: garbage time. He did three starters, two backups, and I
Speaker 5: think it worked because three of our top five scores
Speaker 5: tonight were bench players.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I appreciate, appreciate the call. Now.
Speaker 2: See, these are the kind of people when they write
Speaker 2: in Billy that I appreciate.
Speaker 1: Okay, can I read you a back and forth with
Speaker 1: a guy on the text? Please? Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, He writes, Matt, why are you so concerned about Vanderbilt?
Speaker 2: We beat them in every different tiebreaker possible. Uh, if
Speaker 2: we end up tied with them, we're ahead of them.
Speaker 2: Why are you worried? And I said, well, if they
Speaker 2: were to win tonight in their next game and we
Speaker 2: lose to Missouri, they'll finish one game ahead of us.
Speaker 1: And he responded, I got you.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I'm a lot dumber than I look, and I
Speaker 2: look pretty dumb. That's a great answer, right, that's like
Speaker 2: self deprecating. See that's what I like. Four more, who's.
Speaker 3: Next, We've got another Steve on the line.
Speaker 1: Steve, go ahead, Steve.
Speaker 11: Hey Man. First of all, you do a great job.
Speaker 11: I love the work that Mario is doing as well.
Speaker 11: He puts out fantastic content. I hope people see what
Speaker 11: a good job he's doing. Kentucky.
Speaker 10: Really, they had a fifteen.
Speaker 11: To oh run in that first half, and that was
Speaker 11: a you know, it set him up for a substantial
Speaker 11: halftime leave.
Speaker 2: They had two runs. They had a fifteen oh run
Speaker 2: and then they had a ten o run after that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and can you talk a little bit about the
Speaker 11: fact struggled with transition defense but tonight they were really
Speaker 11: solid defensively in transition and a little bit about how
Speaker 11: they limited their turnovers and actually got a lot more
Speaker 11: steels than we're used to seeing as well.
Speaker 2: Totally agree with both of those points. And I appreciate
Speaker 2: the Colin thank you for what you said about Mario.
Speaker 2: He does a great job and has added you know,
Speaker 2: as we hit our fifteenth year here, you know, we've
Speaker 2: had kind of a core group. We added Billy a
Speaker 2: few years ago from an organizational standpoint, and then and
Speaker 2: content and then Mario with the social media. It's been great.
Speaker 2: I appreciate how everybody's welcomed him. Now on your point
Speaker 2: about the transition defense, we did do better at it.
Speaker 2: Part of it was and this is actually I'm going
Speaker 2: to steal from Cal because Cal used to talk about this.
Speaker 2: There's difference between turnovers and bad turnovers. Right, the last
Speaker 2: few games, we've had a lot of bad turnovers, which
Speaker 2: are not just turnovers that occur, but that lead to
Speaker 2: fast breaks the other way or threes where you miss
Speaker 2: and it kicks out towards the other goal. We just
Speaker 2: didn't have as many of those tonight, so I think
Speaker 2: it was harder for LSU to get transitioned. I mean,
Speaker 2: Damian Fishback kept talking about getting in transition for LSU,
Speaker 2: but they just had a hard time. Part of it
Speaker 2: was we got back, but part of it was we
Speaker 2: didn't turn the ball over in places that led the
Speaker 2: fast breaks. That was always something back when I would
Speaker 2: go to Cal Perry practices. He would say to the guy,
Speaker 2: if you're going to turn it over, you know, turn
Speaker 2: it over not at the top of the key because
Speaker 2: it leads to a layup the other way, And he's
Speaker 2: exactly right about that. You're much better turning it over
Speaker 2: in the corner or down low because you can lead
Speaker 2: to a layup, and we had a lot of those,
Speaker 2: especially against Auburn, where we just turned up led to
Speaker 2: a straight layup down the other of the court. Arkansas
Speaker 2: leads by six at halftime. The bandy they go on
Speaker 2: a run. So Arkansas may be gonna help us book
Speaker 2: the day one by here tonight if they can hold on.
Speaker 3: Who's next, Zachary?
Speaker 1: Three more? Go ahead, Zachary.
Speaker 9: Hey, Matt, you know, everything that Pope has done this
Speaker 9: season just you know, on or just remarkable. But with
Speaker 9: his philosophy about his bench, in his lineup, just the
Speaker 9: fact that he doesn't seem to want to like even
Speaker 9: think about alternating or keeping the main guys in for
Speaker 9: longer in the game because of the max efficiency thing. Like,
Speaker 9: to me, that is just concerning for the tournament coming up,
Speaker 9: because if you're not even like even willing to negotiate,
Speaker 9: you know, who are going to be your main guys,
Speaker 9: Like I just think that that could really cost us
Speaker 9: maybe a game, you know, in the tournament. So it's
Speaker 9: just really concerning. But you know, like you said many
Speaker 9: many times, like the fact that he's done the job
Speaker 9: he's done in the matter of time he's had to
Speaker 9: do it. You know, I don't think any other coach
Speaker 9: could really could do it like he has. But just
Speaker 9: the lineup thing is pretty concerning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, although Jess, I appreciate Carl, I agree with you,
Speaker 1: but as.
Speaker 2: The out you know he did, he didn't do it
Speaker 2: again after that run. I mean he kind of all
Speaker 2: until the end didn't really matter as much, but he
Speaker 2: always tried to keep I think the key is I
Speaker 2: don't think you can have Butler in a Way on
Speaker 2: the bench at the same time. I think our perimeter
Speaker 2: defense besides Butler in no way is not gonna be
Speaker 2: very Travis Perry is not a good defender.
Speaker 1: Kobe Bray is not a good defender.
Speaker 2: Trent Noah is an okay defender, but he's not a
Speaker 2: good defender out on the out on the three point line.
Speaker 1: He's he's better inside.
Speaker 2: So if you don't have either Butler or o Way in,
Speaker 2: the other team's guards are just gonna crush you. And
Speaker 2: so I just don't think he can ever take those
Speaker 2: guys out at the same time. And I think if
Speaker 2: he does, then he's got to have Colin Chandler in.
Speaker 2: So when you go back to that run they went in,
Speaker 2: he didn't have any of those guys in, and I
Speaker 2: just don't think you can do that. You know, in
Speaker 2: the interior, Amari's a lot better than Garrison defensively. I
Speaker 2: think cars better than Almonor defensively. But sometimes you can
Speaker 2: make that work. But he just cannot have Butler and
Speaker 2: Oway on the bench at the same time. If he does,
Speaker 2: they just they cannot defend on the perimeter. And I'll
Speaker 2: be interested to see if he stops doing that like
Speaker 2: he staggered he took Braya out, put in Noah and
Speaker 2: then brought the subs in and put Praya back in.
Speaker 2: I'd rather see him take like Butler a way out.
Speaker 2: Have Butler play with the reserves, right, But you can't
Speaker 2: have Braya with the reserves because then no one can
Speaker 2: defend and you just you can't do that. Two more,
Speaker 2: Who's next, Trey?
Speaker 1: Trey? Go ahead, Trey?
Speaker 16: Hey, what's up?
Speaker 1: Matt? What's going on?
Speaker 16: Hey?
Speaker 5: So I think you.
Speaker 16: Are one calling it like bay Ruth Colin Chandler could be.
Speaker 5: He could be.
Speaker 16: He could be the golden ticket for this team come March,
Speaker 16: because with Jackson Robinson going down, like you said, you
Speaker 16: got to make up those points somewhere. And he has
Speaker 16: really really gotten his game a lot better. It seems
Speaker 16: like every game when we turn the when we turn
Speaker 16: it on, he does something a little better and a
Speaker 16: little better and a little better.
Speaker 1: So he's he's the first guy that I've seen. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: like I think Travis.
Speaker 2: Perry and Trent Noah can have stretches where they really
Speaker 2: help you a lot, hit some shots, you know. I
Speaker 2: can see Trent Noah had that really great game against Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Perry had a pretty good game against somebody the other night.
Speaker 2: I can't remember who it was. But Chandler looks in
Speaker 2: the last few games like a guy who can play
Speaker 2: with these athletes and can guard them. And so if
Speaker 2: he could get to the point he's been looked so
Speaker 2: nervous on offense, like he didn't want to shoot and
Speaker 2: he didn't want to dribble, if he can get to
Speaker 2: the point that he's even shooting decently, or even if
Speaker 2: he's not shooting decently, it's just not nervous. He helps
Speaker 2: so much on defense that like, okay, now all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, you got some And if he can get
Speaker 2: to the point that he makes open threes, just that
Speaker 2: sentence alone in Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Because really difficult to guard. So that's what makes me
Speaker 1: a little excited.
Speaker 16: Well, and we're gonna need it off the bench and
Speaker 16: you know a lot of people Matt forgid that you
Speaker 16: know he was a top recruit. Oh yeah, he did
Speaker 16: his fishing trip.
Speaker 1: And he is a great athlete. He is a great athlete.
Speaker 1: Uh like like he like he is.
Speaker 2: You watch him like during like dunk during warm ups
Speaker 2: and stuff. That dude is a great athlete. He just
Speaker 2: looks so scared for the first two thirds of the
Speaker 2: year and in the last three weeks he doesn't look scared.
Speaker 2: And that that you can't help but be kind of
Speaker 2: excited about that.
Speaker 16: So totally agree. Uh. Last thing this is this is
Speaker 16: a bit obscure, but with so many seniors on this
Speaker 16: team this year that have already probably graduated, what what
Speaker 16: do they do during the day? Is it just is
Speaker 16: it just kind of hang out?
Speaker 2: Well, they do have a class they have they have
Speaker 2: to take master's classes. Now I don't know how much
Speaker 2: class that is exactly, but they do. I mean a
Speaker 2: lot of these dudes sit around and play video games.
Speaker 2: To be honest with you, I mean I think that's
Speaker 2: a lot of nah And I appreciate the call we've had.
Speaker 2: You know, we've had teams over the years. You talk
Speaker 2: about a book you could write sort of like, what
Speaker 2: are these dudes like off the court? Cow's guys didn't
Speaker 2: really get in trouble that much, but they're almost never
Speaker 2: but they had some dudes who liked to party and
Speaker 2: do I don't get the sense that this group, I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I don't ever hear about this
Speaker 2: group doing anything, you know, so maybe because they're older, right,
Speaker 2: But I don't know, Like I don't even you know,
Speaker 2: almost every team that's been in Kentucky, you'll get like
Speaker 2: some picture of them somewhere, like at a bar. Not
Speaker 2: necessarily I'm doing bad, but like, look here this year
Speaker 2: about any of them. So maybe they're just like me, Billy,
Speaker 2: they're just all old men who uh maybe they sit
Speaker 2: and read like I do, or watch Breaking Bad.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 4: You're a freshman, you're eighteen nineteen. You want to go
Speaker 4: see the party. You want to say, it's very different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very different. Eighteen and you're eighteen and nineteen
Speaker 2: is very different than twenty two and twenty three. And
Speaker 2: that's what these guys are. So uh uh, what we got?
Speaker 1: One more?
Speaker 2: Is that? Right?
Speaker 1: H one more? Who's next? Mon Monsey? What's up? Munsey?
Speaker 1: Mad Jones Monsey.
Speaker 14: Yeah, what's up, brother, Shout up my childrens.
Speaker 1: Shout out to my children.
Speaker 14: Yes, old time friends, Shane didn't wear no stock.
Speaker 1: We're good.
Speaker 14: What you got, Brandon Garrison? These are these are a secret.
Speaker 1: Uh, he's our secret.
Speaker 15: He ist up hard.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: He did play well today. Yeah, he did play well today.
Speaker 2: I mean I thought I thought he looked. I thought
Speaker 2: this was a year he said. Two of his last
Speaker 2: three games.
Speaker 1: Have been uh, have been really good. You know.
Speaker 2: I don't think he played well against Aubourne. We played
Speaker 2: great against Oklahoma, and I thought he played great tonight.
Speaker 2: So uh, you know he I mean, we need him
Speaker 2: to be able to not like be a disaster when
Speaker 2: he came in. But the last two of the last
Speaker 2: three games, he's been better than a disaster. He's actually
Speaker 2: played very well.
Speaker 14: I thought, yes, absolutely, he's not a disaster. And now
Speaker 14: he's stepping up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, appreciate the appreciate Okay, yeah.
Speaker 14: You yes, yeah, yeah, you know. Uh first long time
Speaker 14: I've been here for a minute, and when you got
Speaker 14: your credentials and the first time you got onto Reperena
Speaker 14: the ship, Yeah that.
Speaker 1: Was before I even had a show.
Speaker 14: Yeah, crup and I was under the basket, and I
Speaker 14: saw you walking on the court and I saw you.
Speaker 14: You look like a twelve year old boy. You were
Speaker 14: smiling so big, and it was so much fun to
Speaker 14: see excel and get to where you are right now.
Speaker 1: That's very nice of you. Thank you.
Speaker 2: The first game I ever got credentialed was, and I
Speaker 2: appreciate the call, was Kentucky Louisville, and I want to
Speaker 2: say it was two thousand and seven, two thousand and six.
Speaker 2: Rondo was the point guard, and that was the first
Speaker 2: time I ever got a credential.
Speaker 1: And I can't remember very many times in my life.
Speaker 2: I was happier than that because I was, like, I
Speaker 2: honestly thought, I have a credential for the Kentucky Louisville game,
Speaker 2: like I made it. That's really all I need to do.
Speaker 2: Like I can stop now and go back. You know,
Speaker 2: I was still practicing law at the time. I can
Speaker 2: just go back to my legal job.
Speaker 3: He peaked.
Speaker 2: I did peak like I did peak. I remember, I
Speaker 2: was a huge fight to get credential. I was the
Speaker 2: first blogger to be credential in the entire sec. They
Speaker 2: would not the Dwayne Peebe was the was the sid
Speaker 2: here and and finally the SEC would not allow him
Speaker 2: to credential me, and then finally they said yes. In
Speaker 2: the first game I got to do, it was Kentucky Louisville,
Speaker 2: so nice memory by that guy. And I did look
Speaker 2: twelve years old, and I was chubby Billy that's bangs.
Speaker 1: I looked awful.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: Well that picture that that circulates, that's not that's like
Speaker 2: that year. Oh yeah, it was that year because it
Speaker 2: was that was Tubby's last year, and then Billy was
Speaker 2: there the next year.
Speaker 1: So yeah, good times. Well, interesting show tonight.
Speaker 2: Appreciate everybody staying up uh and listening. So let's go
Speaker 2: over some scheduling. Tomorrow is they the women start in
Speaker 2: the SEC tournament on Friday at two thirty. Don't know
Speaker 2: who they'll play yet, but the women's tournament actually starts
Speaker 2: tomorrow for the women's SEC Tournament, but Kentucky's got a
Speaker 2: double bye. They do not play until Friday. The men's
Speaker 2: team plays next at noon against Missouri on Saturday. The
Speaker 2: pregame show will be at nine to thirty AM, but
Speaker 2: that will be I'm sitting here, I just ran through
Speaker 2: these scenarios. It looks to me like if and Andy
Speaker 2: loses tonight, we are guaranteed the bye. If we beat
Speaker 2: Missouri and the results happen that you kind of think
Speaker 2: should happen. Now that A and M is gonna beat Auburn,
Speaker 2: we could get up to be the seven seed and
Speaker 2: be in the bottom.
Speaker 1: Half of the bracket and avoid Auburn. So the Missouri
Speaker 1: game's huge.
Speaker 2: Vandy loses tonight, we don't, We'll have a bye, and
Speaker 2: then if we beat we lose to Missouri where they eight.
Speaker 2: We beat Missouri with the seven and I think probably
Speaker 2: a top three seed in the NCAA tournament. Thank you,
Speaker 2: folks very much for listening. Thanks to Billy for hanging out.
Speaker 2: We will see you in the morning. This has been
Speaker 2: the Local Toy Dealers KSR Postscape Show.