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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the first local Toyter Dealers KSR postgame show.

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Speaker 1: I am Matt Jones here after an absolutely perfect Kentucky

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Speaker 1: debut under Mark Stoops beating Kentucky Wesleyan one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty three to fifty two in one of the more

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Speaker 1: fun games to watch, certainly an exhibition fun game in

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Speaker 1: a long long time. You can give a shout, I'd

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Speaker 1: love to hear from you. What'd you think? Now? For

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Speaker 1: a lot of you, that was the first time you

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Speaker 1: got to see him play. Eight five nine two to

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Speaker 1: eight zho twenty two eighty seven. We open it up

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Speaker 1: eight five nine to two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

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Speaker 1: All right, so here this is my take on on

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Speaker 1: all this. I'm shocked how good they look. I know,

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Speaker 1: it's what Kentucky Wesleyan, I get it. I don't really

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Speaker 1: want to hear that because I'm going to compare this

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Speaker 1: game to how these games normally go. I was going

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Speaker 1: back and looking, and I was looking at the UK

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Speaker 1: basketball teams over the years that have been really good,

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Speaker 1: and you know, you can't tell what you know. You

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Speaker 1: can't tell the how good a team is going to

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Speaker 1: be based on the exhibitions. But I will say that

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Speaker 1: sometimes the exhibition games do give you a sense of

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Speaker 1: what kind of team you have if you go back

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Speaker 1: and look at some of what happened in the past.

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Speaker 1: So let's just take first of all, this Kentucky Wesleyan team.

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Speaker 1: This Kentucky Wesleyan team beat Louisville last year. They beat Louisville.

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Speaker 1: Now I know Louisville only won six games, but they

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Speaker 1: beat Louisville last year, beat them by three. We played

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Speaker 1: them four years ago and we beat them by twenty.

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Speaker 1: So this team has everybody back but one player. And

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Speaker 1: this is not a This is not a group that

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Speaker 1: has been like they're not awful. This is a team

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Speaker 1: that's decent. And you beat them by seventy one points.

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Speaker 1: That is pretty amazing, it really is. That's pretty amazing.

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Speaker 2: So you go back and look in twenty fifteen, you

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Speaker 2: remember when we played Morehouse and we beat them by

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Speaker 2: one hundred. You may remember in twenty ten.

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Speaker 1: We played a couple exhibition games where we beat them

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Speaker 1: by a ton. The national championship team beat Transylvania by

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Speaker 1: like sixty five. But seventy one point wins don't happen

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Speaker 1: a lot and it was a seventy one point win

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Speaker 1: with everyone playing, with a lot of people playing, with

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Speaker 1: a lot of people getting big bennettes, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of people playing well. I am very happy about this.

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Speaker 1: And if you don't want to believe me, go to

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Speaker 1: two years ago. Do you remember who we played in

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Speaker 1: an exhibition game? Two years ago? Billy? Do you remember that?

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Speaker 3: I was running the broadcast, but I can't remember who

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Speaker 1: It was like something like Midwest Missouri State. No, I'm serious,

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Speaker 1: it was something like that. I don't know what it was,

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Speaker 1: but it was like Midwestern Missouri State. And if you

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Speaker 1: go back and look at that game, I'm gonna pull

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Speaker 1: it up. I think this was the twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: to twenty three seasons. So this is the Oscar shebwe

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Speaker 1: senior year senior year team, Missouri Western State. Would you

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Speaker 1: like to know what the final score of that game was?

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Speaker 1: Leaz fifty six to forty. Yeah, Missouri Western State fifty

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Speaker 1: eight last year, and you beat them by seventy one.

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Speaker 1: But beyond that, I just want to talk about how

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Speaker 1: they played. How much fun was that to watch constant movement,

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Speaker 1: constant passing. They pass, I mean they don't dribble, They

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Speaker 1: have an open shot. Guys give up open shots for

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Speaker 1: more shots. They run up and down the floor NonStop.

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Speaker 1: There're gonna be some games this year where they're not

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Speaker 1: hitting like they did tonight, but they just wear teams out.

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Speaker 1: It was funny. I heard Jack Givens say on the

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Speaker 1: it needed to be. Well, if that's now, what's it

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Speaker 1: gonna be later? Because if you could score one hundred

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Speaker 1: what's gonna happen when it actually is good.

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Speaker 2: I was so impressed with a lot of the players,

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Speaker 2: But I want you to think about the stat of

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Speaker 2: we had thirty one assists and five turnovers. As Mark

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Speaker 2: Pope said in his post game, how many games you

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Speaker 2: think have been played on that court where one player

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Speaker 2: had more assist mont Butler had six. Excuse mean one

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Speaker 2: player had more steals Lamont Butler had six. Then the

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Speaker 1: That's probably never happened. I'd be shocked if it hass

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Speaker 1: a lot. I really I was not surprised that Jackson

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Speaker 1: Robinson looked like the best player on the court. I

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Speaker 1: don't think we got the best of Andrew Carr. I

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Speaker 1: think we will. But what about otega Oway comes out

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Speaker 1: single player that played, basically eleven guys got significant minutes.

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Speaker 2: All of them had something really positive happened. Lamont Butler

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Speaker 2: is gonna be a great defender.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be a perimeter lockdown defender, which we did

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Speaker 1: not have the last few years. We haven't had a

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Speaker 1: You've got a perimeter lock down guy. That's awesome to see.

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Speaker 1: We've got good interior presents. We've obviously got shooting. The

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Speaker 1: one thing that I still don't know if we have

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Speaker 1: key possessions. We're gonna have to wait and see this

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Speaker 1: game didn't give a lot of scenarios where that could happen.

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Speaker 1: But overall, for me and I'll be interested to hear

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Speaker 1: what you think this game is less about? Is this

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Speaker 1: the final four team? Is this Elite eight game? You know,

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Speaker 1: in years past, a lot of times we don't even

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Speaker 1: do pregame shows for or postgame shows for the exhibition games.

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Speaker 1: But usually in the first game or two, it's a

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Speaker 1: conversation of, well, how good can we be? At least

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Speaker 1: for me denied, that's really not the thought process. The

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Speaker 1: thought process is this is fun, because reality is in

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Speaker 1: the last three or four years, if we're honest, these

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Speaker 1: games have been grinds. These games really haven't been that

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Speaker 1: much fun to watch. It's been fun to be a

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Speaker 1: Kentucky fan, but it hasn't really been a lot of

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Speaker 1: fun to watch a lot of these games. Look at

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Speaker 1: Missouri Western State fifty six forty in an exhibition game.

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Speaker 1: This is fun. This is a lot of fun. We

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Speaker 1: had sixty points at halftime, right we shot near We

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Speaker 1: shot forty two threes and Pope said, sometimes I think

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Speaker 1: we'll shoot more. And you know what, they're not bricking them,

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Speaker 1: they're all pure. It's gonna be a lot of fun

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Speaker 1: to watch this team, and the energy of the fan

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Speaker 1: base was great. Crowd. You know, some people on line

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Speaker 1: the happiness. How about the postgame show. Not only does

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Speaker 1: the audience. I don't remember that ever happening. That's a

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Speaker 1: cool thing. I hope they keep doing that all year.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people have talked about all summer that

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Speaker 1: it feels like with Mark Pope, you kind of have

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Speaker 1: your program back. Well, I will to whatever extent that's true.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I know is true. Good this team is

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Speaker 1: whether they're a team that can contend for a Final

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Speaker 1: Every game's gonna be fun to watch. You're not gonna

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Speaker 1: get bored watching this group. And you can see what

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Speaker 1: Pope's building, you can see how smart they play. And

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Speaker 1: I'll also note I love seeing these players have gratitude

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Speaker 1: for being here. I think every player that's been at

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Speaker 1: a sense that it was a mutually beneficial relationship in

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Speaker 1: This feels like more guys who said this is the

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Speaker 1: top of what I've wanted to do. That's a cool feeling.

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Speaker 1: It's cool to feel wanted, and it feels like these

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Speaker 1: So awesome start to the season, almost as as Goose said,

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Speaker 1: a surprisingly good start. I thought we'd win. I thought

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Speaker 1: we'd win comfortably, did not think we would win by

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Speaker 1: seventy one points. Awesome beginning, and I look forward to

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Speaker 1: hearing what you guys think a five, nine, two, eight

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Speaker 1: pull up Billy about how the teams did again these

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Speaker 1: because I'm not saying this team's gonna be really good.

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Speaker 1: We'll see, but I think it's interesting go back to

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Speaker 1: the john Wall team, our exhibition games one hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventeen to fifty two, seventy four to thirty six. That

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Speaker 1: was a pretty good team. Let's go to twenty twelve,

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Speaker 1: the national championship team. Look at their exhibition games. They

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Speaker 1: had Transylvania ninety seven to fifty three, More House one

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Speaker 1: pretty similar, right. Twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, they played in

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Speaker 1: the exhibition games. Pikeville won sixteen sixty eight, Georgetown won

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Speaker 1: I think those are the four best cow teams. Guess

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Speaker 1: what's happened in the exhibition games. We've run teams off

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Speaker 1: Georgetown eighty to sixty three, Kentucky State eighty three to

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Speaker 1: we beat Kentucky State ninety nine to fifty thirty. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying that this means anything, but if you go

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Speaker 1: At least a good sign. Eight twenty two eighty seven.

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Speaker 1: local toytert Dealers KSR post game show. Welcome back. It

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Speaker 1: is the local Toyter Dealers KSR post game show. Just

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Speaker 1: a little update about the Cats. The UK guys had

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Speaker 1: been having their opening nights. Of course, Dillingham last night

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Speaker 1: which is a little bit of a surprise to me.

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Speaker 1: Antonio Reeves is starting his team starts night. He made

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Speaker 1: the team, but he has not played yet either. Reed

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Speaker 1: Shepherd has played sixteen minutes for the Rockets. He came

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Speaker 1: off the bench that the game is tied right now

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Speaker 1: Take all right, Billy, Hey, if I'm nine two eight

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Speaker 1: oh twenty two eighty seven, let's get started. Who's up first?

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Speaker 3: How about Zayne?

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Speaker 1: Zayne? How are you? Zaye?

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Speaker 4: I'm good?

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Speaker 5: How you doing?

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Speaker 1: Matt doing good?

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Speaker 6: So I'm a longtime listener, first time caller. Uh, I've

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Speaker 6: been a fan, you know, Oh, thank you, sir. I've

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you. I think it is gonna be

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Speaker 1: Very smart. He was listening to Ryan. I guess when

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Speaker 7: Go ahead, Christian, Hey, Matt, thank you for taking my call.

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Speaker 7: I just got a couple of comments. First of all,

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and kind of on the same point, where like,

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Speaker 7: Contributing every like there were like eight guys in double

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Speaker 1: To watch appreciate, appreciate called and look they spread the

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Speaker 1: and eight of them did. Tucky had twenty one threes.

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Speaker 1: the game. They did twenty one. And guess what Patino's

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Speaker 1: Let me read you. I always like to hear what

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Speaker 1: all were that good last ye Kentucky Westlen coach, Here's

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Speaker 1: what he said, Kentucky looked like a well oiled machine tonight.

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Speaker 1: I apologized to Mark Pope for not giving the Cats

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Speaker 1: better than that. Kentucky's got good basketball players who bought

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Speaker 1: Those are that Those are high praise remarks from a

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Speaker 1: mister D, Mister D? What's up, hey, Matt?

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Speaker 9: I was interested to hear in your opening monologue a

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Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't say as many people. I didn't

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Speaker 1: It's hard to let me just say, it's hard to

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Speaker 9: But go ahead, right, Well, what I was going to

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Speaker 9: the giddiness of just what's to come this year with

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Speaker 1: Let me speak that before you let me let me

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Speaker 1: you're blah blah blah. There was for me personally, I'm

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Speaker 1: speaking only for Matt Jones. This is the most joy

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Speaker 1: Antonio Reeves, Reed Shepard, and Robb Downe him. I loved

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Speaker 9: Yeah, and I think as Kentucky fans, we deserve it,

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Speaker 1: Like no, No, I think they go yeah. I appreciate the call.

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Speaker 1: I think, again, this is very early, but I talked

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Speaker 1: does he usually play? And he says he'll have ten

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Speaker 3: You know, I forgot about Kerkkrisa. The energy that guy's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's I think where you're gonna see

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Speaker 10: Nathan go ahead, hey, Matt, Yeah, to your point about

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Speaker 10: Kurt Crisa, I also don't know if our fans know

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Speaker 1: a game where he's like, yeah, we lost to Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: but at least I get to go see my dog.

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Speaker 1: Like I can't just can't imagine that. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's what's really It's neat to have a guy who

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Speaker 1: seems to care all the time as much as we do.

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Speaker 1: I like that. Appreciate the call. Let's do two more.

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Speaker 1: We'll take a break. Who's next? Russell Russell? How are

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Speaker 1: you Russell.

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Speaker 4: Good?

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Speaker 1: How are you good?

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Speaker 11: Okay, So I've been listening to the show since I

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Speaker 11: lived in Cornelia, Cornelias, North Carolina to david in North Carolina?

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Speaker 1: Where is that in North Carolina?

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Speaker 11: Cornelius, Cornelius? Where is a train ride away from Davidson?

443
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Speaker 11: When Seth Starry played there? When you first started your website?

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Speaker 1: That was two thousand and five.

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Speaker 11: Yes, okay, So I just got one personal question for you,

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Speaker 11: because I've been through a lot of stuff. How did

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Speaker 11: it feel when you've got that recognition in Reperena after

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Speaker 11: taking a break, after possibly leaving and we all love you.

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Speaker 1: You're talking about the at you're talking about the pope

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Speaker 1: press conference? You mean, yes, sir, Yeah, I mean that's

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Speaker 1: nice of you to ask for shit the call. That

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Speaker 1: was a really really uh gratifying moment. Not gonna lie

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Speaker 1: to you. Didn't expect it, didn't even think about it.

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Speaker 1: I hadn't been to a press conference in five years.

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Speaker 1: Probably that was neat, not gonna lie. I mean from

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Speaker 1: a professional standpoint, it was one of my like most

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Speaker 1: special things that's that's happened just in a professional life.

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Speaker 1: So that was listen, that was like a revival for

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Speaker 1: Kentucky fans. It just was, you know, I walked from

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Speaker 1: my house to to rup. There were people the entire

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Speaker 1: way and the energy was insane, and then in the

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Speaker 1: gym it was just a different kind of thing. It

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Speaker 1: was like the SEC Tournament used to be in like

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Speaker 1: eight to thirteen before it got so expensive, Like it

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Speaker 1: was that kind of fan base thing, and it was

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Speaker 1: just it was just a really cool thing and it

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Speaker 1: was nice to see the on the court play. Keep

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Speaker 1: that more minim going and hopefully that continues. One more.

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Speaker 1: Who's next, Grant Grant, go ahead, Grant.

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Speaker 12: Hey Man, first time caller, longtime listener though who I

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Speaker 12: was just going to share last year, I was at

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Speaker 12: the Tennessee game at home and they beat us at

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Speaker 12: RUP and the feeling after that game was like so

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Speaker 12: bad and just from where we came from then to now,

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Speaker 12: it's just absolutely insane.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, no, you're right, You're right, I mean it was.

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Speaker 1: There were a couple of moments last year, the Tennessee

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Speaker 1: one that's a good one. I mean, I was in

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh when we lost to Oakland, and I remember I

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Speaker 1: intentionally sort of thought about those last ten and fifteen

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Speaker 1: minutes and as we as the game ended, and then

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Speaker 1: you know, as we walked off the court, it is

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Speaker 1: amazing to sort of see at least the excitement level

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Speaker 1: that we are now. Now talk to me again. After

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Speaker 1: we play Duke. It might people might feel differently, but

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Speaker 1: for right now, it can't be much better. Yep.

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Speaker 12: And actually I was in the pre sale to go

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Speaker 12: down to the Champions Classic, so I will be down there.

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Speaker 8: I'm super excited.

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Speaker 1: Good for you. It's gonna be fun. I do. I

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Speaker 1: think I they may beat us, but I think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be We're gonna be very competitive with them, and

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Speaker 1: I think we'll get a real test. Okay, here's where

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Speaker 1: we are, because I think that Duke team has got

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Speaker 1: a potential to be great, but they're very young. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna be kind of like Kentucky it was many of

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Speaker 1: Cow's years, right, So it'll be yeah. No, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be a lot like we always were, which

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Speaker 1: is all the talent in the world. But they're very young,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna kind of be like Michigan State is,

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Speaker 1: you know, over the years in that tournament. And so

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Speaker 1: we'll see what that ends up ends up being. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate the call. If I'm nine two eight oho twenty

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Speaker 1: two eighty seven, we're gonna take a break. We'll be

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Speaker 1: right back, We'll take more of your calls. It's the

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Speaker 1: Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show, Working back, it is

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Speaker 1: the Low Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show. Here's what you

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Speaker 1: could watch tonight right now on on television. Billy, which

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Speaker 1: one of these are you watching? You're watching the end

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Speaker 1: of Middle Tennessee State Jacksonville State football? Oh? Okay, you

511
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Speaker 1: got the end of Bucks seventy six ers basketball. Huh.

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Speaker 1: You've got the Kamala Harris presidential town hall analysis? No,

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Speaker 1: gut failed? Or do you know what that is? No?

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what that is. Yeah, I guess

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Speaker 1: that's a Fox show. Or you could watch Family Guy,

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Speaker 1: Which one of those? I can watch it?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's been a while for me and Family guys.

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Speaker 3: So I think I'm going MTSU Jacksonville State.

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Speaker 1: Oh you're going MTSU Jacksonville State.

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Speaker 3: Okay, zicko for a little late college football?

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Speaker 1: All right? Good, by the way. To the point the

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Speaker 1: guys mentioned we were talking about the Champions Classic. You

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Speaker 1: know the Kentucky is gonna be a little different in

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Speaker 1: the Champions Classic. But I will say you, over the

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Speaker 1: years again, you kind of do get a sense of

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Speaker 1: what the Kentucky team is based on the Champions Class.

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Speaker 1: So cow was like five and one in the Champions

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Speaker 1: Classic in its first six years. I don't think they

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Speaker 1: played it. Maybe his first two years, and that included

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Speaker 1: some annihilating wins Anthony Davis against Kansas, the twenty fifteen

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Speaker 1: team against Kansas, Fox and Monk. I think we're against

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Speaker 1: maybe Michigan State. We were one in six in the

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Speaker 1: last seven years. And do you remember the only team

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Speaker 1: that won during those seven games, Billy, was it Maxi

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Speaker 1: Maxie Quickly Nick Richards, which was probably the best of

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Speaker 1: the teams those seven years, right, Yeah, that was the

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Speaker 1: team where COVID we didn't get to have the tournament

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Speaker 1: and probably if you're looking back at it since Fox Monk,

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Speaker 1: that might have been the best team. It was either

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Speaker 1: them or the hero Keldon Johnson team. So you know,

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Speaker 1: the Champions Classic sometimes does kind of give you a

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Speaker 1: good sense of what kind of team you have. You know,

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Speaker 1: a couple of exceptions. I think that the twenty fourteen

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Speaker 1: team ended up losing pretty bad. I think the Michikin

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Speaker 1: State but then made the Championship game. But usually you

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Speaker 1: get a sense of where you are, who's next, Justin, justin,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, Justin.

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Speaker 13: Hey make can you hear me?

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Speaker 1: Yes? All right?

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Speaker 13: First time fall by the way, who are I just

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Speaker 13: wanted to say a couple of things. First of all,

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Speaker 13: I'm gonna have to disagree with you on the Ashton Hagens.

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Speaker 13: I'mna have to say Cason Wallace one of the most

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Speaker 13: recent I.

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Speaker 1: Don't know that he was lockdown though. He was the

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Speaker 1: best defender on that team. But like Cason Wallace wasn't

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Speaker 1: getting six steals, you know, Hey, that's something Hagens could do.

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Speaker 1: And and uh and and I think Lamont came, but

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Speaker 1: Caseon was the best defender on that team, and when

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Speaker 1: he didn't play, that was a big difference.

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Speaker 13: Okay, okay. And then second thing, I just wanted to

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Speaker 13: mention the the fan interaction today. I was at the arena.

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Speaker 13: It was really good compared to most games that I

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Speaker 13: go to. I feel like everybody got involved, you know,

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Speaker 13: with like the jumbo tron and all of that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I I totally, uh totally agree. And I heard

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Speaker 1: that it felt good in the arena. I'm glad to

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Speaker 1: hear that. Let me just go ahead.

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Speaker 13: I just wanted to say one more thing. Back in

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Speaker 13: back in May, you gave me your red tickets for

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Speaker 13: my birthday. I just wanted to say thank you, of course, Well.

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Speaker 1: No problem. Did you did that? Was I guess when

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Speaker 1: I was in Europe? Game did you go to?

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Speaker 13: I cannot remember, but it was in me?

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, gotcha. Well I'm glad to do it. I

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Speaker 1: hope you had a good time. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: All right, so let me somebody just uh uh sent

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Speaker 1: me the biggest margins of victory billy in a UK

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Speaker 1: exhibition game ever ever? Okay, all right, ever, Now three

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Speaker 1: of these I'm not going to count because they were

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Speaker 1: against China, Japan, and Chile.

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Speaker 3: They played countries.

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Speaker 1: They played countries in uh, they played countries in nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy two, seventy eight, and eighty two. So let's just

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Speaker 1: take American teams. First. We beat Asbury by ninety three.

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Speaker 1: That was though Fox Monk. We beat Morehouse by eighty five.

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Speaker 1: That was the Anthony Davis team. Tonight is our third

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Speaker 1: biggest victory of all time. Wow, Georgetown sixty nine. That

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Speaker 1: was the twenty fifteen thirty eight to one team Dillard

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Speaker 1: we beat by sixty eight. That was the Brandon Knight

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Speaker 1: Final fourteen, and then Clarion we beat by sixty five.

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Speaker 1: That was the wal Cousins team. I'm just saying the

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Speaker 1: other teams at exhibition games that we've beaten like this,

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Speaker 1: those have ended up being pretty good teams. Who's next, Todd, Todd,

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Todd.

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Speaker 4: Hello Map, I'm as giddy as a key in at Christmas,

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Speaker 4: all right. No, I really enjoyed watching that game tonight

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Speaker 4: and just to see watching Mark Pope on the sidelines

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Speaker 4: and fish bumping his players when they would come off

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Speaker 4: and not get mad. And it looked like the players

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Speaker 4: were playing relaxed and not tens like if if they

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Speaker 4: screwed up, the was coming out. Even though we you know,

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Speaker 4: we made a few mistakes, but you know, there was

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Speaker 4: none of that that cow used to do. You know

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Speaker 4: that the players seemed tents and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there were a few times they would make a

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Speaker 1: mistake and I would look over and you could tell

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Speaker 1: he was correcting him, but he didn't pull him out

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Speaker 1: right right right.

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Speaker 4: And another thing, the three point shooting, it is just

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Speaker 4: marvelous and like you said too, and Jack Gibbons said

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Speaker 4: on the postgame show, but you know, you know, we're

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Speaker 4: not probably not gonna shoot fifty. Oh no, we're not correct,

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Speaker 4: but you know, it's it's it's nice having where if

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Speaker 4: this guy came hit it, and maybe this other guy

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Speaker 4: is struggling, you got three other people.

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Speaker 1: That's a really good point. So like last year, we

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Speaker 1: had three amazing shooters, but the rest of the guys

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Speaker 1: couldn't do it right. And this team has probably eight

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Speaker 1: guys that could come in and make a.

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Speaker 4: Three exactly exactly. And it seems like the movement was

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Speaker 4: so much better, so much better than Cal's teams, you know.

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Speaker 4: And I appreciate call, Don't get me wrong. I appreciate

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Speaker 4: him and everything, but I'm I'm really excited now. It's

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Speaker 4: that ball is moving and things is looking good.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it. I agree. I think that's uh. I think

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Speaker 1: that's totally fair. I really can't. It really is amazing.

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Speaker 1: In these top ten, Billy, all those teams ended up

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Speaker 1: being really good, and even the ones that if you

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Speaker 1: even go through the top twenty, another Fox Monks team,

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two team, which was the that was

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Speaker 1: the team that lost to Saint Peter's that actually had

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Speaker 1: a really good year until Saint Peter's. You know, those

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Speaker 1: are some pretty good wins, and I got pretty good teams.

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Speaker 1: All right, who's next, Lance, Lance?

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, Lance, hey man, thanks for taking my call.

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Speaker 5: Probably just added on to what everybody else is saying

638
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Speaker 5: about how much fun watching this game was. It was

639
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,800
Speaker 5: just so refreshing to see, you know, it's moving the

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Speaker 5: ball around, shooting threes at a nice clip. And I

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Speaker 5: saw this, this tweet from Maggie Davis. She was doing

642
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Speaker 5: her best Corey Price impersonation tonight. But yeah, Maggie that

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Speaker 5: we hit seventeen to three pointers against stone Hill last year.

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Speaker 5: Reid had seven of those threes and it was the

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Speaker 5: first time Kentucky had made sixteen or more threes in

646
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Speaker 5: the game since ninety six. And tonight we hit twenty

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Speaker 5: one threes. Yeah, yeah, crazy. Tonight we hit twenty three

648
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Speaker 5: or sorry, twenty one three pointers. Seven different players hit one,

649
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 5: no individual player hit more than five. I know, we

650
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Speaker 5: said it's an exhibition game, and Pope was saying tonight

651
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Speaker 5: that it would be hard for us probably to get,

652
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Speaker 5: you know, up forty threes a game put up. But

653
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Speaker 5: I'm just thinking that, you know, if we're hitting ten

654
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Speaker 5: to fifteen threes tonight, we're gonna be tough to beat.

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Speaker 1: Oh, there's no doubt. I mean, I appreciate the call.

656
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Speaker 1: If you look at least in the last five years,

657
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Speaker 1: most season, I would say, I mean, I don't have

658
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Speaker 1: these stats, but I would say, except for last year,

659
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Speaker 1: where we did make a lot of threes, I think

660
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Speaker 1: a lot those teams the last few years, we probably

661
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Speaker 1: the other team probably hit more threes than us seventy

662
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Speaker 1: five percent of the games. They ain't gonna be too

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Speaker 1: many games this year where teams make more threes than US.

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Speaker 1: I mean, maybe Alabama does it. You know, there may

665
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Speaker 1: be a couple. Ain't gonna be many. I think we're

666
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Speaker 1: probably gonna eighty percent of games this year make more

667
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Speaker 1: threes than the other team does. Who's next, Cat Daddy,

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Speaker 1: Cat Daddy? What's up?

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Speaker 14: Hey? Thank you for taking a call. I just want

670
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Speaker 14: to share with you the highlight of my night tonight. Okay,

671
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Speaker 14: when Coach Chow first came, I always knew after the

672
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Speaker 14: first TV timeout that we were going to throw the

673
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Speaker 14: ball to the left wing John Wall, and he was

674
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Speaker 14: going to come off a double statir screen and we

675
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Speaker 14: would from and led so would throw him the law

676
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Speaker 14: for the duck that it amazed me that nobody else

677
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 14: noticed that. Tonight, after the first TV time out, we

678
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Speaker 14: came down, we threw the ball to the left wing.

679
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Speaker 14: We we did a wing flare, scream, threw it across,

680
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Speaker 14: got a three point shot. I just it feels really

681
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 14: good to know that we're going to coach after timeouts.

682
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Speaker 14: We're going to coach after situational basketball, so that we

683
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Speaker 14: can get those six or seven possessions a game that

684
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Speaker 14: make a difference.

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Speaker 1: No, that's a great point I used to I use

686
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Speaker 1: so early in Col's tenure. I heard him say, look,

687
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Speaker 1: I don't spend a lot of time on on like

688
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Speaker 1: in mounds plays because and it's basically his his justification was, look,

689
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Speaker 1: it's five or six a game, much more important to

690
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Speaker 1: talk about bigger picture stuff. And you know, I don't

691
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Speaker 1: think that's incorrect necessarily when you have John Wall, when

692
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Speaker 1: you have Anthony Davis, when you have seven eight pros.

693
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Speaker 1: Where I think that becomes a weakness is when you

694
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Speaker 1: don't right and when you need to game plan success

695
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: and you can't just take a guy and be athletically.

696
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Speaker 1: I think you're right.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how good this team is, sir, but

698
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Speaker 2: I think Mark is going.

699
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Speaker 1: To get the best out of whatever they are for

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Speaker 1: the reasons you're talking about.

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Speaker 14: Well, we didn't have a trip tonight that we looked disorganized.

702
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Speaker 14: We didn't have a trip that we came down and

703
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,359
Speaker 14: didn't know what we were going to do. And that

704
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Speaker 14: is a refreshing. And I loved Cal for seven years

705
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Speaker 14: and I don't know what happened at that point, but

706
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Speaker 14: after COVID, he was a different coach. And I'm so

707
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Speaker 14: happy to see that we can be intellectual and how

708
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Speaker 14: we play the game and still play.

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Speaker 1: Hard, appreciate, appreciate the call. I remember one of my

710
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Speaker 1: producers at ESPN saying to me about I won't say

711
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Speaker 1: who Billy, We'll just keep this with us, okay.

712
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Speaker 15: Uh.

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Speaker 1: One of my producers ESPN, we were talking about their

714
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Speaker 1: their radio. It was somebody who was on radio while

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Speaker 1: I was on and they said, you know, early on

716
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Speaker 1: in their career, they were so hungry that like every show,

717
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Speaker 1: they did a level prep and a level effort, right,

718
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Speaker 1: but the person was so talented that after over time

719
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Speaker 1: they would do C level prep and could still get

720
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Speaker 1: a B level effort because they were so talented, right,

721
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Speaker 1: But that he believed as as a producer. He'd rather

722
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Speaker 1: have a B level talent that does a level prep, right,

723
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Speaker 1: that it would actually produce a better show than a

724
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Speaker 1: star who's kind of coast. That makes sense. I think

725
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Speaker 1: that makes sense. I think with Mark Pope right now,

726
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Speaker 1: we might have B level talent, but we're gonna get

727
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Speaker 1: a level prep and then one of these days he's

728
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Speaker 1: gonna have a level talent too. And I don't even

729
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Speaker 1: know that this is B level talent. It might be

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Speaker 1: B plus or A mins. But things like that caller

731
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Speaker 1: just said coming out of a time out and saying,

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Speaker 1: let's not waste this play. That's how you get B

733
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Speaker 1: level talent to an A level performance. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's that's awesome. Do one more than we'll take.

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Speaker 3: So the last few Cali years it was a level talent, but.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if it was a level talent.

737
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Speaker 1: But I wonder if maybe we're getting sea level prep

738
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Speaker 1: and you were having Last year, we had a level talent,

739
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Speaker 1: but I think some of those other years we didn't, right.

740
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Speaker 1: I think last year we had a level talent. That's

741
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Speaker 1: why it's so frustrating. But I don't know if the

742
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Speaker 1: COVID year and the Oscar years. I don't know if

743
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Speaker 1: that was a level talent. So I think we're getting

744
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Speaker 1: sea level TEP prep and B level talent.

745
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Speaker 3: Yeah, not a lot of prep for the other teams

746
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Speaker 3: those last couple of years.

747
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Speaker 1: And you can do that when you have John Wall, Anthon, Davis,

748
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Speaker 1: hear and Fox, you know, et cetera. You can't do

749
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Speaker 1: it when you have Severe and and and those guys.

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Speaker 1: Who's next, Brian, Brian.

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Speaker 15: Go ahead, Brian, Oh, hey man, just wanted to say

752
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Speaker 15: first time time. Appreciate that, and I'm incredibly privileged to

753
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Speaker 15: be calling into the Billy Rutledge Mat Matt.

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Speaker 1: Johnes such good tonight. Don't don't, don't start. I don't.

755
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Speaker 15: I wanted to say that. I wanted to say sorry.

756
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 15: I wanted to say that. You know, it was really

757
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:25,399
Speaker 15: refreshing getting to see this, uh, this team just right

758
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 15: off the bat. I'm down at the game with my

759
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 15: dad there up and you know, I turned to him,

760
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 15: I say, wow, we drew first blood. That's pretty cool

761
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:35,760
Speaker 15: because last year it was tough. I mean, it seemed

762
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Speaker 15: like we wouldn't get the first points. It's like you said,

763
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Speaker 15: you know, we'd start out being down fifteen eight or

764
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Speaker 15: something like that, and then I mean, it was cool

765
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Speaker 15: that we got the tip. It seemed like that was

766
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Speaker 15: tough last year. And then you know, right there offensive rebound.

767
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Speaker 15: I mean it was just one right after the other, right.

768
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Speaker 4: After the other.

769
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Speaker 1: So I guess that's no.

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Speaker 15: I mean, I guess I fall in line with the

771
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Speaker 15: other call. I know, you know it's starts to sound

772
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Speaker 15: a little bit like an echo, but man, I'm just

773
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Speaker 15: I'm excited for this year, and you know, can't wait

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Speaker 15: to spend every game down air RUPs. So appreciate the thanks.

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00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 1: Ra appreciate you, Thank you very much. I'm excited too.

776
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see, especially as the year goes on,

777
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: appreciate the call. You're going to see that need to

778
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: be in attendance continue to grow. I mean again, I

779
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 1: often judge hype and excitement by what's the easiest for

780
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: me to judge, which is the bar before the games.

781
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: Probably the best. The most people we've had there for

782
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Speaker 1: a preseason game before the game, maybe since the first

783
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Speaker 1: year or two we were open. So a lot of

784
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Speaker 1: good vibes. We'll take a break, come back. Final segment.

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Speaker 1: This is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show runn

786
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Speaker 1: back final segments, Local Toy Dealers KSR post game show

787
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Speaker 1: eightf I'm nine to two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.

788
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Speaker 1: I'll be a ks bartimar with the guys. And then Friday,

789
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Speaker 1: what is it for.

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Speaker 3: Six Solutions at Lexington Green.

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Speaker 1: Lexington Green forty six Solutions. I'll be given tickets away

792
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:10,840
Speaker 1: to the game on Tuesday night where we play Minnesota

793
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Speaker 1: State Montenegro.

794
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 3: Right, yes, Myron Medcalfs Alumn night.

795
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Speaker 1: I think I don't think it's Montenegro. That's a country.

796
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Speaker 1: What's the name of the Minnesota State mon Casito, Monacato,

797
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 1: man Cato, man Cato. That is where my ESPN co

798
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Speaker 1: host Myron Metcalf went to college. Played college football at

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Speaker 1: Minnesota State Monketo. Oh yeah, he was. Uh, he'll tell

800
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: you about it if you spend much time with him.

801
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 1: He loves to talk about his glory days. But how

802
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:46,280
Speaker 1: random is that that there were playing Myron Medcalf's college.

803
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: Very random? Apparently they're pretty good though apparently they're like

804
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: in their division or whatever it is. They're a pretty

805
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: good team. All right, who's up next?

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Speaker 3: David, who I believe was on the Kentucky Wesleyan broadcast tonight.

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Speaker 1: Oh hi, David, how are you.

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Speaker 16: What's up? Matt? Hope everything's going good.

809
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 16: Just wanted to call in kind of give you guys

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Speaker 16: a little perspective from the visiting team's point of view.

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00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 16: And you know, to be quite honest, Man, I think

813
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 16: you know a lot of Kentucky Wesleyan people really felt like,

814
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,320
Speaker 16: you know, it'd be competitive maybe for the first half Kentucky,

815
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Speaker 16: you pull away the second half when you know, twenty

816
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 16: to thirty points something like that. And to see you

817
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,839
Speaker 16: know what happened tonight. This you said it earlier, Matt.

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Speaker 16: This is a Kentucky Wesleyan team that brought back pretty

819
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 16: much everybody but Busy one guy, their main guy. And

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Speaker 16: this is a very season team in the n CCAA

821
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Speaker 16: tournament at the Division two level. Team in Kentucky beat

822
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Speaker 16: them by seventy one points. Now, from the Wesleyan standpoint,

823
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Speaker 16: people are gonna be looking at Myron Metcalf School next

824
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Speaker 16: week because they're not to believe they're the defending the

825
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 16: D two champions. So Kentucky Westleyan fans is gonna be

826
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Speaker 16: wondering how they stock up. But for you, Matt, you

827
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Speaker 16: know we're we're pretty much kind of the same age, right,

828
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Speaker 16: you know, we were all gung ho during the Patino era.

829
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Speaker 16: I feel like what we saw tonight from Kentucky was

830
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 16: a modified version of that philosophy. Down the floor there

831
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Speaker 16: they're they're moving the ball, the back screens and all

832
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 16: the cutting that they're doing, the communications. But you just

833
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 16: didn't see that full court press.

834
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because people don't do that anymore. Yeah, they don't

835
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Speaker 1: do that anymore really, And then because it's because you know,

836
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: now people have figured out how to beat that, and

837
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:22,879
Speaker 1: and and guys are in better shape. There's a lot

838
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 1: of reasons they don't. But you're exactly right. I mean,

839
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Speaker 1: I think from if you were to take the way

840
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 1: that Patino played, and you Patino plays a different style now,

841
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: but if you were to take the way he played

842
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:37,320
Speaker 1: and make it modern, modernize it, you would get exactly

843
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: what Pope is doing here.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, I completely agree with that. And you know, to

845
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 16: watch Kentucky, you know, to see it up close and personal.

846
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:46,760
Speaker 16: I got to be kind of in the Wesleyan huddle

847
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:48,879
Speaker 16: and doing reports during the game, got to be right

848
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:52,399
Speaker 16: there on the floor to see what Kentucky their communication

849
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 16: the way the way that the ball never sticks right.

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Speaker 16: We've been seeing like especially the past five to six years,

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00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 16: pretty much his twenty seventeen, we have been seeing unorganized basketball,

852
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 16: lackluster efforts, just you know, just a simple like running

853
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 16: a play, Matt, running a play. We haven't been able

854
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 16: to run a freaking play since John Roebuck left. And

855
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 16: to see Kentucky out there executing stuff that that was

856
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 16: higher level concepts tonight, I don't even know. I can't

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00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 16: even put words on that. Man, it was so refreshing

858
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 16: to see it. Matt, I feel like, you know, we

859
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 16: not that I it's not that I was always against Caliperi,

860
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Speaker 16: but I almost feel like we sold our soul a

861
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Speaker 16: little bit when we got them right.

862
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Speaker 7: But we were winning, so.

863
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 16: It was cool.

864
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: Yeah. But I do think and I appreciate call thanks

865
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 1: for your perspective. And it asn't coording to remember like

866
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Speaker 1: that you know that that the Wellesleyan team is a

867
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 1: tournament team in their division. Yeah, I do think that

868
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Speaker 1: the organization. Look this, this team does not have a

869
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Speaker 1: lot of NBA picks, may have no NBA picks, so

870
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Speaker 1: they have to play a different way. At one point,

871
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Speaker 1: Billy I looked up and you had Chandler Perry, Noah Carr,

872
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 1: and I think O Way on the floor, and you

873
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 1: know what I said, I went, that looks like a

874
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Speaker 1: team that would beat us in the first round of

875
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Speaker 1: the tournaments. You're not wrong, and in some ways it did.

876
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: But it was good to watch them play. Well, let's

877
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Speaker 1: do four more. We'll call it.

878
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 3: I do want to bring up one thing. I'm Aari

879
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 3: Williams passing ability.

880
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: Very good, very good. You know it's interesting. Okay, I'm

881
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 1: glad you brought that up. When they got an offensive rebound,

882
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 1: he and Garrison were the main ones. I don't know

883
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 1: if Pope teaches this, but I did hear one time

884
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 1: a guy on an NBA podcast talk about this. In

885
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: the NBA, at least the sort of hot better shooting

886
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: teams are taught. They're big men are taught. When you

887
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: get an offensive rebound, unless you have an open layup,

888
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: you're better to kick out to an open three point

889
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 1: shooter than shoot a contested two. Okay, okay, So, like

890
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: the natural inclination of a big is you get a rebound,

891
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 1: you immediately try to put it back up. But if

892
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 1: that SHOT's contested, that's not a gimme by any means,

893
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: And their point was analytically, yes, if you have an

894
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Speaker 1: open layup, take it, but you'd be better off kicking

895
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:21,360
Speaker 1: to a three than shooting a contested shot from five feet.

896
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 1: They especially a Mauri Williams, but Garrison did two catch

897
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 1: and if they don't have a shot, they're kicking it

898
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: to a three. And I like that a lot. I

899
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 1: think that's a really smart We got like three threes

900
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: off offensive rebounds. I think you're gonna see that a

901
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: lot this year. Who's next? Houston, Houston, Go ahead, Houston?

902
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 8: Hey, Matt, first time caller, a longtime listener, who are hey?

903
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 8: Lit Hey? I love John Tyler Farry, but I just

904
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 8: felt like there was so much apathy in the fan base,

905
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 8: and after he was listening in the Mark Tobe obviously

906
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 8: during the summer, and especially after the press conference that

907
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 8: you allude to earlier, you know, answering questions, you know,

908
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 8: listening to Mark Pope talk in a brapit fat and

909
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:05,839
Speaker 8: fresh air. It's it's it's like you need an entire

910
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:09,400
Speaker 8: jar of cornbread hem gummies. You know, it's just so

911
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 8: so much better than what it was.

912
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree, it's uh there. Well cornbread him

913
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: brings you down to notch, which is good. This got

914
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: this got me amped up.

915
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 8: A little bit, absolutely, And I got one comment on

916
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:28,800
Speaker 8: the on the on the game Joseph players.

917
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 17: Okay, So like just watching the game tonight and it

918
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,839
Speaker 17: just seems like we got multiple guys, some of them,

919
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 17: you know, they might be able to have multiple lives.

920
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:41,280
Speaker 17: So this team has the ultimate Kentucky vibe. Go catch baby,

921
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 17: all right, appreciate it. Guy he liked puns, didn't he?

922
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 1: Really? That's it that he wrote that one down. It's okay, listen,

923
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta write it down. Today my Georgetown College class,

924
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 1: you know, they had to do their first moot court,

925
00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 1: like their first like mock court. You know, some I

926
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Speaker 1: had to be reminded like they they all wrote it down.

927
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 1: They felt more comfortable doing it. So some people you

928
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 1: gotta write stuff down. I was proud of my Georgetown

929
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: class today. That's a hard assignment for people who've never

930
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 1: done it before, and they did a really good job.

931
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Speaker 1: So shout out to those young men and women in

932
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Speaker 1: my class. Who's next.

933
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, we ought to do a mock KSR trial and

934
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:19,320
Speaker 3: see how that would go.

935
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:21,959
Speaker 1: I know who would win and it wouldn't be Uh, well,

936
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: who's Joshua, josh go ahead, Joshua.

937
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 18: Hey, thanks for taking my call. We all know clearly

938
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Speaker 18: Ryan will win that mock. I just thought I got

939
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:36,760
Speaker 18: I gotta wake up at five thirty in the morning.

940
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 18: But I'm just on cloud nine watching that game. Uh.

941
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:42,359
Speaker 18: You know I called you back in April and when

942
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 18: Mark Pope gotten out to the coach, I'd said he

943
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Speaker 18: wasn't the sexy choice, he was the correct choice. Yeah, man,

944
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 18: oh man, I'm just I'm just so happy. I mean,

945
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 18: just on cloud nine. And when he des trusted this

946
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:58,279
Speaker 18: roster together, you know, he got seven guys with one

947
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 18: year of eligibility left. Was like, okay, we go to

948
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Speaker 18: a seven eight being in rotation. But I mean they

949
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 18: got eleven guys out there that looked amazing and Kirk

950
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 18: Kiglas hasn't even wasn't even there, So they got twelve

951
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:14,800
Speaker 18: guys and I truly believe that PO can utilize all twelve.

952
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 18: And yeah, I'm just so happy, Matt, And thanks for

953
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 18: taking my call. And I know the last two postgame shows,

954
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 18: you had the drunk dressful plan two years ago and

955
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:27,760
Speaker 18: the Oakland team walking through the lobby.

956
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 1: So it's just a no, that's true. That was those

957
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 1: were I appreciate called that is a good point. The

958
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 1: last two, uh, the last two basketball postgame shows were

959
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: the Oakland Show and the show where we lost in

960
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: the SEC tournament? Did we lose the Vandy last year?

961
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 1: Is that who he lost to in the A and

962
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:49,360
Speaker 1: M A and M A and M And that A

963
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:53,840
Speaker 1: and M game was depressing. Yeah, So those were my

964
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 1: last two post game shows. So this one is much

965
00:52:56,080 --> 00:53:00,760
Speaker 1: more jovial, two more Who's next, Lucas Next, Luke, go ahead,

966
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:06,320
Speaker 1: Luke Luke. Yes.

967
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:12,239
Speaker 19: So I am a transplant from Texas who graduated from

968
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:16,879
Speaker 19: Texas Tech. I just wanted to declare this team has

969
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 19: got all the marks of a Sweet sixteen team based

970
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:25,840
Speaker 19: on the twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two Texas Tech team.

971
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 19: May Sweet sixteam with all mid major transplants, superstars for

972
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 19: mid majors, and they unfortunately ran to duke in coach

973
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 19: ks No.

974
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Speaker 1: I think if you're just looking at I think, if

975
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: you're just looking at talent, just sheer talent, I think

976
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 1: that's a good I think that's right. And here's what

977
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:49,360
Speaker 1: can happen with a team like that a team with

978
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 1: kind of Sweet sixteen talent, they can be upset in

979
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,640
Speaker 1: the second round because let's say you're a four seed,

980
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 1: you play a five seed who knows, but you also

981
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: can get an upset and be like San Diego State

982
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 1: in the championship game. Right, So teams like that, I

983
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: think if you were to ask me, what does the

984
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: talent on this team have, I think I would agree

985
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:16,320
Speaker 1: with you sweet sixteen talent. But the good thing about

986
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 1: being a Sweet sixteen level talent team is when you're

987
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 1: a four seed, Yeah, you got to be careful in

988
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:26,640
Speaker 1: that first game, although we were a two and three

989
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:28,359
Speaker 1: seed and needed to be careful too of the last

990
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 1: three years. But you also can play a one seed

991
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 1: and you feel like you can beat them. I think

992
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: that's how this team, if I were to guess that's

993
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 1: what they're gonna be, appreciate the call. Like you know,

994
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 1: there are there's not a lot of times that a

995
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:47,799
Speaker 1: four seed wins the national championship, but there are a

996
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: lot of four seeds or three seeds that make the

997
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: final four, and I think this team can do that. Also,

998
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 1: four seeds can get beat in the first round. But

999
00:54:57,480 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: you know that's one of the things about having a

1000
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:02,000
Speaker 1: very veteran team, I don't. I feel like I feel

1001
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:05,320
Speaker 1: pretty good about us against teams that are less talented

1002
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 1: than us. One more, Who's next, Jared, Jared, go ahead, Jared.

1003
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 20: Hey Madden, Billy, thanks for taking my call. I know

1004
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 20: it's just one exhibition game. But over the last few years, Matt,

1005
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 20: you've always said that you know, there's one or two

1006
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 20: guys that when they shoot a three, you just believe

1007
00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:27,799
Speaker 20: it's always going in. Yeah, And I feel like that's

1008
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:28,879
Speaker 20: the whole team this year.

1009
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:29,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1010
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:32,359
Speaker 20: I mean it's like every person you feel that way.

1011
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I felt like last year, if Antonio

1012
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 1: Reeves a Reed Shepherd shot, I was like, it's going in,

1013
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:41,399
Speaker 1: and you know, it didn't always go in. But that's

1014
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: what I felt like. When Dylan m was hot, I

1015
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 1: felt that way with everyone else. I was holding my

1016
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:49,040
Speaker 1: breath right like. I didn't mean they would make it,

1017
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 1: but I didn't feel confident when they would shoot it.

1018
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 1: So let's take this team. When uh always shoots it,

1019
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,320
Speaker 1: I feel confident when Robinson shoots it, I feel confident.

1020
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 1: When Bray shoots that, I feel confident. When Perry shoots that,

1021
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:07,880
Speaker 1: I feel confident Noah Almanor's shot isn't pretty, but it

1022
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:12,319
Speaker 1: went in a bunch tonight, right. Andrew Carr didn't even

1023
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 1: shoot many. The only guy on the team I think

1024
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,280
Speaker 1: when he shoots I'm not gonna feel confident is Garrison

1025
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,719
Speaker 1: from three. But I do agree with you. Everybody else,

1026
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 1: why don't you feel like it might go in? So

1027
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 1: appreciate you call Garrison. Garrison took two in like three possessions.

1028
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: That was the first one where I was like, all right.

1029
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:35,440
Speaker 1: I was like, Bill, that's good. You know, that's plenty.

1030
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:39,759
Speaker 1: But uh but everybody else, you know, you gotta you

1031
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:40,400
Speaker 1: gotta love.

1032
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:42,240
Speaker 3: It seems jump shots.

1033
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:44,799
Speaker 1: I'm sorry interrupt. He's not gonna shoot threes. I don't

1034
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:48,360
Speaker 1: think I will say if Mari shoots the three, although

1035
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:52,239
Speaker 1: he made his jumper tonight too, you know, so uh yeah,

1036
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 1: I don't know that I'll feel confident if but Maari

1037
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:58,760
Speaker 1: or Garrison does pretty much everybody else on the team.

1038
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 1: We haven't seen Kirk yet, so yeah, this is gonna be.

1039
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 1: You know, I think the best overall shooting three team

1040
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:14,360
Speaker 1: we've had since the cal Era top the bottom was

1041
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 1: probably the MAXI quickly all those guys because they were

1042
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 1: like five or six guys who could did threes. Last

1043
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 1: year's team is the best three point shooting team we've

1044
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 1: had in terms of the top dudes. But this might

1045
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 1: be the best since a Patino team having so many

1046
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: different guys who could make a three. I mean you,

1047
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:36,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, maybe you have to go back to,

1048
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 1: you know, the ninety sixteen to find that so very

1049
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 1: exciting stuff. Thank you all very much for staying up

1050
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 1: and listening to us, and tomorrow we'll be back in

1051
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:52,160
Speaker 1: the morning. Cats play next Tuesday against the Division two

1052
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:56,560
Speaker 1: national champion Minnesota State Man Keto. Thanks to Billy for

1053
00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 1: staying up. We will see you later. This has been

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Speaker 1: the local Toyter Dealers ksr S Game show