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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone. It is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show.

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Speaker 1: The Cats with an extremely disappointing loss at home eighty

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Speaker 1: six seventy eight to Georgia, their second home loss in

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Speaker 1: the SEC this season, and a loss that, as we'll

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Speaker 1: talk about in just a couple of minutes, I think

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Speaker 1: will have major ramifications for Kentucky even if they do

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Speaker 1: finish the season well. This was I think a game

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Speaker 1: where Kentucky made way too many mistakes to win, and

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Speaker 1: the mistakes, in my opinion, were the exact mistakes that

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Speaker 1: Kentucky has made all season long. The same issues that

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Speaker 1: have plagued them all year showcased themselves in this game.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's probably like six things, but the

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Speaker 1: sixth one, to me, is the biggest issue. So I'll

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Speaker 1: finish with that. The first is these firstt haves in general.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you some stats that are pretty amazing Kentuck.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned this this morning. Kentucky now has been losing

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Speaker 1: by twelve points at some point in the game in

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Speaker 1: thirteen of its nineteen games against major conference opponents this year.

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Speaker 1: That's over sixty six percent of Kentucky's games when they

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Speaker 1: have played a team from a major conference. Okay, not

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Speaker 1: even necessarily good teams, just teams from a major conference.

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Speaker 1: They have been trailing by at least twelve points thirteen

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Speaker 1: to nineteen. They have been trailing at halftime, Billy, in

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Speaker 1: fifteen of the nineteen games.

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Speaker 2: That's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Fifteen of the nineteen games Kentucky has played this year

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Speaker 1: against major conference teams, we have been losing at halftime.

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Speaker 1: That is atrocious. I mean atrocious. That is that stat.

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Speaker 1: It is almost shocking how bad that stat is. So

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Speaker 1: when you keep giving yourself a deficit to come out of,

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Speaker 1: they're going to be games that, even if you start

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Speaker 1: playing well, you're just not gonna be able to do it.

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Speaker 1: And this was one of those. And the reason gets

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Speaker 1: to my second point, which is consistently this year against

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Speaker 1: teams that they can't do it against, they do not

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Speaker 1: guard the three point line. Well, I don't understand. Looking

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Speaker 1: at Georgia. The only way Georgia is going to beat

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Speaker 1: you tonight. And George is not bad, but you're at home.

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Speaker 1: They're small. Samtau and his backup are really the only

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Speaker 1: bigs they have, and they actually play the best when

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Speaker 1: they have four guards out there. The only way they're

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Speaker 1: gonna beat you is if they hit threes. That's how

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Speaker 1: they're gonna beat and we do not guard the three well.

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Speaker 1: Now granted they're like two hundred and ninetieth in the country,

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Speaker 1: and threes they actually don't shoot the ball very well,

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Speaker 1: but they take a lot of them and then they

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Speaker 1: get out in transition. Those are the things that they

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Speaker 1: really like to do. But for the second straight game,

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Speaker 1: Kentucky has played a team that doesn't shoot threes great

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Speaker 1: but has given them wide open looks at it by

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Speaker 1: playing poor defense, and then they don't adjust. They never

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Speaker 1: adjust during the game. Georgia's threes they hit a few

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Speaker 1: in the first half, but in the second half. We

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Speaker 1: started playing pretty well offensively in the second half, and

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Speaker 1: every time we made a run, they had somebody to

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Speaker 1: hit a three. You play, you play against teams that

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Speaker 1: are this much smaller than you, and we back way

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Speaker 1: back off the shooter and just let these guys take shots.

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Speaker 1: It drives me crazy. Or we don't fight through screens

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Speaker 1: and we give shots, which gets me to my third.

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Speaker 1: Earlier this year, I thought effort was an issue in

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Speaker 1: every game in SEC play, especially recently. I think they've

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Speaker 1: been pretty good at giving consistent effort, but they have

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Speaker 1: these moments in games where, to quote Mark Pope, they

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Speaker 1: take plays off, and they do. They take plays off.

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Speaker 1: Almost every player on the team has possessions where they

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Speaker 1: take plays off. The only couple of exceptions. I don't

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Speaker 1: think Aberdeen rarely does. But most of the other guys

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Speaker 1: get burned. And you saw it in that run at

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Speaker 1: the end of the first half Kentucky. If you were

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Speaker 1: at halftime, you can find on nearly every possession a

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Speaker 1: player who either can't guard or is taking is like

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Speaker 1: taking a possession off. And Mark, to his credit, said

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Speaker 1: and that lack of consistency on defensive effort kills us. Fourth.

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Speaker 1: We miss too many free throws. We're twelve of twenty

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not just that like Mody Abatte gets

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Speaker 1: down to the to the wire turnovers. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: could probably say that if you just saw one stat

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Speaker 1: at the stat that defines the game is Georgia had

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Speaker 1: twenty assists and seven turnovers and we had thirteen assists

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Speaker 1: and we were sloppy with the ball where they shared

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Speaker 1: the ball and we're not slopping. The only reason we

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Speaker 1: shot the ball amazing and Oway carried us for a

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Speaker 1: I mean, those two guys. Not for those two guys,

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Speaker 1: we get run off the court on our home court.

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Speaker 1: So the sloppiness and turnovers. We've been an issue all year,

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Speaker 1: and then I think six is and to me, the

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Speaker 1: most important thing was Pope's substitution pattern, specifically at the

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Speaker 1: end of the first half. I I'm a big numbers guy,

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Speaker 1: like I believe numbers don't lie. I believe. I believe

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Speaker 1: even the idea of analytics. Not only do I believe

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Speaker 1: every sport that master it. If you look at the

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Speaker 1: best teams, they've also mastered analytics. So I am for it.

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Speaker 1: But I admit that I don't understand the way Mark

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Speaker 1: don't understand. It's like he and I see the same numbers,

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Speaker 1: and it feels like we come to completely different conclusions.

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Speaker 1: It is objectively true that if you have been down

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Speaker 1: at halftime fifteen of the nineteen games against power conference teams, Billy,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't you say you need to adjust what you're doing

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Speaker 1: games against power conference teams, which, by the way, isn't

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Speaker 1: good good, But we are four and fifteen in the

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Speaker 1: to be like harsh, but numbers, to some extent are numbers.

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Speaker 1: The plus minus for this game, only two players had

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Speaker 1: not I mean Jasper's just a bad defender at least

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Speaker 1: and then after the game, Mark is asked about substitution

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Speaker 1: patterns and he said, well, the numbers show us that

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Speaker 1: if we play guys thirty six to thirty eight minutes

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Speaker 1: I'd like to really see it happen, because what I

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Speaker 1: end they kind of wear down, so be it. But

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Speaker 1: I know what doesn't work is the substitution pattern that

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Speaker 1: we've seen four and fifteen at halftime. So I don't

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Speaker 1: understand how Mark can look at those numbers. And he

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Speaker 1: minus sixteen and fourteen minutes. I no offense. I'm not

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Speaker 1: criticizing the kid. I'm criticizing what are you seeing, Like,

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Speaker 1: how are you looking at those numbers and coming to

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Speaker 1: problem that in the first halves during the Mark Pope era,

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Speaker 1: Kentucky has been bad. They've just been bad. If I

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Speaker 1: I don't care what school you're coaching at, that's a disaster.

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Speaker 1: And you're at Kentucky now in the second half, they've played,

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Speaker 1: for the most part, really well. But that is you

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Speaker 1: in the first half. The deficit halftime is why we

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Speaker 1: had some chances. Chandler had two open threes. Can't criticize

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Speaker 1: He's had twenty eight, another huge night scoring for him,

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Speaker 1: just dribbled it off his foot. Three big opportunities by

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Speaker 1: But the reason we were in that situation is all

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Speaker 1: that stuff that happened in the first half. So you know,

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Speaker 1: now Kentucky has put themselves in a spot. I said

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Speaker 1: after the game, we're seventeen to nine, but we're not

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Speaker 1: certain to make the tournament. I think we will, but

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Speaker 1: we're not certain. We have five games left. We will

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Speaker 1: be the underdog in four of those five games. We'll

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Speaker 1: be the underdog Saturday at Auburn, We'll be the underdog

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Speaker 1: at A and M. We'll be the underdog at home

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Speaker 1: to Florida, and we'll probably be the underdog at home

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Speaker 1: against Vandy, although that one maybe it goes the other way,

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Speaker 1: but we're probably the underdog. Will probably be a favorite

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Speaker 1: at South Carolina. We should win that game. And if

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Speaker 1: you win that, but if you lose the other four,

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Speaker 1: you'd be eighteen and thirteen. I think that would get

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Speaker 1: you in, but I'm not certain. You probably at least

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Speaker 1: would need to win one in Nashville. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: if we lose four or five, we might be playing

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday in Nashville. So this was a huge game.

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Speaker 1: I thought, if you won tonight, you're in the tournament,

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Speaker 1: and we didn't, And now you go to Auburn Saturday

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Speaker 1: and you're probably looking at it and saying, you know,

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Speaker 1: you need to steal that one, and maybe they will.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they are perfectly capable of going to Auburn

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Speaker 1: and winning. But the problem so far into Mark Pope

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Speaker 1: era has not necessarily been the fact that we can't

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Speaker 1: we went to Tennessee and one. The problem is we

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Speaker 1: can't keep losing to Georgia and Missouri at home. George

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Speaker 1: They hadn't done that since the twenties, Wow, since the twenties.

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Speaker 1: It's a Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: It is the Local toylet Dealers KSR postgame show. There's

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Speaker 1: You're saying, Yeah, just just just google cronin Michigan State

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Speaker 1: Jack, go ahead, Jack?

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Speaker 1: Well I appreciate the call. I mean, I understand why

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Speaker 1: This is I guess this kid asked a question and

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Speaker 7: You a.

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Speaker 6: Kudos for your worst question I've ever even asked.

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Speaker 1: You should take it? The preparation.

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Speaker 1: What a jerk? Jeez, don't you think what a jerk?

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Speaker 1: No, I mean if I was let me tell something,

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Speaker 8: I'm just disappointed in the UK fan base tonight, I

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Speaker 8: It happens every game.

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Speaker 1: I see, I got you. Okay, Well that's I mean,

432
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Speaker 1: I agree if people shouldn't tell you to sit down.

433
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Speaker 1: I'm a big believer that, like, if people want to

434
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Speaker 1: stand during the game, they should, as long as they're courteous,

435
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Speaker 1: like you don't have like a disabled person or something

436
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Speaker 1: behind you.

437
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Speaker 8: But makes a bigger point that Repperina and Kroger Field

438
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Speaker 8: especially need a better environment from DBN, and that comes

439
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Speaker 8: from the Athletic department as well.

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Speaker 1: So all right, I appreciate to call it. I don't disagree.

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Speaker 1: I mean I don't totally. I certainly don't disagree about

442
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Speaker 1: the environment visa VI the athletic Department. I have some

443
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Speaker 1: sympathy for fans who come at nine o'clock at night

444
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,639
Speaker 1: and get rewarded with some of that effort that we

445
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Speaker 1: saw at the end of the first half. But I

446
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:26,120
Speaker 1: get it. I do think you know, the rough environment

447
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: is it's frustrating sometimes, but I that's not what frustrated

448
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 1: but me the most tonight it was the what we

449
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,920
Speaker 1: talked about in the first segment. Who's next, Drew, Drew,

450
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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Drew.

451
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Speaker 3: What's up, Matt?

452
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Speaker 1: How are you doing good? What's up? Bro?

453
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Speaker 3: I just I feel like we need to address this

454
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,679
Speaker 3: free throw issue man, Like it's ridiculous. I've been a

455
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,359
Speaker 3: UK fan all my life and I've never seen a

456
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 3: team struggle so poorly at the line on such a

457
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 3: consistent basis, and it's really aggravating as a fan.

458
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Speaker 9: I feel like it's the reason.

459
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Speaker 3: Why we're well while we're a lot of these close games,

460
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Speaker 3: Like it would change a lot of these games outcomes.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you, I'm surprised how bad are on paper?

462
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Speaker 1: Who should be our good free throw shooters are? Like,

463
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 1: that's what I that's what surprises me. So like, oh

464
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Speaker 1: Way is three for six, Aberdeen is four for seven,

465
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 1: Noah is zero for one. So I bet you and

466
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Speaker 1: Colin Chandler didn't have any free throws. So those are

467
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Speaker 1: probably our four best free throw shooters. Chandler, Away, Aberdeen,

468
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Speaker 1: Noah they combined tonight, I agree to go seven for fourteen,

469
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Speaker 1: so are so the misses were not our bigs. Garrison

470
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Speaker 1: was two for two moreno was two for two. Diabonte

471
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: was one for two, So that means our bigs went

472
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Speaker 1: five of six from the line, but our guards and

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Speaker 1: Noah went seven for fourteen. Guys, what are you doing.

474
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Speaker 1: You're you're the You're the guys that are supposed to

475
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Speaker 1: make it. The other guys are supposed to be the

476
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Speaker 1: one that strung. So I'm with you that that is

477
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 1: very frustrated. You cannot have your guards go seven to

478
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Speaker 1: fourteen from the free throw line. You just can't.

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Speaker 3: I'm on the same page as you, Matt. Also, I

480
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 3: wanted to say something about the Last Caller Aiden. I

481
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 3: was at the game as well, and there was no

482
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Speaker 3: energy in rough tonight. I was at the Tennessee game too.

483
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Speaker 3: It was probably one of the loudest games I've.

484
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Speaker 10: Ever been to.

485
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Speaker 3: It was awesome, but I don't understand why we're not

486
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Speaker 3: that loud every night. There was a minute left in

487
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Speaker 3: the game and it was a three point game and

488
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 3: we were on defense after the way turnover, and nobody

489
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 3: was yelling. It was so frustrating, Like, I don't understand.

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Speaker 1: So you talk about after after Oway turned it over.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that game and we were on defense.

492
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Speaker 1: Because we got to stop before. Yeah, No, you're right,

493
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Speaker 1: you're right, that play should If that play wasn't loud,

494
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: that play should have been loud because it was loud

495
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Speaker 1: to play before I got when we got to stop,

496
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Speaker 1: and you're right. I appreciate the call. I think when

497
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: Oway dribbled it off his foot, I guess that probably

498
00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: deflated the crowd. Yeah, so what's the problem. Maybe? I

499
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: mean those both those guys sounded like young callers. And

500
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Speaker 1: I understand, like if you're young, if I was a

501
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: young Kentucky fan, a college fan, or just out of college,

502
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: and I saw the environments that are at some of

503
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: these other schools, they want that at rough and I

504
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: can and I can see why they're not wrong. So

505
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Speaker 1: I may have made it sound like with the first

506
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: guy that he's wrong. I do think he's wrong. He's right.

507
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: The environment needs to be better, and if it wasn't

508
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: loud on that play, it should have been. I guess

509
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: the other stuff just frustrates me a little more. Let's

510
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 1: do one more and we'll take a break.

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Speaker 2: Darlene, Darlene, how are you.

512
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Speaker 1: Darling you?

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Speaker 11: Matt Jonesyboddy Good, how are you.

514
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 7: Okay?

515
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Speaker 11: I'm just arguing with you a little bit tonight. I

516
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 11: listen to all of your you know, analyze and everything.

517
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 11: I'm not an analyst like you guys, but I just

518
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 11: wanted to speak up because I'm just this big cat fan.

519
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 11: Have a hard time seeing that glass half empty. And

520
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 11: I'm just thinking, you know, Kentucky was down fourteen seventeen

521
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 11: with Tennessee. We come back, we beat them, We won

522
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 11: at Arkansas, we beat Rick Petino. I'm sorry, I just

523
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 11: have a hard time feeling like a big loser tonight.

524
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,239
Speaker 1: Well a big loser thought. Well, Darlene, I appreciate your

525
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: positivity and you should and listen. You just mentioned four

526
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 1: really good wins, right, I mean, we came back against uh,

527
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Speaker 1: we came back against against Rick Patino, came back against

528
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Speaker 1: Tennessee twice, came back against Arkansas. So that's great and

529
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Speaker 1: I but we also can't lose to Missouri, lose to

530
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Speaker 1: George at home. We can't lose by forty Againstzaga.

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Speaker 11: Mat you're a lot younger than me. I've seen this

532
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 11: for a lot four years, and you have I've seen

533
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Speaker 11: I mean, I understand, I know, I know what you're

534
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 11: saying is so true, but I can't help but still

535
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 11: stay on this positive. I'm just tolling. I still I

536
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 11: steal and seeing the end of the tunnel, I'm feeling

537
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 11: like we're gonna get there.

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Speaker 12: Baby.

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00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: I love it all right.

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Speaker 7: Good.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's we need people like you to be positive.

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00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,959
Speaker 1: Uh too. I appreciate the call. We uh we we

543
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: need those people too.

544
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 2: I like Darlene love that positivity.

545
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: Everybody needs a fan at one am calling to say

546
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: keep your head up and be positive. I mean it.

547
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: That's say we need that. So we'll take a break.

548
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Speaker 1: Eight five nine twenty two eighty seven. Be right back

549
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: to the Local Toy Dealers KSR post game show. Welcome

550
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: back Local Toy Dealers KSR post game show. Getting some

551
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 1: good comments from people saying their team Darlene, so uh

552
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: Darlene adding positivity. One person writes, Matt, I was like

553
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: those kids at the game tonight. I was kind of

554
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: disappointed with the crowd when we were making runs. I

555
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: agree with you, you can't be loud the whole time, But

556
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: I think on the play they were talking about the

557
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: fans were not as loud as they could have been.

558
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 7: Yeah.

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00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: Probably people just got deflated by after that Old Way turnover.

560
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: I thought, oh we played very well. I mean, twenty

561
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 1: eight points. They're not in the game without him. He

562
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: carries him on his back like he does sometimes. He

563
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: had four turnovers, but y'all said forces. But I mean,

564
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: I thought he played really well. It's unfortunate the he

565
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: had a couple of defensive plays that weren't great. But

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Speaker 1: I mean I thought he was. He was really good.

567
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: He played thirty five minutes. You know, I sit here

568
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: and I look at the minutes, and you just go.

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00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: You know, they these guys, they do play a lot

570
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Speaker 1: of minutes. But I almost wonder if you just have

571
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 1: to play, can't take him out? We just we just

572
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: we take such a do we. I mean, when they

573
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 1: go out, we just take such a drop Moreno too,

574
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: I think when we lose him, we take a drop.

575
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: But now he he's got to get tougher with the basketball.

576
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: He gets the ball and he brings it down. He

577
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Speaker 1: had Blue Ain't on him. He needed to dominate Blue

578
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: k But he brings the ball down. When you bring

579
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: it down, you're bringing it to his level. He's got

580
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: to be a little strong with the basketball. I think

581
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Speaker 1: he will get that in the offseason, which is why

582
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be so good next year. But

583
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Speaker 1: you know, I think Pope went to Garrison and Diabate

584
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Speaker 1: a little bit, because you got it. He's you have

585
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Speaker 1: to be able to lock that rebound up. You know.

586
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: Diaboate had nine rebounds in nineteen minutes, including a couple

587
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Speaker 1: of big offensive ones at the end.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

589
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Speaker 1: He was a beast man. I wish he could shoot,

590
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 1: because then he would be a complete guy because he

591
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,959
Speaker 1: really gives you effort on the glass. Who's next, Tyler, Tyler,

592
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: go ahead, Tyler.

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Speaker 9: Matt Jones A good good to talk to you tonight.

594
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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 9: So I feel like since the previous callers have said

596
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Speaker 9: something about it, I feel like I need to mention it.

597
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Speaker 9: And I got one thing after this, But I will

598
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,479
Speaker 9: say I haven't been to a game, and I'm in

599
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 9: a little while. I think I was. I was at

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Speaker 9: the Missouri game, which is which was a loss, but

601
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 9: that was pretty close coming down the stretch. But I

602
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 9: I remember the guy sitting next to me. One of

603
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 9: the people behind us said, boys, we can't see. And

604
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:08,879
Speaker 9: I didn't turn around and say it, but I said

605
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:10,879
Speaker 9: it out loud. I said, Hey, just because you can't

606
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 9: see doesn't mean we had to sit down. I don't

607
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 9: know if I was out of line for saying that,

608
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 9: but I was like, leave us alone, Like if we

609
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 9: want to stand up and chair, we can that kind

610
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 9: of thing. I don't know what your opinion on that is.

611
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, I think people should be

612
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: able to stand, but also you know, we've got some

613
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: older folks down low, so it's a tough thing. I

614
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: am on the side generally of don't tell people to

615
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 1: sit down. I've also been the guy sitting behind looking

616
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: at people standing up and it does frustrate you. But

617
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: we need the energy, so I'm more on your side

618
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 1: than the other. But what's your second thing?

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Speaker 9: Okay, Well, and I don't want you to bs me

620
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Speaker 9: when I asked this, but I feel like we're at

621
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Speaker 9: a point now after last year, which wasn't insanely bad,

622
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Speaker 9: but now we're at a point this year where it's like, Okay,

623
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Speaker 9: what are we doing? And we have no recruits as

624
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,240
Speaker 9: of now coming in next year. Obviously the transfer portal

625
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 9: is something we could work with. But October of twenty

626
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Speaker 9: twenty eight, Mark Pope isn't or is head coach.

627
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,879
Speaker 1: I think it's more I think it's more likely than

628
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: not he is, let's the twenty twenty eight, So that

629
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Speaker 1: would be after next season, which would be twenty seven.

630
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute, twenty seven. So that's that. That

631
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: would be like the start of year year of the

632
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Speaker 1: poem five, right, because next year would.

633
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Speaker 2: Be oh, he said October of twenty seven or.

634
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Speaker 1: Twenty six, twenty seven. Year four would be twenty seven

635
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Speaker 1: of twenty eight. I thought he's I think he said

636
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Speaker 1: twenty eight October of twenty eight, So I'd think the

637
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Speaker 1: start of year five. I'm gonna say more likely than not, yes,

638
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 1: But it's all gonna come down the next year. I mean,

639
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: I actually don't think year four equates for me. Now,

640
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 1: if we go on to this year and we make

641
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: the second weekend in the tournament, than what I'm saying

642
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: is not true. But let's assume we go out in

643
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 1: the first weekend. Next year will decide his fate, because

644
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 1: I don't think in October of twenty twenty seven, Mitch

645
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: Barnhart will be the athletic director, and so it's gonna

646
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 1: be a different situation. So I think more likely than not, yes,

647
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 1: But next year will be crucial for Mark, and I

648
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 1: am worried that we don't have recruits and all that,

649
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: but we'll have plenty of time to talk about when

650
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: the season ends. I do think in October of twenty

651
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:43,240
Speaker 1: twenty eight we will need to have a new athletic director.

652
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: I mean I've made my thoughts about that fairly clear

653
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,320
Speaker 1: over the last few months. Who's next? K?

654
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 7: C K?

655
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 1: What's up?

656
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 7: C K?

657
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 2: All right?

658
00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 1: All right? No? Ck?

659
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,879
Speaker 2: Who's next?

660
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: Chad? How are you? Chad?

661
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 12: Hey?

662
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 5: Matt?

663
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 8: First time, long time?

664
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 1: Who are what's up?

665
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 7: Hey?

666
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 1: Uh?

667
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 13: Just let just got home from the game.

668
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: Uh.

669
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 3: You know.

670
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 14: I'm trying to not.

671
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 13: Be super negative, Matt, but I gotta tell you, this

672
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,359
Speaker 13: one is like a knife in the heart, man, I'll

673
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 13: tell you. And because I think what really affects me

674
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 13: the most is it feels like we have two players

675
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:34,720
Speaker 13: away and Chandler just given their all, and it feels

676
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,720
Speaker 13: like their teammates just aren't putting the same effort out there.

677
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 13: The second thing that I really want to say, I

678
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 13: agree with you.

679
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you say the second thing, but I don't.

680
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't totally agree with you on that.

681
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: I think I think there's nobody on the team that

682
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: I don't think gives effort. I think some people take

683
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: plays off, including oh Way sometimes. So I think effort

684
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: was a big issue early in the year with with

685
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: Garrison and Oway, and there was a couple other guys

686
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 1: like I think Aberdeen plays hard the whole game. I

687
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 1: don't think that. I actually think he If you were

688
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 1: to tell me who gives effort the whole game, I

689
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:22,800
Speaker 1: would actually say Chandler, Moreno and Aberdeen the other guys.

690
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: It comes and goes in my opinion, but so but

691
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: I don't think any of them are dogging it. I

692
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 1: just think some of them do some really dumb things

693
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 1: and then occasionally have little lapses of effort. But go

694
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: ahead with your second thing.

695
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 14: Yeah, you kind of hit the nail on the head

696
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 14: on the second piece. It's it's around the Moreno piece.

697
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 14: It's it's so frustrating for someone that is that large

698
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,240
Speaker 14: and stature, You know what is he seven foot probably

699
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 14: two point fifty two seventy to.

700
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Speaker 13: Bring the bull down almost consistently every single time when

701
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 13: he does high just dun.

702
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 8: The ball, dun the ball.

703
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: It's it's so weird to me. Garrison does the same thing.

704
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 1: He's not as talented as Moreno, but they both do it,

705
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: and I don't understand. You make yourself three feet tall

706
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: when you do that right, And they're both bad about it,

707
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: and I appreciate the call. I mean, that's one thing.

708
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: Diabyte's not nearly as tall, but he doesn't really do that.

709
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: He'll keep the ball high. But that it's a consistent issue.

710
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: And let me say they were really really good at

711
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: the start of the game. Dame Bradshaw noted this at

712
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: getting went inside and when cut off, kicking it out,

713
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: and then sometime in the middle of the first half

714
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: that just went away and it was like they got

715
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: to a point when you were in that point that

716
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: they were shooting and they missed a lot doing that.

717
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: Early in the game, they were really good about getting

718
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,879
Speaker 1: two feet in the paint and then kicking. And in

719
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 1: the second half we ended up with these one foot

720
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 1: floaters and it just it didn't work. One more Who's

721
00:39:58,480 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: and then we'll take our last break. Who's next?

722
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 15: Before that, let's give our Johnny Rocker personal injury attorney,

723
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 15: moneymaker of the game. Injured, get small town compassion with

724
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:08,359
Speaker 15: big city results. When you call the Rocker at two

725
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 15: seven zero three two one four four two nine and

726
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Speaker 15: the moneymaker has to be Colin Chandler. Eighteen points, six

727
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 15: of ten from three. That's a career high six to

728
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 15: three pointers for Colin. He had four rebounds and one

729
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,479
Speaker 15: crucial steal that led to an O way and one

730
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 15: in thirty four minutes. The last two games, he's been

731
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 15: great shooting the ball. Colin Chandler is money and he

732
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 15: is our moneymaker of the game. Besides the shot that

733
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:32,240
Speaker 15: would have tied the game.

734
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Speaker 1: Did you did you write that? That was? That sounded

735
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: like you were reading like a pre written script.

736
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 2: Just the uh, the info about Johnny Rocker. The rest

737
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 2: was all off the dome.

738
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Speaker 1: Look at you, Billy, such a such a talent coming

739
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,800
Speaker 1: through in his old age or young age. Who's next?

740
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 2: Teddy? Is next?

741
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 1: Teddy? Go ahead, Teddy?

742
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:53,879
Speaker 7: Hey, Matt.

743
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 16: So, I've been positive about the turnaround with injuries and

744
00:40:58,120 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 16: when we were slipping then we got on this little

745
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:02,840
Speaker 16: ro But we don't have someone like you know, the

746
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 16: Allen Iverson, like who cares about practice practice whatever that

747
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 16: quote was. We don't have a suid like that. And

748
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 16: there just seems like there's no discipline on this team.

749
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 16: Like every start has been a repetitive theme, every single time,

750
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 16: and that is coaching, and I think he's made a

751
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:25,280
Speaker 16: good change to where they're using the best of their abilities.

752
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 16: They're getting effort and they're trying, but they're not executing.

753
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 16: They're not doing the X and those they're not run

754
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 16: like I'm a football guy myself, and practices are like

755
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 16: I mean drills like something like in the army, and

756
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 16: everything is to a tee. And I just feel like

757
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 16: this team is not in February. We're having the mistakes

758
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 16: that a team in.

759
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 7: November would have.

760
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 16: Well, I feel like Pope is two months behind. Well, yes,

761
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 16: he's figured out this team and gotten the lineup, but

762
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,280
Speaker 16: he hasn't gotten the exits and nose. He hasn't gotten

763
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 16: everything lined up to where people can actually execute and

764
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 16: to start off a game. And that's just a common problem.

765
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well they started pretty well tonight. It was the

766
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:09,800
Speaker 1: last eight minutes of the first half. I mean they started,

767
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: we were up, we were up eight with like eight

768
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: and a half minutes to go, and then we were

769
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: down five at halftime. So they actually started I thought,

770
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: all right, but the first halves. I That's why I say,

771
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 1: and I appreciate the call, That's why I blame the

772
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: substitution patterns because somebody counted and I don't know if this,

773
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 1: if this is correct, so I'm quoting someone else's numbers.

774
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:42,319
Speaker 1: But somebody wrote online sixteen substitutions in the last six

775
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 1: and a half minutes of the game or the first half, Billy,

776
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 1: that's crazy. Sixteen subs in six and a half minutes.

777
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:51,840
Speaker 2: Is that right?

778
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 1: That's what they said. Now that could be wrong, but

779
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: let's say that's right. That's well, but that's it felt

780
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: like that they were just shuttling guys back in and out.

781
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,320
Speaker 1: And I don't know how you expect a team to

782
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 1: have rhythm when you do that, and you know, I mean,

783
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: what what do you how do you expect the guys

784
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 1: to be connected? I also think that when you're when

785
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: you're talking Aberdeen, Chandler Oway and Moreno, I just think

786
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:29,839
Speaker 1: it's hard not to have like three of those four

787
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 1: on the floor at all times. I mean, I just

788
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:38,800
Speaker 1: do not think you can have two of those guys

789
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,760
Speaker 1: out at once. And at one point, Billy, we had

790
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 1: all of them out, like you just this team is

791
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: not good enough for that. Or no, we had three

792
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: of the four out. I don't think we had all

793
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 1: of them out, but we had three of the four out.

794
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 1: I just don't think you can do that for me

795
00:43:55,280 --> 00:44:00,760
Speaker 1: Oi Chandler and uh Oi Chandler and Aberdeen. I'm never

796
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: not having two of those guys on the floor.

797
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,439
Speaker 2: Well, we're collecting data in the first half.

798
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm done with the data. We got plenty

799
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: of data. Here's the data. We're four and fifteen at

800
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: the half. That's the data I care about. Figure it out, yeah,

801
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: to some extent, figure it out right. Yeah, I mean

802
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,799
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you could make a

803
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: strong argument the only stat that matters is your record

804
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. Like, we don't sit

805
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: there after a doctor performs an operation and go where

806
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 1: did he make the mistake with the scalpel? We just

807
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: say am I cured or not?

808
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 2: Did it work right?

809
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 1: I'm fine with whatever he wants to do with the data.

810
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:44,279
Speaker 1: But the data that matters is we are seventeen and

811
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 1: nine and we have a really hard schedule with the

812
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: rest of the year. We'll take a break and come back.

813
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 1: Final segments A Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show, Welcome Back,

814
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 1: Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show, Texas Tech just lost

815
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,720
Speaker 1: to Arizona State. But more importantly, J T. Topping got hurt,

816
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: that's a big deal. Uh if he if he's hurt

817
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: and out, because looks like a knee injury. I mean

818
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 1: they're really good, but without him, they I mean, he's

819
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: their guy. He came back for this too, so, like,

820
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,720
Speaker 1: you know, I would hate to see him go. He's

821
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: a great player and and I like watching him play,

822
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 1: So I hope he's okay. All Right, who's next? Michael, Michael,

823
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: go ahead, Michael, Hey, Matt.

824
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 10: I just think, uh, just two quick things. Number One,

825
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:43,280
Speaker 10: out of the blue Buds, Kentucky has the second worst

826
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 10: home environment. Uh, it's just it's ridiculous. We are the

827
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 10: second winning is.

828
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: I don't agree. Who do you consider the blue Who

829
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:54,800
Speaker 1: do you? Who do you consider the blue bloods? Like?

830
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:55,720
Speaker 1: Who are you talking about?

831
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 10: Kansas?

832
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:04,720
Speaker 1: We're worse? Yeah, well, UCLA's is pretty bad and UCI.

833
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 10: Well I don't consider them a Blue Bud anymore.

834
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: All Right, So you're talking about where ours is better

835
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: than North Carolina. Danny Hurley just this week said he

836
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 1: thought Yukon had its worst environment. It's like that their

837
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 1: environment is terrible. He literally said that this week.

838
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 10: He's yeah, but he's nuts. He thinks everything's terrible. I've

839
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:27,399
Speaker 10: watched their games at Yukon. Their environment is much better

840
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 10: than Kentucky's there, but.

841
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: They're also playing I mean to be fair. To be

842
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 1: fair though, they play in like a non you know,

843
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: a ten thousand seat gym. It's tough because rupp is

844
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: all you can no that makes it easier, dude. A

845
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: ten thousand seat gym can get a lot louder than

846
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 1: our arena can. If you want environment, you want it

847
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 1: to be nine to twelve thousand people. It's enough people

848
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:55,839
Speaker 1: for it to be loud, but it's enclosed, so the

849
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 1: noise stays in. So that's why Kansas, Duke and Yukon

850
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:02,360
Speaker 1: you can's a little bit bigger than that. But that's

851
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: why there's environments are so good as because they're small.

852
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 1: Now pick these arenas that are big and you don't

853
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: have environments like that. Now, you could say we should

854
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 1: make we're up smaller, and I don't necessarily think that

855
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 1: would be the worst thing, but it's you can't really

856
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: compare a nine to eleven thousand seat gym with a

857
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: twenty one thousand seat civic arena. It just you're just

858
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 1: gonna have different environments, and Carolina, of all the ones

859
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: you mentioned, is the only one whose arena is like

860
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: ours and they have the same problem. Yeah, they're worse.

861
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 10: I think they're worse.

862
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: Than they are. I agree with it, but I mean,

863
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:47,240
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I don't. But again there it's much

864
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 1: smaller and it's old, so like that makes it a

865
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 1: lot easier to have a great environment.

866
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:57,719
Speaker 10: Okay, And my second point, and I'll hang out and

867
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 10: listen to you on this one, is you you have

868
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 10: said for since I've been listening to you since the

869
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 10: very beginning, Ksar, since you have said the worst thing

870
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 10: that a program can do, it's higher its own when

871
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 10: its own hasn't proven to be a quality championship coach,

872
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 10: We did it, and we we all hated it, and

873
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 10: then we got on board with it and we gave

874
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 10: Mark Pope a lot of grace for last year he

875
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 10: had some big wins.

876
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: Well, we went to Sweet sixteen. Yeah, it wasn't it

877
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: wasn't a disaster. He we didn't. We didn't even grace

878
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: a disaster. He went up to Sweet sixteen in his

879
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 1: first year. Yeah, I mean that's good, it's good. Yeah.

880
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 10: Yeah, Well, I mean, it's good, but with some really

881
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 10: questionable losses, some questionable coaching decisions, things like that. Then

882
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 10: he went out and said he had a Ferrari twenty

883
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 10: two million dollars, that whole deal, and it's been an

884
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 10: absolute disaster. I just do not think it is. It

885
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 10: is showing over and over again that Mark po is

886
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 10: not a coach to get Kentucky back to the gold standard.

887
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 10: And how long do we endure this before?

888
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 1: Okay, you're making me let me just let me address

889
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:17,440
Speaker 1: let me address. No, we're not. Let me address your Indiana.

890
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 1: We are not Indiana territory. Indiana Territory is a program

891
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:26,840
Speaker 1: that hasn't really been relevant since the mid nineties. Okay,

892
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 1: so no, Now, are we danger in danger of slipping? Yes,

893
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:35,760
Speaker 1: I'm totally with that, but Indiana is a whole different category. Okay,

894
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:39,319
Speaker 1: when's the last time Indiana made the Final four? Is it?

895
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 7: Like?

896
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:45,320
Speaker 1: I don't even know? Anyway? Point me to your question

897
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,800
Speaker 1: about my stance for a long time about not hiring

898
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: a guy who played here. I've always believed that. I

899
00:49:55,680 --> 00:50:00,840
Speaker 1: still believe it. However, you have to go back to

900
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: where we were when we made the hire. If we

901
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: didn't hire Mark Pope. Do you know who the coach

902
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: would be at Kentucky?

903
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 10: Somebody I wouldn't have wanted.

904
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:14,319
Speaker 1: Shaka Smart. Shaka Smart would Yeah, that's who the coach

905
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:17,839
Speaker 1: would have been once they eliminated and I and we

906
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,359
Speaker 1: can have strong discussions about whether or not these people

907
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 1: should have been eliminated. But once Bruce Pearl, NATO's Chris Beard,

908
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 1: and Sean Miller, once the university said we're not we

909
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 1: can consider those guys. We were down to Mark Pope

910
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:36,400
Speaker 1: and Shaka Smart. And so part of the reason I

911
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:38,840
Speaker 1: ultimately think that was the right decision is would you

912
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 1: rather have Shaka Smart? I mean I wouldn't, So you

913
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 1: have to consider, like now, the other option is they

914
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:49,319
Speaker 1: could have waited a couple of weeks and tried with

915
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: Billy Donovan. But Billy Donovan told Mitch don Mitch Barnhardt

916
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: twice no, So like waiting on a third time, you

917
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: might have gotten to know again. So I'm not saying

918
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 1: that that theory is wrong. I still think I'm right,

919
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: But I think in this situation, because of the way

920
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:12,479
Speaker 1: the search went, it's what happened now before we say,

921
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: like how long are we gonna give him? How many

922
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: seasons has he finished one and three one and he

923
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:27,800
Speaker 1: went to the sweet sixteen. This season is not over. Okay,

924
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: what if we go to the sweet sixteen again, by

925
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: the way, which is certainly possible, we also could miss

926
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,319
Speaker 1: the tournament. So there's a wide variation in what could

927
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 1: happen this year, and I do think we need to

928
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 1: wait and see what I think. But so before you

929
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: say how long are we gonna give him? How about

930
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: we wait and see how this year ends? Right? I mean,

931
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 1: we need to see what happens, and then I don't

932
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: think there's any scenario at this point where he will

933
00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 1: not be the coach next year. But where you and

934
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 1: I are so so we're agree is we have to

935
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 1: see what happened like next year is his year. Next

936
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: year is going to be crucial, and I think what

937
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 1: I would say is I'll have a lot more thoughts

938
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,399
Speaker 1: on that once I see what happens next year, once

939
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 1: I see what kind of team we get in this offseason.

940
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,360
Speaker 1: I'm worried about that too, But I'm not ready to

941
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: go how much grace we're gonna give him? How long

942
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:24,320
Speaker 1: is it going to be? It's been a year and

943
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:26,399
Speaker 1: a half and this season is not over yet.

944
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,280
Speaker 10: I hear what you're saying there. I totally hear you're saying.

945
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:36,359
Speaker 10: But I guess my counterpoint to you will be would

946
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 10: be is you always say, this is Kentucky. This is Kentucky,

947
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 10: this is the gold standard, this is the greatest tradition

948
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 10: in college basketball history. If we keep settling for a

949
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 10: Sweet sixteen, or we keep settling for well, we got

950
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 10: to give him, like settling.

951
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:55,839
Speaker 1: For he's only been here. I mean to some extent,

952
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:57,760
Speaker 1: I want to say, he's only been here a year.

953
00:52:58,080 --> 00:52:59,239
Speaker 1: He's finished one year.

954
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,319
Speaker 8: This is what did what did what?

955
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: Let me go back to history. What what did cal

956
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:05,279
Speaker 1: do in his first year? Do you remember how far

957
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: they went? Okay, and now they were great that but

958
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:13,839
Speaker 1: they still lost. But they were great that year. They

959
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: were great. But there were people in that second year

960
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 1: because I how were you? You were a little kid then, right,

961
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: there were people in that life. Okay, so you're in college.

962
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 1: There were people in that second year. In the middle

963
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:30,799
Speaker 1: of that year when Brandon Knight's team stunk because they

964
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:34,359
Speaker 1: did stink for part of the year, who go, I

965
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 1: just don't know if he can win here. There were

966
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: people who said that, And then when the season was over,

967
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:42,800
Speaker 1: they were in the final four. So I'm just saying,

968
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:46,879
Speaker 1: let's just be patient. There's only five games left. We're

969
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 1: gonna know here in a few weeks and then I

970
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 1: think that's a conversation for late March early April, and

971
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:56,920
Speaker 1: then we can evaluate what these two years were like.

972
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 1: It's not looking great, but I'm shake the call. But

973
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 1: I'm not giving up yet, even though I'm very frustrated

974
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 1: about this game. Let's do two more. We'll call to night.

975
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 1: Who's next, Kelly, Kelly, go ahead.

976
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 12: Kelly, Hey, Matt, I'm going back and talking about the

977
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 12: free throws shooting. Like Sington, Kentucky has two of the

978
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 12: best SEC three thoo shooters and Kyle Macy and Jim Masters,

979
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 12: and Pope likes to ask back all of these players too.

980
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:38,720
Speaker 12: By y'all, I have an idea. How about we invite

981
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 12: Kyle Macy and Jim Master, who practice to teach him

982
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 12: how to fundamentally shoot a free throw.

983
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: Well, my guess is that we have people on staff

984
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: who know how to shoot a free throw. And while

985
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: you will while, but Jim Master is Kyle Macy was

986
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: a coach. I don't know if Jim Master has been

987
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:04,839
Speaker 1: a coach. But regardless, like you and I know who

988
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: Kyle Macy and Jim Master are, right and like they

989
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 1: mean something to us. These kids don't know who.

990
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 12: They are if you brought I mean, but someone has

991
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 12: to teach them to shoot a free But I.

992
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:20,840
Speaker 1: Would bet you they have people who I mean, I

993
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:24,440
Speaker 1: would assume they have people do who do that. And

994
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:25,880
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, though the play I

995
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:29,360
Speaker 1: will say about free throws, that's ultimately on the player

996
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:32,000
Speaker 1: they got to execute. Mark Pope cannot make them make

997
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 1: free throws, you know, I mean, and I appreciate tell

998
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 1: otega Oway knows how to make a free throw. He

999
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 1: went three for six. Denzel Aberdeen knows how to make

1000
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 1: a free throw, he went four for seven. That's on them.

1001
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: I think Denzel Aberdeen's like, what an eighty five percent

1002
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 1: free throw shoot or eighty two or eighty three, Like

1003
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:57,360
Speaker 1: you gotta make a man. So I mean, I you know,

1004
00:55:57,480 --> 00:55:59,440
Speaker 1: if they if Pope wanted to do that before. But

1005
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: I don't think it's like a I don't think it's

1006
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:03,879
Speaker 1: that they don't know how to make it. I think

1007
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 1: it's a matter of like mentally locking in and making

1008
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:11,879
Speaker 1: it one more who's next, Mark, Mark?

1009
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 7: Go ahead, Mark, Hey, Matt fellow Middlesborough graduate here?

1010
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 1: Oh all right, Jackets, Jackets.

1011
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:28,480
Speaker 7: I graduated in seventy nine. I was gonna use the

1012
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:32,400
Speaker 7: word Mark Pope it's failing, but I think that's probably

1013
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:37,320
Speaker 7: too strong a word because we have had some great

1014
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:41,799
Speaker 7: comebacks this year. But I'm going to ask you here's

1015
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 7: another question about your opinion. I think he's in over

1016
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:50,480
Speaker 7: his head, and a lot of the Kentucky fans that

1017
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 7: I talked to believe that. And if he don't get

1018
00:56:55,120 --> 00:57:00,360
Speaker 7: himself the right kind of help, especially in the recruiting apart,

1019
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 7: I don't think this is going to work. So my

1020
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 7: question to you is, do you believe he is in

1021
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 7: over his head?

1022
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 3: Man?

1023
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:12,719
Speaker 1: I wouldn't use the term over his head, but I

1024
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 1: do think I might say this year it has felt

1025
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 1: like to me he was in his head right that.

1026
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 1: You know. Kyle Tucker, who's back covering college uh, covering

1027
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:28,640
Speaker 1: college basketball, he had an article today about Mark that said,

1028
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 1: and it quoted Rick Patino as saying a lot of

1029
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 1: people close to Mark were really worried about him and

1030
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 1: the way he was talking and acting early in the year.

1031
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 1: And it's a good article you should. You should read it,

1032
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:44,720
Speaker 1: and I agree with that. I think it is clear

1033
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 1: that he does need help on the recruiting stuff. On that,

1034
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you. He needs a GM and

1035
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 1: it is clear Mark Pope has not recruited the level

1036
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 1: of player that he now needs to get at Kentucky

1037
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:00,880
Speaker 1: and maybe the methods he used to recruit guys at

1038
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,800
Speaker 1: Utah Valley and BYU is not what you do to

1039
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 1: recruit the top stars to Kentucky. And he needs help,

1040
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:10,480
Speaker 1: and I'm disappointed he hasn't done that yet as far

1041
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 1: as a coach. As far as a coach, I don't

1042
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 1: think he's in over his head, but I think he's

1043
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:21,800
Speaker 1: in his head and it is not working like I

1044
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 1: would have hoped yet. So now how do you fix that?

1045
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: I don't know him well enough to answer the question,

1046
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 1: but in over his head would almost mean like he's

1047
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 1: not intelligent enough to do this, and I don't think

1048
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 1: that's true.

1049
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 7: Okay, Well, thank you for your appreciation opinion.

1050
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, and I appreciate the call, and I

1051
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:52,000
Speaker 1: you know, listen, I'm disappointed by this loss, but I

1052
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 1: also would say, there are five games left. This is

1053
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:56,880
Speaker 1: the kind of team that can lose this game, Billy,

1054
00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:58,240
Speaker 1: and then go to Auburn and win.

1055
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 2: Right, I've seen it.

1056
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 1: We've seen it. So this is the kind of team

1057
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 1: that you could argue, you should have beat Missouri, should

1058
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 1: bet in Georgia, you should have beat in North Carolina.

1059
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 1: We should be you know, twenty and six. You could

1060
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 1: also say we could have lost LSU, we could have

1061
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:20,520
Speaker 1: lost Tennessee, we could have you know, we could be

1062
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 1: like not making the tournament. So let's see what happens.

1063
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 1: But this is a bad one. This is one that's

1064
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 1: gonna cost him. At best, it's gonna cost him a

1065
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:33,920
Speaker 1: seed line at the NCAA tournament. And at worst, it

1066
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 1: might make us on that bubble and they're gonna have

1067
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 1: to go steal one. Thank you, folks very much for

1068
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:42,520
Speaker 1: staying up late tonight, thanks to Billy as well. We'll

1069
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:44,720
Speaker 1: be back on the radio here in eight and a

1070
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 1: half hours. This has been the Local Toy Dealers KSR

1071
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 1: postgame show.