Speaker 1: Welcome everybody. It is the KSR pre Show. It's Wednesday,
Speaker 1: February fifth. I am Shannon the Dude. I'm in lovell
Speaker 1: being joined by Billy Relige. He is over in Lexington
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Speaker 1: last night. We'll get into that in just a few minutes,
Speaker 1: but first of all, Billy, how are you doing this morning?
Speaker 3: Good morning, dude.
Speaker 4: I'm glad we just were at Whiskey Thief the other
Speaker 4: day because I needed the little Kentucky bourbon after that
Speaker 4: loss last night and after some of the phone calls
Speaker 4: we took on the postgame show.
Speaker 3: Little contentious last night.
Speaker 4: You know, it feels like it's been building a little bit,
Speaker 4: the fourth loss in the last five games.
Speaker 3: But it's great to be with you this morning.
Speaker 2: How are you doing doing good?
Speaker 1: I noticed a lot of schools, by the way, are
Speaker 1: out because of the flu.
Speaker 2: There's a sickness going around.
Speaker 1: Do you I don't ever remember, like in all my years,
Speaker 1: going to school getting out because people were sick. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know, we just went through a pandemic, so I
Speaker 1: get that. Set that aside, but I'm talking about for
Speaker 1: the flu. Do you ever remember schools just shutting down
Speaker 1: because the flu was so bad?
Speaker 4: No, no widespread illness, sick days. But you know, my
Speaker 4: brother goes to school, High School in Oldham County and Monday,
Speaker 4: seventeen hundred students and two hundred staff members didn't show
Speaker 4: up for school because of sicknesses. So they I think
Speaker 4: they're going in what the computer learning and TI Friday. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so unbelievable. Hopefully everybody's okay. But at the same time,
Speaker 4: you know, a nice little break for those kids there.
Speaker 1: I see that it's also National Weather Manday, So a
Speaker 1: salute to all of our weather men and women.
Speaker 2: Out there who have the job where they.
Speaker 1: Come in and only get it right half the time.
Speaker 1: What a what a wonderful job.
Speaker 4: It's not an exact science, but we need we commend
Speaker 4: our weather men and women right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now, some people could say, well, you know, what
Speaker 1: kind of job can you keep? Were you you're only
Speaker 1: right half the time, I would say, well, weather Man
Speaker 1: would be one, and I guess the other one really
Speaker 1: would probably be a sports radio host, because you and
Speaker 1: I only get it right about fifty percent of the time.
Speaker 1: Right last night, once again, you picked the Cats. I
Speaker 1: picked the Cats. They lost.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're thinking. I picked old.
Speaker 1: Miss, Well, you picked all Miss. Okay, I'm sorry, maybe
Speaker 1: I looked at the end.
Speaker 4: So this is where we need to start today, because
Speaker 4: I thought we talked about this yesterday that we were.
Speaker 3: Both gonna pick Old Miss to reverse this curse. But
Speaker 3: you picked the Cats, Shannon.
Speaker 4: So I'm not sure if you just didn't want to
Speaker 4: do what we were doing or what happened there you
Speaker 4: just had to change of heart.
Speaker 1: Ofly, Yeah, so you're blaming me for the loss? I am, well,
Speaker 1: I mean it just felt like, you know, Kentucky loses
Speaker 1: games that you think they're gonna win. They win games
Speaker 1: you think they're gonna lose. So this is one of
Speaker 1: those I thought, you know, going on the road ran
Speaker 1: this is yeah, but you know what, this is a
Speaker 1: game that you think they're gonna lose, they're going to win.
Speaker 2: Boy was I wrong?
Speaker 3: Boy?
Speaker 2: We were where do you where do you want to start?
Speaker 2: I mean ninety eight eighty four.
Speaker 1: If you didn't watch the game and you just looked
Speaker 1: at the score, you would say, well, you know, it
Speaker 1: was probably a close game.
Speaker 2: Old Miss just kind of pulled away at the end.
Speaker 2: That was not the case.
Speaker 1: I mean, all nine thousand plus that that arena holds
Speaker 1: were you know it.
Speaker 2: It created a great atmosphere.
Speaker 1: It was a red out, you know, like a cow
Speaker 1: used to say, where everybody's super Bowl. It's still the
Speaker 1: case with Kentucky and they drop a game last night,
Speaker 1: Billy where it looked like at one point they were
Speaker 1: gonna get beat by possibly thirty five or forty points.
Speaker 1: I mean, they were down by twenty seven to open
Speaker 1: up the second half. If you're looking for a silver lining,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you could say they did fight
Speaker 1: hard in the second half and at least somewhat try
Speaker 1: to battle back. I mean, you still lose the game
Speaker 1: by fourteen, but they could have easily been just blown
Speaker 1: out of the arena last night, if you know, things
Speaker 1: that continued to go the way they did in the
Speaker 1: first half, but just really an embarrassing first half, Philly.
Speaker 3: Embarrassing is a good word for it.
Speaker 4: I didn't know if I was going to go there,
Speaker 4: but it's hard to use other words to describe what
Speaker 4: that first half was. And look, this is a culmination
Speaker 4: of a lot of things, right, and I think there's
Speaker 4: a bit of a domino effect here. You don't have
Speaker 4: your two starting point guards, and that leads to players
Speaker 4: playing out of position and doing things that they're not
Speaker 4: used to being doing.
Speaker 3: But yet, Shannon, you.
Speaker 4: Can still not have a point guard and still have effort, right,
Speaker 4: You can still you can still have that sense of urgency.
Speaker 4: You can still do a lot of things on the
Speaker 4: defensive end to keep you in ball games. And they
Speaker 4: did none of that in the first half.
Speaker 3: None of it.
Speaker 4: May have been one of the worst halfs of basketball
Speaker 4: I've ever watched from one single team. There was ten
Speaker 4: second calls in that first half, Shannon.
Speaker 3: They could not bring the ball up the floor.
Speaker 1: When it was the last time you remember Kentucky getting
Speaker 1: a ten second violation while they could not handle Ole
Speaker 1: Miss's ball pressure, I mean, they couldn't. I just I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't remember the last time Kentucky got
Speaker 1: a half cord violation. Turnovers killed Kentucky last night, Billy.
Speaker 1: I mean the defense was atrocious, wide open three after
Speaker 1: wide open three, and ole Miss made them every time.
Speaker 1: And now that's back to back games, Billy, where you
Speaker 1: give up thirteen threes in a game. They did it
Speaker 1: against Arkansas and then again last night against Ole Miss.
Speaker 2: And they're kind of getting beat at their own game,
Speaker 2: are they not? Kitell?
Speaker 3: They are.
Speaker 1: Kentucky is not shooting more threes than their opponent, which
Speaker 1: they should, and I think at this point, defenses have
Speaker 1: just decided, Okay, look we're gonna give them inside. We're
Speaker 1: not going to give up the outside shot. And they're
Speaker 1: limiting the amount of threes that Kentucky that Kentucky's taking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, Pope had a mark of what thirty
Speaker 4: thirty five threes a game and I think we've only
Speaker 4: reached that mark maybe three times in SEC play so far.
Speaker 4: And you know what, you got to give credit to
Speaker 4: Old Miss, right. I mean, they hit shots, whether they
Speaker 4: were just wide open, standing still, and Kentucky decided not
Speaker 4: to put not to put a hand in their face
Speaker 4: or even some contested shots. I mean, they came out
Speaker 4: motivated and ready to go, and and scored fifty four
Speaker 4: points in a half, which is you know, you have
Speaker 4: to commend Chris Beard and what Ole Miss is doing
Speaker 4: right now. But you know, I don't know, I'm a
Speaker 4: little bit in of a panic mode here with this
Speaker 4: Kentucky team because with without your starting point guards, this
Speaker 4: team is just not built to win at this level
Speaker 4: in the SEC. And you already squabbled this roster together
Speaker 4: late notice with Mark Pope, But now, Shannon, you know,
Speaker 4: with how physical this conference is and and this and
Speaker 4: guys like Ansley Almanor and Tretno coming in and doing
Speaker 4: nothing for fifteen minutes, you know, you have to wonder
Speaker 4: if this team is, you know, is in trouble right
Speaker 4: now without Lamont Butler and Kirk Crisa and you know,
Speaker 4: good on Amari Williams Man only the fourth triple double
Speaker 4: in Kentucky basketball history. But you know, he said he'd
Speaker 4: traded away for a win, and then that's kind of
Speaker 4: how I feel. It's a we'll have to remember this
Speaker 4: game as the fourth ever triple double in Kentucky history.
Speaker 4: But a brutal loss for Mark Pope, losing four of
Speaker 4: the last five games.
Speaker 1: You were telling me before we started the a caller
Speaker 1: on the pregame show called the Amari Williams triple double.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, Mason called in, and you know, he also
Speaker 4: predicted a win, but he was like, you know, Amaro
Speaker 4: Williams might mess around and get a triple double tonight.
Speaker 4: And you know, that's a pretty good call still, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, for it only be the fourth
Speaker 4: triple double in Kentucky history.
Speaker 3: So I'm happy for a Mari.
Speaker 4: But look, your center doesn't need to have you know,
Speaker 4: it doesn't need to be the one that's getting double
Speaker 4: digit assist right that That is a microcosm of you
Speaker 4: not having your point guards. And man, I guess I
Speaker 4: never realized how just how much Lamont Butler's defense met
Speaker 4: Shannon Right, some on ball pressure leads to your your
Speaker 4: other players being able to play good defense as well.
Speaker 4: So you know, it's just very very disappointing and and
Speaker 4: I think it's it's inevitable you have to adjust your
Speaker 4: expectations once again for this Kentucky team.
Speaker 1: If you told me before the game that Amari is
Speaker 1: gonna get a triple double, I would say, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: that's a win, right, I would think so but Ole
Speaker 1: miss on offense.
Speaker 2: I mean that that.
Speaker 1: Shot fake it worked. You know, they were talking about
Speaker 1: the old Bob Knight shot fake. That's what Chris beerd
Speaker 1: does and it worked. Kentucky down what twenty three points
Speaker 1: at halftime, just you know, tried to fight back.
Speaker 2: Just couldn't quite get there.
Speaker 1: Though, and Mark Pope said after the game, you know,
Speaker 1: he said there are no moral victories at Kentucky, and
Speaker 1: he realizes that. So if you're, you know, trying to
Speaker 1: put a positive spin on it, you can say, well, Kentucky,
Speaker 1: they fought back, but you still lost by double digits
Speaker 1: on the road.
Speaker 4: Dole miss No, And I appreciate that though. I think
Speaker 4: that's the right thing to say right now. I mean
Speaker 4: there's a lot distraught in Big Blue Nation. And Mark
Speaker 4: Pope saying that realizes or he understands the assignment Santon.
Speaker 3: But you know what they've got to adjust.
Speaker 4: I mean, how could you have the number two offensive
Speaker 4: efficiency team in the country but the one hundred and
Speaker 4: tenth defensive efficiency team. You've got to be able to
Speaker 4: play some defense if you're going to stay in some
Speaker 4: games this year.
Speaker 3: But again they know that.
Speaker 4: But you know, when you see a stat line with
Speaker 4: Old Miss twenty four assists in one turnovers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's insane.
Speaker 2: That's the thing, man.
Speaker 4: Again, I've never seen a stat line like that.
Speaker 1: Continues to be the problem with Kentucky not creating turnovers
Speaker 1: on the defensive end, but then on the offensive end,
Speaker 1: they're they're turning the ball over like crazy, and that's
Speaker 1: just been crushing this team. And you go back to
Speaker 1: the Vandy game and all the other games after that,
Speaker 1: it's just turnover after turnover has really been the Achilles
Speaker 1: Hill for the team.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, Jackson Robinson I don't think is comfortable with
Speaker 4: the ball in his hands. He'd much rather be an
Speaker 4: off ball guy. Travis Perry logs some good minutes for
Speaker 4: you in the first half, but you know, at times
Speaker 4: he doesn't seem ready to go. You know, I was
Speaker 4: glad to see the Mountain Momba get in there, But
Speaker 4: like I said, he didn't do anything. He was part
Speaker 4: of the trillion club, Shannon. That's another stat line.
Speaker 3: You don't see very much him and Ansley Almanor doing that.
Speaker 1: But I know people were asking for Trent Noah in
Speaker 1: the Arkansas game, but you know, okay, Pope plays them
Speaker 1: thirteen minutes. He does nothing at all, like nothing, not
Speaker 1: one thing on the stat line. And Ansley Almanar, who
Speaker 1: has been so good right shooting the three, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: need it. You you needed a few threes out of him.
Speaker 1: You didn't get anything out of him last night. So
Speaker 1: when you're already down two or three guys, and you
Speaker 1: know Andrew Carr played twenty three minutes last night, I mean,
Speaker 1: got ten points for you. It didn't looked all that bad.
Speaker 1: But you know he's still battling through pain. You got
Speaker 1: two other guys out. You can't have nights where players
Speaker 1: don't give you anything. You know, you don't need twenty
Speaker 1: from Angeley almon Or, but you need something from them.
Speaker 1: You don't need twenty from Trent Noah, but you need something.
Speaker 1: And you got zeros. And it's hard to win a
Speaker 1: game like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know I kind of looked at the
Speaker 4: Tennessee game like wow, you know, Kentucky can beat anybody
Speaker 4: in the country. But then it's like, thank goodness, they
Speaker 4: missed all those three pointers in those in that game.
Speaker 4: Shitting right, the good thing name is thirty four threes
Speaker 4: in that one or this could have been a five
Speaker 4: game losing streak for Kentucky right now, and and I'm serious, like,
Speaker 4: look at the rest of the schedule.
Speaker 2: All right, let's do it. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Let's look at it and see see what we think. Now,
Speaker 1: what did you have Kentucky at in the SEC before
Speaker 1: we started?
Speaker 4: It was above five hundred, Okay, so I think it was.
Speaker 4: Was it ten and eight? Is that how many SEC
Speaker 4: games that they play?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got them at eleven, at them at eleven,
Speaker 1: eleven and seven? They are what four and five right now?
Speaker 1: So let's look ahead. You got South Carolina coming up.
Speaker 1: That feels like that should be a win.
Speaker 2: All that you can't. You can take it lightly, but
Speaker 2: that should be a win.
Speaker 3: They don't have a single win in the SEC.
Speaker 1: I believe you have to get you have to win
Speaker 1: that game on Saturday. You know, you would think, okay,
Speaker 1: going into that game, no pressure, but when you've lost
Speaker 1: four out of your five games, this is a little
Speaker 1: bit of pressure.
Speaker 2: I think. So you got to win that game.
Speaker 3: Oh, there's a lot of pressure on that game.
Speaker 2: So let's say five and five there.
Speaker 1: Then you play at home against Tennessee, Okay, and that
Speaker 1: game could go either way, that's yeah. So then you
Speaker 1: got Texas. It's on the road, though, it's on the road,
Speaker 1: so that could be a tough one. Vandy at home,
Speaker 1: I think you feel good about that one. You go
Speaker 1: on the road to Alabama, that's probably a loss. You
Speaker 1: go at Oklahoma, they play good at home too, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a tough one. Then you host number one Auburn.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not gonna get any easier. LSU on
Speaker 1: the road or no, LSU is at home, you feel
Speaker 1: like you should win that game.
Speaker 2: And then at Missouri.
Speaker 1: So really, I mean, looking at the rest of the schedule,
Speaker 1: South Carolina, Van even though Vandy got you, you feel
Speaker 1: like at home, you're you're gonna win that game, right,
Speaker 1: So looking at the remaining schedule, there's three games that
Speaker 1: I feel pretty confident that Kentucky's going to win, South Carolina, Vandy,
Speaker 1: and LSU. Other than that, Billy, I don't know what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. I mean, I think you're gonna get some
Speaker 1: of those wins. But let's just say, worst case scenario,
Speaker 1: you lose all those other games. That's another one, two, three, four,
Speaker 1: five six losses we're talking about, and at that point
Speaker 1: you've already got uh what You've already got five, So
Speaker 1: now you're talking about seven and eleven.
Speaker 3: Wow, you know it's unbelieva. I mean, that's that's a reality.
Speaker 2: It's a real possibility. Not saying it's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: Eight teams playing on Wednesday at the SEC Tournament this year.
Speaker 4: Just book your get your Airbnb ready to be there
Speaker 4: on Wednesday. Yeah, but you're right, I'm kind of with you.
Speaker 4: South Carolina, Andy, LSU As the games that maybe a
Speaker 4: Kentucky's a favorite in, maybe you can steal one at
Speaker 4: in Oklahoma, but I don't think Auburn, Missouri, Alabama, even
Speaker 4: Tennessee despite you winning in Tennessee or are great matchups
Speaker 4: for Kentucky right now.
Speaker 3: So it's just when can they get Lamont Butler back? Man? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Have you ever see a player means so much to
Speaker 4: a team like this? I mean, obviously like a Lebron
Speaker 4: in the NBA, but like in college. It's amazing how
Speaker 4: much Lamont gets this team to go. And it's even
Speaker 4: more amazing that this team was able to win at
Speaker 4: Gonzaga and at Tennessee without.
Speaker 3: Lamont or Kurk Criso.
Speaker 4: So we know it's in there for them but you know,
Speaker 4: at times, Shannon, I use this term, there's I feel
Speaker 4: like a lack of urgency with this team, Like I
Speaker 4: don't know if they needed to be.
Speaker 3: Motivated at halftime.
Speaker 4: They did fight back in the second half, but you
Speaker 4: have to wonder where that fight was in the first was.
Speaker 1: Lamont Butler wondering, like, you know, Pope hasn't really said
Speaker 1: a whole lot about him, But if we're reading the
Speaker 1: tea leaves Billy, I think that the situation is he
Speaker 1: could probably play if he absolutely had to.
Speaker 2: But you got to wonder, like, Okay, is.
Speaker 1: It worth first of all, you know, putting them up
Speaker 1: Butler out there, let's say fifty percent, versus keeping him
Speaker 1: out and playing Jackson Robinson at the point, right, you know,
Speaker 1: and you also don't want to further injure that that
Speaker 1: shoulder as well. So I think that's kind of the
Speaker 1: dilemma right now that Pope has.
Speaker 2: But at this point, I mean, if he can go.
Speaker 3: I mean the season slipping away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I might, I might try it. If
Speaker 1: he's able to go. Obviously it's gonna be up to
Speaker 1: Pope and it's gonna be up to Butler himself. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing, you know, going back to the schedule talk, Billy,
Speaker 1: I think if you get to five hundred in the SEC,
Speaker 1: you're going to be securely in the tournament. So I
Speaker 1: don't think that you need eleven wins. You don't need ten.
Speaker 1: I think if you can get to nine, possibly even
Speaker 1: go eight. And I think there's possibility. Do you ma
Speaker 1: even have teams that are eight and ten in the
Speaker 1: conference in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2: And I know that's going to make a lot of
Speaker 2: people mad.
Speaker 1: Nationally, but we're talking about a historically great conference like
Speaker 1: I've never seen before. So I think even if you
Speaker 1: get to eight wins, there's a chance that you get
Speaker 1: into the tournament. Lonardi last night had thirteen teams in
Speaker 1: as of last night, So I think about that, thirteen
Speaker 1: out of the sixteen.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that would be a record too. I mean,
Speaker 4: Kentucky was a three seed to start this week, and
Speaker 4: you know, really, over these last five games or so,
Speaker 4: I feel like they may be more of like a
Speaker 4: five or a six seed now. But I also want
Speaker 4: to take this point to say that this is not
Speaker 4: the time to jump off the Mark Pope bandwagon.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I saw tweets last night.
Speaker 3: You know the Internet.
Speaker 4: I mean it's sometimes there's a reason why you should
Speaker 4: stay off the internet is because you know, people can
Speaker 4: just be so quick to react, and I really don't think,
Speaker 4: you know, that would be a disservice to one of
Speaker 4: our own to do that middle of the year, especially
Speaker 4: with a group that's been so riddled with injuries and
Speaker 4: it's had to overcome some of this advert like this,
Speaker 4: you've let one bad loss turn into two with this
Speaker 4: Arkansas game. I know it's been four of the last five,
Speaker 4: but there's still a lot to play for. And like
Speaker 4: you said, this is a historic SEC. You should not
Speaker 4: hang your head if you are close to five hundred
Speaker 4: and the SEC this year. We even talked about that
Speaker 4: before the season started, with how good the SEC was.
Speaker 4: So I just wanted to take the time to tell
Speaker 4: people to pump the brakes a little bit with you know,
Speaker 4: col wasn't the issue or you know, Mark Pope has
Speaker 4: got to do this, this and this. He does have
Speaker 4: a lot to do in front of him, but we
Speaker 4: should still should support one of our own.
Speaker 1: Eight five, nine, two, twenty two eighty seven. We'll take
Speaker 1: your phone calls coming up next and Billy, you said that.
Speaker 2: Some of the calls last night were very angry.
Speaker 1: Right, well, we'll talk about I want you to tell
Speaker 1: me about some of the calls because I didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't stay up and listen to it last night. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back. It is the KSR pre Show. It
Speaker 1: is the KSR pre Show. Eight five, nine two, eight
Speaker 1: oh twenty two eighty seven. We got some open lines
Speaker 1: if you want to get in, Billy, we were talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, like last night, if if you go through
Speaker 1: and you read the comments, like on like Matt's tweets
Speaker 1: or like just the you know, official Kentucky basketball Twitter account.
Speaker 2: Twitter is not real life.
Speaker 1: It's just not I mean, you get the worst of
Speaker 1: the worst, and you know, the most extreme case in
Speaker 1: every situation. It feels like it give us a real
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read this to you, Billy. This is an
Speaker 1: actual tweet last night. I like Pope, but in my opinion,
Speaker 1: he gets one more year than if he can't produce
Speaker 1: to the level, expect that he must go.
Speaker 2: Like we're halfway through the season.
Speaker 1: You've already got people on Twitter talking ridiculous stuff like that,
Speaker 1: Like the season can go a lot of different ways.
Speaker 2: Still still a lot of games.
Speaker 1: We just talked about it in the first segment, and
Speaker 1: for people to already be tweeting stuff like.
Speaker 2: That, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Now, you didn't get any type of calls like that
Speaker 1: on the postgame show last night, did you?
Speaker 3: Nothing that ridiculous?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I also echo the sentiment of j billis
Speaker 4: that the SEC tournament is going to be harder than
Speaker 4: the NCAA tournament this year.
Speaker 3: So cats get in, they've got a shot.
Speaker 4: Shaneon it's all about stringing together results and maybe you
Speaker 4: get a little healthier in March, so you know, not
Speaker 4: already look to next year and if Pope doesn't produce,
Speaker 4: he's done. It's ridiculous. I mean, it's a microwave society.
Speaker 4: But please, let's give the guy a little bit of patience.
Speaker 4: But I think I just say that about the Postgame
Speaker 4: Show last night because it was the very first caller
Speaker 4: that kind of got into a screaming match with Matt
Speaker 4: about you know, these guys not being athletic, but that
Speaker 4: doesn't mean that they don't have talent, Shannon and I
Speaker 4: and I have to agree with somebody on the text
Speaker 4: line this morning five h two two six five six six,
Speaker 4: five six, getting so many texts that you know, it's
Speaker 4: actually slowing down the app this morning, dude. But one
Speaker 4: person did say that, you know, I think we're all
Speaker 4: starting to see the flaws of the transfers that have
Speaker 4: come to this Kentucky team this year and why they
Speaker 4: were in the transfer portal, right, I mean, if you're
Speaker 4: going to remake your loroster every year, there's gonna be
Speaker 4: a reason why a lot of those guys are available,
Speaker 4: right and in the past, if youngsters it took a
Speaker 4: little while to reach their pinnacle and play well in
Speaker 4: February and March, you know, you know it kind of
Speaker 4: I scratched my head and wonder why these veterans can't
Speaker 4: play team defense better, you know what I mean, Shannon, Like,
Speaker 4: I feel like they should have seen this before. But
Speaker 4: like the guys went to zone last night and it
Speaker 4: looked like they had never played zone defense before.
Speaker 1: I just go back to again, like, let's keep in
Speaker 1: mind this team does not have all of its pieces.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: I know other teams deal with injuries as well, but
Speaker 1: you talk about struggling defensively, Lamtt Butler is your lockdown
Speaker 1: defender and you don't have them and when you don't
Speaker 1: have your lockdown defender, it's going to look differently. You
Speaker 1: are going to struggling games. And I think that's what
Speaker 1: we've seen. I don't want to just use that as
Speaker 1: an excuse, but that's the reality. That's the hand that
Speaker 1: Mark Pope has been dealt over the last several games.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I guess you even go back to
Speaker 1: the you know Kerkriesa getting hurt during the Gonzaga game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just don't know about Kerrman. I don't know
Speaker 4: if we see him again. We saw a video of
Speaker 4: him shooting the other day, but I just you know,
Speaker 4: we've been hearing that he's gonna be coming back in February,
Speaker 4: and he you know, has not come back yet, So
Speaker 4: I don't know about him. It may be a Travis
Speaker 4: Perry situation where that kid's got to get real better,
Speaker 4: very quickly. But Lamont's very valuable to this team, no doubt.
Speaker 4: But that still does not excuse what we saw in
Speaker 4: the first half. Yeah, yesterday, that was ridiculous, and you know,
Speaker 4: credit to this team for fighting in the second, but
Speaker 4: that first half should have never happened. If you didn't,
Speaker 4: it almost didn't have a great crowd either, It's not
Speaker 4: was in the environment right, because from everybody that was there,
Speaker 4: they said it was pretty sad.
Speaker 1: Actually, I mean it was sold out, was it not? No,
Speaker 1: it was not sold out last night. It looked like
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 4: Not from the pictures I saw from like Pilgrim uh there.
Speaker 1: Well regardless, you know, I think you know talking about
Speaker 1: Kirk Crisa, did he give you a whole lot offensively? No,
Speaker 1: But I felt like the team played with a different
Speaker 1: motor when he was on the floor. He was like
Speaker 1: the uh the like the energy of the team, I
Speaker 1: felt like, and it's real the energizer bunny he was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I mean you just look at like when when
Speaker 1: he was on the floor, the team played with a
Speaker 1: different speed, a different intensity, And it's just a different
Speaker 1: team when you take those two guys out of the situation.
Speaker 4: So it'll be a little bit of grit as well. Yeah,
Speaker 4: compared to Amari Williams, who you could poke them all
Speaker 4: day long and I don't think he'd ever get mad
Speaker 4: at you shit, and you know he's just not going
Speaker 4: to say anything about it. So it's you need a
Speaker 4: little nasty on there. We talked about Kentucky trying to
Speaker 4: find they're nasty.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: At one point of this year, Andrew Kara Think said
Speaker 4: that got to play a little bit nastyear.
Speaker 3: Well, where was that?
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Speaker 1: to Rich.
Speaker 7: Go ahead, Rich, Hey, guys, deserve all your pity because
Speaker 7: I'm a big Kentucky fan ten miles from the Arkansas campus.
Speaker 7: Has been a rough week.
Speaker 2: Oh that's tough, rough year.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And what I've seen it drives me crazy, is
Speaker 7: you know, our defense is awful, but we do not
Speaker 7: hit the offensive boards. It off, we shoot a three
Speaker 7: pointer and we all run to the other are and
Speaker 7: it's like they no sense hurrying back because we're not
Speaker 7: going to send anybody anyway. And then we're just slow, slow,
Speaker 7: slow for loose balls. I mean, last night there's probably
Speaker 7: five times there's a ball between two of our guys
Speaker 7: and one of them misses guys and they get it
Speaker 7: every time.
Speaker 2: Rich, we appreciate the call.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about it coming up next eight five
Speaker 1: nine and two, eight oh twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 2: Welcome back.
Speaker 1: It is the ksrpre Show eight five nine and two
Speaker 1: eight oh twenty two eighty seven. We'll go back to
Speaker 1: the phones in just a minute and we'll talk some
Speaker 1: more about the game from last night. Do you want
Speaker 1: to mention, though, Billy, UK baseball season is about to start.
Speaker 1: You know they start so early for baseball here. Baseball
Speaker 1: is about to start. The single game tickets go on
Speaker 1: sell this morning at ten o'clock some one. About two
Speaker 1: twenty five minutes from now, you'll be able to get
Speaker 1: baseball tickets for the upcoming season. The Cats are ranked
Speaker 1: by the Way twenty fourth in the preseason poll.
Speaker 2: So ad Yeah, I'm Benji Jones.
Speaker 1: Got a good team coming back, So looking forward to
Speaker 1: to baseball season. But man, like I remember playing at Bellerman,
Speaker 1: we'd be out there freezing our butts off, going, man,
Speaker 1: this is not baseball, whether it's.
Speaker 2: Ten degrees out here.
Speaker 1: And then if you're a pitcher, of course, would I
Speaker 1: always try to do Billy, you want to throw inside
Speaker 1: so that the hitter, would you know, hit one off
Speaker 1: the handle. Yeah, and you know when it's freezing cold
Speaker 1: and you hit one off the handle like that hurts
Speaker 1: that like stings your hands. So that was always my
Speaker 1: strategy in cold games. Just go inside, inside, inside, and
Speaker 1: make them hit it off the handle every time.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was so bad at baseball in high school. I
Speaker 4: couldn't even make contact to make my hands feel bad.
Speaker 1: To have that hardest thing to do in sports, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, can we agree on that hitting a baseball
Speaker 1: is the hardest.
Speaker 3: Thing to do?
Speaker 4: No, doubt and I thought, I mean, I thought I
Speaker 4: was going to be professional. How good I was in
Speaker 4: Little League, Shannon, But you get to that that next level. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they back up the mound and they start pitching seventy
Speaker 4: eighty miles.
Speaker 1: An hour at you, and they throw sliders and curves,
Speaker 1: sniders and knuckle curves and knuckleballs.
Speaker 4: And changing John surgery. They've been throwing a curveball for
Speaker 4: seven years. So no, there's definitely a step up. And
Speaker 4: to have that hand eye coordination is simply incredible. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so excited for another year of Kentucky baseball. That'll get
Speaker 4: us back in the right mindset.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So get your tickets and get out there and
Speaker 1: support MinJe Own and the Backcats. All right, so let's
Speaker 1: go back to the caller because we were up against
Speaker 1: the heartbreak there. The last caller's point was lack of
Speaker 1: offensive rebounds.
Speaker 2: And you know, Billy, I think.
Speaker 1: Okay, that just goes back to the lack of physicality, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're going to get an offensive rebound,
Speaker 1: you got to get in there and fight. And I
Speaker 1: think that that's a lot of it. We've talked about
Speaker 1: the lack of physicality. I think that results in a
Speaker 1: lack of offensive rebounds.
Speaker 2: It's that simple.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, Kentucky had six offensive rebounds compared to
Speaker 4: ole Miss's three in the last game. They out rebounded
Speaker 4: ole Miss thirty seven to twenty nine. Kentucky even shot
Speaker 4: fifty percent for the game. So I think you show
Speaker 4: me that before the game starts and you tell me
Speaker 4: Amari had a triple double. Like you said, Jennon, you
Speaker 4: know that sounds good. You know, I think that may
Speaker 4: be enough. Kentucky scores what eighty four points? That sounds
Speaker 4: about right, but you know Ole Miss was able to
Speaker 4: score just a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Shannon played zero defense. There was zero defense last night.
Speaker 4: Well, that and the very first play at the game,
Speaker 4: you know, Amari is hacked on one end, ole Miss
Speaker 4: goes down and uh, you know what gets a basket.
Speaker 4: Kentucky misses a three, and then ole Miss hits a three.
Speaker 4: So it's five to zero just like that. And that
Speaker 4: was the start of maybe the worst half of the season.
Speaker 4: And following the Arkansas game, Shannon, there's not a lot
Speaker 4: of good vibes right now. But at the same time,
Speaker 4: you know, is it as simple as you just don't
Speaker 4: have your all around great defensive point guard, Shannon. I
Speaker 4: feel like it is to a degree, but there are
Speaker 4: a lot of areas that this team can can improve.
Speaker 3: There's no doubt.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones and talk to Jerry.
Speaker 8: What's up, Hey, thanks for taking my filefellows. Yeah, I
Speaker 8: just think I just think myself that we get Lamark
Speaker 8: Butler back, we'll go be a whole different team.
Speaker 5: But I've got one issue, and it's really not that bad.
Speaker 5: It's very fixable. Its Garrison has got to start playing
Speaker 5: better defense, man. I mean that was two different times
Speaker 5: last night. Even the announcer he got I got beat
Speaker 5: off the dribble and he just stood there man and
Speaker 5: just wash them go straight in for a layup. And
Speaker 5: that's that, you know, and that can't happen. I mean,
Speaker 5: espastly if you're struggling the way we're stopping the ball.
Speaker 5: But I mean, but we get Lamark Butler back, I
Speaker 5: feel good about this team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if and win. Thanks for the callege, Gerry, Thank you, Jerry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, yeah, Garrison didn't play great defense last night,
Speaker 1: but again I'm not going to just single out him.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like it was the overall team
Speaker 1: did not play well at all. Defensively, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if he's crazy for you if you're giving up ninety eight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I don't envy this coaching staff and the
Speaker 4: decisions they have to make with injuries, right because you know,
Speaker 4: if it is a situation where Lamont Butler could play,
Speaker 4: but it's about pain management and you know, one wrong
Speaker 4: screen and you're out for the season. Shannon, It's like,
Speaker 4: when do you bring this guy back? The games that
Speaker 4: really matter are in March, but you got to get
Speaker 4: to March, and this team has got to play a
Speaker 4: lot better in a lot of different areas. So you know,
Speaker 4: I don't know, I expected a lot more minutes from
Speaker 4: Colin Chandler. He only played about two minutes. I think
Speaker 4: people have been upset about his offensive production. But when
Speaker 4: you have Ansley and Noah out, they're doing nothing, why
Speaker 4: not throw some more minutes Colin Chandler's way. So you know,
Speaker 4: rotations just have been funky as of late, and that
Speaker 4: has a lot to do with point guards being out right.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I mean last game, going back to
Speaker 1: the Arkansas game, Trent Noah didn't play any and people
Speaker 1: are like, well, you didn't play Trent Noah, Colin Chandler
Speaker 1: is getting too many minutes.
Speaker 2: Then you give those minutes to Noah.
Speaker 1: Last night, Colin Chandler doesn't give inn and now people
Speaker 1: are saying, well, you should have paid Colin. So it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's got to be a better balance. I
Speaker 1: guess when we're distributing minutes, it can't be all or nothing.
Speaker 1: And it kind of felt like it has been that
Speaker 1: the last couple of games.
Speaker 4: And they all don't have to come in at the
Speaker 4: same time. Dude, right, like you can steal minutes with
Speaker 4: guys coming in and playing with the starters, right, there's
Speaker 4: there's just a big drop when those guys play out.
Speaker 4: But let's be honest, the starters aren't playing up to
Speaker 4: what they need to be doing right now, otego O
Speaker 4: Way scores double digits again, but yet at time Shannon
Speaker 4: he seemed really ineffective despite leading the team with twenty
Speaker 4: four points. So especially he played a lot better in
Speaker 4: the second half, but it looked like deer in the
Speaker 4: headlights in that first.
Speaker 1: What do we think about Kobe Brea, I mean, didn't
Speaker 1: play horrible last night.
Speaker 2: He did get you ten four out of ten, shooting.
Speaker 1: Two out of six though from three, Like I want
Speaker 1: all of his shots to be threes, Like I didn't
Speaker 1: shoot enough. That's what I'm saying, Like I need you know,
Speaker 1: you go two for six from three. I want him
Speaker 1: shooting like eight to ten threes a game. He still
Speaker 1: doesn't shoot enough for me.
Speaker 3: Well, they're not getting to that thirty thirty five mark.
Speaker 4: And so you know, while Kentucky has the second best
Speaker 4: offense in the country when it comes to efficiency, I
Speaker 4: feel like it could have it could be even more.
Speaker 4: And that's exciting to say, right because when this team
Speaker 4: is at its best, you know, Drew brought this up
Speaker 4: on the pregame show yesterday, it feels like Kentucky wins
Speaker 4: come when Kobe Brand makes shots. Could it be as
Speaker 4: simple as that, you know, as you look for answers
Speaker 4: here on a Wednesday, I don't know, Uh, I just
Speaker 4: know that when he's out there, it feels like you're
Speaker 4: playing with four guys on defense, and so that can
Speaker 4: be a real problem. You've got to be one of
Speaker 4: the best shooters in college basketball to make up for that,
Speaker 4: and at times, you know, he can disappear.
Speaker 2: Let's go to bt hey, bt bt.
Speaker 9: Hey, good morning, Good morning, gentlemen, good morning. You know
Speaker 9: everybody's freaking out.
Speaker 8: I'm not.
Speaker 9: You know, it's not the time first year much transfers
Speaker 9: pieces in the corps, you know. I mean, it's just
Speaker 9: it's a hodgepodge and he's done. He's exceeded my expectations
Speaker 9: this first year. So I mean, I couldn't be happier.
Speaker 9: There's gonna be some struggles injury the whole state as
Speaker 9: the blue so who knows what's going on behind closed doors.
Speaker 9: So but the other thing that kind of I wanted
Speaker 9: to bring up, and I know it's probably been discussed,
Speaker 9: but I kind of changed my opinion on the whole
Speaker 9: booing cow thing that you know that really, looking back,
Speaker 9: that was really classless on our part as Kentucky fans.
Speaker 9: That man gave us fifteen years. You know, it's not
Speaker 9: each job. I'm sure, I know there's anybody can justify stuff,
Speaker 9: but you know, I wouldn't want to do that considering
Speaker 9: you know that it's not a good look.
Speaker 1: And I'm just ready to move off from the calabooing thing,
Speaker 1: you know, like let's just put that behind this next
Speaker 1: really called PT.
Speaker 2: You know, you got to move on from that.
Speaker 1: You can't you know, do you think last night there
Speaker 1: was a hangover from the Arkansas game?
Speaker 2: Billy?
Speaker 1: Do you feel like that was maybe the case? They
Speaker 1: came out and certainly played like it in the first half.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I think it's possible. Uh, definitely a lot
Speaker 4: of emotions in that game. But you can't let one
Speaker 4: loss turn into your or or you know, three turn
Speaker 4: into four like we've seen over the last five games.
Speaker 4: I'm squeezing this rubber duck to try not get too
Speaker 4: angry at the callers that tell Kentucky fans they're class
Speaker 4: lists Ford.
Speaker 2: Why do you have a rubber duck? You don't have
Speaker 2: a jeep? I am you take a bath with it?
Speaker 3: The Quantus Club of Lexington Chain, Oh.
Speaker 4: That's right, Yeah, that's right, Kentucky House, the studio, They're everywhere.
Speaker 3: I can't get rid of them.
Speaker 1: You know, I'll just go out to my car in
Speaker 1: a parking lot and THO would be randomly a duck
Speaker 1: sitting there on myne geep.
Speaker 3: What a life you live? You know? Six radio shows?
Speaker 4: You you're a heel on OVW and every time you
Speaker 4: go to your jeep you get a new little rubber.
Speaker 2: Not every time.
Speaker 3: What a great community you've got.
Speaker 2: I don't want the rubber ducks.
Speaker 1: So I think that's the dumbest thing man like, Like,
Speaker 1: if you own a Jeep, you're probably like hating me
Speaker 1: right now because guys that have Jeeps and women that
Speaker 1: have jeeps, you're supposed to like embrace the jeep life.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to go off road and you're supposed to
Speaker 1: go mudd and supposed to take your doors off and
Speaker 1: the top off.
Speaker 3: And can you take the doors off your car?
Speaker 2: Of course?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're supposed to have You're supposed to have
Speaker 1: jeeps lining your dash if you're a jeep wrangler driver.
Speaker 1: And I'm just not into that. Like I like the Jeep.
Speaker 1: I like the leather heatd seats, I like the hard top.
Speaker 1: I can take off when I want to, But I
Speaker 1: don't want the stupid rubber ducks lined up and every
Speaker 1: time I take a left or a right hand turn,
Speaker 1: they go sliding across your dash.
Speaker 3: I don't want that, Shannon, No stupid.
Speaker 4: Do you ever take your doors off though, because that
Speaker 4: seems a little crazy to me.
Speaker 1: No, Usually just the top I go topless. Yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go doorless.
Speaker 3: I feel like you could just roll down the window.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, you're really doing the most when you're
Speaker 4: on the interesting.
Speaker 1: When you take the doors off, though, you kind of
Speaker 1: feel like you're riding around in a really fast golf cart.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 2: There's just something about the freedom of the doors just off.
Speaker 4: Maybe when you're mudding or you're taking it off road.
Speaker 4: It'd be fun to have no doors.
Speaker 1: Not taking it mud. And I got paid a lot
Speaker 1: for that jeep. The last thing I'm want to do
Speaker 1: is take it and scratch it up.
Speaker 3: Scratch.
Speaker 1: See that's me though, I'm having it. I already told
Speaker 1: you I get my ducks to everybody else, my my
Speaker 1: buddies that drive jeeps who actually do go muddy Lucas.
Speaker 3: What's upcas, Hey.
Speaker 10: Good morning guys, thanks for taking my call. I love Mark,
Speaker 10: love what he's doing. My question little concern is when
Speaker 10: we've gone on these runs and other games and have
Speaker 10: won games, you can see the opposing coach they call
Speaker 10: a timer. He's got some fire in him, some passion.
Speaker 10: He players might seem, Oh, this coach is upset. We
Speaker 10: better start playing some better defense. I haven't seen once
Speaker 10: where Mark's like got angry or raised his voice and
Speaker 10: try to light a fire under the team. He's so
Speaker 10: just soft and I don't know if that will be
Speaker 10: an issue moving forward, but he at yes, yes, just
Speaker 10: some of the defensive breakdowns and they showed him on
Speaker 10: the screen and you could see his mouth, like his
Speaker 10: mouth wow, Like what have we got ourselves into here?
Speaker 10: I just lighting a fire under some of the players,
Speaker 10: showing some more emotion. Maybe that like what are we doing?
Speaker 10: We beat these ranked teams and then we show up
Speaker 10: some games and it's just not the same. That's what
Speaker 10: I had to say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for the call, Lucas.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting, Billy liked. Players have to be
Speaker 1: treated differently, whether or not you think that's fair, because
Speaker 1: certain players will react differently to a coach. Whether he
Speaker 1: is yelling at one player that might motivate player one,
Speaker 1: Player two may go into his shell if he gets
Speaker 1: jailed at So I think that you got to walk
Speaker 1: a fine line as a coach, like screaming at your ass.
Speaker 1: But you know, it is I kind of hear what
Speaker 1: he's saying, because Pope is he seems like he's so nice.
Speaker 1: He just I just feel like it's a different type
Speaker 1: of coaching temperament. Cala Perry versus.
Speaker 3: Definitely a different type.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess I would argue in in verse
Speaker 4: of that, is that just because you don't see him
Speaker 4: screaming at the referee doesn't mean he doesn't care, right,
Speaker 4: I mean you just kind of kind of like you said,
Speaker 4: these every kid needs to be coached a little differently,
Speaker 4: and especially this generation of kids.
Speaker 3: You've got to coach a lot differently.
Speaker 4: So I don't know if I equate you know, yelling
Speaker 4: on the sideline to you know, good coaching and caring
Speaker 4: about winning, because obviously all those guys here, But at times,
Speaker 4: as a fan and if you're frustrated, you do want
Speaker 4: to see a reaction, right You want to see the
Speaker 4: guys care about what they're doing, and maybe at times
Speaker 4: you could see Mark Pope's niceness as him not caring.
Speaker 4: I just see him in the postgame press conference just
Speaker 4: distraught and just as somebody that's going to go into
Speaker 4: a hole for the next five days trying to figure
Speaker 4: out what he's going to do without two starting point guards.
Speaker 4: I do feel like there is an element of bad
Speaker 4: luck that has played into the roster construction and situation
Speaker 4: right now. But at the same time, you know, throw
Speaker 4: the pity out the window. You have got to win games.
Speaker 4: You've got to be able to be in a position
Speaker 4: to make the NCAA tur so you can achieve your
Speaker 4: ultimate goals.
Speaker 1: If you listen to the sideline reporter last night, what's
Speaker 1: her name, Molly, Molly? Yeah, she was, uh, you like Molly,
Speaker 1: I like Molly, you like. She was basically saying like
Speaker 1: what Pope was saying during the time out, and it
Speaker 1: sounds like it's more positive reinforcement instead of just getting
Speaker 1: in your grill and getting yelled at, which is what
Speaker 1: we saw, you know, with with Cal a lot of times,
Speaker 1: we just you know, dress a guy down. Pope seems
Speaker 1: to be the type of coach that gives you positive reinforcement, like,
Speaker 1: come on, guys, we're still in this thing. And you
Speaker 1: know what, again, they didn't lay down. They didn't lay
Speaker 1: down and die and get beat.
Speaker 3: By before in the second half.
Speaker 4: And you know, Cal would pull somebody out if they
Speaker 4: missed two threes back to back, right. You know, Mark,
Speaker 4: Pope may leave you in there and try to work
Speaker 4: through your issues. But you know, one thing I'd love
Speaker 4: to see when guys get healthier is for them to
Speaker 4: tighten up this rotation, Shannon, because I feel like we
Speaker 4: were playing a lot of guys and that may be
Speaker 4: doing a disservice to the chemistry on the court at
Speaker 4: certain times and really the flow of the game. But ultimately,
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter who's on the court if you're going
Speaker 4: to get of the I guess maybe the the energy
Speaker 4: and effort that we saw in the first half.
Speaker 2: All right, before we go to the break, tell me
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Speaker 4: ready for the big game on Sunday.
Speaker 3: They've got some.
Speaker 4: Great appetizers like cono ste frios, the barrier tacos is
Speaker 4: something that I've come to love when I go at
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Speaker 4: guy or gal out there, this is the place to go.
Speaker 4: They've got some really good guacamole along with some keso
Speaker 4: and and the chorizo kaeso.
Speaker 3: Shannon, you ever get that?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah's so good. It's good stuff, man.
Speaker 4: I think it's treso concaso is what they call it
Speaker 4: over there. So a lot of great things. Check it
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Speaker 4: in Chevy Chase above Charlie Brown's. We will be at
Speaker 4: Poppy's Mexican Restaurant for a remote in the next couple weeks.
Speaker 4: Shan right, so excited to introduce some of that food
Speaker 4: to you.
Speaker 1: All Right, We're gonna go back to the phones when
Speaker 1: we get back, So hang on, Frank and Brandon and
Speaker 1: anybody else that wants to call it eight five nine
Speaker 1: two twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 2: It's the ksrpre show. Welcome back, It is the KSR
Speaker 2: pre show.
Speaker 1: Belly, you were telling me that buzz Baker had the
Speaker 1: hiccups during the pre show the pregame show last night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he texted me and Cameron and was like, thanks
Speaker 4: for all the help the other night. It was it
Speaker 4: was rough, and I did feel for Dave because he
Speaker 4: had a chronic case of the hiccups. And I don't
Speaker 4: know if you heard the first couple of segments, but
Speaker 4: he was really struggling.
Speaker 3: He had to get some help afterwards.
Speaker 4: Glad Dave's doing okay, but he's a professional.
Speaker 3: He fought through it. Shannon, but you ever had a
Speaker 3: chronic case of the hiccups?
Speaker 2: Not on the air, no, Like, do you know how
Speaker 2: to get rid of hiccups?
Speaker 4: Well, I only got twelve calls after Dave had the
Speaker 4: hiccups for the first two segments of people saying I
Speaker 4: don't want to be on the air, but here's how
Speaker 4: you fix the hiccups.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what worked?
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know if it worked, but he started
Speaker 4: standing up and then we also drew a dot on
Speaker 4: a piece of paper.
Speaker 3: He had to stare at the dot and then when
Speaker 3: he felt a hiccup coming on, he would stop breathing.
Speaker 3: That was the advice was No, I didn't try to
Speaker 3: scare him.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what works for me. My grandmother told
Speaker 2: me this.
Speaker 1: You take you hold your breath and take seven swallows
Speaker 1: of water. I don't know why at seven. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess maybe six or eight would work too, but
Speaker 1: it has always worked for me. I don't know that
Speaker 1: it works for everybody, but it works for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe six would do it, maybe eight.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 4: A woman come out call in and say, take eleven
Speaker 4: SIPs of water again, you'll be fine.
Speaker 1: I think the point is, hold your breath and sip
Speaker 1: some water. Do it you know, X amount of times
Speaker 1: and it'll go away. So glad that we much better now, Okay,
Speaker 1: you don't want to have hiccups thrust. Yeah, let's go
Speaker 1: to the phones.
Speaker 2: Frank. What's up, Frank?
Speaker 6: Hey, Shana, I figured i'd call back and acknowledge Billy today.
Speaker 2: Oh you don't have to. We can turn Billy's mic down.
Speaker 3: What's up, Frank, I'm.
Speaker 6: Not discouraged about Kentucky. You guys got to remember we're
Speaker 6: playing without our point guard. You take the head of
Speaker 6: the snake out of the lineup defensively, offensively. Did y'all
Speaker 6: notice how Ole Miss was guarding us in our jerseys?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were the only guy that we have.
Speaker 6: That can drive the ball is away a little bit.
Speaker 6: The rest of the team without Butler, they can play
Speaker 6: in your jersey because they have no threat of driving
Speaker 6: the basketball. And you've got car that's limited Kerr that's
Speaker 6: been out, so three of your top seven guys. But
Speaker 6: Pope's supposed to just pick up all the pieces and
Speaker 6: just is It's not going to happen like that again, Butler.
Speaker 2: I thank thee Yeah, thank you, Yeah, thanks for the call.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's the thing that teams are doing.
Speaker 1: Just guard the three, right, Just limit limit Kentucky from
Speaker 1: behind the arc real quick, Brandon, go ahead, Hey.
Speaker 11: Guys, I just wanted to make a comment on the
Speaker 11: whole Mark Pope is a soft coach. I mean, you
Speaker 11: don't play six years in the NBA the captain of
Speaker 11: a national championship team if you're assault individual. I just
Speaker 11: think he treats him like adults and with respect. I
Speaker 11: think if there's a time when he needs to yell
Speaker 11: at him, he's he's smart enough to know when that
Speaker 11: time comes right. And I just wanted if you all
Speaker 11: felt the same way or what your opinion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't agree with the caller at all. That
Speaker 2: said it that he was soft earlier. I don't think
Speaker 2: that's the case.
Speaker 4: I agree with the text line. Composure can be a
Speaker 4: good thing, that's right, coach right yep.
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