Speaker 1: Welcome everyone.
Speaker 2: This is the local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show. The
Speaker 2: Cats fall in a random, not positive Saturday afternoon in
Speaker 2: Rupperna ninety four to seventy eight to number one Auburn
Speaker 2: with just two games left in the season. The Cats
Speaker 2: now eight to eight in the SEC and nineteen and
Speaker 2: ten overall.
Speaker 1: You can give us a shout.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a Saturday afternoon after loss, so I'd
Speaker 2: love to talk to you. A five nine two eight
Speaker 2: ho twenty two eighty seven really an odd day. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you when we when I start,
Speaker 2: I didn't see the last twelve minutes of the game,
Speaker 2: and chances are you didn't either, right, Uh, because we
Speaker 2: lost the TV feed. I was told there was a
Speaker 2: pretty significant issue outside of RUP next to the television
Speaker 2: truck that caused it to lose all power. So that
Speaker 2: is why the game was not on the last twelve minutes.
Speaker 2: I can't remember there ever being a UK game in
Speaker 2: the last twenty five years where you just weren't able
Speaker 2: to watch it. You know, you would think that wouldn't happen,
Speaker 2: but I guess they lost all power and tried to
Speaker 2: do other things and just weren't able to do it.
Speaker 2: So but maybe a blessing in disguise because Kentucky I
Speaker 2: think when the power went out, was down what eighteen,
Speaker 2: and we ended up losing by by sixteen. You know,
Speaker 2: let's start. There's like four or five different things to
Speaker 2: throw in here. Number one, Auburn's really good, so just start.
Speaker 2: I will start with that. They are really really good.
Speaker 2: You know, Broom did not even have that big a
Speaker 2: game and they still were dominant.
Speaker 1: The Kelly kid got nine.
Speaker 2: Threes, which is the fourth most threes ever made in
Speaker 2: a game by an opposing player, and Roperna two of
Speaker 2: them were banked back to back, which is how I mean.
Speaker 2: I knew at that moment we were losing. You probably
Speaker 2: did as well. But you know, they were great. They
Speaker 2: are really really really good offensively, like historically good offensively
Speaker 2: when it comes to efficiency. And then defensively, I think
Speaker 2: they're really good too, And they had a great game
Speaker 2: plan tonight. They basically said, you know, we're gonna play
Speaker 2: everything outside three point line and good luck finishing at
Speaker 2: the rim. And we were bad at it. And I
Speaker 2: honestly think this game was lost. Well, it was lost
Speaker 2: in two phases. Phase one was when we made our
Speaker 2: first substitutions in the first half, and then Phase two
Speaker 2: was the last two minutes of the first half, in
Speaker 2: the first four minutes the second half. Really there were
Speaker 2: two phases, and Auburn was great in those phases. As
Speaker 2: soon as we went to the bench at the beginning,
Speaker 2: took the start, took a couple of the starters out,
Speaker 2: brought in a couple guys.
Speaker 1: Off the bench. They just took advantage.
Speaker 2: And even though they hit some contested looks, our offense,
Speaker 2: our offense just grinds to a halt, unfortunately when we
Speaker 2: get to the bench, and then in the start of
Speaker 2: the second half, it was our starters and six turnovers
Speaker 2: before you even get a field goal attempt up. That's
Speaker 2: that might be a record, that may be. That may
Speaker 2: be as poor of three minutes of offense as you'll
Speaker 2: ever see a group of good players play. Couldn't even
Speaker 2: couldn't even ribble the basketball turnovers that led to buckets
Speaker 2: eighteen turnovers for Kentucky today. So just a really poor
Speaker 2: Those two phases of the game are why we lost.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was seven to six when they made
Speaker 2: the sub and then all of a sudden it was
Speaker 2: twenty one to eight, and then I think it was
Speaker 2: what like a twelve thirteen point game at halftime, and
Speaker 2: it got up to twenty two quickly. And you know,
Speaker 2: those two runs, you're just not gonna overcome it. So
Speaker 2: those to me, Number one, Auburn's really good. Number two,
Speaker 2: we had two terrible phases. Third and you know, some
Speaker 2: of this is Auburn the way they're playing defense. But
Speaker 2: you know, if you had told me at the beginning
Speaker 2: of the season we're gonna have a game where we
Speaker 2: only make fourth, I might have predicted.
Speaker 1: A score like this. This is just not a team.
Speaker 2: Kentucky is not a team this year that is going
Speaker 2: to beat anybody going to the basket. We're just not
Speaker 2: that you can get buckets going to the basket. But
Speaker 2: like if you're an offensive, game plan is we're gonna
Speaker 2: score at the rim, We're just not good at it.
Speaker 2: Like Oway and Butler, you just can't consistently finish. We
Speaker 2: had four straight possessions that I counted basically possessions that
Speaker 2: were back to the basket shots. And while we hit
Speaker 2: some of those against Oklahoma, I just don't know. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's the least efficient shot in basketball is a post up.
Speaker 2: That's one of the misnomers is that people think next
Speaker 2: to a long two, the least efficient shot you can
Speaker 2: do is a is a post up. And our guys
Speaker 2: aren't great at it. And we had I think Williams
Speaker 2: missed a couple and car missed one or two. That
Speaker 2: was at the end of the first half. Our offensive
Speaker 2: game plan, it just didn't work. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean part of that is Auburn was not gonna
Speaker 2: let us get threes. But we've got to figure out
Speaker 2: an answer to that because these teams that are pressuring
Speaker 2: us on the outside and daring us to win at
Speaker 2: the rim, we're just not.
Speaker 1: We missed, by my count.
Speaker 2: Before the TV broadcast went off six shots at the rim. Again,
Speaker 2: if you want to beat the number one team in America,
Speaker 2: you can't do that. We made four threes, they made twelve. Okay,
Speaker 2: you give up twenty four points on the three point line,
Speaker 2: you're not gonna win.
Speaker 1: Then you throw in eighteen turnovers, you're not gonna win.
Speaker 2: So you know, Mark Pope said on this show, on
Speaker 2: the postgame show right before this said that we offered
Speaker 2: almost no defensive resistance and we're not able to do
Speaker 2: anything offensively. I mean he's right now. The defensive resistance
Speaker 2: we haven't offered much this year. But offensively, that was
Speaker 2: not a good performance for the first twenty eight minutes.
Speaker 1: Now again, I didn't get to see the last twelve.
Speaker 2: It looks like they got a little better, but still
Speaker 2: you're down so much at that point, you know, what,
Speaker 2: what what difference does it make? Also, Jackson Robinson is
Speaker 2: now out for the year. UH Pope announced afterwards he's
Speaker 2: gonna have surgery Wednesday. I'd actually heard they were gonna
Speaker 2: maybe send him to one more specialist on Monday or Tuesday.
Speaker 2: We talked about that on the pregame show in New York,
Speaker 2: a risk specialist to see if he could. Basically wanted
Speaker 2: to see can he play this year and get the
Speaker 2: surgery at the end of the year. And I guess
Speaker 2: it's been decided even before going to see UH the
Speaker 2: specialist that that that he can't, So they're gonna have
Speaker 2: He's gonna have surgery Wednesday. I wish the kid the best.
Speaker 2: I really liked him. I like him as a player.
Speaker 2: I think he's exactly what Kentucky needs. They just he
Speaker 2: can get his own shot. And we just don't have
Speaker 2: He may be the only player that can get his
Speaker 2: own shot consistently as a with a three. Butler and
Speaker 2: Oway can beat guys off the bounce sometimes, but Robinson
Speaker 2: can get open shake and get get a jumper and
Speaker 2: make it. And we're just not gonna have that right now.
Speaker 2: So I hate it for him, but I also hate
Speaker 2: for the team. I think I said at the end
Speaker 2: of the year that I thought for us to be great,
Speaker 2: he needed to be our best player.
Speaker 1: There were a handful of games where he was, but
Speaker 1: we don't have him.
Speaker 2: So now you got to look at the tournament and go, okay,
Speaker 2: we're not going to have him, now what. And my
Speaker 2: look at it is this we got without Jackson Robinson.
Speaker 1: I think we got five guys that are really good.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think our starting five, which is Butler, Oway,
Speaker 2: Brea Williams and Carr, is a NCA tournament Elite eight
Speaker 2: level starting five. The problem is that without Kerkresa and
Speaker 2: without Jackson Robinson, our bench is not good. Our bench
Speaker 2: had five points tonight. Okay, our bench made one field
Speaker 2: goal tonight. And I don't say this like I think
Speaker 2: all those kids they have a role. But then when
Speaker 2: they they're being asked to step into a bigger role
Speaker 2: than was envision for them. And you know, I think
Speaker 2: Ansley Amanor can get you buckets sometimes. I think Brandon
Speaker 2: Garrison can have good games like he did against Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: I think there are.
Speaker 2: Moments that Noah Perry and Chandler in the right situation
Speaker 2: can give you spot minutes that can work. But to me,
Speaker 2: we got five guys who can play against teams like
Speaker 2: Auburn at an elite level, and we're probably in the
Speaker 2: tournament just gonna have to roll with them, and it
Speaker 2: is what it is. I mean, to Pope's credit, he
Speaker 2: did some of that tonight. I mean, Braya played thirty
Speaker 2: eight minutes. So you know there's a part of me,
Speaker 2: Billy that goes this notion that like you're at maximum efficiency.
Speaker 2: He played bray a thirty eight minutes, so clearly he
Speaker 2: knew that there's times you have to.
Speaker 3: Do that right And we want to make a three.
Speaker 2: Thirty eight minutes, Butler played thirty two, Williams played thirty one.
Speaker 2: I applaud that's but that's what this team is gonna
Speaker 2: have to be. Car played twenty eight. Ohway only played
Speaker 2: twenty but that was because of foul trouble. He had
Speaker 2: some really stupid fouls. And I'm I'm not gonna get
Speaker 2: mad at him because he had such a good game
Speaker 2: against Oklahoma, but like the third foul over the back
Speaker 2: was a terrible foul. He fouled on that three. I
Speaker 2: don't like the call now that three point shooters, if
Speaker 2: you land on their feet, they call it, but they
Speaker 2: do and we know it, so we're doing we're fouling
Speaker 2: on that so much now, Cars was a bad call
Speaker 2: card that he didn't touch them, but Oway did, And like,
Speaker 2: our guys are not doing what these other players are
Speaker 2: to draw the fouls, so we're getting killed by it.
Speaker 2: But those are our five and I think Pope, I
Speaker 2: don't know this, but I would think he's gonna go
Speaker 2: in the tournament. We're probably playing thirty two to thirty
Speaker 2: six minutes with those. Those are the guys. Like those five,
Speaker 2: they're gonna win it or lose it for us. And
Speaker 2: the thing is they can't have bad games in the
Speaker 2: tournam Like we need all five guys to play well.
Speaker 2: Oway did not play well tonight in the first half.
Speaker 2: None of them played great except for Mari, but they
Speaker 2: were all okay, but Oway never played well. Let's say
Speaker 2: Oway instead of four, gets fifteen. All right, now it's
Speaker 2: a game. Let's say our bench, our bitch, has to
Speaker 2: score more than five points. I mean, come on, Chandler
Speaker 2: had four, Garson had one. You can't do that. You're
Speaker 2: gonna have to get more than five, even in spot minutes.
Speaker 2: They have to get more than that. So disappointing result.
Speaker 2: I'm not like, I'm not a what you know, doom
Speaker 2: and gloom. I'd say at this moment, Kentucky is probably
Speaker 2: still maybe the last three seed, maybe the first four,
Speaker 2: but probably still the last three. Losing to Auburn, I
Speaker 2: mean their number one team in the nation, that doesn't
Speaker 2: kill you. I think they're still trending towards being the
Speaker 2: eight seed in the SEC tournament, which would mean playing
Speaker 2: Auburn in the in the second round if you got there, uh,
Speaker 2: in the quarterfinals.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this right now. Right now, we are
Speaker 1: in eighth place.
Speaker 2: Mississippi State and Vandy still have to play, but I
Speaker 2: think we will have the tiebreaker on both of them.
Speaker 2: The problem is Old miss they won and we don't
Speaker 2: have the tiebreaker, So I think our chance of moving
Speaker 2: up to the seven has kind of gone away, so
Speaker 2: we're probably gonna be the eight, probably gonna end up
Speaker 2: playing that first game Thursday at one o'clock, and we
Speaker 2: might see this Auburn team in the quarterfinals again. So
Speaker 2: that's kind of what we're looking at. Tough day, great crowd.
Speaker 2: I thought the energy before the game was awesome. I
Speaker 2: thought the crowd was awesome, and then then it was
Speaker 2: hard for them to have a lot to cheer about,
Speaker 2: and they tried, but you know, you're down fifteen in
Speaker 2: the first half. It's pretty tough. And we now also
Speaker 2: have a gamebillity that we'll know as the ABC lost
Speaker 2: the feed game, first SEC game I can remember on
Speaker 2: ABC in twenty years, and it's also becomes the first
Speaker 2: game they ended up out on television.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, how does that happen?
Speaker 1: How does that happen? Well, I told you how it happened.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know how to genera.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't think we were supposed to say fire.
Speaker 2: Billy said that for the record, not me.
Speaker 3: Oh why not?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, apparently there was a fire outside the whoops,
Speaker 2: what is wrong with you?
Speaker 1: You really?
Speaker 4: For two?
Speaker 5: I think they just didn't want to say fire, and
Speaker 5: Billy's like fire. Uh okay, So that's why I didn't
Speaker 5: come on. It wasn't a fixable situation. I don't know,
Speaker 5: presumably like I should have been able to see it
Speaker 5: from my house like Sarah Palin, but I wasn't able to.
Speaker 5: But so now you get go down in history. We
Speaker 5: missed the last twelve minute. Can you imagine if this
Speaker 5: game was close, Billy?
Speaker 2: What if this was like a two point game with
Speaker 2: four minutes to go and beat compete.
Speaker 1: That I mean, it would have been.
Speaker 2: Probably it's best for everyone at the Worldwide Leader of
Speaker 2: Sports that that this game was not closed, because our
Speaker 2: fans would have lost it if we had not been
Speaker 2: able to watch a close game.
Speaker 1: Uh eight twenty two eighty seven. We're gonna take your calls.
Speaker 2: Billy will tell you more things he's probably not supposed
Speaker 2: to say.
Speaker 1: That's next here on the Local Toy Dealers KSR Post
Speaker 1: game show. Welcome back.
Speaker 2: It is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show. I said,
Speaker 2: by the way that we were in good shape to
Speaker 2: get the buy. That's not one hundred percent certain because
Speaker 2: all right, so Mississippi State's playing.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma right now?
Speaker 3: Or is it LSU.
Speaker 2: LSU Uh, it looks like they're gonna win. If they win,
Speaker 2: then we're tied with him, but we do have the tiebreaker.
Speaker 2: But they have two games left and they may not lose.
Speaker 2: They play Texas at home and then at Arkansas. We
Speaker 2: need them to assuming we beat ls we need them
Speaker 2: to at least lose one of those, so we might
Speaker 2: need CAL to beat them in that last game in
Speaker 2: order for us to get the buye. So we need
Speaker 2: to beat LSU and then probably need because if we
Speaker 2: lose to Missouri, will need CAL to beat to beat
Speaker 2: Mississippi State to move on. So wait and see. How
Speaker 2: about that? First of all, who called it? I called
Speaker 2: that game. I didn't think they'd lose. I didn't think
Speaker 2: they'd only have twenty points with ten minutes to go
Speaker 2: in the second half. It was a history like it
Speaker 2: was there. They had the fewest points they've scored in
Speaker 2: a game since nineteen eighty eight in the first half.
Speaker 2: But I knew they were gonna lose that game. Cal
Speaker 2: always loses that game, but I didn't think it was
Speaker 2: gonna be by that much. And then Alabama leads at Tennessee,
Speaker 2: which would be another one.
Speaker 1: Abillity that I picked that none of you all picked.
Speaker 2: I could be two to oher on those you did, however,
Speaker 2: pick Auburn, whereas we all picked Kentucky. Who's up first, Tasha, Tasha,
Speaker 2: go ahead, Tash, Tasha.
Speaker 6: So I was at the game, shout out to Chris
Speaker 6: and Elizabeth were suffering through that with us, and Andrew.
Speaker 6: If you're listening, I'm not gonna switch seats with you.
Speaker 6: But I've been a season ticket holder for three years
Speaker 6: and Mark Pope's first year aside, you know, it's been
Speaker 6: a rough stretch of losing all the big games at
Speaker 6: home that matter. Gonzagas.
Speaker 1: We didn't lose all the big games at home, Tasha,
Speaker 1: We didn't lose all the big games we beat. We
Speaker 1: beat Louisble at home. We beat Florida at home, we
Speaker 1: beat Tennessee at home. We want.
Speaker 2: We did lose Arkansas, we did lose Alabama. Hang on,
Speaker 2: we did lose Arkansas. We did lose Alabama, we did
Speaker 2: lose Auburam, but we didn't lose them all. We were
Speaker 2: for what I would consider big games in Rock.
Speaker 6: We were three and three well the last three years.
Speaker 6: I'm a season ticket holder, but I haven't been to
Speaker 6: all the games. You know, I had to sell some
Speaker 6: of them to compensate for the cost. So I feel
Speaker 6: like the games that I've been to anyway, the games
Speaker 6: that matter. You know, before I was a season ticket holder,
Speaker 6: I was twenty and oh like we won every game.
Speaker 6: So maybe it's me. I don't know, but it's been
Speaker 6: a rough stretch and I'm I'm just gonna leave you
Speaker 6: with one last thing. I'm not gonna cuss, but one
Speaker 6: thing that I left with the game. You know, Doug Shows.
Speaker 6: It's like, if you Dug come on, man.
Speaker 7: That was rough.
Speaker 1: But Duck Showers didn't do that. Duck Shows didn't do
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 8: I thought that was Doug.
Speaker 1: It was not. So if you were cussing at Dug Shows,
Speaker 1: he wasn't there.
Speaker 6: Well, whoever it was, he got Duck Shows.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call. Poor Dug Shows. She's out there
Speaker 2: cussing it. Dug Shows, he's not even He's not even
Speaker 2: on the game. You think you're thinking about Joe Lindsey.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: The first half was brutal from an officiating standpoint. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, again, we have to be fair as Kentucky fans.
Speaker 2: We I mean, they called a lot more fouls on Auburn,
Speaker 2: or at least at one point it was a lot
Speaker 2: more fouls on Auburn than us. But some of the
Speaker 2: call I mean Andrew Carr three call was terrible, the
Speaker 2: dumb off, the.
Speaker 1: Butler fray.
Speaker 2: I mean that probably technically is a flagrant, but that's
Speaker 2: not the spirit of the rule. Plus you didn't even
Speaker 2: call foul on the floor, Like, I don't understand how
Speaker 2: you cannot.
Speaker 1: There were two calls there that made no sense to me.
Speaker 2: I don't understand how you cannot call a foul then
Speaker 2: decide to review it.
Speaker 1: To find a flagrant.
Speaker 2: Like if you didn't see enough to even call a foul,
Speaker 2: why did you even go to the monitor? Now, with
Speaker 2: that said, he did hit him in the face, And
Speaker 2: whether I think that's a good rule or not.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: And then I don't understand the double foul, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't get that either. How is there a double foul?
Speaker 2: Like who calls that? They called the foul on Garrison
Speaker 2: went to the monitor and called a double foul. And
Speaker 2: the reason they did that is they saw that they
Speaker 2: clearly Broom had fouled Garrison first, and so they were like, well,
Speaker 2: I guess we have to call a double foul.
Speaker 1: The monitor reviews. They gotta do something about that long.
Speaker 2: I I agree with Joe. I agree with Jay Bills,
Speaker 2: Jay Billson. He he is exactly right. Just give make
Speaker 2: it like the NBA, give each coach one review. If
Speaker 2: he ends up getting it right, then he gets another
Speaker 2: one and then you know, review in the last minute
Speaker 2: or something. But like this this idea that you have
Speaker 2: to review everything, like come on, especially in the first half,
Speaker 2: Like just come on, keep going these games.
Speaker 1: That first half was like an hour and a half.
Speaker 2: You know, that's they got to stop that, Like it's
Speaker 2: it's unnecessary and it takes too long, you know, the
Speaker 2: review of a rebounding foul for stop, just stop.
Speaker 3: Who's next, Brad?
Speaker 1: What's up? Brad Man?
Speaker 9: I'm calling the complain about the rest today.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding, well I was. I mean, there were
Speaker 1: some things to complain about, but we lost. We got whipped.
Speaker 1: Like it's not the it's not the rest fall. We
Speaker 1: got whipped.
Speaker 9: No, No, I'm calling more so about the injuries. I
Speaker 9: don't know if you read the the KSR website article, Yeah,
Speaker 9: the percentages, Like I think since like twenty twenty or
Speaker 9: twenty one that we haven't had a full roster. My
Speaker 9: comment is we have to go all out next year somehow.
Speaker 9: I don't know how we can make it happen. No,
Speaker 9: walk on, we got to have twelve thirteen, Well, we
Speaker 9: had twelve this year.
Speaker 1: We had twelve this year. I mean like during the Calaira,
Speaker 1: I think that was.
Speaker 2: A reasonable complaint that we didn't have enough guys. But
Speaker 2: we got twelve guys. Now, could he have gotten the thirteenth?
Speaker 2: I think he wanted to leave. He decided to leave
Speaker 2: the thirteenth scholarship open because he thought something would come
Speaker 2: up in the summer. I guess it did not. In hindsight,
Speaker 2: it would have been nice to have someone, just someone
Speaker 2: in that.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I think Mark's gonna have to really think about how
Speaker 2: he builds these rosters, because you know, you've got next year.
Speaker 1: We already have three freshmen. He's trying to get a
Speaker 1: four freshmen.
Speaker 2: If you were to assume you get Perry Chandler and
Speaker 2: Noah all back, then that's the seven of your of
Speaker 2: your spots are being taken up by freshman and sophomores.
Speaker 2: Whereas Auburd's out there playing twenty five year olds, right,
Speaker 2: and so.
Speaker 10: Yeah, exactly. I mean I don't know, I don't I
Speaker 10: don't think it's on him, you know, I mean it's
Speaker 10: this weird, fluoky things have happened, But I just I
Speaker 10: just want to see a deep, like a super deep team,
Speaker 10: you know, like some of the Patino's teams. I mean
Speaker 10: they just threw waves of guys that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but pat is a different era. Patino was a
Speaker 1: different area.
Speaker 2: You like, you can't you cannot compare Patino when guys
Speaker 2: stayed three and four years to now. Now you have
Speaker 2: to make a decision as a coach, Go get elite
Speaker 2: freshmen or go get twenty three year olds that are
Speaker 2: pretty good now, I think.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean yeah, when you get paid.
Speaker 1: The big but you can start making I agree with that,
Speaker 1: agree with it.
Speaker 11: Maybe go D two, Maybe you go europe.
Speaker 2: On going Juco, But I do think we'll see Europeans.
Speaker 2: I do think we'll see Europeans. And I appreciate the call.
Speaker 2: He also only had a month to put the team together,
Speaker 2: so you got to give him a break. He had
Speaker 2: a month and we literally had not one player. So
Speaker 2: I mean Cal, remember Cal left the weekend of the
Speaker 2: Final four and actually didn't leave leave until the day
Speaker 2: of the championship game, so you know it's not he
Speaker 2: only had a few weeks, so I give him some
Speaker 2: some some grace. But I do think, you know, this
Speaker 2: was an interesting game tonight to watch.
Speaker 1: To men.
Speaker 2: I think our starting five was not as good as Auburn,
Speaker 2: but competitive with Auburn. But when we went to the bench,
Speaker 2: it was men and boys. If we're being honest, starting
Speaker 2: five Auburn's better, but we could run with him bench
Speaker 2: men amongst boys, and so I I think we've got
Speaker 2: to think in the future, like I think teams in
Speaker 2: the two teams that have the best chance to win
Speaker 2: the national championship are Auburn and Duke. They are built
Speaker 2: on two completely different philosophies, but they are built on
Speaker 2: the peak of those two philosophies. Duke is the one
Speaker 2: and done philosophy. But they don't just have one and Dons.
Speaker 2: They have one and Dons like the first six or
Speaker 2: seven years of Cow. They've got three of the top
Speaker 2: eight picks in the draft. So you can't go get
Speaker 2: freshmen unless they're gonna be three of the top eight
Speaker 2: guys in the draft, right, So I look at our
Speaker 2: freshman next year, I think they're gonna be really good.
Speaker 2: But do we have three of the top eight guys
Speaker 2: in the draft. No, So we got to make sure
Speaker 2: to go get the second way, which is Auburn's way,
Speaker 2: which is to go get juniors and seniors that are
Speaker 2: really good and hopefully one of them is a stud
Speaker 2: like Broom. That's what we got to do now. This year,
Speaker 2: I don't know that Pope had the time to do that.
Speaker 2: He had a few weeks. But next year, that's why
Speaker 2: I'm excited for Jasper Johnson. I'm excited for Malecai Moreno,
Speaker 2: I'm excited for a Kayden Lewis. But you are not
Speaker 2: winning a title if those are three of your five
Speaker 2: best players in my opinion, So we're gonna have to
Speaker 2: go into Portal. Always gonna be one of our best players,
Speaker 2: assuming he comes back, but we're gonna have to go.
Speaker 1: Into Portal and get three or four studs.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, if we want to really compete next year,
Speaker 2: and I think we will. I think we got the
Speaker 2: Nile money. I think they'll probably get at least one
Speaker 2: European that's really good. But we have to do that,
Speaker 2: and tonight is an example why because these teams, like
Speaker 2: as soon as they switch college basketball to where everybody
Speaker 2: has five years of eligibility, they're gonna be teams like
Speaker 2: Auburn every year. And I think we need to be
Speaker 2: one of those, because I'm not sure that going and
Speaker 2: getting Cooper flags is gonna be what Pope does. So
Speaker 2: we gotta go get Johnny Burhms. Who's that, Jeremy, Jeremy ahead.
Speaker 1: Jeremy.
Speaker 12: Matt how you doing today? Appreciate taking a call. Three takeaways.
Speaker 12: I've been a Kentucky fan for forty eight out of
Speaker 12: forty eight years of my life, and three things is
Speaker 12: one we got to give Cope.
Speaker 13: I mean, you just took my thoughts.
Speaker 12: He's only been here, not even a year. We beat
Speaker 12: some behemos already. But the other thing that bothers me,
Speaker 12: he seems a bit a little little opie from Andy
Speaker 12: Griffs with this team, in the fact.
Speaker 14: That you have Lamont Butler, who has been designated as
Speaker 14: one of.
Speaker 12: The best defenders in the country, but also with the
Speaker 12: flip side with his turnovers too, and him and oh
Speaker 12: Way missing. I could have counted ten layups between the
Speaker 12: two of them today, and then with Jackson being out,
Speaker 12: you know, I just think you got to accept what
Speaker 12: we did good this year and hopefully get some luck
Speaker 12: in a tournament.
Speaker 15: Roll on.
Speaker 2: But this has been like when you say, like Opie,
Speaker 2: like what do you mean what do you want him to?
Speaker 1: I mean, like, what what is it you want him
Speaker 1: to do?
Speaker 14: It seems like the team is taken a little bit
Speaker 14: of his charisma and it kind of a sow I
Speaker 14: would say, a little bit soft spoken, a little not
Speaker 14: not as tough on the on his players as we're
Speaker 14: used to.
Speaker 2: But but you do not I mean to be honest
Speaker 2: though he's not. That's not who he is. And and
Speaker 2: I think you hit the key word as we're used to. Okay,
Speaker 2: but like, well there there there are many different ways
Speaker 2: to there are many different ways to coach a team. Okay,
Speaker 2: you've got and there's a lot of ways that can work.
Speaker 2: Danny Hurley and cal And and Bruce Pearl can scream,
Speaker 2: John Shire barely talks and his team's are really good, right,
Speaker 2: Like everybody's got it, you know, Brad Stevens went to
Speaker 2: the National Championship game back to back years and he
Speaker 2: barely said a word on the sidelines. Like everybody's got
Speaker 2: a different way.
Speaker 1: Of doing it.
Speaker 12: Matt, that's a that's a really good point. But with
Speaker 12: this team is they they lacked three things and and
Speaker 12: it seems like it comes directly from the coach to
Speaker 12: siscality issues. There is defensive especially defensively that we're not
Speaker 12: up in anybody kind.
Speaker 2: But we're not good defensively. Like I think he's I
Speaker 2: think he's coaching the team he has.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Now, look, he doesn't always get the excuse of your
Speaker 2: coaching the team you have because in today's college basketball,
Speaker 2: you build the team. I'm giving him a break this
Speaker 2: year because he only had three and a half weeks
Speaker 2: to build a team.
Speaker 1: But in general, like our guys are not good defensively.
Speaker 2: So part of the reason I talk so much about
Speaker 2: offense is I've accepted we are not going.
Speaker 1: To beat teams defensively. We're just not. These dudes are
Speaker 1: not good defensively, but we can score a lot, which
Speaker 1: is why our offense has to be crisp and efficient.
Speaker 1: And tonight, for the first thirty minutes, it was not.
Speaker 12: Man, I'll agree with you on one thing is that
Speaker 12: it looked like Auburn had definitely took away obviously, as
Speaker 12: you mentioned that kills me is that we missed so
Speaker 12: many darn lefts and bunnies at the rim. But even
Speaker 12: at the even at our best, we're not putting up
Speaker 12: the threes that we were accustomed to, especially from Mark
Speaker 12: Pope earlier in the season. I mean, who figured what out?
Speaker 2: But they well, but I mean they took it out
Speaker 2: from us. Yeah, I appreciate the call. They took it
Speaker 2: away from us, and so your job as a coach.
Speaker 2: And again, they're really good, Like they're really good. I
Speaker 2: think if they played like they did tonight, it was gonna.
Speaker 1: Be really hard for us to win no matter what.
Speaker 2: But I wish this game had been competitive, because if
Speaker 2: we're honest, it really wasn't. For I mean, we we
Speaker 2: cut it to like eight a couple times late in
Speaker 2: the first half, but we were down double digits thirty
Speaker 2: minutes of the forty minutes of the game. And so
Speaker 2: that's the part that's frustrating to me. But we have
Speaker 2: like no against great teams. Against Alabama Auburn, we have
Speaker 2: no margin of error on offense. We have to be
Speaker 2: great offensively because we're not gonna be good defensively.
Speaker 1: We have to be great.
Speaker 2: We cannot have eighteen turnovers. We cannot go four for
Speaker 2: seventeen from three, like we have to be great. We
Speaker 2: can't have oh way, you know, get have four fouls
Speaker 2: within the first three minutes the second half, Like, we
Speaker 2: just can't do that, and we did tonight, and that's
Speaker 2: why the game wasn't copetitive.
Speaker 1: Who's next to.
Speaker 3: That point, Goose said, they looked rattled on no offense,
Speaker 3: and they didn't have a clue of what to do
Speaker 3: at times.
Speaker 1: I did not, and that surprised me.
Speaker 2: This is the first time all year, even when we've
Speaker 2: played bad, I never thought we looked like like Cow's
Speaker 2: teams often did, where they just stand.
Speaker 1: Around and don't really know what to do. We did tonight.
Speaker 2: I think Auburn switched everything, but they're not the first
Speaker 2: team that's done that to us. Auburn switched everything, and
Speaker 2: we just we just couldn't. Then in the second half,
Speaker 2: we started, you know, from what I could here on
Speaker 2: the radio, it sounded like we started being better. But
Speaker 2: in the first half we could not get anything going.
Speaker 2: We try to take guys one on one, which is
Speaker 2: not this team strength, and it just fell apart the offense.
Speaker 2: You know, obviously, the six turnovers at started the second
Speaker 2: half were bad.
Speaker 1: But at the first half, even though we scored, I just.
Speaker 2: Felt like most of our points were free throws, like
Speaker 2: we just we looked discombobulated. And I was really surprised
Speaker 2: to see that who's next, Nate, Nate, go ahead and Nate.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Matt, speaking of what you're just talking about, that
Speaker 13: the one on ones were not us tonight, even with
Speaker 13: Amari bringing the ball up, and you've got poked multiple times,
Speaker 13: even stolen a couple of times. I just wanted to touch
Speaker 13: on the point of five points off the bench Al
Speaker 13: Tandler with the only field. You can't submen players to
Speaker 13: only place the party sense. They have to play some
Speaker 13: type of offense, you know, not.
Speaker 1: No, that's a very good point. You can't play no.
Speaker 2: I mean, well I'll say it. You cannot play Travis
Speaker 2: Perry and Trent Noah if they don't score.
Speaker 1: I mean you just can't.
Speaker 2: And the same thing and all the Nor's the same way,
Speaker 2: all three of those guys. You cannot play those guys
Speaker 2: if they're not scoring, because they're gonna kill you defensively, so.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to score.
Speaker 2: And Garrison has he was better defensively against against Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: But he's not a good defender either. So Colin Chandler
Speaker 2: is a decent defender. But like, you can't play those
Speaker 2: guys if they're not gonna score. So they gotta score,
Speaker 2: you know, and they gotta and and tonight they.
Speaker 13: Didn't exactly matt Man and and even to touch more
Speaker 13: on that, you know, it's just even one until go
Speaker 13: off the bench as Colin Chandler.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean he's he's the Yeah, as odd
Speaker 1: as it is to say.
Speaker 2: And I appreciate the call, as odd as it is
Speaker 2: to say, because I four weeks ago wasn't even sure
Speaker 2: Colin Chandler could play here. He in the in these
Speaker 2: games against his teams, at least has not looked scared.
Speaker 1: Well, it's not really fair. I don't think Travis Perry's
Speaker 1: looks scared too.
Speaker 2: I just don't think he can guard these guys right now.
Speaker 2: And so there's just guys look so timid. I mean,
Speaker 2: Ansley almanor Man, Like, if you're in the game, you
Speaker 2: shoot these guys who like, you know, Butler did it
Speaker 2: a couple of times Brea in the first half, Like
Speaker 2: what are we waiting on?
Speaker 1: We're not gonna get.
Speaker 2: A if you have a look from three, we are
Speaker 2: not gonna get a better shot than Braa from three.
Speaker 1: And the idea that they pump fake, it's like, shoot,
Speaker 1: that's the against a team like Auburn, that's the best
Speaker 1: we're going to get. Let's do one more and we'll
Speaker 1: take a break. Shad, what's up?
Speaker 4: It's shot?
Speaker 15: Actually all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 15: And uh yeah right uh now, Matt, I tell you,
Speaker 15: I get a big kick out a listen to you
Speaker 15: because you've got great energy and enthusiasm and you have
Speaker 15: a really good sense he humor. So I really enjoy
Speaker 15: hearing your program. And I want to compliment Mark Pope,
Speaker 15: and that is a classic guy. I think Kentucky's in
Speaker 15: great hands with him in the long term. I did
Speaker 15: want to say something though. A couple of years ago,
Speaker 15: Billy said some very uncomplimentary things about Auburn. I was
Speaker 15: wondering if maybe Billy could bring himself to say something
Speaker 15: nice today.
Speaker 2: Well, he did pick Auburn. He was the only one
Speaker 2: on the show to pick him. So Auburn, Billy, do
Speaker 2: you want to say something nice about Auburn?
Speaker 3: About Auburn?
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you say something mean a couple years ago?
Speaker 3: I don't remember that he did.
Speaker 15: And I don't remember exactly what it was, but it
Speaker 15: was it was, you know, it was really kind of mean.
Speaker 15: So I was going to give him a chance to redeem.
Speaker 1: Appreciate the call. Do you want to redeem yourself with
Speaker 1: Auburn fans?
Speaker 3: No, I don't care what Auburn fans think of me.
Speaker 3: But I mean, I've got plenty of things I need
Speaker 3: to redeem myself for.
Speaker 1: But that is not one week. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if the Auburn fans.
Speaker 2: Well, I will say this to Auburn fans if you're listening,
Speaker 2: including that guy, You guys are really good.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a really, really good team.
Speaker 2: I was sitting there thinking, you know, non Kentucky teams
Speaker 2: in the SEC in the last fifteen years, how many
Speaker 2: have been better than this Auburn team. I mean, last
Speaker 2: year's Alabama team went to the Final four, and I
Speaker 2: think they were good. But this Auburn team's better than
Speaker 2: that Alabama team.
Speaker 1: Was last year. You know, I don't know, man, when's
Speaker 1: there been an SEC team better than this Auburn team.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe Florida one of those years that year
Speaker 1: they've made the Final four.
Speaker 2: No, I mean definitely that Noah team, but that was
Speaker 2: twenty years or eighteen years ago.
Speaker 1: That Noah team was better. But like.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I mean, you might have to go
Speaker 2: but if you're taking away Kentucky teams, you might have
Speaker 2: to go back to that Noah team for the last
Speaker 2: time there's been an SEC team this good that's not Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't think Florida went to the final four in.
Speaker 2: Like fourteen maybe was that where that was that team
Speaker 2: really good? Florida had one really good team in like eleven, twelve,
Speaker 2: thirteenth sports something like that. They had a really good team.
Speaker 2: One of Billy's last teams was really good. But I
Speaker 2: want to say it was fourteen maybe, But but this
Speaker 2: one probably got to go back to Noah to find
Speaker 2: one as good as I think this Auburn team is.
Speaker 1: We'll take a break.
Speaker 2: Eight five, nine, two, eight to oh twenty two eighty seven.
Speaker 1: Be right back to the Local Toy Dealers KSR Post
Speaker 1: game Show. Welcome back.
Speaker 2: It is the Local Toy Dealers KSR Post game Show.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes Billy I can't remember like the easiest things,
Speaker 2: like people's names that I've known my whole life, and
Speaker 2: the other day, I was completely blanking on my Social
Speaker 2: Security number.
Speaker 1: Oh you know, like I mean, I know, I know, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it was like I get it confused with my
Speaker 1: phone numbers sometimes.
Speaker 2: But anyway, but then you can remember things like I
Speaker 2: was right about the twenty fourteen Florida team.
Speaker 3: Oh, that was right, that's the I was.
Speaker 1: That was the right year.
Speaker 2: It was twenty fourteen. They went thirty six and three
Speaker 2: that year and lost in the final four. They lost
Speaker 2: to Yukon. Right before we lost to Yukon, they went
Speaker 2: undefeated in the SEC. So so yeah, I was right
Speaker 2: about that the twenty fourteen Florida so that I would
Speaker 2: say this Auburn team is the best since that twenty
Speaker 2: fourteen Florida team, because that team was really good. I
Speaker 2: can't remember who they had. They had like one really
Speaker 2: really good dude. We were in the final four in Houston.
Speaker 2: We played like, well we played you no way, manu. Yeah,
Speaker 2: who did we beat in the semifinals because they lost
Speaker 2: to Yukon. Who do we beat in the semifinals in
Speaker 2: twenty fourteen?
Speaker 3: I am not sure. I was going to look up
Speaker 3: the Florida Gator run I.
Speaker 2: Met that was our run. So we beat We beat Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: That's right, so we beat we beat Wisconsin. In the
Speaker 2: final four, Aaron Harrison hit the shot. Played Yukon, who
Speaker 2: beat Florida, and that Florida team was the best team
Speaker 2: in the final four, but Yukon upset him and then
Speaker 2: of course beat us as well.
Speaker 1: All right, who's up next?
Speaker 3: Heather from Louisville.
Speaker 1: Is Heather from Louisville? How are you, Heather?
Speaker 16: I'm great?
Speaker 1: How are you good? What's up?
Speaker 16: I wanted to say, Pope. We all thought whatever, he
Speaker 16: wasn't going to be good, but you know, our team
Speaker 16: is doing great. But I also wanted to call in
Speaker 16: because I'm giving a shout out to Heather from Pike
Speaker 16: County and I am wanting her. I have already been
Speaker 16: meschanging messaging her she needs a call in and.
Speaker 1: I talked to her today. I talked to her, talked.
Speaker 16: Job and I'm very I should have also, no, I've
Speaker 16: all I should have gone with Ryan. Ryan chose Auburn
Speaker 16: and unfortunately I chose But you know what, it's been
Speaker 16: a great year and it's been exciting.
Speaker 2: And appreciate the call Heather. I talked to Heather from
Speaker 2: Pikebell She is going.
Speaker 1: To call in, not today, but before the year's out.
Speaker 2: So I think she's willing to, if not forgive Billy,
Speaker 2: at least move forward in a positive manner.
Speaker 1: So that's some good news.
Speaker 3: Hey, I've reached out and apologized and I gave her
Speaker 3: the hotline number so she can join the show.
Speaker 1: Good for you. Look at you. We're seeing growth here.
Speaker 1: You apologize.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm still not letting college on three shows
Speaker 3: in a row. That's too mad, all right?
Speaker 1: Stand by Tennessee and Alabama. It's a four point game.
Speaker 2: Very cool, but dig Byte part of the broadcasting crews
Speaker 2: getting the standing of ovation as we as we talk
Speaker 2: right now, I'm glad. I don't know if he'll do
Speaker 2: another year, but I'm glad he's getting to do these
Speaker 2: uh these runs. Wish he could have come to RUP
Speaker 2: for one of them, but uh uh. Hopefully we'll be
Speaker 2: back next year. But it's even if he's not, it's
Speaker 2: very cool that he's getting to do uh this year.
Speaker 1: Who's next?
Speaker 3: I haven't heard from him in a while. Bob and
Speaker 3: Jamestown is up next.
Speaker 2: Bob and Jamestown, How were you a five nine eighty seven?
Speaker 4: ABCTV dropped the ball not only UK. I mean, I
Speaker 4: can't believe it. Here they have a blockbuster game. We
Speaker 4: got the you know, number one team and the SEC
Speaker 4: coming in there.
Speaker 1: And then they did well, to be fair to them,
Speaker 1: they had a fire.
Speaker 2: There was a fire out in there outside of their
Speaker 2: production truck and it and it like burned the power off.
Speaker 2: So in some respect, I mean, it is a mistake,
Speaker 2: but like, I don't really know what you wanted them
Speaker 2: to do after that.
Speaker 4: I thought maybe the ice cream machine broke that or somebody.
Speaker 1: Anyway, this is why this.
Speaker 4: Is I finish, since I'll burn thirty seven years since
Speaker 4: they've had a UK win. I gets they're a basketball
Speaker 4: school now anyway, this year anyway. But and then another thing.
Speaker 9: About the ABC at halftime, they said I.
Speaker 4: Had a thing up their Arkansas issues, but they may
Speaker 4: never addressed it.
Speaker 11: What's going on with Arkansas?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I appreciate the call about thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Uh what you I mean? I'm being nice?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, it's yeah, it's I mean, we lost by
Speaker 1: a lot. I'm stay in good mood.
Speaker 2: Uh, I'm gonna go eat dinner when this is over,
Speaker 2: and it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: Who's next Jean is nice. Jean. What's up? John?
Speaker 4: Hey Man?
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 15: Man?
Speaker 1: Doing good? How are you?
Speaker 4: Thank thanks for taking call. I'm doing good too.
Speaker 11: Listen.
Speaker 7: I'm from LBL and I've been reading online these people
Speaker 7: that keep saying all this stuff about the Kentucky Boys,
Speaker 7: Trenton Now and Travis Perry. They keep on saying that
Speaker 7: they they're awful, and they don't deserve to play or
Speaker 7: even be on the team, and that there.
Speaker 17: They've been a waste of scholarship spots.
Speaker 4: And in my.
Speaker 7: Opinion, there's nothing like the Mountain Mamba and the Lion
Speaker 7: Keam getting on that court and living out their dreams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they do have to score more than one point.
Speaker 2: I mean, I I I if those guys and then listen.
Speaker 2: They've had some good games this year. Noah had a
Speaker 2: great game against Tennessee. I think Perry has gotten better's
Speaker 2: years going on. But I, you know, love those guys
Speaker 2: watched I've watched Travis Perry since he was in eighth grade,
Speaker 2: and uh Noah's from right next to my hometown, so
Speaker 2: I pull for him.
Speaker 1: With that said, I don't care where they're from.
Speaker 2: I don't care if they live in uh in reperina.
Speaker 2: If they're gonna play here long term, they have to produce.
Speaker 2: That's true of every player. That's true of every player.
Speaker 2: So I think when you take up for those kids,
Speaker 2: which we should, we all want them to succeed, but
Speaker 2: we also have to grade them on the scale of
Speaker 2: UK players. And while I think they've improved a lot,
Speaker 2: and while I think they both really do have a
Speaker 2: chance to play here and be successful, we can't just
Speaker 2: I mean, they scored one point. We can't just be like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: they're from Kentucky so it's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I Mean the thing is, do you think they're gonna
Speaker 12: develop at all?
Speaker 7: Because I mean when they were playing in high school,
Speaker 7: they're just playing against you know, future Walmart employees.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I appreciate the ball.
Speaker 2: I do think that they can I think they both
Speaker 2: can play here. Do I think either of them can
Speaker 2: be I don't know what their peak is. I do
Speaker 2: think both of them can be quality rotation guys here.
Speaker 2: I think the situation has probably forced both of them
Speaker 2: to have to play, especially Perry, maybe more than he
Speaker 2: is ready to at this point. But at the same time, look,
Speaker 2: this is Kentucky, right, Like, there's no if you want
Speaker 2: to play here, you gotta be really good.
Speaker 1: And that's my thing.
Speaker 2: Over the years I've been doing this fifteen years, I've
Speaker 2: been getting phone calls about whoever the Kentucky kid is
Speaker 2: on the team playing more and then I get messages
Speaker 2: weekly about some kid that lives in Kentucky that people go,
Speaker 2: why won't they recruit them? And my answer has always
Speaker 2: been the same, which is, they gotta be good enough
Speaker 2: to play here. Okay, so we've had some. Derek Willis
Speaker 2: was good enough, but Dominice Hawkins was good enough. To remember,
Speaker 2: those dudes were for the most part, always in a
Speaker 2: reserve role. Always Willis, I think started a little bit
Speaker 2: towards the end, but they were always in a reserve role.
Speaker 2: So we got like, that may be what Noah and
Speaker 2: Perry are. Maybe they end up starters, but like there
Speaker 2: will come a point where we will ask them to
Speaker 2: score more than one point in a game.
Speaker 3: Who's next future Walmart workers was a little harsh too.
Speaker 2: I think that dude was kind of being a joke,
Speaker 2: but I you know, but the point he's saying is
Speaker 2: one that I do think people, uh.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody wants them to succeed. Everybody nobody more
Speaker 1: than me.
Speaker 3: Who's net Tyler?
Speaker 2: And they're both great kids, by the way, both of them. Tyler,
Speaker 2: go ahead, Tyler.
Speaker 8: Matt, It's good to talk to you again. Uh, I
Speaker 8: have we gotta be honest with ourselves though, after that
Speaker 8: guy banked in the two threes, I feel like we
Speaker 8: all knew that it wasn't ninth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Susan, So the first one was bad enough. When
Speaker 2: the second went banked in, I said this, and it
Speaker 2: ain't gonna happen tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: And I started watching Kentucky basketball when Cal got here,
Speaker 8: and I was really not old enough to remember a
Speaker 8: team until probably the twenty fourteen team, And so I'm
Speaker 8: very spoiled when it comes to March runs. But man,
Speaker 8: I'm with Robinson out it's looking like we're gonna have
Speaker 8: to wait probably at least one more year for a
Speaker 8: March run.
Speaker 1: But why do you say that?
Speaker 2: Like, I mean maybe, but there are teams every year
Speaker 2: in March that make a run that aren't very good.
Speaker 2: You think n C State was really good last year?
Speaker 2: I mean, inn C State had to bank in a
Speaker 2: three to even get to the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament.
Speaker 2: And then I ain't ed up going to the final four.
Speaker 2: So once we get to the tournament, anything can happen.
Speaker 2: And I genuinely do believe that. Now, do I think
Speaker 2: like we're really good without Robinson?
Speaker 1: Probably not? But could we still win? Yeah?
Speaker 2: If NC State went to the final four when they
Speaker 2: almost lost in the first round of the a SEC tournament,
Speaker 2: then yeah, we can make a run.
Speaker 8: I mean, I'm all for being positive and say and
Speaker 8: I'm not saying that we can't, but I just to me,
Speaker 8: if we're not gonna have our guys shooting threes like
Speaker 8: they need to be doing, if our defense is gonna
Speaker 8: be as bad as it is, and if our rebounding
Speaker 8: is gonna be as bad as it is, I'm just
Speaker 8: you know, you can say in C State and there's
Speaker 8: always one team every year that makes it farther.
Speaker 11: Than they're supposed to.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and the past couple of years we've been ultra
Speaker 8: talented and haven't done anything.
Speaker 2: So maybe if you give me a couple of teams,
Speaker 2: can you give me a couple who made the final
Speaker 2: four two years ago?
Speaker 1: Do you remember the first time you call? Do you
Speaker 1: remember the other teams that.
Speaker 8: Were in the final four in twenty eleven?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, the two teams that's not two years ago when
Speaker 2: you came on the championship two years ago.
Speaker 1: Who else made the final four that.
Speaker 8: Year two years ago? Yeah, you got me.
Speaker 11: I don't know.
Speaker 2: The other teams were Miami, Florida Atlantic and San Diego State,
Speaker 2: a San Diego Step State, teams whose point guard was
Speaker 2: a guy named Lamont Butler. So my point is, I'm
Speaker 2: not saying we should be like confident that that we're
Speaker 2: gonna make a run, but we can we can't, and
Speaker 2: so like that's why, and I appreciate the call. I
Speaker 2: don't think you judge how good a team is as
Speaker 2: a team by their March run, because you can get unlucky,
Speaker 2: you can get lucky. You judge a coach over a
Speaker 2: period of time. But I'm not giving up on this
Speaker 2: year yet. We've played in the hardest conference probably ever.
Speaker 2: We've had a lot of injuries. Unfortunately, now we're losing Robinson,
Speaker 2: so I think our upside is not as high as
Speaker 2: it would have been with him.
Speaker 1: But let's say we're a four seed. Let's say our
Speaker 1: one seed is well for a four seed. Our one
Speaker 1: seed is probably Duke.
Speaker 2: So let's say we get to a three seed and
Speaker 2: our two seed is Michigan State or Iowa State, Saint John's.
Speaker 2: You don't think we could win that game. Now, we
Speaker 2: could lose it. Heck, we could lose in the first round,
Speaker 2: but you don't.
Speaker 1: Think we could win that game. And then when we
Speaker 1: get to the.
Speaker 2: Elite eight, maybe we have Duke, but maybe they get
Speaker 2: beat before then. Like you just never know. And that's
Speaker 2: what makes March great. But we've been upset a lot
Speaker 2: where we were better than the other team. We were
Speaker 2: better than Oakland, we were better than Saint Peter's, we're
Speaker 2: better than Kansas State.
Speaker 1: That one year we'll get one at some point, hopefully
Speaker 1: it's this year. Let's do one more and then we'll
Speaker 1: take a break.
Speaker 3: Who's next, stub Stub?
Speaker 1: What's up.
Speaker 4: A mat?
Speaker 18: So my buddies and I were texting, and I'm gonna
Speaker 18: give him the credit for this because they'll listen to
Speaker 18: that Lamont Butler call. So this is getting out of control.
Speaker 18: He was making a basketball play. It's that that was
Speaker 18: not a foul.
Speaker 2: But that's the rule. That's the rule. You hit somebody
Speaker 2: in the face, it's a flagrant. Whether I like that
Speaker 2: rule or God, that's the rule. And I don't like
Speaker 2: that rule because you're exactly right. But but when you
Speaker 2: go up for a shot and with the offhand you
Speaker 2: hit the other guy in the face, they're gonna call that.
Speaker 18: I don't know if you played for Bell Cown or Middlesborough,
Speaker 18: wherever you played, getting if you got beat getting your
Speaker 18: face in the way after you're beaten is not a foul,
Speaker 18: much less a flagrant fail.
Speaker 2: It is now in college basketball. If you hit a
Speaker 2: person in the face, it is a foul if you
Speaker 2: if you make an intentional movement and it hits a
Speaker 2: person in the even if you didn't mean to, it.
Speaker 1: Is a fact. That's the rule. I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I think it's a bad rule, but it is the rule.
Speaker 18: But here's the other thing.
Speaker 2: Well and me and like the little shot about I
Speaker 2: don't know if you played at bell County or Middlesborough
Speaker 2: has nothing to do with what the rule is.
Speaker 18: No, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying like you.
Speaker 18: I was saying, like you experienced playing and playing defense
Speaker 18: and all that. That's what I was saying. But if
Speaker 18: it's a flagrant feil, you should be able to see
Speaker 18: it in real time.
Speaker 2: Well, I agree with that, but that's a judgment, and
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call. That's a judgment on the ref
Speaker 2: Like to me, Joe Lindsay, you're standing right there, like
Speaker 2: if you didn't even see him.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how they ended up with the monitor.
Speaker 1: That was my thing, Billy. If he didn't think it
Speaker 1: was a foul, how did he end up at the monitor.
Speaker 2: You know, like if he called a foul and then
Speaker 2: he might go, well, let's go see how bad it is.
Speaker 1: You didn't even call a foul and then you went
Speaker 1: to the monitor. I don't get that.
Speaker 2: And if I was Bruce Pearl, I'd be livid at
Speaker 2: the fact that you called a foul.
Speaker 1: And Brandon Garrison went to the monitor and then added a.
Speaker 3: Foul on broom he was.
Speaker 1: I think he shouldn't be.
Speaker 2: Furious, Like, that's not what the monitor. The monitor reviews
Speaker 2: are supposed to be for like a couple of things,
Speaker 2: and they've become this crutch that has led referees to
Speaker 2: just look at it all the time, and that is like,
Speaker 2: that's terrible for the game.
Speaker 3: And I think they went late and the monitor wasn't
Speaker 3: even working when they dried.
Speaker 2: Well that's right when the power went out. They didn't
Speaker 2: have a monitor yeah, which is good. I mean when
Speaker 2: the ABC power went out, they didn't have a way
Speaker 2: to get replaced, and guess what they were able to
Speaker 2: call the end of the game. Of all those monitor reviews,
Speaker 2: to me, the only one that should be a monitor review,
Speaker 2: I said, I don't know if any of them should
Speaker 2: have been the goaltending they got it right? When don't
Speaker 2: they have to go look at it right? The garrison foul,
Speaker 2: even though we ended up winning. That just call a foul,
Speaker 2: and if you get it wrong, we're gonna criticize you.
Speaker 1: That's what we do with referees, right.
Speaker 2: The Butler thing, if you didn't see it in real time,
Speaker 2: that you didn't even think there was contact, then why
Speaker 2: did you go to the monitor? That just and then
Speaker 2: the whole thing about like we won't look on a
Speaker 2: goaltending until after the next mark. They stop it all
Speaker 2: the time, Billy, Why did they wait until then?
Speaker 3: Well, that's that's happened several times this year, and it's.
Speaker 2: Terrible because, if let's say it hadn't been a goaltending,
Speaker 2: we got that rebound and we would have lost the
Speaker 2: points even though we got the rebound.
Speaker 1: So I just I hate that rule.
Speaker 2: It's the college basketball these some of these rules just
Speaker 2: don't make any sense to me. Let's take a break
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Speaker 1: We got five people on, Billy? Is that right?
Speaker 3: Six?
Speaker 1: But six?
Speaker 2: We'll do all six and we'll go through here and
Speaker 2: then we're going a little long today. But that's all right.
Speaker 2: Saturday still nice outside, even though we lost. I want
Speaker 2: to have a tweet. There a text somebody sent the
Speaker 2: text machine. I do want to respond to Billy. It says,
Speaker 2: I'd like to commend Billy on standing his ground this week.
Speaker 2: I have an appreciation for people that say what they
Speaker 2: mean and mean what they say. All right, so, Billy,
Speaker 2: you know me pretty well. What do you think my
Speaker 2: reaction is going to be to that text?
Speaker 3: I think in in certain situations, it's good to stand
Speaker 3: up for yourself, but you should also have humility at times.
Speaker 1: That's close to I was gonna say, yeah.
Speaker 2: So like Billy messed up, So when you mess up
Speaker 2: when you mess up, but he didn't do it intentionally,
Speaker 2: Like he didn't do it to hurt anybody. So when
Speaker 2: you mess up unintentionally, there's nothing wrong with apologizing. Probably
Speaker 2: my most frustrating thing that has happened in our culture
Speaker 2: outside of like you know, some of the political stuff
Speaker 2: and all that that bothers me, is this, like, all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, how it's become like a really cool thing.
Speaker 1: To never apologize.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I just say it and like stop it.
Speaker 2: You should be able to change your mind and you
Speaker 2: should be able to say you're sorry. There's like a
Speaker 2: philosopher Billy that says, why did I change my mind?
Speaker 2: When I get new information, I reconsider what do you do?
Speaker 2: It's a really good line, right, Like, you shouldn't be
Speaker 2: so set in your beliefs that nothing could ever change
Speaker 2: your mind. If you do, then you're just like a you're.
Speaker 1: Just a sheep.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, in your perspective can change over time.
Speaker 2: Everything changes. Chances are, I don't care who you are
Speaker 2: out there. You don't think the same thing you did
Speaker 2: five years ago. So if that's true, then you shouldn't
Speaker 2: be wedded to what you think the day before, because
Speaker 2: if you can.
Speaker 1: So when you mess up, nobody messes up more than me.
Speaker 2: I apologize more than anybody. So one of the things
Speaker 2: that frustrates me about Billy is that sometimes he won't apologize.
Speaker 2: But see he's growing because he he did today.
Speaker 1: That's good. So I actually would say to you, you should.
Speaker 2: There are many things to come in Billy about, but
Speaker 2: not apologizing.
Speaker 1: It should not be one of those. Okay, who's next? Fox?
Speaker 1: Is next? Did you say box?
Speaker 3: Fox?
Speaker 1: Fox? Okay, go ahead Fox.
Speaker 19: Hey Matt, do you think the news that Jackson Robinson
Speaker 19: was broke last night disflated the team?
Speaker 1: By uh No, they knew. They knew. I found out
Speaker 1: last night.
Speaker 19: I see the pregame show pep Talk and the energy
Speaker 19: they had in the locker room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that, but remember I mean it's a
Speaker 2: long pep talk. ESPN showed six seconds, right, so I mean, like,
Speaker 2: you don't really know necessarily that you saw the whole thing.
Speaker 2: But they I think they knew very quickly after the
Speaker 2: Oklahoma game. I mean I didn't find out untill last night,
Speaker 2: so so like I put it out last night and
Speaker 2: a lot of fans right it last night, But I
Speaker 2: think the team knew that before, and honestly, the team
Speaker 2: probably knew that Robinson was was you know, I think
Speaker 2: Pope said today that they knew two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: He needed surgery, but he was just gonna try to
Speaker 1: make it.
Speaker 2: Work, and so the team knew that, I'm sure, And
Speaker 2: I got to give the kid a lot of credit, Like,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, he's gonna go be a pro,
Speaker 2: and probably playing in that Oklahoma game and trying to
Speaker 2: come back is going to make his recovery process take longer,
Speaker 2: which will hurt his draft slash, you know, NBA static.
Speaker 2: So for him to want to do that, I actually,
Speaker 2: uh got to give him a lot of credit, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean?
Speaker 19: Yeah, Yeah, I was just wondering how, you know, just
Speaker 19: the you know, how the team was gonna with their
Speaker 19: energy level thinking knowing he wasn't gonna come back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 2: I mean, if that is an issue, we'll probably see
Speaker 2: it next Tuesday against LSU. Right, you know, they didn't
Speaker 2: I didn't great energy, but I also didn't really think
Speaker 2: it was the energy thing.
Speaker 1: I just I mean, they just he just didn't play. Well.
Speaker 1: Who's next?
Speaker 3: Gabriel?
Speaker 1: Gabriel? What's up Gabriel five more. Don't have two questions.
Speaker 19: The first one is, say Jackson Robinson out for the season,
Speaker 19: do you think Kobe brad has a step up in
Speaker 19: that position?
Speaker 2: Without question? I mean Kobe Bray, what he scored tonight,
Speaker 2: he had what eighteen something like that, twenty one twenty one,
Speaker 2: So I don't know if he has scored twenty one
Speaker 2: every game, but he's got to score like sixteen or
Speaker 2: seventeen for us to be good teams.
Speaker 1: Yes, there's no doubt.
Speaker 2: With Jackson Robinson out, two things have to happen. Kobe
Speaker 2: Bray has got to like score, he can't have games off.
Speaker 2: And then one of the freshmen between Noah and Perry
Speaker 2: and Chandler, every game, at least one of them's got
Speaker 2: to play well, like especially either Perry or Chandler because
Speaker 2: that's their position, Like we can't have they can't just
Speaker 2: both be unplayable. Because as much as I like these
Speaker 2: guys playing a lot, Bray had to play thirty eight minutes.
Speaker 2: You need a little break. So so yeah, definitely Kobe
Speaker 2: Bray is gonna be the one that has to step.
Speaker 1: Up the most.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I figured.
Speaker 12: And the second one is I forgot feeling.
Speaker 17: What do you think are our ceiling is for the tournament?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 1: Since Robinson's out, appreciate the cal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean again, I don't go by round because
Speaker 2: anything can happen, but I would.
Speaker 1: Say this is a.
Speaker 2: You know, this is probably we're probably gonna go into
Speaker 2: the tournament. I'm gonna guess we're gonna be a four seed.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm gonna guess we're gonna end up. And
Speaker 2: if we do, then I think we win our first game,
Speaker 2: and then I think we'll play a five seed who
Speaker 2: will probably be just as good as we are, and
Speaker 2: it'll be a toss up, and you know, we'll see
Speaker 2: what happens.
Speaker 1: And then after that it's all about your match up
Speaker 1: and who you play and et cetera.
Speaker 2: So so we'll see the reality is, if we're a
Speaker 2: four seed, it's almost certain to me, our one seed
Speaker 2: is gonna be Duke, because I think the SEC is
Speaker 2: gonna have three one seeds and they're not gonna want
Speaker 2: to put us with them.
Speaker 1: So if we're a four seed like Billy.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be in Duke's region, you know, whereas if
Speaker 2: we're a three.
Speaker 1: Seed, they might then we might avoid Duke.
Speaker 2: So, but if we're a four seed, our Sweet sixteen
Speaker 2: opponent would be Duke.
Speaker 3: I think that's they're a four seed if they lose
Speaker 3: to Missouri. So how it boils down to them? LSU?
Speaker 2: I think if we let's assume we beat LSU beat Missouri,
Speaker 2: we're three. If we don't beat Missouri, then we're kind
Speaker 2: of hovering on the three. Four.
Speaker 1: I think we end up before because the committee will go, well.
Speaker 2: They don't have Jackson Robinson, and you know that's what
Speaker 2: I how I would see it, or to put it
Speaker 2: a different way, We're gonna play at Missouri and then
Speaker 2: we're probably gonna play if we win our first round
Speaker 2: game Auburn in the quarter files the SEC tournament. If
Speaker 2: we want to be a three C billy, we got
Speaker 2: to win one of those two games. I think at
Speaker 2: Missouri will be easier than be Yeah, so to win
Speaker 2: one of those two games were three lose, one lose
Speaker 2: them both were four lose to LSU, were probably five.
Speaker 1: Who's next? Cam, Cam, Go ahead, cam.
Speaker 4: What's going on? Guys?
Speaker 20: First of all, really really disappointed to hear about Jackson Robinson. Man,
Speaker 20: But as you were saying, mad as a listening uh,
Speaker 20: you know North Sulina State can make a run like
Speaker 20: they did last year. You know, anything crazy can happen
Speaker 20: in March for us this year, good and bad.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Remember Auburn team, by the way, as good as this
Speaker 2: Auburn team is. And they picked up a couple of players.
Speaker 2: They have a lot of similar players from last year.
Speaker 2: Do you remember what Auburn did in the tournament last year?
Speaker 2: They lost the first round to Yale. They lost the
Speaker 2: Yale So you know, the tournament's weird, man, no matter.
Speaker 20: What it is, it is. I was watching the game
Speaker 20: with my wife and she's watched about three or four
Speaker 20: games with me this year, and she said, man, we
Speaker 20: look real scared today, real timid. And I was like,
Speaker 20: you look, you're right. And she also said, why are
Speaker 20: we starting with the ball so far away from the basket.
Speaker 20: We were playing so timid and our screen looked soft.
Speaker 20: We weren't trying to, you know, initiate the offense, you know,
Speaker 20: in a respectable place. Man, would you look very uncomfortable
Speaker 20: today playing at home? And I was really disappointed overall
Speaker 20: in the effort.
Speaker 2: Well, your wife, I think it was right. I appreciate
Speaker 2: the call. I can I think she we appreciate the call.
Speaker 2: I think she we did. I mean a lot of
Speaker 2: that's credit to Auburn. They pushed us out and uh, and
Speaker 2: you know they were willing, They were basically willing to
Speaker 2: have us get beat back door or to beat them
Speaker 2: back door, and h you know we weren't able to
Speaker 2: do it. Tennessee just banked in a three. Does it
Speaker 2: feel like there's more banked in threes.
Speaker 1: Now than I can ever remember?
Speaker 2: Tennessee just banked in a three and they've tied the
Speaker 2: game against Alabama. It's a good game here going on
Speaker 2: right now. Six minutes ago, we got three left.
Speaker 1: Who's next?
Speaker 3: Kinky?
Speaker 1: Kinky? How are you kinky?
Speaker 11: I'm doing all right, Matt, first time, very long time.
Speaker 1: Who are what makes you kinky?
Speaker 11: It's a college fraternity nickname? I mean, you know, do
Speaker 11: you want to tell.
Speaker 1: Us how you got that nickname?
Speaker 2: Or is there a way to tell it on the
Speaker 2: public airwaves?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 11: I can tell it, but it's not nearly as interesting.
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 1: If it's not as interesting, then I still want to
Speaker 1: hear what it is.
Speaker 15: Oh.
Speaker 11: I was on fraternity walk out in nineteen eighty five
Speaker 11: and one of my older fraternity brothers came back in
Speaker 11: from a night at drinking and it's just my my
Speaker 11: real name is Ken and he's like, hey, k Kinky,
Speaker 11: and it's like that was my fratournity, didn't it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're very different than what I thought.
Speaker 2: So you're what So you were in a fraternity at
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty five, so that means you were you're like,
Speaker 2: what fifty seven years old something like that. And you
Speaker 2: do you do you introduce yourself as Kinky?
Speaker 11: Well to my friends and to people who are at
Speaker 11: my age level, but not to my students.
Speaker 1: Students. Okay, oh yeah, you don't do that. Don't do that.
Speaker 2: As your lawyer, I'm going to tell you not to
Speaker 2: do that. All right, Well live what do you got, Kinky?
Speaker 11: Well, thank you, counselor Oh, I would just say there
Speaker 11: are some things about this team that frustrate me, Like
Speaker 11: I've especially been disappointed in our live ball turnovers, which
Speaker 11: haven't seemed to improve as the season goes on. But
Speaker 11: maybe that's just who we are, right, yes, and so,
Speaker 11: but like Pope killed to the team from scratch in April,
Speaker 11: leads the country in top ten wins, has battled injuries
Speaker 11: all season long, and is still in line to get
Speaker 11: a four seater better. So all these people who are
Speaker 11: thinking they know better than him and can it just
Speaker 11: makes me chuckle a little bit. And if he was
Speaker 11: able to do that this year, I'm so confident in
Speaker 11: what he can do going forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't get and I appreciate the call. I don't
Speaker 2: understand the people who look at whatever the results are
Speaker 2: this year, however we end up and think that they
Speaker 2: can somehow, like definitively glean that he's not gonna be
Speaker 2: good here.
Speaker 1: And I don't think there's many people that say that,
Speaker 1: but I.
Speaker 2: Do think there's a handful, and I don't I don't
Speaker 2: understand how they can even think that, because he put
Speaker 2: a team together in three and a half weeks.
Speaker 1: As he reminded on.
Speaker 2: The postgame show, they're four and three against teams that
Speaker 2: are ranked in the top five right now in the
Speaker 2: in the so far this season.
Speaker 5: And.
Speaker 2: You know, he's dealt with basically four of our five
Speaker 2: players or four of our top seven players have been
Speaker 2: significant hurt during the course of the year.
Speaker 1: So I don't really.
Speaker 2: Know, you know, now, would you can I say, like
Speaker 2: definitively he's gonna be great here. I don't think you
Speaker 2: could say that either, But I definitely don't think anything has.
Speaker 2: I mean, look at the other new coaches. Okay, you
Speaker 2: know Cal, we know what's happening there. The guy Michigan,
Speaker 2: Dusty May is doing well, but it's similar to us.
Speaker 2: Pat Kelsey's doing well, but it's similar to us. They
Speaker 2: just have an easier schedule. We beat them. So like
Speaker 2: all these new coaches around the country are kind of
Speaker 2: doing as good, or like Pope is doing as well
Speaker 2: or better than all of them.
Speaker 1: So why would people be negative. We had no players
Speaker 1: when he got here. None.
Speaker 2: That's that was always the bargain with Cal. Here's the
Speaker 2: thing about Cal. I said this ten years ago. The
Speaker 2: day Cal leaves, you have to start over. When you
Speaker 2: hire Caliperry, you get it's a bargain. The first bargain
Speaker 2: is he'll make you good quick because he'll just bring
Speaker 2: in all.
Speaker 1: These new guys.
Speaker 2: But the counter to that is when he leaves, you
Speaker 2: have to start over. You Mass did, Memphis did, Kentucky's
Speaker 2: now is and one day Arkansas will so. Like if
Speaker 2: you had told me in twenty fifteen, the year after
Speaker 2: Cal leaves, Kentucky's going to be a four seed in
Speaker 2: the NCAA tournament that next year. Billy I would have
Speaker 2: signed up for that in a minute.
Speaker 3: And they swept Tennessee. They beat Duke, You beat Louisville.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Zaga beat Gonzaga.
Speaker 2: Now, if I were to look back and go, what
Speaker 2: am I disappointed in? We should have beaten Arkansas, Probably
Speaker 2: should have beaten Texas, you know, Georgia, but maybe Georgia.
Speaker 2: But like I am, in general, I think this has
Speaker 2: been a positive thing. And people who give up on Pope,
Speaker 2: I just I don't get that at all. Those are
Speaker 2: just people, though he want to be negative.
Speaker 3: Two more, Who's next, Benjamin?
Speaker 1: Benjamin?
Speaker 17: Go ahead, hey man, how are you doing?
Speaker 11: Thirty?
Speaker 1: Doing good?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: So, I don't know about how other people feel about this,
Speaker 7: but I am sick and tired of listening to Jay
Speaker 7: Billis cale Kentucky basketball games. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 7: what intellect Albert Einstein's genius level person decided to let
Speaker 7: a Duke basketball player former obviously call a Kentucky basketball
Speaker 7: I mean.
Speaker 2: Jay Billis doesn't hate Jay Billis doesn't hate Kentucky. I
Speaker 2: mean his j Billis's nephew, was the student body president
Speaker 2: at Kentucky.
Speaker 7: Well, I was unfamiliar with that. I'll I'll admit my
Speaker 7: ignorance there, but sometimes it gets a little annoying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I get if you don't like Ja
Speaker 2: Billis as a as an announcer. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 2: I mean a lot of everybody's got different things they like.
Speaker 2: But I don't think Jay Billison. I mean, the only
Speaker 2: thing I don't like about Jay Bills doing our games
Speaker 2: is that we have to watch you eat ice cream
Speaker 2: every time. Like that's only because I actually think he
Speaker 2: does a good job. I mean, he's he's a little
Speaker 2: bit he's a little bit curmudgeonly. The older he gets
Speaker 2: like some of the joy he had early in his career.
Speaker 2: Now he's always complaining about things. But I in general, Billy,
Speaker 2: I think amongst the college basketball.
Speaker 1: Announcers, he's one of the better ones that there is.
Speaker 3: Sure I'd say so, And wait till Benjamin finds out
Speaker 3: that a Duke grad's hosting this radio show right now.
Speaker 1: It's a really good point. That's right.
Speaker 2: I went to do too, is that maybe it's either
Speaker 2: his nephew was student body president or his niece married
Speaker 2: the guy who was student body president.
Speaker 1: His niece or nephew went to UK and someone was
Speaker 1: the student Bundy president. I can't remember which one it was.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was the spouse or him,
Speaker 2: but that was during like the the John Wall, you know,
Speaker 2: or maybe Anthony.
Speaker 1: Davis years one more.
Speaker 3: Who's next, Johnny, Johnny, go ahead, Johnny, hey.
Speaker 17: Man, this is my fourth postgame show in a row.
Speaker 17: Got a body billy being not to the women.
Speaker 2: The show without getting crushed, and then Johnny gets him right.
Speaker 1: Go ahead.
Speaker 17: A couple of days here, Almanor came in. Looked like
Speaker 17: he was shooting a block of cheese. Whenever he shout that,
Speaker 17: I mean, it was rough.
Speaker 1: That was rough. It was so pope.
Speaker 17: He put emphasis on the SEC tournament whenever he was
Speaker 17: first tired. Do you think that he has a lot
Speaker 17: more pressure this year?
Speaker 1: There's pressure.
Speaker 2: I mean, like, okay, so first of all, he suggested
Speaker 2: even tonight, he was like, we're gonna get to Nashville
Speaker 2: and it's gonna be explosive. Like so he's not he's
Speaker 2: not acting like it doesn't matter when you say pressure. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's say we're the eight seed, right, first game we
Speaker 2: play Mississippi State.
Speaker 1: Is there pressure to win that one? Yeah? Maybe?
Speaker 2: But I mean, let's say we play Auburn in the quarterfinals, Like,
Speaker 2: what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, I.
Speaker 17: Mean, hopefully more than we did tonight.
Speaker 2: Hopefully, I agree, hopefully more than we did tonight. I
Speaker 2: appreciate the call. I mean, you know, it's you can
Speaker 2: only do so much. I still think that there's a
Speaker 2: world that we can.
Speaker 1: Beat Auburn in a game, even though I think Auburn's really.
Speaker 2: Good, because I do think we actually defensively have a
Speaker 2: shot at guarding them. You saw it in Spurts tonight.
Speaker 2: But then, I mean, you gotta be locked in. You
Speaker 2: gotta be locked in, and then you can't like one
Speaker 2: of their guys can't make nine threes. You know, we
Speaker 2: actually played Broom pretty well, but a dude made nine threes,
Speaker 2: so you know, But do I think we'll beat them?
Speaker 1: No? But I also I don't think we're sixteen points
Speaker 1: worse than them.
Speaker 2: But tonight we were. Thank you folks very much for listening.
Speaker 2: Let's go over some scheduling, so Monday I'll be in
Speaker 2: studio doing the show. First of all, Kentucky women play
Speaker 2: tomorrow at South Carolina, So I don't think you know,
Speaker 2: they got a good chance to finish the regular season.
Speaker 2: Their SEC tournament is next week Monday, we're in studio,
Speaker 2: Tuesday will be at KS Bar.
Speaker 1: Kentucky plays Tuesday.
Speaker 2: The pregame show will be at four thirty Wednesday and
Speaker 2: Thursday at Kosbar, and then Friday we will be in
Speaker 2: Louisville at Cornbread Hill. But I do not believe, Billy,
Speaker 2: that's not open to the public, right or is it.
Speaker 3: I'll have to double check.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I want to let you know
Speaker 1: on that one, but we are. We're in Louisville.
Speaker 2: Cats take a unfortunate defeat at home tonight to Auburn.
Speaker 2: Two more games left in the regular season. And by
Speaker 2: the way, it's March now best month of the year
Speaker 2: for sports. We will see you later. This has been
Speaker 2: the local Toyota Dealers KSR post gamp show.
Speaker 16: Assass