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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the local Toyota Dealers KSR Postgame Show,

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Speaker 1: a drive time edition of the postgame Show after the

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Speaker 1: Cats take down Brown eighty eight to fifty four in

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Speaker 1: the final non conference game of the year. You can

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Speaker 1: give us a call tonight join the show eight five

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Speaker 1: nine two eight oho two two eight seven. We'll open

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Speaker 1: the phone lines at the end of the segment. No

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Speaker 1: Matt Jones today. I believe he is attending a Carolina

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Speaker 1: Hurricanes hockey game later today, So go Canes. Meanwhile, we've

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Speaker 1: brought a special guest to the studio. It's a former

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Speaker 1: intern of Kentucky Sports Radio dot Com. It's the very

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Speaker 1: talented Maggie Davis, who works with BBN. Tonight, Hey Maggie,

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Speaker 1: what's up?

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Speaker 2: Hey Billy, thanks so much for having me. Like you said,

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Speaker 2: former KSR intern, I've been on your show, KISR pre Show,

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Speaker 2: I've done the pregame show a time or two, but

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Speaker 2: this is the first post game I get to appear on.

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Speaker 2: So thanks so much for having me. I'm looking forward

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Speaker 2: to Well.

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Speaker 1: You're leveling up, and as I understand it, you were

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Speaker 1: at the game today right I was.

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Speaker 2: I was out arena up in my seat up in

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Speaker 2: the upper deck all the way up top. I did

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Speaker 2: not have to work this game. I'm actually on vacation today.

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Speaker 2: Took the day off of work just to come in

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Speaker 2: and hang out with Billy.

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Speaker 1: How'd you pull that out? Have vacation day on the

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Speaker 1: same day you got to host the KSR post game show.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry for making your work.

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Speaker 2: No, I would do this any day, and it helps,

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Speaker 2: obviously that it comes off of Kentucky win. I was

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Speaker 2: worried I would pull a little Ryan Lemon Magic and

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Speaker 2: Jinxaus or something like that and have to come in

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Speaker 2: for my first postgame show on a vacation day New

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Speaker 2: Year's Eve and have to talk about a loss. Thankfully

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Speaker 2: that didn't happen obviously. Eighty eight to fifty four started

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Speaker 2: off slow, but glad to see Kentucky pull away in

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Speaker 2: the second half.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll never be as bad as the Ryan Lemon

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Speaker 1: Magic some of the losses that he's had to do

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Speaker 1: post game shows for. But it's good to have you

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Speaker 1: alongside on the Billy R Sports post game Show with

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Speaker 1: Maggie Davis today. Well, let's talk about it. Like you said,

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Speaker 1: eighty eight to fifty four of the Cats get a win.

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Speaker 1: A little boring game, especially in the first part of it.

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Speaker 1: Another slow start by this team, But Maggie was they

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Speaker 1: were ten days off before that since their last game,

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Speaker 1: so I think you expected some rust right.

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Speaker 2: A ten day break. You're coming off a twenty point loss,

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Speaker 2: You've had Christmas mixed in there, a couple of days

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Speaker 2: away from the court, I believe, and then you turn

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Speaker 2: around and you do end with a thirty four point

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Speaker 2: bounce back. I think that is ultimately all you can

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Speaker 2: ask for. I would have liked to see maybe a

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Speaker 2: little bit better three point shooting in this one, but

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Speaker 2: all in all, I think you know, you leave another

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Speaker 2: game with four cats and double figures, really good turnover numbers,

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Speaker 2: good steals numbers, points off the bench. I know Goose

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Speaker 2: Gibbons has really been harping on throughout the course of

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Speaker 2: this season. You saw better bench production in this game,

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Speaker 2: and overall, you just I personally needed to see a blowout.

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Speaker 2: I needed a route. I didn't want this to be

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Speaker 2: a twelve to fifteen point game. It was too close

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Speaker 2: for my comfort. In the first half, you started to

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Speaker 2: see him turning the page heading into halftime, and then

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Speaker 2: I just thought the energy was different. Coming out of

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Speaker 2: the break. Otaga Away came out hot right after halftime.

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Speaker 2: He had five quick points out of the time out

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Speaker 2: or out of the halftime, I should say. And from

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Speaker 2: there it really was just Kentucky's game. And it slowly

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Speaker 2: became a fifteen point lead, twenty point lead, thirty point lead,

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Speaker 2: and then you win by thirty fours. That's a win

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Speaker 2: every day of the week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Mark Pope says, they're just collecting data

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Speaker 1: in the first half and then they adjust for the second.

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Speaker 1: But they are going to have to clean up these

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Speaker 1: slow starts eventually. This one did not bite them in

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Speaker 1: you said, Maggie, it was all Cats. They started to

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Speaker 1: get into a groove. Andrew Carr had a big three pointer,

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Speaker 1: his sixth of the season. That's a guy that needs

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Speaker 1: to shoot more, you know what I mean. He led

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Speaker 2: I totally agree with you. I was sitting there at

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Speaker 2: I just need to see a few more of those

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Speaker 2: really good to see him get going in the first half.

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Speaker 2: But then we really didn't see him after halftime. All

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Speaker 2: fourteen of his points came in the first didn't play

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Speaker 2: the final fourteen minutes. I don't know what that was about,

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Speaker 2: but he looked really, really strong in the first half.

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Speaker 2: Obviously the triple we talked about a couple big and ones.

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Speaker 2: Those are obviously huge. Some other of the non conference games,

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Speaker 2: see him be physical again. I think Kentucky as a team,

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Speaker 2: Ohio State was really lacking that physicality. You know what's

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Speaker 2: the entire SEC slate the rest of the way. You

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Speaker 2: know you're going to have to play teams more physically,

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Speaker 2: So good to see Andrew Carr start to get in

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Speaker 2: Away I think has been that physical presence really probably

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Speaker 2: even though it was Brown and Kentucky obviously with a

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Speaker 1: How about a Mario Williams. You know before a Mari

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Speaker 1: I will say Mark Pope kind of talked about how

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Speaker 1: this that was exactly what Kentucky needed, was a wake

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Speaker 1: focus over the last time, There's no doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: Jack Gibvens said that this was just what they needed

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Speaker 1: but in this one, I thought he played really good defense.

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Speaker 1: Maggie him and Lamott Butler, who was guarding the Ivy

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Speaker 1: did a good job against, but specifically Amari Williams. He

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Speaker 2: He did, and I think his energy was really consistent,

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Speaker 2: which has been part of his struggles throughout the course

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Speaker 2: of the season. And energy wise. You mentioned it a

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Speaker 2: slow start and this one you want. I at least

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Speaker 2: I keep saying we. I don't know. I don't want

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Speaker 2: to speak for anybody else. I wanted to see this

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Speaker 2: team come out take charge. We haven't seen him in

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Speaker 2: ten days, they're coming off a loss. I wanted to

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Speaker 2: up fifteen to nothing. That would be an ideal world.

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Speaker 2: That obviously didn't happen. Obviously, Jackson Robinson did get the

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Speaker 2: I was like, okay, high scoring game, first three of

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Speaker 2: it just really slowed down after that.

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Speaker 1: Email five the rest of the game. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: It didn't really pan out for him in that way.

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Speaker 2: But Kentucky as a whole. I mean, let's say, three

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Speaker 2: turnovers in the first three minutes, only five total by

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Speaker 2: that a little bit in the game's opening minutes. But

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Speaker 2: I really liked what we saw from the team as

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Speaker 2: I loved what we saw from an energy standpoint, especially

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Speaker 2: I was not there for work today, and I'm sitting

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Speaker 2: there like a little sideline reporter the whole time, watching

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Speaker 2: the coaching staffs, watching the fans, watching the bench, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: And Mark Pope comes out right out of halftime, the

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Speaker 2: the second half, and he starts doing these little bunny hops.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how else to describe it, as feet

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Speaker 2: and he was just doing these small little jumps like

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Speaker 2: was trying to just re emphasize energy in this half.

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Speaker 2: We need to start off a little better, a little

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Speaker 2: happier maybe than in the first time.

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Speaker 1: Well, whatever it takes, Maggie, whatever it takes to get

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Speaker 1: these guys in the right frame of mind and ready

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Speaker 1: to go. Yes, you mentioned energy. You know, I thought

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Speaker 1: the bench played better. I know it's against Brown and

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Speaker 1: Ivy League School, but nevertheless, it's nice to get contributions

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Speaker 1: by an Ansley almanor Tonight Walker Horn a little nice assist.

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Speaker 1: Late Travis Perry shoots a three without a mustache, Maggie,

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Speaker 2: Thought big story of the game.

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Speaker 1: I mean, probably what we'll remember many years from now

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Speaker 1: when the Kentucky Brown game would be the game Travis

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Speaker 1: Perry shaved his mustache off and hit a three.

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Speaker 2: I'm dying to know if it was superstitious or not.

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Speaker 1: Now you were at the game, Yes, did anybody stand

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Speaker 1: in front of you for the entire duration of the game,

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Speaker 1: for any point of the game? Were there any issues

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Speaker 2: No issues? By my account, I am not in the

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Speaker 2: troublesome section, though I am sitting my scenes far away

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Speaker 2: from whatever section the little scuffle or whatever happened a

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Speaker 2: free and clear of any conflict. Well good, it was

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Speaker 2: the way up, student section full, both end zones full. Really,

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Speaker 2: that's the only section of rop. I felt like there

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Speaker 2: have been some vacancies, if you want to say that,

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Speaker 2: early on in the season. But it was all the

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Speaker 2: way pack tonight Nine Year's Eve, two o'clock game.

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Speaker 1: Very impressed, and I think Pope alluded to that. He's like,

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Speaker 1: what other fan base will pack an arena like that

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Speaker 1: at two pm on New Year's Eve? And to that

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Speaker 1: point they were sounded like a lot of children were

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Speaker 1: there as well. Maggie, I know you love that. I

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Speaker 1: you know, hoping they all call in here and talk

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Speaker 1: to us on the postgame show. But overall, Kentucky ends

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Speaker 1: non conference play at eleven and two, two losses to

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Speaker 1: I think that's better than what most people thought Kentucky

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Speaker 2: Let's go, Team Gavin. Welcome to the party. Let's do

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Speaker 2: it New Year's Eve, five point thirty Maggie, Billy Gavin.

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Speaker 2: Who else do we need?

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Speaker 1: That's right, you got big plans tonight, going to go.

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Speaker 1: We'll take a break and be right back. This is

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Speaker 1: the Local Toyota Dealers KSR postgame show. All right, welcome back.

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Speaker 1: It helps when you turn the mic on.

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Speaker 2: Here you go.

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Speaker 1: This is the Local Toyota Dealers KSR postgame show recapping

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Speaker 1: the cats big victory over Brown eighty eight to fifty four.

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Speaker 1: I'm Billy Right along with Maggie Davis. You can follow

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Speaker 2: It's fun. I'm having a good time. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Right now, we're watching the Louisville Cardinals. Looks like they

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Speaker 1: We living in weird times right now.

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Speaker 2: I saw that tweet, I guess maybe at halftime of

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Speaker 2: I mean, guilty. I don't know the Louisville punter by

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Speaker 1: One thing they tell you not to do as a

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Speaker 1: Quickly before we get to the phones, which Kentucky basketball

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Speaker 1: player do you think makes the most money in NIL

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Speaker 2: I would speculate probably Jackson Robinson.

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Speaker 2: I have no basis for thinking that. I just think

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Speaker 2: you know, you've heard Mark Pope talk. He's wonderful to

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Speaker 1: And that's why we think they have a high ceiling,

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Speaker 2: But well, we did have I sat down with Pope

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Speaker 2: He said, it was so funny. It was Alvin Brooks.

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Speaker 2: the day the recruiting window opened twelve oh one and said,

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Speaker 2: So it was an awesome story for Deep to see

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Speaker 1: Love to hear that. You can hear more of those

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Speaker 2: At seven thirty lax eighteen. He's across the UK Sports Network.

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Speaker 2: Look us up.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what the people have to say. Five nine

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 5: What's going on? Guys?

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Speaker 1: Hey man win by the CA.

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Speaker 5: I just wanted to give a shout out to my

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Speaker 6: Hooking me up with some tickets.

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Speaker 7: Got to take my daughter.

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Speaker 5: To her first Kentucky game to night. It was awesome

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Speaker 5: to see a dominant win. I thought a Mari Williams

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he sure did. How did your daughter enjoy the game?

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Speaker 2: It's just such a cool experience, and sometimes it's easy

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you may be right. I've forgotten what it's like

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Speaker 1: to go to a game, Maggie. I've been locked in

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Speaker 2: I think you need a window in here.

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Speaker 1: two of them have windows, and I just have always

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Speaker 1: chosen the one without windows because this studio from the

437
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Speaker 1: beginning has been the one that's worked the best, with

438
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Speaker 1: the last with the least amount of issues. So we've

439
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Speaker 1: just I've just kind of made this my home, Maggie.

440
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Speaker 1: And that's why those twinkies over there have been there

441
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Speaker 1: since Christmas of twenty three.

442
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Speaker 2: Man of the people, you are putting the lack of

443
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Speaker 2: technical difficulties above your own sense of enjoyment on a long, long,

444
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Speaker 2: long day that you spend in a windowless room. I

445
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Speaker 2: salute you for that.

446
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Speaker 1: Well, let's knock on some of it about the technical

447
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Speaker 1: difficulties we still got about half an hour ago. Lee

448
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Speaker 1: is on the line. What's up, Lee? How are you?

449
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Speaker 6: Hey? What's going on? Maggie and Billy?

450
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Speaker 2: What's up? Lee?

451
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Speaker 4: Hey?

452
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Speaker 6: Listen? I guess it's the same today. But I need

453
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Speaker 6: to give a shout out to my three grandchildren Cash

454
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Speaker 6: London Crew. They was their first game today Pereno and

455
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Speaker 6: they went up with my daughter and son in law

456
00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:10,480
Speaker 6: and they sent back a picture that all of them

457
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Speaker 6: eat nice creams. But I wanted to give a couple

458
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Speaker 6: of two thoughts, and I want your response to him.

459
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Speaker 6: Actually I talked to him and one of them is

460
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Speaker 6: really proud of what Travis Perry is doing. He seems

461
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Speaker 6: to be making the most of his his playing time

462
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Speaker 6: that he's getting right now. Really improving and looking a

463
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Speaker 6: lot better. And you know, when you're going against Butler

464
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Speaker 6: every day, I guess you're gonna get better. And then

465
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Speaker 6: the second thing and now I hang up lest y'all

466
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Speaker 6: give responses. It would be nice, Sure would be nice

467
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Speaker 6: to beat Florida and then have three top ten wins

468
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Speaker 6: this early on. Our resume with the difficulty is gonna

469
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Speaker 6: be in the SEC this year. So uh, And I

470
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Speaker 6: think they got a good stud I think you said

471
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Speaker 6: earlier that you really liked your chances of SADAY and

472
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Speaker 6: I do too, and that that really give them a

473
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Speaker 6: great resume. And as I always say, go cats, and

474
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Speaker 6: thanks for everything y'all do KSR.

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Speaker 4: We appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah big, thank you Lee for calling into the show

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Speaker 1: this evening. A couple things. One, it's not hyperbole to

478
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Speaker 1: say that that Florida game may be one of the

479
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Speaker 1: biggest games of the year, Maggie. I mean I think

480
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Speaker 1: that this game could dictate your early portion of the

481
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Speaker 1: conference schedule. You know, continue to build that momentum or

482
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Speaker 1: is it a full stop? And then you have to

483
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Speaker 1: realize that you need to do things much much differently.

484
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Speaker 1: You know, the season started very strangely for the Florida team,

485
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Speaker 1: their coach Todd Golden, accused of I guess harassment of

486
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Speaker 1: other UF students that seems to have gone under the

487
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Speaker 1: rug or has not, you know, materialized into anything of

488
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Speaker 1: him missing the game. But nevertheless, Maggie, this is such

489
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Speaker 1: a good conference schedule that you know it's important to

490
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Speaker 1: start out. I want to know, is it not?

491
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Speaker 2: I think so. I also think the way this schedule

492
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Speaker 2: breaks is so interesting, and I think we talked about

493
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Speaker 2: this a lot early on in the year, and then

494
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Speaker 2: we just get wrapped up in the current game, in

495
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Speaker 2: the next game, and it's sometimes hard to look too

496
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Speaker 2: far ahead. And of course any coach out there who's

497
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Speaker 2: listening will tell you can't do that anyway. But now

498
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Speaker 2: that you do have sort of a second to take

499
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Speaker 2: a breath and say, we finished this. Now let's look

500
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Speaker 2: ahead to that. You look at this SEC schedule and

501
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Speaker 2: January is really fairly manageable. Obviously, it's a tough league

502
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Speaker 2: top to bottom. All every single SEC team is in

503
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Speaker 2: the top eighty five of the net rankings. Only one

504
00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,159
Speaker 2: team has more than two losses, that's South Carolina, and

505
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Speaker 2: two of South Carolina's three losses came to ranked teams.

506
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Speaker 2: So this league, you're not going to have an easy night.

507
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Speaker 2: I don't want it to sound that way, but when

508
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Speaker 2: you do look at the January schedule. Other than this

509
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Speaker 2: first game against Florida and then that last game at Tennessee,

510
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Speaker 2: the games in the middle are really games. You need

511
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Speaker 2: to take care of it, and maybe you drop one

512
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Speaker 2: here or there, but the January schedule sets you up

513
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Speaker 2: to have success if you can set the tone early

514
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Speaker 2: against the Gators because you have a really, really tough

515
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Speaker 2: February endo March coming up, so you need to stack

516
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Speaker 2: wins this first month of twenty twenty five.

517
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Florida's kind of one of those fringe teams

518
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Speaker 1: of if they're going to make a buy in the

519
00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:15,120
Speaker 1: SEC tournament, right, you want to be one of those

520
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Speaker 1: top four seeds. We'll see if the Cats can become

521
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Speaker 1: one of those. And also Travis Perry, Yes, it is

522
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Speaker 1: good to see the guy on the floor making a shot.

523
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Speaker 1: I think we need to pump the brakes a little

524
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Speaker 1: bit on Travis Perry at times he doesn't seem ready, Maggie.

525
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Speaker 1: But like the caller said, when you're working with Lamont Butler,

526
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Speaker 1: maybe you can get better very quickly.

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Speaker 2: That gets you ready in a hurry. Absolutely, And I

528
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Speaker 2: will say this about Travis Perry. He looked as comfortable

529
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Speaker 2: today as we've seen him all season. I think he's

530
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Speaker 2: been thrown into some situations this year where you could

531
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Speaker 2: tell almost immediately he's getting picked on by the opposing team.

532
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Speaker 2: Brown tried to do that today. I think he gave

533
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Speaker 2: up one pretty blatant three that was over him, and

534
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Speaker 2: then other than that, he really held his own out

535
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Speaker 2: there in the minutes that he did come in for

536
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Speaker 2: Lamont Butler, and especially while Kerkrisa is out and you

537
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Speaker 2: have guys sort of playing a variety of positions, I

538
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Speaker 2: thought it is good to see him come in for

539
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Speaker 2: Butler play those minutes well without having to shuffle Jackson

540
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Speaker 2: Robinson into the point guard position as much as he's

541
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Speaker 2: had to in a couple of other games, because clearly

542
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Speaker 2: that's not where Robinson wants to be. He said that much.

543
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Speaker 2: He's done it well enough to make do. But you

544
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Speaker 2: want to ride with Butler, but you need a backup

545
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Speaker 2: in every situation.

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Speaker 1: Do you mean like when he was at BYU screaming

547
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Speaker 1: at Mark Pope when he's running down the court. I'll

548
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Speaker 1: never play point guard again.

549
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Speaker 2: I love that story. I love that story. And then

550
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Speaker 2: he does sometimes still have to play point guard, and

551
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Speaker 2: to be honest, he does it pretty well. But I

552
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Speaker 2: do think for Kentucky to be at its best, they

553
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Speaker 2: need more scoring from Jackson Robinson. They don't need him

554
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Speaker 2: to be as much of a facilitator when you have

555
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Speaker 2: other guys on this team who can do that. And

556
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Speaker 2: I think today, I mean that's another part of a

557
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Speaker 2: Marii Williams game. We haven't talked about yet, but I

558
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,880
Speaker 2: thought he was a better facilitator today than we've seen

559
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Speaker 2: him be in some other games this season where he's

560
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Speaker 2: made a couple of bad decisions. I think that was

561
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Speaker 2: a little better today too. Well.

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Speaker 1: The offense a lot of times starts with him at

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Speaker 1: the top of the key, and he is such a

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Speaker 1: pivotal part of that. Yes, it's just let's keep them engaged,

565
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Speaker 1: right when when there's lulls in the game, that's somebody

566
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Speaker 1: that needs to be keeping his hands up, you know

567
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Speaker 1: what I mean. Let's keep Amari engaged because that's when

568
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Speaker 1: you get the best. Amari. Let's take one more call

569
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Speaker 1: and then we'll take another break here on the postgame show,

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Speaker 1: Neil is on the line. Good evening, Neil. How are

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Speaker 1: you doing, love, Neil? Can you hear me? Are you there?

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Speaker 6: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Is this Neil?

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Speaker 7: We need.

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Speaker 6: Hi?

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Speaker 8: Just cool it. We need to work on it. Free bagging.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you're right, keep going.

578
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Speaker 1: We do need to work on rebounding cold. Did you

579
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Speaker 1: go to the game today?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

581
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Speaker 8: And but what's really good at right.

582
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Speaker 5: Now is.

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 1: What are they good that, Neil? So they are good

585
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Speaker 1: at three point shooting? Well, we're glad you had a

586
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,640
Speaker 1: good time at the game today. Make sure you get

587
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,199
Speaker 1: some ice cream if you go back and give us

588
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:17,440
Speaker 1: a big go cats before you leave. No cat, there

589
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Speaker 1: you go? Love it, love it, Maggie. How about that?

590
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Speaker 2: Well, listen, I agree the rebounding needs to get better.

591
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Speaker 2: There is no reason to be out rebounded by six

592
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Speaker 2: to Brown. There's just no reason for that at all

593
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Speaker 2: unless you have literally made every basket and you have

594
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Speaker 2: needed no rebounds off the glass. And in that case,

595
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Speaker 2: maybe we'll take it. That was not the case today.

596
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Speaker 2: You just you can't. You cannot lose that to Brown

597
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,880
Speaker 2: thirty five to twenty nine. Although what we haven't talked about,

598
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Speaker 2: which I think is very impressive, is the turnover numbers

599
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Speaker 2: and the fact that UK forced twenty three Brown turnovers

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Speaker 2: and then scored thirty three points off those mistakes. That's

601
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Speaker 2: an area we haven't always seen this team do well

602
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Speaker 2: in and I think today really turning defense into offense

603
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 2: was a strength.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, on both of those stats. I believe Brown had

605
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Speaker 1: six turnovers in the first six minutes of the game,

606
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Speaker 1: and Kentucky kept up that pace. They kept doing a

607
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 1: good job on defense, but rebounding wise, Brown led the

608
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Speaker 1: rebounding edge twenty one to ten at half.

609
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Speaker 2: No, I hate that.

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Speaker 1: So despite them losing overall, Kentucky did a much better

611
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 1: job in the second half. But what the heck happened

612
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Speaker 1: in the first half.

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Speaker 2: It's not been too much this year, and you know,

614
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Speaker 2: I'm feeling very positive about this game. I don't want

615
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 2: this to overshadow that. But that has been an issue

616
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 2: almost all season, especially if you look at just the

617
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 2: remounting numbers specifically, there have been a couple of games

618
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:39,120
Speaker 2: this season with almost identical numbers being out rebounded by

619
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Speaker 2: ten or more in the first half and then coming

620
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 2: back and making that up in the second. But I

621
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Speaker 2: think you've been able to find a way to win

622
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Speaker 2: despite that through these first what is this thirteen games,

623
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Speaker 2: I don't think that's always going to be the case

624
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,920
Speaker 2: in SEC play. I know I'm far from the only

625
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 2: one saying enough with the slow starts, But it doesn't

626
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,400
Speaker 2: just come down to the scoring early on in the game.

627
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,919
Speaker 2: It's stuff like rebounding too. Those little just energy and

628
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 2: effort plays that we've talked about can make a big difference,

629
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Speaker 2: and I would have liked to see more of that,

630
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Speaker 2: specifically in the rebounding numbers early on.

631
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Speaker 1: Now, do we think that all the children at the

632
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: at Rapperena today gathered around and said, hey, let's call

633
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: Billy on the postgame show. I've heard he's hosting later to.

634
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 2: I hope they did, You know what, That's really why

635
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 2: I was at Ropperena. I didn't watch the game at all.

636
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 2: I walked around and I just found every child I could,

637
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 2: and I gave them your number, and I said, call

638
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 2: us on the postgame show. Billy would love to.

639
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 7: Hear from it.

640
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, I'd love to hear from the kids. It

641
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 1: sounds like a lot of kids were They're having a

642
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 1: good time as the Cats beat the Brown Bears eighty

643
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: eight to fifty, four. Got a couple open lines eight

644
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: five nine two eight zero two two eight seven. If

645
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: you'd like to give us the call. We'll take a

646
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 1: break and be right back here on the Local Toyota

647
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,919
Speaker 1: Dealers KSR Postgame Show. All right, welcome back to this

648
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 1: Tuesday edition of the Local Toyota Dealers KSR Postgame Show.

649
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: Billy Rutledge and Maggie Davis recapping the big win for

650
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: the Cats over the brown Bears, also getting you ready

651
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,120
Speaker 1: for the start of twenty twenty five. How was your

652
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four.

653
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 2: Maggie, It was amazing. Yes, I don't think I'll be

654
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 2: able to top it. I'm kind of I mean, I'm

655
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 2: excited for twenty twenty five, but I'm a little nervous.

656
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:11,679
Speaker 1: You just got married. That was great.

657
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, got married in August, so I really had

658
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 2: a full year of all the celebrations leading up to that.

659
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 2: A great wedding in August, great honeymoon. Come back right

660
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 2: into sports season, busy, busy, busy, good times at work,

661
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,919
Speaker 2: and yeah, here we are almost twenty twenty five already.

662
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 2: How about you?

663
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 1: Oh, you know, twenty twenty four was great. I'm excited

664
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,120
Speaker 1: and motivated for a Great twenty twenty five. Whenever Shannon

665
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: the Dude returns from his vacation, the ksrpre Show will

666
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: be back to full strength. You know, there was a

667
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: funny moment in the postgame speaking of being married where

668
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: Andrew Carr's fiance was it Mark Pope and he was like, hey,

669
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: come meet Andrew Car's fiance and then she was thrusted

670
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: in front of all the cameras over there.

671
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 2: Yes. Kind of how this works for people who haven't

672
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 2: been back there or seen too many videos is Mark

673
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 2: Pope gives his press conference at a big long table,

674
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 2: so envision that everyone is sitting down facing that direction

675
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 2: while he's talking. The players go sit down at three

676
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 2: different chairs, different setups, so that the media is not

677
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 2: all just glumed onto one at a time. We kind

678
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 2: of spread out between the three players of the game,

679
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 2: so you get a little sound from everybody right and

680
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 2: they're almost up on these like mini podiums, so you

681
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 2: can be a little closer, but they still have a

682
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 2: little distance and a little height over the reporters. But

683
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 2: as soon as Mark Pope is done, everybody races to

684
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 2: get ready to talk to the players, and then Pope

685
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 2: has to walk out behind us to get back out

686
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 2: to the court to do his post game that we

687
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 2: play on this here radio network with Tom Leanch, the

688
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 2: voice of the Wildcats. So when he walks out, he

689
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 2: likes to mess with the players. Sometimes he'll ask a question.

690
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 2: Sometimes he'll stick his phone up like he's a reporter,

691
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 2: or he'll just start throwing out some data analytics and

692
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,479
Speaker 2: see which reporter picks up on it to see if

693
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 2: we can ask a question about it. So he has

694
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 2: a little fun on the way out. And I guess

695
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 2: today the fun was, like you said, thrusting Andrew Carr's

696
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,719
Speaker 2: fiance up into the spotlight. She joined him on his

697
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 2: little mini podium in front of I don't know, probably

698
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 2: twenty or thirty reporters. That's sweet though, It's fine.

699
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: No, he seemed like he was in a good mood

700
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: after the win. The way that he was speaking with

701
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: Tom and and just the high drinks behind the scenes,

702
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: it seemed like he was definitely as a good of

703
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: mood as all the kids that were in Reparrina.

704
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 2: Yes, can I give you another moment? It looked like

705
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 2: he was in a good mood please, Okay, So we

706
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 2: talked about the bunny hops, right That's how he started

707
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 2: the second half. That's what I'm calling him. I'm sticking

708
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 2: with it. The other awesome moment that I saw happen

709
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 2: with Pope once again, very early on in that second half,

710
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 2: was Oway comes out at halftime right and scores the

711
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 2: first five points of the second half and really looked

712
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 2: his best in the entire game. Where those first couple

713
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 2: of minutes of the second half, and he forced a

714
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 2: Brown time out after his fifth point of the second half,

715
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 2: and so they called time out. Rep Goo's blue kind

716
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 2: of dark whatever, dim the lights. The spotlights are going

717
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 2: around and you see Always out there kind of celebrating,

718
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 2: you know, teammates are pumping them up, like yeah, man,

719
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 2: like that was you know, we got this like trying

720
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 2: to keep the energy up. Pope comes out almost to

721
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 2: mid court and chest bumps him it wearing a suit, obviously,

722
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 2: as Pope does for most of these games, and it

723
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 2: was just hilarious to see. I think we're so used

724
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 2: to seeing coaches high five or a slap on the back,

725
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 2: or even maybe a pat on the head or something

726
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 2: like that, but if a full chest bump was awesome,

727
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 2: and I think that was Pope's way of being like, Okay,

728
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 2: I started with the bunny hops, we got some great

729
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 2: Way moments and we can talk about a Takeoway. I mean,

730
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 2: he looked great again for the most part of the game.

731
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 2: Kentucky's probably most consistent player if I had to pick

732
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 2: just one, and then Pope comes out with the chest

733
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 2: bump and it really just the energy stayed more consistent

734
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 2: from there, So I will credit the chest bump.

735
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 1: And that was good to see from Oway because he

736
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: didn't have the best first half, I don't think, but

737
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: it was the second half. He came out really hot

738
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: and you know, almost led this team in scoring with

739
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: thirteen points. But that's that's part of the reason why

740
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: I think Big Blue Nation loves him so much is

741
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 1: he's infectious the energy, and it's translated to the fans.

742
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: There's no doubt. Let's get through some of these callers

743
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: because we've got full lines.

744
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 2: Now, let's do it.

745
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: Sophia and Beth are on the line. Sophia and Beth.

746
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: Whitch is it both of you guys or just one

747
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: of you? Hello, Sophia and Beth, both of us? Oh,

748
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: were you guys at the game? Yes, we were, Yeah,

749
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: what'd you.

750
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 7: Think it was?

751
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 8: Amazing. I'm from Canada and it was so much fun.

752
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 8: I enjoyed every minute of it.

753
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 2: Canada. What brought you to Lexington?

754
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 3: Why?

755
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 8: Family living in Levo so I come.

756
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 6: Here every year.

757
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 2: Oh?

758
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: Very cool. So was this your first Cat's game or

759
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: are you a Have you been to a couple before?

760
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 6: I've been to a couple Yeah, yeah, I love it

761
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 6: every time. I've never seen anything like it.

762
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, well there is a There were a ton of

763
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: fans there today and I'm sure you guys were screaming

764
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: loud for the cats. Is that right? We were awesome?

765
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: You did your pet Well, thank you for calling in, guys,

766
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: and how about you give us a go cats before

767
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: you leave.

768
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 6: Well, we have a question for you.

769
00:32:56,240 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: Oh we got a question. So well, what did you

770
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: think Maggie was four to six week timeline when he

771
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: got injured, so we could be looking at the end

772
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: of January.

773
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 2: I think mid to late January is when I'll really

774
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 2: start paying more attention to it. Pope did say on

775
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,959
Speaker 2: his call in show with Tom Leach last night, gosh,

776
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 2: this time of the year. What day is it? Today's Tuesday?

777
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 2: So yes, yesterday?

778
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: Last night?

779
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 2: He did say Crisa is definitely out this Saturday and

780
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 2: for the Florida game. And when I heard that, I

781
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 2: was taken aback a little bit because I hadn't even

782
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 2: I was like, Mandon, four to six weeks go by already.

783
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 2: I don't think it had. So I do think that

784
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 2: Pope is going to be pretty transparent about it. CHRISA

785
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 2: was at the game today. He did still have a

786
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 2: boot on, but he had transitioned from a couple games ago.

787
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 2: He's the last few games, I should say, he's been

788
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 2: on one of those scooters, and today it was sort

789
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 2: of these light, small crutches, So I take that as

790
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 2: a sign of improvement. I know he's working really hard

791
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 2: in terms of strength and conditioning. Pope's joked about their

792
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 2: making that as hard and as miserable as possible so

793
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 2: that he'll want to come back and play actual basketball

794
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 2: as soon as physically possible. And just the little bit.

795
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 2: I have gotten to know Kirk Cresai this season through

796
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 2: our work covering the team. Absolutely, that's the kind of

797
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 2: guy he is. So yeah, I think my best guess

798
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,800
Speaker 2: of it would be the end of January to be safe.

799
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 3: All right, Well, ladies missing, I think it's like a

800
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,439
Speaker 3: spark plug. He's really the fighting spirit on the team.

801
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 6: So the sarawhen get him back to better we're going

802
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 6: to do in the SEC.

803
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 2: Totally agree. His energy is infectious. I mean we were

804
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 2: saying that about Mark Pope a minute ago, but Kirk

805
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,360
Speaker 2: Criesa brings another level of it. The trash talk is

806
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,280
Speaker 2: just next level, Like I've never seen or heard anything

807
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,720
Speaker 2: like it, to be honest with you, So that's pretty wild.

808
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 2: I do think he's doing as much of that as

809
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 2: he still can from the bench. I mean, if you

810
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 2: watch him during the game. I don't know how much

811
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 2: you can see it on TV, but if you're on

812
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 2: REP or if you're in REP, you can see him.

813
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 2: He's clapping, he's up and down as much as he

814
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 2: can be. Uh, and it's still very much engaged in

815
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 2: part of this team.

816
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I completely agree, and we appreciate the call. Did

817
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 1: you really give those kids my phone number? I did

818
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: the phone number of.

819
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 2: The show today, Sofia and Beth personally.

820
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like I'm getting punked. Jalen is

821
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: on the line. What's up, Jalen? And can you hear mess?

822
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 8: Hello?

823
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 2: Let's go Jalen. I knew you would call. I gave

824
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 2: you Billy's number. You came through for us.

825
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 8: So I was sitting like lower level, like really close

826
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 8: to the core, and I could see everything. I was

827
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 8: so happy, and I thought I was gonna get Mark

828
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 8: posting that sure, but instead I ended up meeting Lamont

829
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 8: Butler and it made my day and I was so

830
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 8: happy and I had It's probably like one of the best,

831
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 8: one of my favorite games, just because I got to

832
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 8: meet Lamant Butler.

833
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 2: I love this story. I am sitting here, Billy can

834
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 2: attest to this. I am just smiling from ear to

835
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 2: ear right now, because I can tell that you are

836
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 2: smiling from ear to ear talking about getting to meet

837
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 2: Lamont Butler. And Lamon is just an awesome guy, and

838
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 2: so I'm so glad you got to meet him and

839
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 2: have that experience.

840
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,760
Speaker 8: Yes, it was such a good game.

841
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,800
Speaker 2: Thank you, go cats, Thank you, Thank you.

842
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 1: Jalen so fun. You don't like it, No, I love

843
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 1: I love children.

844
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 2: Billy's just sitting here just I'm smiling, just like having

845
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 2: a grand old time, and Billy is just shaking his

846
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,240
Speaker 2: fists at the sky like, ah more.

847
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,439
Speaker 1: Children to clean the slate here. I know this isn't

848
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: a child. Madison is on the line. Madison, what do

849
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: you got for me?

850
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 9: Oh?

851
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,400
Speaker 7: I'm just waiting to see if I can come to

852
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:25,879
Speaker 7: get through.

853
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, buddy, you're on the line now.

854
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,760
Speaker 7: Oh. I was wanting to know what number you thought

855
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 7: we would move up to? His first question, and what

856
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 7: do you think the spread will be for the Florida game?

857
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: Okay, Madison got your two questions and we appreciate the call.

858
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: What is Kentucky at now ten? You know, I don't

859
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: think Brown really moves them up in the in the standings, Maggie,

860
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 1: So let's see what they do against Florida. I think

861
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:54,879
Speaker 1: that that would be a huge move up if you're

862
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: able to be the top ten team. But if you're

863
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: asking me what the spread is, it's going to be close.

864
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: But being at rupp Arena, I gotta give it to

865
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: the Cat's edge a little bit, wouldn't you, Magan?

866
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 2: I would think so, just because it is a home

867
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 2: game and because we haven't seen either team play an

868
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 2: SEC opponent yet, So I think that sort of leaves

869
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 2: the line up to question a little bit more, just

870
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 2: because the levels of competition have been so different up

871
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 2: and down kind of throughout the season. I don't. I mean,

872
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 2: I'm looking at Florida schedule. I don't see an amazing

873
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 2: win on this schedule. I mean, they beat North Carolina,

874
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 2: they won at Florida State, but there's not a top

875
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 2: five duke on there. There's you know, there's there's not

876
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 2: an overtime at Gonzaga went on there. So I do

877
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 2: think Kentucky will probably have the edge, even though the

878
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:38,359
Speaker 2: Gators are technically ranked a high ahead of Kentucky. Right now,

879
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 2: there's sixth, UK is tenth, so I think if UK

880
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 2: wins that game Madison, they'll probably move UK up maybe

881
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 2: a spot or two. But I think at this point,

882
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,240
Speaker 2: once you're close or inside the top ten, it depends

883
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 2: just as much on what the teams around you do

884
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,399
Speaker 2: as what you do yourself as well.

885
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,919
Speaker 1: In Vegas, Lions are trying to get money on both

886
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: sides of the action, not just who do you think

887
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: is going to win? And buy how much? I'd say

888
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: probably maybe Kentucky three or four, probably less than that

889
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,240
Speaker 1: pick them maybe listen.

890
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 2: I don't do a sports betting podcast, so I'm the

891
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 2: wrong person to ask, well.

892
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 1: Do I really do a sports betting podcast either? I

893
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,240
Speaker 1: feel like fade this is anything but sports at times.

894
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 2: It's sports adjacent.

895
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: I need to take a deep breath and see how

896
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 1: many more kids we have on the line, because we

897
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:21,839
Speaker 1: need to take a break, and we have one more

898
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: final segment. Maggie, you're doing a great job. I know

899
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,879
Speaker 1: it goes by quick. It does so eight five nine

900
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: two two eight seven. If you'd like to get in,

901
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: this is the Local Toyota Dealers KSR postgame Show. All right,

902
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,720
Speaker 1: welcome back. It's the final segment of the Local Toyota

903
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:41,360
Speaker 1: Dealers KSR Postgame Show. Billy Rutledge and Maggie Davis filling

904
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 1: in on this one. Tonight, the Cats beat the Brown

905
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: Bears and they will take on Florida on Saturday. Maggie.

906
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: In the game tonight, Ansley Almanor hit a three in

907
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,240
Speaker 1: the first half to make it twenty two to fourteen.

908
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: Before then, he had missed six of his last seven

909
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: to three pointers. So it was nice not only to

910
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 1: see the headband that he was rocking tonight, but for

911
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: him to make a three. What do you think Ansley's

912
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:05,879
Speaker 1: role is down the stretch on the Kentucky team this year?

913
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 2: I think, well, one, I think that's a great question.

914
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 2: I love to see him hit that three today, because

915
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 2: I do think early on in the season he was

916
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 2: absolutely money from the corner. He got himself open a

917
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 2: decent amount, and when he was left alone or could

918
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 2: come off a screen and get his own shot, he

919
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,799
Speaker 2: was making like seventy percent from deep or something ridiculous

920
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 2: early on, or you know, like every game, I felt

921
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 2: like he hit one to two three pointers, and then,

922
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,320
Speaker 2: like you said, a long stretch here recently where he

923
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,399
Speaker 2: hasn't been doing that. Today was his first three since

924
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 2: the Gonzaga game. But he also played seventeen minutes, which

925
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 2: is the second most he's played all season. I think

926
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 2: that's probably a little higher than what we'll see him

927
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 2: play down the stretch. Obviously, Andrew car didn't play the

928
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 2: last fourteen minutes of the game, so everybody shifted around

929
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 2: a little bit because of that. I think in general,

930
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 2: you want Almanor to be like a twelve minute a

931
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 2: game guy, come in for spurts, bring that energy that

932
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 2: we've talked so much about, and then take shots. This

933
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 2: year has talked a lot about the volume of the

934
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 2: shots that they're taking. They haven't been happy with the

935
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 2: number of threes that they've been seeing lately they got

936
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 2: I think, what was it twenty eight today?

937
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 1: What's twenty eight rebounds?

938
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 2: Three pointers?

939
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 7: Oh?

940
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: Three pointers yps at Tims. Yeah it was eighteen or no,

941
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: that's free throws ten of twenty.

942
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 2: Eight twenty eight yeh. So I mean all preseason we

943
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 2: heard the number thirty here. Recently that's been you know,

944
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,240
Speaker 2: twenty or below. So I think seeing twenty eight today

945
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 2: was a big part of that. But Almenor took four

946
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,879
Speaker 2: one went in. That's not a great look just percentage wise,

947
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 2: but if you watch the game, two of them just

948
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 2: rattled out. So I mean I wasn't unhappy with the

949
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 2: shots he did take. And he also had four rebounds,

950
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 2: which are just big effort plays. I think that's his

951
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 2: role the rest of the way.

952
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: That's what I was going to bring up was the

953
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:43,919
Speaker 1: effort plays that he had in the second half. Those

954
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with his three point ability, but

955
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: good to see from somebody that you want on the

956
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:48,879
Speaker 1: floor more.

957
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:49,359
Speaker 3: Uh.

958
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: The fairly Dickinson transfer, I think we expected him to

959
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: be on a lot, but we just have seen him

960
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: phased out a little bit the last few weeks.

961
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 2: Well, I want every player on this team to be

962
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 2: able to take one to two three's a game. Save

963
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 2: Amary Williams. I mean not Amary Williams. Even Brandon Garrison

964
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 2: showed us today. I mean whatever, if he wants to

965
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 2: take one every now and then he goes in, I'm

966
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 2: cool with that. Pobas shown that he's cool with that.

967
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 2: But everybody else across the board. We mentioned Andrew Carr

968
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 2: earlier as a player we'd like to see take more

969
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 2: of them. I'm I'm the same way about every other

970
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 2: guy on this roster because of the way this team

971
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 2: was designed, because of the system Pope is running, that's

972
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 2: how they want to win games. I'm okay with them

973
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,879
Speaker 2: leaning into it and having alman Or take four even

974
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 2: if he only makes one or two of them, because

975
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 2: it spreads the defense out from all those other guys.

976
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 2: I want everybody to earn the defense that helps their

977
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 2: teammates get open.

978
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: To Brandon on X says most nil on uk squad

979
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 1: has to be Kobe Breya just because of who the

980
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 1: competition was. Yukon Duke NC had to drive his price up,

981
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 1: and there's probably some truth to that. I mean, he

982
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 1: was the best three point shooter or best shooter in

983
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: the portal, right, and so Kentucky was able to get

984
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 1: him from Davidson. Is that where it was Dayton Dayton? Yeah, okay, Davidson.

985
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: There's another Davidson shooter back in the day that was

986
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 1: big if.

987
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 2: You're confusing him with somebody else.

988
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: Much shorter though, that's a much shorter Let's take a

989
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 1: couple of calls. We've got four people on the line.

990
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,800
Speaker 1: We'll get through these calls, and we'll call it a night. Maggie.

991
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: We'll let you go home and host your New Year's

992
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: Eve party.

993
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 2: I know, let's go. I think my guests might beat me.

994
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: But that's okay. Really keeping you overtime here. Peggy is

995
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: on the line. What's up, Peggy? How are you?

996
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 9: Hey? How are you? Bill?

997
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 5: Just?

998
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 9: First of all, happy New Year to you.

999
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 3: Posy, And.

1000
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 9: Now I was gonna say, uh, but I was proud

1001
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 9: of the cats tonight. Didn't get to go, but they

1002
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:47,280
Speaker 9: looked sharp in most plays. And but I have a question.

1003
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 9: I thought Doug Shells was not doing any more Kentucky games.

1004
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 9: Oh is that just because of cow Yeah?

1005
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not sure about that, Peggy. We have

1006
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: seen him earlier this year, so we may be in

1007
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: for a full dose of Doug shows. But he was

1008
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: he was on the.

1009
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:05,879
Speaker 2: Me laugh tonight.

1010
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: Oh what was he doing?

1011
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 2: He just, you know, Doug Shall, He just loves to

1012
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 2: make a very exaggerated call. It's not even that the

1013
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 2: call's wrong. I mean I was I think it was

1014
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 2: just possession arrow and it was just like the way

1015
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 2: he points at which side of the court gets the ball,

1016
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 2: you know, off a turnover, is just everything is so

1017
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:26,439
Speaker 2: dramatic and the best possession ever, and it just it's

1018
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 2: just so funny to me, and it bothers me in

1019
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 2: a close game that matters a lot. But tonight I

1020
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 2: found it funny.

1021
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 9: Right, And this is the second game he's called for

1022
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:37,399
Speaker 9: us this year.

1023
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 2: Buckle up, Peggy, here we go.

1024
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, get ready, we'll get some showers, Peggy. Oh right,

1025
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 1: all right, ye year to appreciate you calling in. Peggy. Hey,

1026
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: glad you are not under the age of ten years old.

1027
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 1: Here we go. They've got a street going here. Joe

1028
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: is on the line. What's up, Joe, how are you?

1029
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 4: Yeah? I'm doing really good. Good, just enjoying your show.

1030
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:06,439
Speaker 4: All them young people calling in, Billy Yeah and uh yeah,

1031
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 4: I know you're excited. Uh but I'm excited about West

1032
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:13,280
Speaker 4: Virginia beating Kansas a saffragin. It really brought a smile

1033
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 4: to my face, and right before the new year, and

1034
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 4: just see mister coach selfs crying over on his bench.

1035
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 4: So it was that was enjoyable. And and you're all

1036
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 4: spot on about the rebound and it's pathetic. I mean

1037
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 4: that first half, I don't think any wildcat put a

1038
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 4: body on anybody. I mean, it was almost to the

1039
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 4: point where I'm just saying, please when somebody's just trying

1040
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,399
Speaker 4: to hit somebody when the ball goes up. But they

1041
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 4: did not. So hence we got out rebounded pretty bad

1042
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 4: in the first half. So uh, until we decide we're

1043
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 4: gonna start putting a body on somebody, it's not gonna

1044
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:50,760
Speaker 4: getting better because Florida is one of the taller teams

1045
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 4: in the country. So I guess I'm just I'm just

1046
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 4: keeping everything cross come Saturday morning that we find a

1047
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 4: way that hit back and start rebound. That shit goo.

1048
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 4: I have a great deal years. Thanks a lot, good bye,

1049
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 4: Thank you, Joe.

1050
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:06,720
Speaker 1: We appreciate the call this evening. And to that point,

1051
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 1: I believe Mark Pope said in the postcamp press conference afterwards,

1052
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: was that rebounding. It has to be said to these guys.

1053
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: It has to be an emphasis. You know, a lot

1054
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 1: of times it can be forgotten or swept under the rug.

1055
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 1: And I think that may have been exactly what happened

1056
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: in this game, Maggie, is that you may be worried

1057
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 1: about so many other things, and you forget to put

1058
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 1: a body on it. Man, You forget to rebound with

1059
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 1: purpose and energy, and this slow start things has to

1060
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: be figured out. This is the last game. I'm giving

1061
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: them a pass for the slow starts because they had

1062
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: the ten days off.

1063
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 3: Right.

1064
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: This game is at two pm. A little weird. I'm

1065
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 1: not doing it anymore. Okay, so at eleven am they

1066
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 1: better be ready to go. And I don't know if

1067
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: that means practicing earlier or waking up and having a

1068
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: bagel beforehand, but they have got to stop the slow

1069
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: starts or it's really going to burn them eventually.

1070
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,320
Speaker 2: I'm writing this down right now. Last game. Billy gives

1071
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 2: a pass number two early morning bagels. Okay, we'll see

1072
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 2: how this goes. We'll keep this in mind. We can

1073
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 2: revisit these notes later. I fully agree that with the caller.

1074
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 2: I mean it just you have to be more physical

1075
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 2: to get a rebound. I was thinking about Mike Pratt

1076
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,879
Speaker 2: the whole first half, so many of those like one

1077
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 2: handed rebound attempts, and I could just hear Mike's voice

1078
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 2: in my head being like, Maggie, They've got a rebound

1079
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 2: with two hands, And it just made me miss Mike

1080
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,879
Speaker 2: Pratt so much, first of all, but it just, Oh,

1081
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,240
Speaker 2: I'm like, we got to get somebody to just hammer

1082
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 2: that home. And it makes me think a little bit

1083
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:27,400
Speaker 2: about like you said, it is something that has to

1084
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 2: be thoughtful, it has to be approached, it has to

1085
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 2: be something you actively do. And I wonder a little

1086
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 2: bit on a roster of guys who all came from

1087
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 2: schools where they were the quote unquote shooter for the

1088
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 2: most part, that that wasn't necessarily their role on their

1089
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 2: former teams. They were the guys taking all the shots

1090
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 2: every single game and just being that designated scorer. They

1091
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 2: all knew coming to Kentucky that's not how it was

1092
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 2: going to be here. They all signed up to play

1093
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 2: in a system where everybody was going to take that

1094
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 2: number of shots. But I do think maybe there's been

1095
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 2: an adjustment period of Okay, if we're all shooting, we

1096
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 2: all have to be rebounding, and I think there's been

1097
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 2: a little bit of a slow adjustment on that.

1098
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 1: One other thing we probably won't see a lot of

1099
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,320
Speaker 1: is a full court press, and we saw that pretty

1100
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 1: much the whole game from Brown old Rick Patino style

1101
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 1: back in there. You just don't see that a lot.

1102
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: And the Cats, after a little bit of a slow

1103
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: start and some struggles, they were able to dominate that

1104
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: defense and the Brown Bears, which they should have. I mean,

1105
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: they have Ivy League iverson, but this is vastly you know,

1106
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: Kentucky is vastly superior when it comes to talent level

1107
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:31,319
Speaker 1: than they were Brown. So Amari Williams two rebounds has

1108
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 1: got to be better too.

1109
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you said they have Ivy League iverson.

1110
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 2: That's fine. Florida has Walter Clayton Junior who's averaging seventeen

1111
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:40,320
Speaker 2: points a game and shooting fifty percent with the floor.

1112
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: So show prep.

1113
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 2: That's a transition.

1114
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 1: You said, you just came in here and turn the

1115
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 1: mic on. You got notes over there, you.

1116
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:46,800
Speaker 2: Know, I have notes. I'm like the most type a

1117
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 2: person that has ever typed day. Obviously I have notes

1118
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 2: over here.

1119
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 1: We had one person drop, so we only have one

1120
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: caller left, so hopefully it's a good one. Jeff is

1121
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: on the line. Can you finish us off with a

1122
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 1: bang here? Jeff?

1123
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 3: I can do that. I can do that. First, I

1124
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 3: want to say, the two of you are such young,

1125
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,919
Speaker 3: great talents that you have unbelievable futures. And I listen

1126
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 3: to you both all the time. I want you to

1127
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 3: tell me. I want you to tell me where I'm wrong. Okay,

1128
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 3: Mark Hope terrific higher, no doubt about that. All Right.

1129
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 3: We have a team full of mid majors. They bust

1130
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:30,399
Speaker 3: their tail, but they're mid majors. Jackson Robinson is not

1131
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 3: the best player on this On this team, we're going

1132
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 3: to finish somewhere in the middle of the SEC, and

1133
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 3: we're going to be an eight or nine seat in

1134
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:44,720
Speaker 3: the NCAA. We've got a great future and I love Pope.

1135
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 3: So where am I wrong?

1136
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 1: Well, if Kentucky wants to have more success than what

1137
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: you're predicting, Jackson Robinson does have to be the best

1138
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 1: player on this team. I mean, I think we need

1139
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 1: to see a different gear from him when it comes

1140
00:48:57,560 --> 00:48:59,880
Speaker 1: to scoring and also creating his own shot. We've heard

1141
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 1: preach that for many, many times on this postgame show.

1142
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: You know, middle of the pack in the SEC. You

1143
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: might be right, Jeff. I mean, this is such a

1144
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:12,840
Speaker 1: tough slate. We've seen Kentucky drop some games to inferior opponents.

1145
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 1: Maybe that happens to better opponents in the SEC. But

1146
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,879
Speaker 1: here's what I guess maybe you're missing in your synopsis

1147
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: here is that this team has such a high ceiling

1148
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: and they have so much potential to get better that

1149
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 1: I don't think that we've seen their best out of

1150
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 1: anybody on this team, not one person. I don't think

1151
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:31,839
Speaker 1: that we've seen their best from And so that makes

1152
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 1: me optimistic that they maybe they are a little bit

1153
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:36,240
Speaker 1: better in the middle of the pack, and maybe Jackson

1154
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 1: Robinson can be the best player on this team. Maggie,

1155
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: did any of the comments from Jeff stick out to you.

1156
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 2: I think the middle of the pack, the same as

1157
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 2: what you said, stuck out to me because I think

1158
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 2: middle of the pack would be I don't want to

1159
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:50,360
Speaker 2: use the word disipline light disappoint It would be a

1160
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 2: slight disappointment. Not because Okay, if you go back to

1161
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 2: this summer and you think new coach, new staff, new players,

1162
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:59,880
Speaker 2: he put it together in whatever four days. You probably

1163
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 2: sign up for that and be okay for one year

1164
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 2: as long as it looked better the next year and

1165
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 2: you saw that moving forward. But then what we've seen

1166
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 2: from this team through the non conference, I do think

1167
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 2: they've played themselves into higher expectations. And I don't want

1168
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 2: to say that middle of the pack is okay with

1169
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 2: this team. I just don't because I do think, like

1170
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 2: you said, this team has a high ceiling. Yes, a

1171
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 2: lot of these guys came from mid major schools, but

1172
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 2: I think they all came from schools where they were

1173
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:27,479
Speaker 2: the best player at that mid major. They're coming here

1174
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 2: and they've played together at a much more efficient pace

1175
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,279
Speaker 2: than I expected coming into the year. I think it's

1176
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 2: really really hard to take the best player from ten

1177
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 2: different teams and teach them to play together. And I

1178
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 2: don't think Mark Pope has necessarily gotten enough credit for

1179
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:45,400
Speaker 2: how he's been able to manage that, not just on

1180
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:47,239
Speaker 2: the court, but off the court as well. This is

1181
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:50,840
Speaker 2: the team with very very little ego. As much as

1182
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 2: I've been around them this year, I mean it's a

1183
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 2: very humble team that I mean it's scrappy, and it's

1184
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 2: a hard working team. It's a very smart team with

1185
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 2: a lot of basketball IQ on staff as well. So

1186
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 2: I think the combination of all of that leads to

1187
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 2: higher expectations but also higher potential throughout the SEC than

1188
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 2: what he said in terms of middle of the pack.

1189
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:11,400
Speaker 2: I think if you're not top five in the SEC

1190
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 2: by the end of the year, I'll be disappointed.

1191
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 1: Well, you said higher expectations. I think a lot of people,

1192
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: maybe outside of Jeff, immediately adjusted their expectations after a

1193
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 1: win versus Duke.

1194
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 2: And how could you not. I mean, you watched that game.

1195
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 2: Your expectations rightfully skyrocket. I'm okay with that.

1196
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,800
Speaker 1: Right You're just hoping to, you know, make the tournament

1197
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: and maybe win one or two games, get to the

1198
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:33,879
Speaker 1: second weekend. You're kind of still reeling from the last

1199
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,359
Speaker 1: few years of col and now I think you're bought

1200
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: all the way in with Pope. And here's the thing.

1201
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 1: It's not an excuse, but this could be the least

1202
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: talented team that Mark Pope has at Kentucky for a while.

1203
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 1: I mean, he squabbled these guys together in matter of

1204
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: weeks and now once he's been able to go out

1205
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 1: and recruit, which he is proving that he can do.

1206
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: Then you got to think it's just going to be

1207
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: more and more talented teams. But we'll have to see

1208
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: how these guys pick up the system. Would you agree

1209
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 1: with all that, Jeff, or do you disagree with any No?

1210
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 3: I agree, and I love watching them play and the

1211
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 3: future is bright. But I don't see them being anywhorse.

1212
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,839
Speaker 3: But you know, in the middle of the pack at

1213
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 3: that Ohio State the backle I don't see them being

1214
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 3: hired the middle of the pack in an eight or

1215
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 3: nine seed in the tournament. I hope I'm wrong, but

1216
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 3: either way, I'm thrilled about the team, the coach, and

1217
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:27,280
Speaker 3: our future.

1218
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: Well, Jeff, we appreciate you calling in.

1219
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you, Jeff. The one thing I will say

1220
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 2: about that the Ohio State game is it's you are

1221
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 2: more than justified in bringing that up. The one thing

1222
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 2: I've gone back to and I am an optimistic glass

1223
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 2: half full person, so I will freely admit that I

1224
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:47,320
Speaker 2: do think that I cannot imagine this team looking worse

1225
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:49,839
Speaker 2: than they did against Ohio State. Yeah, I think if

1226
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:52,279
Speaker 2: you want to see the four, we've seen it, and

1227
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 2: it was awful. It was a terrible game. Mark Popas

1228
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:57,919
Speaker 2: said that the players have acknowledged it. We've talked about

1229
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 2: it for ten days. That was a terrible Foremance. I

1230
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 2: don't think we'll see anything worse than that throughout the year.

1231
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:05,879
Speaker 2: Whether or not that makes you feel good or bad,

1232
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,879
Speaker 2: that's up to you. But to me, I don't think

1233
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 2: we've seen this team play its best game yet, and

1234
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 2: I'm pretty content with most of the games we've seen

1235
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 2: in the middle, So I think that's what makes me

1236
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:16,760
Speaker 2: optimistic going forward.

1237
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:19,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just you know, finding out if this team

1238
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:21,959
Speaker 1: is a good three point shooting team, because I still

1239
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: don't know, Maggie. I know they want to average thirty

1240
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: thirty five threes a game, but I just haven't been

1241
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,399
Speaker 1: seeing them fall at a very high clip tonight ten

1242
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 1: of twenty eight.

1243
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:32,800
Speaker 2: Need a little more from Kobe brea little more. I

1244
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 2: think Jackson Robinson takes a lot of heat for not

1245
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 2: playing up to his potential. We need more from Jackson Robinson.

1246
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 2: He has to be the best player. I agree with

1247
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:42,480
Speaker 2: most of that. I do think we need some better

1248
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:45,280
Speaker 2: and just a higher volume of shooting from Kobe Brea.

1249
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:47,640
Speaker 2: I think they did a better job tonight of taking

1250
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:50,319
Speaker 2: the shots that were opened, except for maybe there was

1251
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 2: like one Jackson Robinson when he overlooked and Andrew Carr

1252
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 2: when he didn't take and some of those. I think

1253
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:58,359
Speaker 2: this staff is really preaching you have to take it.

1254
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 2: You have the green light, and it's just a mindset

1255
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,360
Speaker 2: of knowing that you are allowed to take a shot

1256
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 2: like that.

1257
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:05,359
Speaker 1: And I don't think Lamont Butler is going to score

1258
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: thirty three points a night either. How, even though that

1259
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 1: was fantastic, that was an all time moment in the rivalry.

1260
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: I just you know they're guarding him different. You know

1261
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:16,399
Speaker 1: they're not letting him out that shot. And we even

1262
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 1: saw Pope get really careful with him in this game

1263
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 1: where he had one foul early and he subbed him

1264
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: out just because you saw what happen when he gets

1265
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,760
Speaker 1: in foul trouble. But we've also seen them without Lamont

1266
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:29,719
Speaker 1: Butler and Kerk Crisa and come back sixteen points down

1267
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,319
Speaker 1: to beat Gonzaga, So you never know what.

1268
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 2: You're gonna get with same, right, Billy, I have a problem.

1269
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 1: What's the problem.

1270
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 2: I always listen to this postgame show on podcast the

1271
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 2: next day. I really look forward to it. I like

1272
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:44,799
Speaker 2: hearing what you and Mad discuss your takeaways from the game,

1273
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 2: the caller all this stuff. Tomorrow is New Year's Day.

1274
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 2: It's a pretty chill day anyway. I mean, normally I

1275
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 2: would be pumped to listen to this postgame show. I

1276
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:53,840
Speaker 2: don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow. I've already

1277
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 2: heard it.

1278
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:56,279
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. You go back and listen to

1279
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 1: it again, and you critique yourself. At least that's what

1280
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:03,359
Speaker 1: I will do after a show. It depends. Not after

1281
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 1: a loss. I'm not big on going after losses, but

1282
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: like after a win, you know, you watch the highlights.

1283
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 1: You maybe listen to a show like that again. But

1284
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: most people don't like the sound of their own voice.

1285
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: Are you one of those people?

1286
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 2: I'm not. I don't care. I think it's because I

1287
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 2: have to hear my voice so much. I mean, probably

1288
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 2: early on in my career I was like that. Absolutely,

1289
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:22,760
Speaker 2: I understand that. But I mean I talk for thirty

1290
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 2: minutes a day, six days a week, so and I'm

1291
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:26,879
Speaker 2: like you, I like to critique myself. I'll go back

1292
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 2: and watch almost every episode of bb in tonight and

1293
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 2: taking little notes and work on improving things, et cetera.

1294
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:35,320
Speaker 2: So I probably will still listen to this, but we'll see.

1295
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:37,319
Speaker 1: Well, if you ever want Billy R Sports to make

1296
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:39,280
Speaker 1: his TV debut, you just let me know, Maggie.

1297
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 2: Yes, we'd love to have you bb and tonight.

1298
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 1: Then you will be fired for booking guests from now

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Speaker 1: on after that. But hey, this was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Maggie for joining me.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me, And thanks to

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Speaker 2: everybody who called in. That was great, especially the kids.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, especially the kids. We really loved everybody calling. It

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Speaker 1: looked like a fun time at rep Arena.

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Speaker 2: It was a great way to end a very eventful

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Speaker 2: year for Kentucky basketball and a good sort of starting

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Speaker 2: point for the twenty twenty five to come.

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Speaker 1: Boy, you're right about the event full twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: a year with the regime changes from cal to Mark Pope.

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Speaker 1: But the Cats finish their non conference schedule with a

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Speaker 1: win over Brown eighty eight to fifty four. The Cats

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Speaker 1: will next play Florida on Saturday. Our pregame will start

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Speaker 1: at eight thirty am. Get that bagel ready, the bagel,

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Speaker 1: the bagel, some coffee. You're gonna need it. It'll be

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Speaker 1: an early one on Saturday, but it'll be a big

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Speaker 1: test a top ten Florida team. Maggie Davis has been

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Speaker 1: our guest from BBN tonight. She has done a great job.

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Speaker 1: Follower on Twitter at Maggie Davis TV. I'm Billy Rutlands.

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Speaker 1: You can follow me on Twitter at Billy r Sports.

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Speaker 1: And this has been the local Toyota Dealers KSR postgame show.

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Speaker 1: We will talk to you on I Guess Thursday here.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk to you next week.

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Speaker 1: Ye, we'll talk to you next year. I have a great,

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Speaker 1: happy New Year.