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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone. It is the local Twitter Dealers KSR postgame show.

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Speaker 1: Cats lose a heartbreaker seventy five seventy four in a

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Speaker 1: game that it looked like they were in control of,

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Speaker 1: then looked like they had completely given up, then looked

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Speaker 1: like they were gonna win, and then they drop it

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Speaker 1: at the end a five nine two eight h twenty

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Speaker 1: two eighty seven. I think we probably should attacked this

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Speaker 1: in like three parts, so let's just start with everything

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Speaker 1: except the final sequence of the game. I think two

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Speaker 1: people that deserve a lot of praise, Oway and Aberdeen.

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Speaker 1: If Kentucky had won, I think the two of them

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Speaker 1: would basically have willed the team to victory. Aberdeen apparently

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Speaker 1: was sick and out, didn't practice in the two practices

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Speaker 1: since the Georgia game, and you wouldn't have necessarily known it.

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Speaker 1: He looked a little tight, but I thought he played

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Speaker 1: super hard. Made two huge threes, both of which I

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Speaker 1: think if they hadn't have made, probably they get they

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Speaker 1: get beat by double digits, and then hit free throws

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Speaker 1: at the end. As a matter of fact, I kind

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Speaker 1: of wish he had he when he made those last two,

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Speaker 1: I thought when they were gonna inbound the ball there

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Speaker 1: at the end. I kind of hoped it would go

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Speaker 1: to him. I thought he was excellent, played pretty good

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Speaker 1: defense too, And then Oway was Oway was great. I

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Speaker 1: mean Oway, Uh, this was the best of Oway tonight,

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Speaker 1: getting to the getting to the basket finished nearly everyone.

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Speaker 1: I thought he was excellent and I and I thought

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Speaker 1: didn't force things like he can he sometimes will do.

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Speaker 1: I I just thought the two of them played like

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Speaker 1: like warriors. And then I thought Diabate played really well

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Speaker 1: even though he didn't score a lot, just physical et cetera.

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Speaker 1: But the other like, I'm not sure Kentucky really did

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Speaker 1: deserve to win this game, because I thought the rest

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Speaker 1: of the team was was not good and and Kentucky

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Speaker 1: just you know, you saw the limitations in some ways

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Speaker 1: of this group. Auburn's not a great team, and I

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Speaker 1: think if Kentucky was. You know, they lost five straight

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Speaker 1: coming this game, and you know we've now lost back

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Speaker 1: to back games where Georgia had come in losing five

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Speaker 1: of six, beat US, Auburn had lost five in a

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Speaker 1: row and beat US, So those are those are tough

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Speaker 1: losses to take. I didn't think Kentucky really played well tonight.

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Speaker 1: I was kind of shocked a lot of the game.

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Speaker 1: At one point, we were up nine and I was

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Speaker 1: texting with a buddy and I said, I don't even

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Speaker 1: feel like we played well. We're up nine. We would

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Speaker 1: have won because of the will I think of those

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Speaker 1: two guys. Colin Chandler had a decent first half, but

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Speaker 1: the second half was was awful. That's as bad as

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Speaker 1: he's played. Multiple turnovers, bad decisions, bad shooting, and you know,

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Speaker 1: the other guys just it just wasn't a great performance

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Speaker 1: with that sad though, because of that Oway Garrison sort

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Speaker 1: of effort. Excuse me, Oway Aberdeen effort. They were up

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Speaker 1: three with fifteen seconds left, and give Auburn some credit,

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Speaker 1: they took it to the basket there. I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of teams would have just taken a three. They

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Speaker 1: took it to the basket. Uh, forced the contact, got

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Speaker 1: the call, cut it to one, and all year long,

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Speaker 1: Kentucky has struggled in these inbound situations. I tweeted about it,

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Speaker 1: then I deleted it because you know, obviously they hit

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Speaker 1: the play against LSU, but really, when we've just had

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Speaker 1: to get the ball in bounds. If you remember, especially

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Speaker 1: earlier in the year, we had a number of situations

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Speaker 1: get the ball inbound sometimes, and I thought about that

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Speaker 1: going in this play. They don't really have a play

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Speaker 1: to get someone open, just to inbound it. They did

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Speaker 1: the thing that they've done all year on these inbound plays,

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Speaker 1: which is just kind of hold a hand up in

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Speaker 1: the and the call there by the official I thought

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Speaker 1: was an egregiously bad timing call. Is it technically a

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Speaker 1: foul maybe, although I think he flopped. I mean he

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Speaker 1: started falling before Chandler extended his arm, so there was

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Speaker 1: no doubt he was flopping. Chandler, however, did extend his arm,

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Speaker 1: so you know, you almost give the officials the knife

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Speaker 1: So it was a complete flop the officials, Steven Pearl

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Speaker 1: said after the game, they could have called fifty fouls

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Speaker 1: on each team, and that's the truth. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: officials kind of let him play. I thought the officiating

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna call a game like that, then I

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Speaker 1: don't know how you call that foul right there. It's

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Speaker 1: just a's not the time to call that if you're

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Speaker 1: gonna call the game like they did, And it was

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Speaker 1: called by Courtney Green, who was on the other side

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Speaker 1: of the court. I like Courtney, but that's a terrible

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Speaker 1: there are two officials closer to it than you are.

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Speaker 1: That's not your call, and you insert yourself into the game.

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Speaker 1: So I hated it. I thought that was a terrible call.

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Speaker 1: But I also think Chandler, who had played terribly in

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Speaker 1: that second half, you gotta be smart enough not to

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Speaker 1: extend your arms like that. But he may have thought,

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Speaker 1: us do this, and they didn't. Then on the final play,

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Speaker 1: you know, great block by Diabaatee. You know, the second

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Speaker 1: attempt at the shot, Garrison should have had that rebound,

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Speaker 1: he did not, And then the third one the guy

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Speaker 1: goes over Chandler's back. But you know, it is what

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Speaker 1: it is. I hated that call also, though can't necessarily

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Speaker 1: say we deserve to win. I don't know if they

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Speaker 1: did either. Neither team really played that great, but I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I'm very frustrated by that loss. I'm frustrated

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Speaker 1: by the call, but I'm just more frustrated we were

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Speaker 1: in that situation. They're not good, and we did some

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Speaker 1: really dumb things. You know, in the first half, we're rolling,

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Speaker 1: Now we get it back, we lead it halftime, which

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Speaker 1: is for only the fifth time this year against a

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Speaker 1: start well, we're up nine, you know, and we give

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Speaker 1: just couldn't get any offense consistently going. And then I hated.

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Speaker 1: We tie the game and we go zone, which was

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Speaker 1: odd to me. We really hadn't played zone the whole game.

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Speaker 1: And then on a keep zeshion we go and no

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Speaker 1: one picks up the guy who's having a career high

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Speaker 1: that happens, so just frustrating. You know, it brings, in

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Speaker 1: South Carolina. Now they're not good. They're the worst team

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Speaker 1: in the coal maybe not the worst. They beat Misssippi State,

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Speaker 1: so second worst team in the conference. But and I

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Speaker 1: think if you win that game, you're in the tournament.

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Speaker 1: But if you lose, you're all of a sudden playing

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Speaker 1: your way onto the bubble because you still get you

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Speaker 1: got three hard games to finish the year. So this

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Speaker 1: is a this is a bad back to back stretch,

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Speaker 1: and this is a very disappointing loss. I you know,

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Speaker 1: just disappointing. These games back to back. Kentucky should have

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Speaker 1: won both of these. We should be sitting here tonight

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Speaker 1: with Kentucky ten and four in the conference, in second

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Speaker 1: place in the SEC. But they're eight and six and

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Speaker 1: you know, on a collision course to play on Wednesday

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Speaker 1: in the SEC tournament for the first time ever as

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Speaker 1: far as I can remember. We need to talk about

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Speaker 1: what happened after the game. Tell you what Billy pull

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Speaker 1: up the We'll do this in phases. Okay, so pull

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Speaker 1: up the quote that Mark gives in the press conference. Okay,

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Speaker 1: video the video. Yeah, so this is I posted it.

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Speaker 1: It's about forty seconds long. It's the post where I

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Speaker 1: say he's a little passive aggressive because he's asked about

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Speaker 1: the officiat and he's asked about that call. Do you

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Speaker 1: have that bill? You see where I'm.

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Speaker 2: Saying I don't have it yet, but I'll have it

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Speaker 2: here in business.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, Mark is asked. First of all, he goes

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Speaker 1: to the press conference very soon after the game. That's

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Speaker 1: one of the interesting things about the way these work,

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Speaker 1: the losing the Usually the losing coach goes first. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: that doesn't happen, but usually now usually the road team

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Speaker 1: go home. He gets on there really quick. So he's

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Speaker 1: clearly very emotional and clearly very upset about the call,

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Speaker 1: and he's asked what he thinks about it, and here's

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Speaker 3: Refuse to give control to people that are outside of

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Speaker 3: our program. Refuse regardless of how personal it might get

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Speaker 3: or how bad it might get. We refuse to give

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Speaker 3: control to fans, to give control to anybody else associated

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Speaker 3: with this game. Regardless of how blatantly people are trying

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Speaker 3: to make this not happen, we refuse to give them

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Speaker 3: their power. That's what I talked about. We have forty

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Speaker 3: eight hours to turn this around. We've got a massive

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Speaker 3: game at South Carolina. We're gonna go find a way

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Speaker 3: win it, because that's what we do. So we're not

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Speaker 3: giving away our power. We're not like, we don't make excuses.

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Speaker 3: We don't do that regardless of what is happening. Regardless

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Speaker 3: of how disgraceful things are, we don't give away our power.

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Speaker 3: Regardless how embarrassing, personal, awful, like unacceptable things are, we

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Speaker 1: An odd set of comments, Right, he's saying he's not

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Speaker 1: essentially blaming the officials, but he's But then he says,

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Speaker 1: regardless of how blah blah blah blah blah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's a little passive aggressive. Is that fair to say?

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Speaker 1: Very yeah, I mean, And honestly, rather him just go

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Speaker 1: I'd rather him just say like, they cheated this. Well,

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Speaker 1: as he walks out of the press conference, Okay, so

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Speaker 1: he gets up out of the press conference, he walks.

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Speaker 1: I guess he gets to the other side of the wall.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know if he doesn't realize they can

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Speaker 1: hear it the media room, or maybe he did on purpose.

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Speaker 1: He says, Mitch, if those mother efforts try to find me,

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Speaker 1: screw them. I didn't say a word about how they

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Speaker 1: cheated us. And he actually did say mother blinkers. You

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Speaker 1: know he said it, and it's on video like he

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Speaker 1: said it, like everybody heard it. So he says that

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Speaker 1: after those comments, you just heard, and then he says

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Speaker 1: when Tom Leech asked him on the postgame show what

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Speaker 1: he thinks about the call, he said, we don't talk

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Speaker 1: about officiating. We have to find a way to win games.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't. It's just my opinion. Other people

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Speaker 1: can disagree. I think that's a pretty bad look. If

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Speaker 1: he wants to say we don't complain about officiating, that's

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Speaker 1: probably the right thing to say. I'll be honest with you.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure I could do that if I was

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Speaker 1: a coach, but that's probably the right thing to do.

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Speaker 1: Or if he wants to say we got cheated, I'm

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Speaker 1: when you go, we don't make excuses. But then you're

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Speaker 1: making excuses and you're saying it's personal. I don't know

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Speaker 1: Yeah? And I'm off tomorrow from Matt Myron, so I

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Speaker 1: It's a Local Toy Dealer's KSR postgame deal. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show. Uh, Kentucky is gonna

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Speaker 1: That's only the second time in school history that's happened.

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Speaker 5: Hey, I just want to start off. I do not

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Speaker 1: I mean I understand I totally understand why people are

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I hate that they made that call. But if

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Speaker 1: come down to next year. Like I'm just I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: have to see it next year, and there really aren't

431
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Speaker 1: gonna be any excuses for me next year, like they've

432
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:15,920
Speaker 1: got to be good. But yeah, that's probably what I'm

433
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Speaker 1: holding on to. Who's next, Kevin, Kevin, go ahead, Kevin.

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Speaker 7: Matt.

435
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Speaker 8: I think he comes down to exactly what you said.

436
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 7: Just now.

437
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,120
Speaker 8: He gets one more year and that's it. He has

438
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Speaker 8: to produce next year. I have no faith in what

439
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,159
Speaker 8: they can do this year. If you look at what

440
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 8: took Tubb Smith out of coaching at Kentucky. His nickname

441
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,400
Speaker 8: was pen Lost Tubby and that carried on to Billy Gillespie.

442
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 8: And we see what he has done this year. And

443
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 8: what scares me the most is the bipolar and nature

444
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 8: of Mark Pope when we see him and he smarts

445
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 8: off to Tom Leach and that's the nicest guy that

446
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 8: you could ever talk to, and yet he has an

447
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 8: attitude with Tom Leach and he is bipolar when it

448
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,920
Speaker 8: comes to his postgame press conferences and all of that.

449
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 8: I just don't think that he is the right person

450
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 8: to fit at Kentucky. And we're just not seeing the results.

451
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 8: And I think that you see a team that does

452
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 8: not know what they're doing because Mark Pope is not

453
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 8: giving a clear message of what he wants to do

454
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 8: offensively defensively from game to game, and we're seeing that

455
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:29,160
Speaker 8: play out on the court.

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Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate the call. I don't know if I

457
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 1: would use the word bipolar, but I would use the

458
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Speaker 1: word of his emotions after games are are kind of

459
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: all over the place. I mean, that's I think that's fair.

460
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 1: You know, again, when he came from BUYU, there were

461
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: people who did stories where they interviewed I think it

462
00:26:55,840 --> 00:27:01,159
Speaker 1: was Jacob Polcheck at KSR who theyasically talk to people

463
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: about what Mark was like at BYU, and they would

464
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: all say, great guy, great coach. But when they lose,

465
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: like Tea's very hard on himself and others. And you know,

466
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 1: we've seen some of that and some of that's okay,

467
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: but you know, there have been a lot of strange

468
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 1: moments in post games this year. I mean there have

469
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: there have probably been enough, like there have been some

470
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: strange moments from the from the Louisville like something happened

471
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,679
Speaker 1: in the locker room, to what he said after the

472
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: Michigan State game, which called caused Rick Petino to call

473
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,959
Speaker 1: him and be like, what's wrong with you? To the

474
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 1: game where Missouri where he was kind of weird with

475
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: Tom and you know the game they had a game

476
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 1: the other night that it's just to this, it's just

477
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:54,719
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of sort of odd things. Who's next, Robert, Robert,

478
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 1: go ahead, Robert Matt.

479
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Speaker 9: I've got four or five very quick comments if I

480
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 9: can please. Uh, First of all, I was looking on CBS.

481
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Speaker 1: I will give you. I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna

482
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: give you three since it's after midnight, but your best time,

483
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: all right, Okay?

484
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 9: Right that they were rating the top hundred players for

485
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 9: the NBA Draft. Kentucky had two Quaintans who obviously is

486
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 9: done for the season, and Oway and Oway was rated

487
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 9: ninety three. The bottom line, Number one is we don't

488
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 9: have the level of talent.

489
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Speaker 1: I agree that we've had.

490
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Speaker 9: Okay, Number number two, I know this is gonna sound

491
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 9: crazy and I've had so many people tell me this,

492
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 9: that Otaga, who's shooting sixty five percent and free throws

493
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 9: in sec play people when I'm watching the game with

494
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 9: my buddies, some of them are screaming to take him

495
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 9: out because he clanged so many free throws late in

496
00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 9: the game under pressure.

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Speaker 1: To my occasion, he did, he did, but he also

498
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 1: made a couple. Yeah, but he also made a couple

499
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: there at the end. But yeah, you're right. But my

500
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: thing is, if you take him out, like who scored?

501
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: Like we don't ye who's scoring? I mean, yes, he's

502
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 1: not perfect. If he was perfect, he wouldn't be ninety

503
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 1: three on the rankings, right, he'd be a lot higher.

504
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 1: But right, but like, if it's not again, without him

505
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: and Aberdeen, we might have scored thirty five points tonight,

506
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 1: you know.

507
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 9: Fair point.

508
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 10: The other thing is, and I hate just trust the players, but.

509
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Speaker 9: I thought that the performance.

510
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 11: And I was just it wasn't just bad from.

511
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Speaker 9: A basketball standpoint, it was bad from a smart play standpoint,

512
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 9: or more meticularly lack thereof. I usually think Chandler plays

513
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 9: well and plays smart.

514
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: He was he was bad. I don't know what happened.

515
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: He was a disaster in that second half, in.

516
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 9: The second half. Five it's hard to get five game.

517
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, he I think. I think when he had those

518
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,239
Speaker 1: back to back plays where he tried to feed the

519
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: post to Moreno both times, and both times it got stolen,

520
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: and then he got taken out. Yeah, no, no, no, those

521
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: passes were terrible decisions and uh and Pope took him out.

522
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 1: And I felt like after that, like I don't know

523
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,479
Speaker 1: if he was pressing. I just he was really really

524
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 1: bad in that second half, and and and what and

525
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 1: the turnovers were bad enough, but there was other stuff

526
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 1: like he he was he was not good in that

527
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: second half, and I that that it was kind of

528
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: he hasn't been like that really since since conference plays.

529
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: So I don't really know what happened. Hopefully it was

530
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 1: just a one game, uh blip. I appreciate the call.

531
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 1: I you know, that's kind of what I was saying about.

532
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: Did they just about feeling like they whether they deserve

533
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: to win or not. I look back, Billy, and it's

534
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: hard for me to figure out how we scored. I

535
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: know that sounds strange, but we scored seventy four points.

536
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: And as I sit there and try to think of

537
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: remembering when they scored. I feel like I remember Away

538
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 1: getting a bunch of layups, and I remember Aberdeen hitting

539
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: a couple threes, and it feels like though we just

540
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: ended up with seventy four points, and it's just hard

541
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: for me to it almost is like we willed or

542
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: if we had won this game. Let me tell you

543
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say if we won. When it

544
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: was seventy four seventy one and they called time out,

545
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 1: I remember thinking, if we win this game, I'm just

546
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: gonna go. Man. That was a game won on sheer

547
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: will power by two dudes, and then we didn't. But

548
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: it's kind of sheer willpower we were even in it

549
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: because it just didn't feel like we play good at all.

550
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, especially with Brandon Garrison making those plays

551
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 2: out there, and Trent Noah outmatched Jasper Johnson.

552
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: Wasn't I actually thought Trent did okay, He's he was

553
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: a little lot. He was out matched. I actually thought

554
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: he played Okay.

555
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 2: What are you gonna say about Beg I can't.

556
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: I can't, I can't. I mean, I'm not sure the

557
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: last time of player's frustrated me more than he does.

558
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 2: He got like three foulsand.

559
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: And he made one. He made a howd he miss

560
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: that layup at.

561
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 2: The oh that bunny at the end?

562
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, how did he?

563
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 2: But he had put great defense right after, like he

564
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 2: kind of made up for it.

565
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: He did. He had that was a good defensive play

566
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: the next time down, But there were a few that weren't.

567
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: And I don't know where he was on those last rebounds,

568
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: like he was like six feet from the basket. Like

569
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: he is one of the more frustrating players I can

570
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: ever remember. For me personally, I'm not saying it like

571
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: I'm not saying for it, just for me personally, I

572
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 1: find him to be one of the more frustrating players

573
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: that I can remember in a long time.

574
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 2: Who's next another Kevin?

575
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: Kevin? Go ahead, Kevin.

576
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 12: Hey, Matt and Bill, what's going on? This is Kevin

577
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 12: from West Virginia in Crystal Hello. And I'm a I'm

578
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 12: a Kentucky boy. I went to UK and then I

579
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 12: went to albarn a school, and I've converted my wife

580
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 12: to be a UK fan. To a ride in the

581
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 12: roller coaster. Yeah, I just wanted to say, it's like

582
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 12: it's full thirty now and this is the time this

583
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 12: for Ryan, for lovers.

584
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: Okay, you don't have to say see, we don't need

585
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: this to continue from other people, but go ahead, that's it,

586
00:33:54,240 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: all right, I appreciate it. It's like, okay, well, actually

587
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: didn't make me laugh. Let's a couple of people were

588
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: quote tweeting the quo tweet. I've said many times, and

589
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: it's true. I said this a long time ago, and

590
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: it's it is a true story. One fact of sports

591
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: in life. When you're complaining about the refs, you lost.

592
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: And that's true. We are complaining about the refs and

593
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:25,280
Speaker 1: we did lose. So this is just Tonight's another example

594
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: about it.

595
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 2: Who's next, Skyler?

596
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 1: Skyler? Go ahead, Skyler.

597
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 13: Hey, hey, Matt, this first time.

598
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: Caller in a long time. What's up.

599
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 13: But I would like to say that, yeah, I'd like

600
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 13: to complain about the refs, to be honest with you,

601
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:49,240
Speaker 13: but I would also like to be able to say

602
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 13: that I felt like they costed us a game at

603
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:56,760
Speaker 13: the end of the game whenever they.

604
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 14: Had they call.

605
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: And you're talking about the Chandler call. Yeah, yeah, that

606
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:05,959
Speaker 1: was a.

607
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 8: Mad Yes, the Chandler call.

608
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, that's what I'm talking about.

609
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well it certainly didn't help.

610
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 13: I just felt like that was very terrible and that

611
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:20,439
Speaker 13: was devastating for the game.

612
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: It was very terrible. That's true. It's good to hear

613
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: from you, sir. I hope you're having uh, hope you're

614
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: having a good evening, and thank you for calling. Would you, Billy?

615
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 1: How outraised were you at that call?

616
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 7: Like?

617
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 1: Were you were? You? Were you furious? I could see

618
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: could you see it? I mean you listen to it?

619
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: Could you see you saw it? Okay?

620
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 2: Well I could see why. But I mean Jack was

621
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 2: the one that was mad. I mean you could hear

622
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 2: it in his voice.

623
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: What did Jack say, you're talking about giving? Yeah?

624
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like well, I mean he was fine

625
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 2: with it too. He said he saw the arm extend.

626
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 2: But they had not been calling it all night. And

627
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 2: if you have to call them the last minute the same,

628
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 2: you wouldn't I That's that.

629
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my biggest thing. I will grant you that

630
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,839
Speaker 1: that could be a foul, but it was not a

631
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: foul in the context of that game and the way

632
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: they were calling it. You can't just all of a

633
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: sudden in the last twenty seconds call normally. Sometimes what

634
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: happens in the last twenty seconds is they stopped calling fouls.

635
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 1: They kind of let them play. But this is almost

636
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 1: worse because you've set the president. You're gonna let him

637
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: do one thing and then you call that. You know.

638
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: But now I you know, I don't understand what chance.

639
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: First of all, we should have inbounded to Aberdeen. I mean,

640
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:43,359
Speaker 1: Chandler's not had a good game, you know, Aberdeen had

641
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:48,439
Speaker 1: just made two crucial ones. By the way, again, big

642
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: shout out to that dude, especially if he's playing sick.

643
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: He played thirty nine of the forty minutes, so and

644
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 1: he made those free throws. I wish we had inbounded

645
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,760
Speaker 1: it to him, that's what. And if he misses, he misses.

646
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: But even if he misses, there all the way on

647
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,760
Speaker 1: the other side of the court. You know, But who's next,

648
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Speaker 1: Well I said, go ahead, go ahead.

649
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean he's the perfect guy for our

650
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 2: Johnny Rocker personal injury attorney, moneymaker of the game, injured,

651
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 2: get small town campassion with big city results. When you

652
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 2: call the Rocker at two seven zero three two one

653
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 2: four four two nine and Matt, you're right, didn't practice

654
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 2: in the lead up to this game. Scored fifteen points

655
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:27,959
Speaker 2: had three big three pointers in this game as well.

656
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 2: He has really been impressive this second time.

657
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Speaker 15: I am.

658
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 1: I have been a lot of things about this year

659
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: frustrated me. He has really like he is my smile

660
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: like the thing that maybe has made me the happiest

661
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: over the second half of the year. Two things I've

662
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:49,280
Speaker 1: really enjoyed watching Moreno develop, Although he's got to get stronger,

663
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: he gets the ball taken from him too much, but

664
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: he's really developed and become a good player, and I'm

665
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: excited about him for the future. And then watching Aberdeen

666
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: go from a guy that was bad at the start

667
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: of the year too. I think he you know, he's

668
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:07,280
Speaker 1: not he's not good enough to be our second best player,

669
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: but he is our second best player and he gives

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Speaker 1: everything he's got, and so I have a lot of

671
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,240
Speaker 1: love for him. And I wouldn't have thought that earlier

672
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Speaker 1: in the year, but he really does. He gives everything

673
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: he's got every game and I appreciate that. We'll take

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Speaker 1: a break and be right back. It's a Local Toy

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Speaker 1: Toy Dealers KSR Post game Show. Text machine is seven

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Speaker 1: seven to two seven seven four five two five four

678
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 1: one person rights, Matt, I've kind of been with you

679
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,320
Speaker 1: and thought we needed to only play our top five guys.

680
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: But did you feel like they got tired down the

681
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: stretch and maybe it would have been good to play

682
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 1: more people. No, because when we did play more people

683
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: for a stretch, well, depends on what you mean by

684
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: I play more people. I think what he did in

685
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: the second half is actually fine, which is he kind

686
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: of It seemed like he kept three of the starters in,

687
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: three of the big four in at all times felt

688
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: like to me pretty much all the second half Aberdeen,

689
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,799
Speaker 1: o A, Chandler Moreno at least three of those four

690
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: were in, which I think is what you have to do.

691
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: He gave Jovich some minutes, Garrison some minutes, played Diabate

692
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,760
Speaker 1: most of the game, you know, gave Noah some minutes.

693
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. But in the first half he

694
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 1: went Jasper, Noah, Garrison, Diabate, oh way, and we gave

695
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:45,359
Speaker 1: up eight points at about twelve seconds. And you can't

696
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: do that. And you know, I don't know Billy, Jasper,

697
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: John I just can't blame. And that's sad, but it's true.

698
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Speaker 2: Not even like four minutes at a game.

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00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: Well, I mean he was in there tonight. His man

700
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: makes a three, he doesn't get back on defense, he

701
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Speaker 1: gets the ball stolen from him. You know, Pope didn't

702
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Speaker 1: put him back.

703
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Speaker 2: In two minutes minus six tonight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was minus six and two minutes against Georgia,

705
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Speaker 1: who was minus sixteen and nine minutes, and tonight he

706
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Speaker 1: was minus six and too many.

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Speaker 2: Well, Pope mentioned fatigue a lot in the postgame to.

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Speaker 1: Know fatigue was certainly part of it. But here's what

709
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Speaker 1: I'll say about fatigue. We were down, we were down

710
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: what six with five minutes ago, and came back and

711
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 1: were up three. So clearly the fatigue didn't get him

712
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 1: in the last five minutes, right right, Yeah, I mean

713
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Speaker 1: part You know the person who was the most fatigued

714
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Speaker 1: was Chandler. Well, may I just say something. Chandler had

715
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Speaker 1: two thousand two minutes and set out most of the

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Speaker 1: first half.

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 1: So like of all the the guy who played the

719
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Speaker 1: most played thirty nine minutes and was sick. He didn't

720
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Speaker 1: look fatigued, did he. No, I'm just being like Aberdeen.

721
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: Back to my Aberdeen. My man plays thirty nine minutes

722
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Speaker 1: he's sick, hasn't practiced all week. He's not fatigued, so

723
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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. There was a moment where

724
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Speaker 1: I felt like Chandler needed to go out and the

725
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: timeout came, and that's but I'll tell you this, they

726
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:27,800
Speaker 1: may have been fatigued, But I'd rather have a fatigue

727
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Speaker 1: guys we have on the court, though, Billy, than what

728
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Speaker 1: we saw in the first half of that little stretch.

729
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what it seems like it's becoming. I mean,

730
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Speaker 2: they went five and a half minutes without a field

731
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Speaker 2: goal early in.

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Speaker 1: This samely, from the eighteen minute mark of the second

733
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Speaker 1: half to the four minute mark of the second half,

734
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Speaker 1: that's fourteen minutes and we scored fourteen points. Jeez. That's

735
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Speaker 1: where I mean, honestly, that's where we lost the game

736
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:50,280
Speaker 1: was in that stretch.

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Speaker 2: Who's next, Larry.

738
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:57,919
Speaker 1: Larry, go ahead, Larry, Hey, Matt, what's up? First time?

739
00:41:57,960 --> 00:41:58,399
Speaker 16: Long time?

740
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Speaker 1: Who are.

741
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 16: Fellow lawyer from down here in Etown?

742
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 10: No?

743
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: Well, hello Etown town, esquire.

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Speaker 17: Hey.

745
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Speaker 16: My son went to University of Michigan, so I followed

746
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 16: them a lot. My text to my son tonight was

747
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 16: great games today between top five teams. One versus three

748
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Speaker 16: and two verses four probably is none of them were Kentucky. Well,

749
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Speaker 16: what are we doing?

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Speaker 1: Well, we're not in the top four, and right now

751
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: we've lost two straight games to teams that coming into

752
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,760
Speaker 1: it had lost ten of their last eleven games.

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Speaker 16: So you know, you know, I'm not much of a

754
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Speaker 16: of a AI man, but I put this in. It says,

755
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Speaker 16: I was just thinking, how long has it been since

756
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Speaker 16: Kentucky's been a top one or two seeds?

757
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: And out seventeen, It's been ten.

758
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 16: Years since Kentucky Walcatz earned a number one seed. This

759
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 16: is a ten year drought prior to this.

760
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:08,959
Speaker 1: This is double.

761
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 16: Before this drought.

762
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: The longest yeah, between number.

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Speaker 16: One seeds for Kentucky and the modern era sixty plus

764
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:20,280
Speaker 16: sixty four plus teams was only five years between nineteen

765
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Speaker 16: ninety eight and two thousand and three.

766
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think that's right. I think as I

767
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 1: think a guy is wrong about that we we had.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we got a one seed from like

769
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Speaker 1: eighty six to ninety three. Maybe, but in general your

770
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:38,439
Speaker 1: point it may be very well, maybe the longest time

771
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Speaker 1: since we've had a one seed in history. I mean,

772
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Speaker 1: it's been ten years we had a one seed in

773
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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. We were two in twenty question mask seventeen.

774
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Speaker 16: Where are we at? Are we now Indiana?

775
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:52,879
Speaker 1: No, I've said, we talked about that last week. Were

776
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: we're also to the year we lost to Saint Peter's

777
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:01,319
Speaker 1: but we lost the same Let me add you but

778
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Speaker 1: we are we we are?

779
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 16: Are we relevant anymore?

780
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 1: Yes? I mean we are? You know, well, depends on

781
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: what you mean by relevant. I mean, are we irrelevant

782
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,760
Speaker 1: in terms of can we win a national title? We haven't.

783
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:20,240
Speaker 1: I'd say since COVID. We've only had one team since

784
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: COVID that went into the tournament where people thought we

785
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:25,839
Speaker 1: could win the national title, and that was the year

786
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 1: we lost to Saint Peters.

787
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Speaker 16: So I get are we looking at that in regards

788
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 16: to Blue Eyes?

789
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, it depends on what you mean by relevant. Okay, Well,

791
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're asking my opinion, you're just you're

792
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: telling me. I mean, if you're asking my opinion, we

793
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: when it comes to relevant, if you mean, do we matter?

794
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:51,720
Speaker 1: In college basketball? Nothing moves the needle except for Duke

795
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:56,240
Speaker 1: more than Kentucky and college basketball. We get the highest ratings,

796
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: We get the most clicks, We are always in a

797
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 1: prime time spot in our games on ESPN, even when

798
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: we aren't good. So, yes, we are relevant. Think about

799
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: how many times you see Indiana in a marquee game

800
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: versus how many times you see us. We are next

801
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: to Duke. We are the most marquee program in college

802
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:25,320
Speaker 1: basketball still. Now the second point, have we been a contender? No? Okay,

803
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 1: and that's really more important than even being marquee. But

804
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 1: the idea that we're not, like like we're irrelevant, that's

805
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 1: just not true. They put us at eight thirty. They

806
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: put us at eight thirty on ESPN because we're relevant.

807
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 16: Yeah, but we yeah, but we weren't the top five.

808
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 1: But I want you to look at the games, and

809
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: I appreciate the calls. I want you to look at

810
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 1: the games that we're on, that we're on the national

811
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: prime slates. It was number two versus number four, number

812
00:45:56,239 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: one versus number three. Right now it's number six versus

813
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: is the number one pick in the draft. And in

814
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 1: between we're two unranked Kentucky Auburn teams. Why because it's Kentucky.

815
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: But we are not playing up to our marquee status.

816
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: Though that is a fair critique. We since COVID have

817
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:22,839
Speaker 1: not been what we should. That is fair, and that's

818
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: why I believe there should be whole sale changes in

819
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: the athletic department. And we're gonna have another year, in

820
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: my opinion, to see whether that needs to happen with

821
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 1: the basketball program. But the standard has slipped, but we

822
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 1: are not irrelevant. That's not true in my opinion. Who's next, Lance, Lance,

823
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,479
Speaker 1: go ahead? Lance, Yeah, Matt.

824
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 11: To me, it seems like we always play either up

825
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 11: or down to our competition, especially in conference plate. I

826
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 11: agree you say that a problem Pope has with preparedness

827
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 11: for these games or what do you think about it?

828
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: You go back to his time at BYU and you

829
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 1: throw it here. It is clearly the case that Mark

830
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 1: has in his coaching career had teams that seemed to

831
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: play to the level of their competition and b why

832
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:23,839
Speaker 1: you he made that program relevant and they would beat

833
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: good teams and then they would lose to bad teams.

834
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: And that's kind of been what it's like here. Why

835
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 1: is that the case? I don't know. I can't figure

836
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 1: that out, but it is frustrating. And you know, the

837
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 1: guy mentioned Michigan, and I think Michigan is a good

838
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: is a good situation to sort of compare it to,

839
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: and I appreciate the call. I mean, Michigan has a

840
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: second year coach that came in highly touted and had

841
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:57,399
Speaker 1: all the resources in the world this summer as we

842
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 1: did to get a team, and like us, had not

843
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 1: had kind of struck out on some top targets as freshmen.

844
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: And they are one of the two or three best

845
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 1: teams in the country and we are where we are.

846
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 1: And at some point, if you're sitting there going okay, well,

847
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,840
Speaker 1: what's a good way to judge Mark? You have to

848
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: look at Dusty May and Michigan and say why is

849
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 1: the gap so large there? And that's probably a question

850
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: for the off season. But we're very similar programs in

851
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: terms of what we had as a possibility this year,

852
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: and they have ended up much much better than we have.

853
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 2: Who's next, Tommy.

854
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 4: Tommy, go ahead, Tommy, Hey, Matt, this is Tommy here

855
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:50,240
Speaker 4: out of Tompkinsville, Kentucky.

856
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 1: How are you doing doing good? Okay?

857
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 4: So I got two quick things and I don't want

858
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 4: to keep you long. But the first thing is I

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00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 4: saw some comments early about how you weren't happy with

860
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 4: how Pope reacted postgame. I just want to hear how

861
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 4: you think he should have acted. Do you want him

862
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 4: to be happy? What do you want?

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00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 1: I want him to be consistent. If he's upset about

864
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:19,279
Speaker 1: the officiating, say I'm upset about the officiating. If he's

865
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: not upset and he wants there to be no excuses,

866
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: say there are no excuses. But don't say there are

867
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: no excuses and then walk out of the room and

868
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:33,839
Speaker 1: then say they cheated us. Those are just those are

869
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 1: just inconsistent messages. And and and I just want like

870
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 1: just say what what you will think? Like just be

871
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: Mark Pope and if and and it was clear what

872
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:46,879
Speaker 1: Mark Pope felt was they got cheated. So I wish

873
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: he'd just say it, just say it be like you

874
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 1: we got you? Now. Do I think we got cheated? No?

875
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: Do I think that was a bad call? Yes, But

876
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:00,400
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean we got cheated. I mean mean, like,

877
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 1: you know.

878
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:04,320
Speaker 4: What about do you think it was personal?

879
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean he says it is, I don't.

880
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what would make it personal

881
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: unless he and that referee have something. But if he

882
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 1: thinks it is, I can't say it's not. I don't

883
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 1: know their relationship, right, I just would say this, if

884
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 1: you're gonna say you lost and a ref has made

885
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:24,400
Speaker 1: it personal, like, well, you better be ready to stand

886
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 1: on that because the SEC is probably gonna ask you

887
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 1: about that and you're probably gonna have him calling another

888
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 1: game of years at some point.

889
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 4: Right, Okay, Well, last thing real quick? Uh, this is one.

890
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 4: This one's trying to light in the mood. I understanding

891
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 4: a big bro country guy. I was wondering if you

892
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,399
Speaker 4: were a fan of J. B. Selburn's music, and if

893
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 4: you can name one song.

894
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: I do not know a name of a song, but

895
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 1: I do like JD and I have I have enjoyed

896
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,280
Speaker 1: hearing him. He's a Kentucky fan and a fan of KSR,

897
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: and so I'm a fan of his. I'm not but

898
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 1: I do not know a name of a song. But

899
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 1: it's not usually my kind of music. But Phil J

900
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 1: like JD the same way I do about my my cousin, Like,

901
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 1: if you're one of my people, I'm going before it.

902
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:11,840
Speaker 1: Who's next, Brad, Brad? Go ahead, Brad?

903
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 14: Hey, uh, cousin, say you know, I thought the refree

904
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:24,279
Speaker 14: were bad, but I thought the coaching was pretty substitioning

905
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 14: and stuff for bad too. We ran literally nothing from

906
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 14: about seventeen minute point on in the second half to

907
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 14: the end of the game. Oh take o Way, beut

908
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 14: us out, Aberdeen, Belt South, a big three.

909
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 8: I just well, I mean, you're right by the way.

910
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:45,280
Speaker 1: Almost almost every possession in the last in the second

911
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: half ended with either o Way or Aberdeen creating something

912
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:52,879
Speaker 1: off the drip. I mean, like, that's kind of what

913
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 1: we did. But I also think, like I'll be honest,

914
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 1: it didn't look like anybody else out there wanted to shoot.

915
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:02,439
Speaker 1: You know what. It didn't look like Chaylor wanted to show.

916
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 1: I mean Chandler and or Chador and Noah both they

917
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:10,319
Speaker 1: both had multiple open looks and it did not look

918
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: like they wanted to shoot right. And moreno got the

919
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 1: ball on the block and he didn't really seem to one.

920
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 1: It was funny. It's funny when you talk about people

921
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 1: that I know are cool shooting the ball, Ohway and

922
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:27,799
Speaker 1: Aberdeen are. Unfortunately, the next two people that seem most

923
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: ready to shoot are Garrison and Diabonte, who always feel

924
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:36,319
Speaker 1: confident to have their number called. So he.

925
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 14: Don't care.

926
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, but when he gets the ball by the way

927
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: when Diabonte gets the ball and he makes the decision,

928
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 1: I'm going to the basket. There could be eight guys

929
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: on him, and he's going to shoot it. He's going

930
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: to shoot it no matter what. But go ahead.

931
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 14: My concern is, you know, it's it. You know, this

932
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 14: year is what it is.

933
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 16: The roster is bad.

934
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 14: I think Pope completely overcompensated for athleticism. But my bi

935
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 14: can turn this next year. What do we have to

936
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 14: be excited about coming in right now? Or Malachi is

937
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 14: gonna be your best player?

938
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: No, I mean I don't.

939
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 14: Think about that.

940
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 1: I don't think that. I think, well, I'll say this,

941
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:28,840
Speaker 1: if those are the two best players, then we're not

942
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: gonna be very good. But I think they I think

943
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 1: that there will be guys in the portal that will

944
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 1: be as good, if not better than Chandler and and Moreno,

945
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: it is now up to Pope. It's now up to

946
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: Pope to get them right. That will be what that

947
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 1: will be where we That will be what decides next season.

948
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:51,880
Speaker 1: And I appreciate the call. We don't have freshmen who

949
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: can bail us out. You know, I think you're gonna

950
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:01,240
Speaker 1: get Chandler. Well, I hope you're gonna get moreno Chandler

951
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 1: and Cam Williams back. You might get low you or

952
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:08,840
Speaker 1: you might want I mean, I don't know what they want.

953
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 1: And then I don't know about the other guys. But

954
00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:13,800
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to go get four or five guys

955
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 1: in the portal, and you need at least one of

956
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,440
Speaker 1: them to be a star. They have to get a star.

957
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:25,280
Speaker 1: They haven't really gotten a star star yet in the portal.

958
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:27,319
Speaker 1: Last year they got a bunch of guys that were

959
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 1: really good and that was a good team, but they

960
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 1: didn't quite have a star. I think they hope Jackson

961
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 1: Robinson would be that, and it didn't quite happen. This year,

962
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 1: you know, they struck out on a lot of the stars.

963
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to get a star in the portal

964
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 1: this year, and I don't know who it'll be because

965
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 1: I don't know who's gonna be in the portal, but

966
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to get one. When when ESPN puts

967
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 1: out those rankings top guys in the portal, were we

968
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 1: gotta get one of the top five if we're gonna

969
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:58,759
Speaker 1: be good next year. We'll take a break A five

970
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 1: nine two twenty t eighty seven come Back final segment.

971
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Speaker 1: It's a Local Toy Dealers KSR postgames Welcome Back. It

972
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 1: is the Local Toy Dealers KSR Postgame show eight five

973
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: nine two eight zero twenty two eighty seven. UH text

974
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Speaker 1: Machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two

975
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Speaker 1: five four mostly good text message. UH text machine comments

976
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:29,920
Speaker 1: today when person writes, Matt, I agree with what you

977
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: said about us being relevant, But do you think that

978
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 1: Kentucky will remain relevant if they don't start winning at

979
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 1: a high level. I mean it's a fair question, like

980
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 1: if you I mean, that's how you get to be

981
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:45,600
Speaker 1: Indiana Because there was a time that everything I said

982
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 1: about Kentucky was true about Indiana, like they would be

983
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:50,840
Speaker 1: in the marquee spots and they would and that has stopped.

984
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 1: So you're yeah, I mean, if you go twenty years

985
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:57,279
Speaker 1: without it, it will. But well, this is something I

986
00:55:57,360 --> 00:55:59,839
Speaker 1: know a little bit about because of my ESPN work.

987
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 1: Every single story written on ESPN about Kentucky will be

988
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 1: the highest rated story read on ESPN College basketball that week.

989
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 1: Like I don't know if you watch Field of sixty eight,

990
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:20,719
Speaker 1: but they will make a Kentucky game one of the

991
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: top three or four games they talk about every night

992
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 1: because more people that are watching them from us than

993
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:33,319
Speaker 1: anyone else. We drive. The only school that's closed is Duke.

994
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 1: We are these even North Carolina and Kansas don't drive

995
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:42,080
Speaker 1: traffic like Kentucky and Duke. So you know, could that

996
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 1: go away? Yeah, I guess it could, but we're still

997
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,840
Speaker 1: a long way from it going away. You know, Kentucky

998
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 1: Arkansas was until last week the highest watched game on

999
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 1: ESPN this year. That'll probably get passed by That was

1000
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 1: passed by Duke Carolina. They'll probably be passed by Duke

1001
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 1: Michigan because Duke actually probably is even more marquee than

1002
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:09,360
Speaker 1: we are now. But we're still too. But now we

1003
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 1: want to win titles and in that respect, we're way

1004
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,280
Speaker 1: behind these schools. And on that I completely agree.

1005
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 2: Who's up next, Matthew.

1006
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 1: Matthew, go ahead, Matthew, Hello, matt how are you doing

1007
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 1: doing good?

1008
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 18: Tonight was a was a rough one. It's a as

1009
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 18: a lifelong Kentucky fans always hard to you know, have

1010
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 18: a win and they get ripped in that manner. But

1011
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 18: through it all, whether or not Mark Pope is the

1012
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:41,520
Speaker 18: man for the job, that's yet to be seen. Because

1013
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 18: last the year was a quite a magical year for

1014
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 18: me personally, but you know, he just didn't get the

1015
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 18: right roster construction that he needed this year, and of

1016
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 18: course the we're losing games because of it. So I'm

1017
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 18: willing to always give him another year to see a

1018
00:57:57,240 --> 00:58:00,040
Speaker 18: way he can do. Yeah, and you know, if I,

1019
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:02,120
Speaker 18: if I could, if I could talk to him personally,

1020
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:03,840
Speaker 18: I would like to say something to the effect of,

1021
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 18: you know, coach, you.

1022
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 16: Know I'm not behind you.

1023
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 18: You know, you know you voice your frustrations when you've

1024
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:11,440
Speaker 18: got every other college coach saying whatever they want to say.

1025
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 18: You know, I'm out there with you. But you know

1026
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 18: I'm I'm I'm optimistic and excited to see what he

1027
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 18: could possibly do next year. I know it's gonna be

1028
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:25,480
Speaker 18: a whole roster reconstruction, and uh I other than Malachaimarino,

1029
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 18: I love the Kentucky boys, but I don't know how

1030
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 18: many of those guys are are going to be even

1031
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 18: ready for what they need to do. But you know,

1032
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 18: I love coach and I hope the best. I still

1033
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 18: think we're gonna make the tournament, but I don't think

1034
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 18: we're gonna make a whole lot of noise. But I

1035
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:44,919
Speaker 18: am excited that the possibilities as to what we can

1036
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 18: do well.

1037
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call those. Uh, I think all of

1038
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 1: that is reasonable. And uh, I'm sure you know. I

1039
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:56,680
Speaker 1: don't think there's anybody listening to this that doesn't want

1040
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 1: want Mark Pope to succeed. Part of what makes it

1041
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 1: hard is we all want him to succeed so much

1042
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 1: because we know how much he cares, and we know

1043
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: how much he wants to win. You know, I it

1044
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: would be so much. It would be so awesome to

1045
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 1: win with him as the coach, because it would be

1046
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:20,520
Speaker 1: like it would be more special in some ways than

1047
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:22,600
Speaker 1: it is with coaches who just come and go. Because

1048
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 1: he's part of this, so we all want it and

1049
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 1: he wants it. He probably wants it too much, which

1050
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:31,320
Speaker 1: is probably what causes some of these weird things that

1051
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 1: happen after losses. Let's do five more and we'll call

1052
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 1: him night. Who's next, Dave, Dave? Go ahead, Dave, hey man,

1053
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: what's up?

1054
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 10: So like you just said, nothing, like you just said,

1055
00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 10: as awesome as it would be to win with Pope,

1056
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 10: it kind of makes it a more painful when we

1057
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 10: lose with him.

1058
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 1: Now, I agree with that completely, Yeah, because you just

1059
00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:01,360
Speaker 1: hate it. It's like it's hard to it's hard for me.

1060
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:03,880
Speaker 1: It's hard for everybody to want criticize him because it's

1061
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:06,840
Speaker 1: like you're criticizing like one of your family members, you know.

1062
01:00:09,160 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 6: Exactly.

1063
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 10: It's like when Mitch hired him, it was like we

1064
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:13,560
Speaker 10: didn't want it.

1065
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:14,480
Speaker 6: We didn't.

1066
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:18,360
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's it's good, it's it felt good, but it's

1067
01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:21,520
Speaker 10: like it's to go south, and it's like we have

1068
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:22,640
Speaker 10: to almost kind.

1069
01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:25,439
Speaker 1: Of Yeah, it's like hiring. It's like you remember when

1070
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: you remember when Mark Mark Stoops hired his brother Mike

1071
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 1: Stoops as the linebacker coach, and I remember thinking it

1072
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:38,080
Speaker 1: would be awesome to have your brother coach with you. Well,

1073
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:41,920
Speaker 1: what if he's a bad coach? Are you gonna fire

1074
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 1: your brother? Like, what are you gonna do? It's gonna

1075
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: be terrible if it doesn't work out. And I kind

1076
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:51,200
Speaker 1: of wonder if it's like this, like we all want

1077
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:54,320
Speaker 1: a former Kentucky player to coach, but then what if

1078
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:56,880
Speaker 1: it doesn't work out? It makes it a lot harder.

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01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 10: Yeah, so one thing, I know this might be wishful thinking,

1080
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:06,480
Speaker 10: but what do you think our record would be? Or

1081
01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 10: how many games do you think would be different if

1082
01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 10: occasion Lewis had a decomitte.

1083
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 1: I mean, it'd be better. It'd be better because you'd

1084
01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:20,680
Speaker 1: be able to play, have another guard who can score.

1085
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:26,440
Speaker 1: You probably could play Aberdeen at his more regular position. Yeah,

1086
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 1: we'd be better. I mean, we'd be better. If Jalen

1087
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:34,439
Speaker 1: low wasn't hurt, we'd be better. We'd be better. We'd

1088
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 1: be better if we had one more guard who could play.

1089
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:42,200
Speaker 1: I honestly think that the thing we miss the most

1090
01:01:43,120 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 1: is we need another guard who can play. And that

1091
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 1: could have been Jalen Lowe. I thought it could have

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01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:52,040
Speaker 1: been Jasper Johnson. And it's ended up Jalen's hurt and

1093
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:56,960
Speaker 1: Jasper's not playing well and Cam Williams is hurt, and so,

1094
01:01:57,160 --> 01:02:00,680
Speaker 1: like you just have a situation. Wouldn't it been nice

1095
01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:03,520
Speaker 1: if tonight, when Chandler was off, you could have put

1096
01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:06,000
Speaker 1: somebody else in, you know what I mean, And we

1097
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:08,680
Speaker 1: just couldn't. And that's kind of the way it goes. Yeah,

1098
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 1: So I appreciate Paul. Who's up next?

1099
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:13,080
Speaker 2: TJ?

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01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 1: TJ? Go ahead, TJ.

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01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:19,919
Speaker 17: Hey, Matt, been a while, you know, Look I've got

1102
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 17: the final four tickets. I'm forty years old. I'm up

1103
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 17: there with you. You know, the name on the front

1104
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:27,840
Speaker 17: of the jersey, not the bat.

1105
01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 16: That doesn't matter anymore.

1106
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:31,080
Speaker 7: These kids get paid.

1107
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:36,000
Speaker 17: It doesn't matter if you're from Puerto Rico, China, Japan, America, Mexico, wherever.

1108
01:02:37,120 --> 01:02:42,040
Speaker 17: Pay the best players. It doesn't matter. Oh, it's the

1109
01:02:42,080 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 17: pageantry of Kentucky.

1110
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:43,840
Speaker 9: Boy.

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01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 17: You know, with Cala PARTI, if we had a bad season,

1112
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 17: we still had the excitement of, well, we've got the

1113
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:51,840
Speaker 17: number two pass.

1114
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:52,120
Speaker 8: Coming in here.

1115
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:57,120
Speaker 17: You don't even have that, Matt and I. Here's the thing,

1116
01:02:57,280 --> 01:03:00,600
Speaker 17: one more thing. Here's the thing. Oh, it was a

1117
01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 17: bad call. It was this. It was that this is

1118
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 17: a game where it shouldn't have been a bad call,

1119
01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:10,120
Speaker 17: or not to lose the game. They're on a five

1120
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 17: game losing streak. You are Kentucky. We are now the

1121
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:21,480
Speaker 17: Tennessee and the Nebraska of football. If we don't change soon,

1122
01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 17: this is pathetic.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it call. I mean, I I We're definitely not Nebraska.

1124
01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 1: Uh you know, I think we're still not quite Tennessee.

1125
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 1: But Tennessee's been what the relevant Yeah, I don't know.

1126
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 1: I mean the analogy is probably if we're not careful,

1127
01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna become like UCLA, which is UCLA. I'll still

1128
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 1: have years where they're really really good, but like they're

1129
01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:55,000
Speaker 1: not consistently like you don't look every and go wonderful,

1130
01:03:55,040 --> 01:04:00,919
Speaker 1: UCLA is gonna be good. I that's kind of that's

1131
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:03,080
Speaker 1: something that could happen. That's a very good point though

1132
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:05,920
Speaker 1: about with cal you are like, well, so and so

1133
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:08,200
Speaker 1: is coming in next year. Part of what I think

1134
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 1: is making this hard is that nobody has confidence about

1135
01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:13,400
Speaker 1: next year. That you know, if you think about twenty

1136
01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 1: thirteen when we went to the n I T. We

1137
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:18,080
Speaker 1: had the number one class in America coming in the

1138
01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:20,880
Speaker 1: next year with the Twins and Randall. Remember people go,

1139
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:26,479
Speaker 1: keep calm, the twins are coming right. Yeah, we don't

1140
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 1: have that, and so that in and of itself makes

1141
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:38,600
Speaker 1: it makes it difficult. And I'm with you. I get

1142
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:42,280
Speaker 1: the best players. If there's a tie and you want

1143
01:04:42,280 --> 01:04:45,080
Speaker 1: to add a kid from Kentucky, that's awesome, But get

1144
01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 1: the best players. The end of the day, we gotta

1145
01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:51,080
Speaker 1: we want to win three more. Who's next?

1146
01:04:52,080 --> 01:04:52,400
Speaker 2: Ben?

1147
01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 1: Ben? Go ahead, Ben?

1148
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:56,120
Speaker 6: Hey, what's going on?

1149
01:04:56,120 --> 01:04:58,880
Speaker 1: Man? What's up? Hey?

1150
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 6: So me so I been leaving the game heading back

1151
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 6: from Auburn. Uh, it sucked.

1152
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:08,120
Speaker 1: It was.

1153
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:12,680
Speaker 6: It was a tough game to be at. The thing

1154
01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:15,800
Speaker 6: I take away the most is I'll worry that Pope

1155
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:20,120
Speaker 6: cares too much. And I think it's just it shows

1156
01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:22,680
Speaker 6: up in the press conferences and everything else that he

1157
01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:25,680
Speaker 6: just he cares too much and he wants the guys

1158
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 6: to care as much as him, and they just I

1159
01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:31,960
Speaker 6: don't feel like they feel the same way.

1160
01:05:32,160 --> 01:05:34,560
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I don't want to say the guys

1161
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:39,840
Speaker 1: don't care. I think they care, but uh, the question

1162
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:42,919
Speaker 1: is about Pope care too much. I mean, they're You're

1163
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:45,040
Speaker 1: not the first person that said that. I don't know.

1164
01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:49,960
Speaker 1: I think he takes stuff really personally, but you know,

1165
01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:52,040
Speaker 1: I guess I'd rather be that than the other way.

1166
01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:55,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, but yeah, I mean, I mean I think the guys,

1167
01:05:55,520 --> 01:05:57,680
Speaker 6: I think, to me, it's like Hope cares too much

1168
01:05:57,720 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 6: in the sense of like the guy who, uh just

1169
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:03,320
Speaker 6: he weirds me out with like even the postgame stuff,

1170
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:06,920
Speaker 6: complaining about the refs, and I think everybody would complain

1171
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:08,720
Speaker 6: about the refs. But in my mind, it's just like

1172
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:11,760
Speaker 6: Pope can't do that. And it's like the guy who

1173
01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:15,160
Speaker 6: you know, he's on the second date and asking the girl, well,

1174
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:17,280
Speaker 6: how many kids she wants, you know, and he, uh,

1175
01:06:17,760 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 6: you know, he cares so much about her, but she

1176
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:22,560
Speaker 6: doesn't maybe feel that way. And I think the guys

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01:06:22,560 --> 01:06:24,840
Speaker 6: are just kind of it just I don't know, that's

1178
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:28,680
Speaker 6: just it's a lot. Auburn was Uh, it was fun,

1179
01:06:28,720 --> 01:06:31,640
Speaker 6: but at no point it felt like we were really,

1180
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:34,960
Speaker 6: you know, pulling away. And I feel like it's in

1181
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:36,920
Speaker 6: that way all year. We'll get up even if we

1182
01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:39,240
Speaker 6: get up eight, you know, it's feel like we can't

1183
01:06:39,560 --> 01:06:40,520
Speaker 6: just put a team away.

1184
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:43,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you're right. I appreciate the call. I think

1185
01:06:43,640 --> 01:06:49,360
Speaker 1: that's fair. Uh. Christy Noman announces Billy that pre check

1186
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:53,960
Speaker 1: is being suspended at the airport due to a partial

1187
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:54,960
Speaker 1: government shutdown.

1188
01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:56,600
Speaker 2: Oh that's a.

1189
01:06:56,520 --> 01:06:59,320
Speaker 1: Good way, good way to make this that's a good

1190
01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:03,400
Speaker 1: way to make this administration more popular to suspend pre check.

1191
01:07:03,640 --> 01:07:05,440
Speaker 2: Just make the lines longer at the airports.

1192
01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one thing that will make everybody thrilled. Let's

1193
01:07:08,960 --> 01:07:14,360
Speaker 1: make the lines longer at the airport. Yeah. Oh, that's right,

1194
01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:16,800
Speaker 1: because you have to you go that line.

1195
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:19,760
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm with the normal people. You're you're already

1196
01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 2: done with security by the time I.

1197
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:23,360
Speaker 1: Get Wait, a minute. I pay for pre check.

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01:07:24,680 --> 01:07:25,880
Speaker 2: Are you gonna suspend.

1199
01:07:25,640 --> 01:07:30,840
Speaker 1: Something that we pay for better? Yeah, exactly, you better

1200
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:34,000
Speaker 1: suspend the payment I pay for that. You can't suspend.

1201
01:07:34,920 --> 01:07:38,959
Speaker 1: See all right, two more? Who's next? Tory? Tory, go ahead, Tory.

1202
01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:46,360
Speaker 7: Hey matt uh brother? This this stinks. It's this stink's

1203
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 7: really bad. I'm not even having like a little bit

1204
01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:49,360
Speaker 7: of fun.

1205
01:07:50,440 --> 01:07:52,240
Speaker 1: No, it's not been a lot of fun. I agree.

1206
01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:55,760
Speaker 1: This year, this has been. This has been. This is

1207
01:07:55,800 --> 01:07:58,240
Speaker 1: one of the weirder teams that I can ever remember.

1208
01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:00,440
Speaker 1: I never know what's gonna happen in the game, and

1209
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:03,440
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, you're right, it hasn't been a lot

1210
01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:04,439
Speaker 1: of fun. I think that's fair.

1211
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:10,040
Speaker 7: It's it's a daily occurrence online. You've got fans and

1212
01:08:10,080 --> 01:08:14,000
Speaker 7: then various levels of media making the case as to

1213
01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:16,040
Speaker 7: why it's not that bad. You got to look at

1214
01:08:16,080 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 7: it through this lens. And then there's others that are

1215
01:08:18,040 --> 01:08:20,720
Speaker 7: just like, there's stinks, he's got to go. And then

1216
01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:22,960
Speaker 7: then the responses to each kind of tweet is just

1217
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:26,760
Speaker 7: people making the case for whatever their side is, and

1218
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:29,040
Speaker 7: it all just amounts to people are just trying to

1219
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:33,000
Speaker 7: figure out, like, why is this so bad and at

1220
01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:35,360
Speaker 7: the end of the day it just stinks. And and

1221
01:08:35,439 --> 01:08:39,840
Speaker 7: Mark Pope goes into breast conferences and he says like

1222
01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:42,760
Speaker 7: there somebody like they're trying to take our power, which

1223
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:44,640
Speaker 7: like I know what he's trying to say, Like I

1224
01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:48,479
Speaker 7: like words, and then like I'm all about the gena

1225
01:08:48,560 --> 01:08:51,599
Speaker 7: sa quav like the specific English language and saying something

1226
01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:54,479
Speaker 7: that sounds pretty, but it like it just comes off

1227
01:08:54,520 --> 01:08:58,160
Speaker 7: as cringey and and maybe, well not maybe I think

1228
01:08:58,200 --> 01:09:01,439
Speaker 7: Mark Pope might be cringe and he either has to

1229
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:05,880
Speaker 7: work on it or a manager to offset that when

1230
01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:09,439
Speaker 7: he talks to these kids. But the dorky stuff and

1231
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:12,880
Speaker 7: how much this all stinks, it's just I'm just not

1232
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:13,679
Speaker 7: having a good time.

1233
01:09:13,720 --> 01:09:23,200
Speaker 1: Man. Yeah, you know he might be a little cringe. Yeah,

1234
01:09:23,479 --> 01:09:28,720
Speaker 1: maybe I thought that, But I don't know. Like ultimately,

1235
01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:30,680
Speaker 1: I guess what matters most is he does is he

1236
01:09:30,760 --> 01:09:33,240
Speaker 1: get those like twelve guys in the locker room to

1237
01:09:33,320 --> 01:09:37,080
Speaker 1: buy in, right, Like ultimately that's probably what's most important.

1238
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:42,240
Speaker 1: And he certainly did last year. I can't I don't

1239
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:45,280
Speaker 1: know about this year. I can't really tell. It's hard

1240
01:09:45,280 --> 01:09:49,040
Speaker 1: for me. What has been so hard to interpret this year?

1241
01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 1: The team did not like each other at first. It

1242
01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:56,599
Speaker 1: feels like they've kind of gotten through that. But I

1243
01:09:56,680 --> 01:10:01,200
Speaker 1: can't tell sometimes how well Pope connects with the team

1244
01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:04,320
Speaker 1: this year. I think he really connected with him last year.

1245
01:10:04,760 --> 01:10:07,840
Speaker 1: I can't tell. I'm not saying he doesn't, but it's

1246
01:10:07,840 --> 01:10:11,320
Speaker 1: hard to see it sometimes, and so it's hard to know.

1247
01:10:11,439 --> 01:10:14,720
Speaker 1: I'm with you, it's not been fun. And I think

1248
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:17,120
Speaker 1: you're right. I think a lot of the the a

1249
01:10:17,160 --> 01:10:19,280
Speaker 1: lot of it is fans trying to figure out why

1250
01:10:19,360 --> 01:10:21,519
Speaker 1: is it like this? And that's all kind of not

1251
01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:24,000
Speaker 1: being able to figure it out.

1252
01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:28,720
Speaker 7: And so so Pope resonates very well with me. The

1253
01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:31,880
Speaker 7: things he say sit well with me. And I'm a

1254
01:10:31,920 --> 01:10:36,320
Speaker 7: thirty thirty five year old white dude. He's he's I

1255
01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:39,800
Speaker 7: think he gets into these conversations or these dinners with

1256
01:10:39,800 --> 01:10:43,120
Speaker 7: with these younger guys and like this is just my opinion, right,

1257
01:10:43,960 --> 01:10:46,519
Speaker 7: And I think the team's probably a similar reaction. As

1258
01:10:46,560 --> 01:10:48,599
Speaker 7: he gets there and he says like this is beautiful,

1259
01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:50,800
Speaker 7: and he tries to motivate him in this like very

1260
01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:55,600
Speaker 7: empathetic and powerful way that this like Shakespearean discussion he

1261
01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:57,920
Speaker 7: has with these players. And I think a lot of

1262
01:10:57,960 --> 01:10:59,799
Speaker 7: it is just met with a big irol.

1263
01:11:00,400 --> 01:11:03,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know if it is.

1264
01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:04,960
Speaker 6: I just don't a lot.

1265
01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:07,680
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting when I've talked to Pope, I

1266
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:11,920
Speaker 1: always I find him really interesting. But I find him

1267
01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:14,960
Speaker 1: interesting kind of like I find like I used to

1268
01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:19,880
Speaker 1: find my law professors interesting. And I don't know if

1269
01:11:19,920 --> 01:11:22,280
Speaker 1: you would put my law professors in a locker room

1270
01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:24,920
Speaker 1: of college kids and they would be the best motivators

1271
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:29,160
Speaker 1: in the world. So I don't know, I really don't know.

1272
01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:31,920
Speaker 1: I think ultimately there's a lot of different waste for

1273
01:11:32,040 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 1: things to work. I think it worked last year. It

1274
01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 1: doesn't seems to have worked as well this year. So

1275
01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:42,559
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call, but I do He's different, man,

1276
01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:47,680
Speaker 1: He's different. I think that's clear. And uh, but if

1277
01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:50,120
Speaker 1: we won, I guess none of us would care. Is

1278
01:11:50,160 --> 01:11:50,920
Speaker 1: it one more?

1279
01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:53,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm sure there's a lot of coaches that

1280
01:11:53,439 --> 01:11:56,000
Speaker 2: are cringe. But sometimes when you tell you.

1281
01:11:56,680 --> 01:11:59,559
Speaker 1: Like like like you remember how I can say this

1282
01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:01,400
Speaker 1: now because we've actually and I think you have to

1283
01:12:01,560 --> 01:12:04,320
Speaker 1: kind of become friends with him. Tom Crean, right, like

1284
01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:06,640
Speaker 1: we used to always joke like Tom Creane was like

1285
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:10,320
Speaker 1: the most cringe guy in the world, but like, but

1286
01:12:10,360 --> 01:12:14,640
Speaker 1: his Dwayne Wade loves it, you know, and and a

1287
01:12:14,680 --> 01:12:17,479
Speaker 1: lot of his former players love him. So even though

1288
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:21,439
Speaker 1: maybe we found him cringe like, his players really liked him.

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Speaker 1: And I've gotten to know him since I've started doing ESPN,

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Speaker 1: and I think he's awesome. So I don't know, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it's ultimately can you get your players to

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01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:34,400
Speaker 1: buy in? And there are people who might you know.

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01:12:34,439 --> 01:12:37,080
Speaker 1: Then there's like the guy with the Miami Dolphins, Mike McDaniel,

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Speaker 1: who tries that cool and I think he's cringing in

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01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:44,280
Speaker 1: a different way. You know, you just got that's exactly right.

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Speaker 1: You got to be yourself. And I do think Mark

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01:12:46,280 --> 01:12:48,760
Speaker 1: is himself, you know what I mean. I think he

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01:12:49,080 --> 01:12:50,160
Speaker 1: is what you see.

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Speaker 2: So he just wants it too much.

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01:12:53,360 --> 01:12:56,960
Speaker 1: Maybe one more like Alex finished.

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Speaker 17: Strong Matt appreciate it.

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Speaker 10: Man.

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01:13:00,840 --> 01:13:04,080
Speaker 19: I'm the UK grad flew to Atlanta today from Miami,

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01:13:04,160 --> 01:13:08,559
Speaker 19: rented a car, drove to Auburn. I've gotta be honest, man,

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01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:13,720
Speaker 19: it's just really fricking frustrating. Atmosphere was electric. This was

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01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:16,840
Speaker 19: a game years and years and years in the past.

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01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:20,599
Speaker 19: Kentucky goes in and wins. The OTAGA always fast break,

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01:13:20,760 --> 01:13:21,719
Speaker 19: slam the lead.

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Speaker 15: Same issues again, bad first half, letting them go on runs,

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01:13:27,360 --> 01:13:29,800
Speaker 15: weird substitutions.

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Speaker 19: In same lineups. We have a timeout with thirty seconds left.

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01:13:33,479 --> 01:13:35,439
Speaker 15: Why is Calvin Chandler pushing off?

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01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:38,160
Speaker 19: Man Like, why that can't happen?

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Speaker 15: Use a timeout? It's okay, Otaga incredible again right without him,

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01:13:45,120 --> 01:13:48,960
Speaker 15: We're not in the game. The fast breaks, everything was incredible.

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Speaker 15: I can still with Tom hard after the game. It

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01:13:52,080 --> 01:13:54,559
Speaker 15: should everyone is on the same page.

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Speaker 6: This is three in a row.

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Speaker 19: I don't I just don't know. Man, I don't, and

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Speaker 19: I know you feel the same way. I just I

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Speaker 19: don't know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, and I appreciate the call.

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Speaker 10: I I.

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Speaker 1: Do know that this year we have four games left.

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Speaker 1: We could win them all. We could lose them all,

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01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:20,800
Speaker 1: even the game at South Carolina two. We could lose

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01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:24,400
Speaker 1: that game if we don't play, so we could go

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01:14:25,240 --> 01:14:27,680
Speaker 1: four and oh we could go zero to four. We

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01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:30,559
Speaker 1: could get to the tournament. I mean, now, I think

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01:14:30,600 --> 01:14:37,000
Speaker 1: we're trending towards if we beat South Carolina non seed

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01:14:38,280 --> 01:14:41,320
Speaker 1: something like that. If we lose the other three, but

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01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:43,759
Speaker 1: we also could play our way to a six seed.

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01:14:44,680 --> 01:14:46,920
Speaker 1: We could be an eleven seed. We could miss the

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01:14:46,960 --> 01:14:50,040
Speaker 1: tournament if we don't win another game. So I don't know,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know what's gonna happen, and I don't

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01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:56,040
Speaker 1: know what our roster is gonna be next year. And

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Speaker 1: I think all that unknowing, that lack of knowledge is

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Speaker 1: part of that's what makes this so difficult. At the

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Speaker 1: end of the calperiod, I knew it was over. I

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Speaker 1: knew it was over. I don't know what we are

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01:15:12,080 --> 01:15:17,880
Speaker 1: right now, and so you know, what are you gonna do.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go play Tuesday night and hope we win.

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01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:24,439
Speaker 1: So that's kind of all we can do. Cats lose

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01:15:24,439 --> 01:15:30,479
Speaker 1: a tough one seventy five, seventy four, one rebound, one

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01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:36,200
Speaker 1: in position, referee not calling a foul, you know, one

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01:15:36,800 --> 01:15:41,240
Speaker 1: box out. We could have won, but we didn't. And

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Speaker 1: so now seventeen and ten, with four games to go,

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Speaker 1: we'll take a break. Well, we won't take a break.

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Speaker 1: We'll end the show. We'll see you later, be back

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Speaker 1: on Monday morning. This has been the Local Toy Dealers

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Speaker 1: KSR postgame show.