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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone.

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Speaker 2: It is the local Toy Dealers Kentucky KSR postgame show.

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Speaker 2: The Cats lose in Tuscaloosa by double digits once again,

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Speaker 2: eighty nine to seventy four. Fourth time Mark Pope has

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Speaker 2: played night oh since he's been in Lexington, and all

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Speaker 2: four games have been double digit losses where Kentucky has

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Speaker 2: rarely had a chance to compete a five to nine,

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Speaker 2: two eight, twenty two, eighty seven. I want to go

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Speaker 2: over a little bit about the game and then talk

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Speaker 2: about what we just heard right before I came on.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with the game. You know, the Cats in

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Speaker 2: the first half were just bad. And it's been this

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Speaker 2: way essentially every first half against Alabama, and honestly, it's

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Speaker 2: been this way in the first half in virtually all

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Speaker 2: of the good games we've had this year. Right, I mean,

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Speaker 2: we've been down in the first half double digits in

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Speaker 2: now six of our seven games against Power conference team.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I want you to think about that for

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Speaker 2: a second. We've played We've played seven Power conference teams. Now,

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Speaker 2: let me acknowledge those are seven good Power conference teams,

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Speaker 2: all in the top twenty five. Or Indiana is just

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Speaker 2: outside the top twenty five. But if you're going to

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Speaker 2: the tournament and you want to play in the NCAA tournament,

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Speaker 2: these are the teams.

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Speaker 1: You have to play.

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Speaker 2: And we've been down double digits in the first half

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Speaker 2: and six of those seven games, and you know, it.

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Speaker 1: Sort of doesn't matter what happens after that.

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Speaker 2: We ended up, i think, winning the second half by

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Speaker 2: one point, but.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter because you have played yourself out

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Speaker 1: of these games.

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Speaker 2: In one of those six games, we came back and

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Speaker 2: won against Saint John's, but otherwise these have been you're

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Speaker 2: just down so much that like your entire game is

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Speaker 2: trying to come back. And this is a team that

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Speaker 2: because they did not recruit shooting, which was our worry

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Speaker 2: from the beginning of the season, because they did not

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Speaker 2: record shooting, they're not built to come back. I mean,

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Speaker 2: they're just not Like, this is not a team that

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Speaker 2: can come back, and you put yourself in these double

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Speaker 2: digit holes and it's like I thought to myself at halftime,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm gonna watch this second half, but kind

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Speaker 2: of what's the point, Like, we're not gonna win, and

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Speaker 2: I it's just very disappointing. I didn't expect Kentucky to

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Speaker 2: win this game today. Alabama is better and Alabama is

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Speaker 2: at home. I think I said on the pregame show,

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Speaker 2: you could have a team that was good enough to

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Speaker 2: win the national championship that would lose at Alabama. I mean,

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Speaker 2: that's at Alabama. It's probably our toughest game on the

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Speaker 2: SEC schedule, and you can make a strong argument that Kentucky,

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Speaker 2: who sits nine to five, has played six top.

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Speaker 1: Twenty esque teams so far. So I'm not.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm not sort of a doom and gloomer

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Speaker 2: about the season as a whole, but I am a

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Speaker 2: doom and gloomer about how we're playing because this team

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Speaker 2: is just not playing well. They had their full roster today,

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Speaker 2: But I don't know. I'm not sure how. I'm not

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Speaker 2: that Jalen Lowe jayl Low's could and if we didn't

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Speaker 2: have Jayalen low we would not make the tournament.

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Speaker 1: He's good.

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Speaker 2: I thought he played well when you consider his injury status.

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Speaker 2: I thought he played well. I don't understand why he

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Speaker 2: doesn't start. I don't understand why. It's like Mark Pope

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Speaker 2: wants to start these games with one hand tied behind

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Speaker 2: his back. I'm generally a believer that who start doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: Over the years, you've heard me say, well, it doesn't

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Speaker 2: really matter who starts and who finishes. Yeah, that's generally true,

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Speaker 1: And I can only think of two times this has.

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Speaker 2: Really happened, well really three Quaddy Green, Shay, Gilges, Alexander

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Speaker 2: was better, and then eventually Cal flipped and made Shay

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Speaker 2: the starter, and I think that mattered. He didn't do

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Speaker 2: it with Reid and Rob and we of course know that.

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Speaker 2: But I don't understand like this idea that we're gonna

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Speaker 2: I mean Billy in the second half he play, he

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Speaker 1: What does that accomplish?

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Speaker 3: It's infuriating.

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Speaker 1: Oh wait, what does that? I think?

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Speaker 2: What is the mindset of, well, we can't start him,

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Speaker 2: I don't get that, So he should be starting. I

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Speaker 2: think I actually think he's our best player. Oh take

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Speaker 2: away was good. Most of the game, I thought in

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Speaker 2: which annoyed me a little bit. He had two turnovers

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Speaker 2: on back to back plays and then he got fell

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Speaker 2: down fourteen. I'm not I mean, I didn't like that

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Speaker 2: sequence from him in general, though without him, especially in

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Speaker 2: the first half, we're not even in the game. So

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Speaker 2: I mean in low and Away, I'm good With.

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Speaker 1: The rest of the guys. I don't know, man like they

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Speaker 1: just maybe they're just not good. But I can't get

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Speaker 2: Different player for Colin Chandler in these games against good teams,

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Speaker 2: he looks like a completely different guy. Denzel Aberdeen has

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Speaker 2: just been he's just been bad. He's just been disappointed,

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Speaker 2: and I think he was disappointing tonight. Diabate I thought

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Speaker 2: played hard, but you know he can't. You can't rely

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Speaker 2: on Diabata to be an offensive like facilitator. But the

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Speaker 2: problem for me and then Cam Williams again about lineups,

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Speaker 2: where is he?

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Speaker 1: How do you go twelve.

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Speaker 2: Minutes in the second half and don't put him in,

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Speaker 2: you know, with with eight minutes to go in the

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Speaker 2: made eight threes the other night. Did what happened in

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Speaker 2: the last two and a half weeks. That are two

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Speaker 2: a team that has made fourteen threes in the game.

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Speaker 2: So I don't understand Pope's lineups. I don't understand why

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Speaker 1: Are not our best players.

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Speaker 2: But be that as it may, the biggest issue is

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Speaker 2: it was defensively and for thirty minutes. Now they did

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Speaker 2: adjust this in the last ten minutes, I thought, But

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Speaker 2: for thirty minutes, I thought they were playing a team

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Speaker 2: that like it looked like they were playing a team

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Speaker 2: only had two points at halftime, and so you just

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Speaker 2: gave up a ton of threes. Pope in the post

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Speaker 2: really well, Well, don't I don't think that was unpredictable.

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Speaker 1: They're a good shooting team.

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Speaker 2: Maybe not as good as a couple of years in

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Speaker 2: the past, but they're still really good at it. And

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Speaker 2: after they made the first nine, maybe you adjust. They

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Speaker 2: then I thought Kentucky was more competitive now down the stretch.

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Speaker 2: That one guy hit the one from like twenty seven feet,

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Speaker 1: But I don't understand.

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Speaker 2: For thirty minutes, we were clearly coaching them to go

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Speaker 2: that's what you would do against Michigan State. That's not

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Speaker 2: think so. So, you know, offensively we weren't great, but

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Speaker 2: we also don't make threes. You know, we've assembled a

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Speaker 2: that happened. I don't know why Mark, after having all

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Speaker 2: the thought the way to go was to build a

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Speaker 1: So that all is a problem.

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Speaker 2: And I still think this team is okay, but I'm

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Speaker 2: becoming less and less confident that if we play anybody good,

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Speaker 2: we can win. I mean, Saint John's lost at home

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Speaker 2: but I mean when we've played good teams, we're not

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Speaker 2: even competitive. We were not comp competitive against Michigan State,

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Speaker 2: we were not competitive against Gonzaga, we were not competitive today.

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Speaker 2: We were semi competitive against Louisville, but again got down

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Speaker 2: a team we should have beaten and we lost.

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Speaker 1: So I'm I'm disappointed, I really am.

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Speaker 2: And I'm more disappointed because the things that I thought

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Speaker 2: Mark Pope coach teams would be. It would be a

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Speaker 2: given they would play smart, they would play hard, and

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Speaker 2: they would be well prepared. I thought that was a given,

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Speaker 1: And I thought that.

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Speaker 2: Was a given talent. I was worried, is he gonna

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Speaker 1: We still haven't.

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Speaker 2: We'll see, but being smart, playing hard, and being prepared,

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Speaker 2: to me with a Mark Pope, that is a given.

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Speaker 2: And it's just not with this group. And I'm really

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Speaker 1: I really am. I did not see it coming. The

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Speaker 1: other thing I didn't see coming is and I just

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Speaker 1: I think we have to talk about it. Is the

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Speaker 1: way Mark is after these games, the losses, I said

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Speaker 1: on the Morning show earlier this year, and when Mark

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Speaker 1: did they basically did a deep dive kind of on

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Speaker 1: what was Mark like at BYU, Like, how does he play?

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Speaker 1: And what was he like?

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Speaker 2: And people have great things to say about Mark as

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Speaker 2: a person because he is seems like a great person,

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Speaker 2: very smart, one of the smartest people. Almost everybody will say,

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Speaker 2: one of the smartest people they've they've ever been around.

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Speaker 1: But a consistent theme that people said to I think

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Speaker 2: Is when he loses, he's not He takes it hard

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Speaker 2: and he's not good to be around.

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Speaker 1: And on paper, that's like not a bad trade, right.

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Speaker 1: We kind of want to coach that cares.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we had those times where people said things

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Speaker 2: we didn't like that.

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Speaker 1: But there's difference between like.

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Speaker 2: Caring about losing and then kind of what we've seen

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Speaker 2: from Mark this year. I mean, you heard Rick Patino,

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Speaker 2: he called Mark after they lost to Michigan State and said,

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Speaker 1: And I'm glad he said it. He knows him. I

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Speaker 1: really don't, but I thought the same thing.

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Speaker 2: And then I thought the same thing after the Louisville

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Speaker 1: Now let me be fair tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: There were two segments before this he I'm not gonna

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Speaker 2: But Mark's job, or excuse me, Tom's job is Tom

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Speaker 4: What did you tell them in the locker room after this?

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Speaker 1: We talked about a lot of things.

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Speaker 4: Look at a team that had made some significant progress,

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Speaker 1: Well, there's not a lot from this game. I mean,

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Speaker 4: Like I said, I was disappointed with our physicality in

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Speaker 1: Thank you, coach Mark.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I just find that rude. Like Tom talks

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Speaker 1: I don't understand this. Mark is a great communicator and

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Speaker 2: I thought I have issues at acquiring talent, and I

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Speaker 1: I thought the basics.

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Speaker 2: Were a given, and the basics aren't a given, and

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Speaker 2: This is the Local Toy Dealers KSR post game show.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. It is the Local Toy Dealers KSR post

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Speaker 2: game show. A couple of people asking on here on

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Speaker 2: the text machine seven seven two four five two five four?

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Speaker 1: Was Pope like this after losses last year? Billy?

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Speaker 2: I don't really remember him being like that, do you.

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Speaker 2: I don't, you know, because we took some bad losses

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Speaker 3: Yeah, never to a level like we've seen this year.

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Speaker 1: No, yeah, I don't. I don't remember him.

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Speaker 2: But then again, I think last year he probably thought

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Speaker 1: So maybe that's what But no, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't remember him being like that last year. Let me

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Speaker 2: read you a quote from Natoates. Okay, so this is

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Speaker 2: this is very interesting.

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Speaker 1: And natoates, you know, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say he's a jerk, but I think he's

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Speaker 2: very plain spoken in terms of like not plain spoken,

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Speaker 2: that's not the word, but straight, straight talking. He says, quote,

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Speaker 2: I had our guys pull every assist they had coming

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Speaker 1: Great. Correct.

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Speaker 2: He then added, Kentucky's big men don't pass. They've had

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Speaker 2: and field work. No, I'm serious, Like, if you're into

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Speaker 1: Well, there you go.

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Speaker 2: He knows when we throw it in the post, he

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Speaker 1: Kick it out.

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Speaker 2: We maybe should think Nate, because now that he says

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Speaker 1: So there you go. Who's up first? Greg? Greg? Go ahead? Greg?

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Speaker 6: Hey, guys, Hey y'all doing today?

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Speaker 7: Uh?

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Speaker 6: Me and the wife are season ticket holders. For many

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Speaker 8: We cheer.

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Speaker 6: We no matter who's the coach, we're always clamping well

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Speaker 6: and for the big Blue Nation. And you know, it's

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Speaker 6: very disappointing. I don't think it was a home run

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 6: And it's very disappointing when you can't get guys like

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Speaker 6: Hopes Yukon coach. A lot of big people didn't want

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Speaker 1: Now come on, I was with you, hang on your second, Greg.

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Speaker 6: The bottom right is we don't have.

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Speaker 1: Hang on you hold on first.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you on everything until you say that the

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Speaker 2: fan base. This fan base has been the same since

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Speaker 2: I was a child, and probably the same thirty years

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Speaker 2: before that. Yes, they expect winning, but that's what makes

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Speaker 2: Kentucky Kentucky. Danny Hurley and Scott Drew did not come

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Speaker 2: Dot come here because of the fan base. Natoates I

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Speaker 2: don't know if he wanted to come here or not,

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Speaker 2: but the university was not going to hire him. He

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Speaker 2: may not have wanted to come as well. But Greg,

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Speaker 2: it is not fair to say it is the fan

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Speaker 2: base's fault. I had nothing to do with Kentucky being prepared.

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Speaker 2: Neither did you, Greg, Neither did anyone listening. Kentucky not

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Speaker 2: being prepared is not about the fan base, and the

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Speaker 2: moment the fan base doesn't expect success, then you're not Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: You're Minnesota Basketball now. I'll let you respond.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead.

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Speaker 6: I just want to say, we run off a Hall

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Speaker 2: How many you appreciate the call?

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Speaker 1: Greg?

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Speaker 2: How many NCAA tournament games did cal Perry win in

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Speaker 1: He won one game? He won one game in five years.

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Speaker 2: Now, how many times did we make it to Saturday

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Speaker 1: Zero? Zero times?

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Speaker 2: So I'm not going to re litigate the Calperrier, but

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Speaker 2: it was time for change. But Mark Pope needs to

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Speaker 2: be judged on Mark Pope and so far this season

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Speaker 2: it hasn't been uh successful this year? What's next?

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Speaker 3: Micah, Micah?

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Speaker 9: Go ahead, Michael, Hey, what's up?

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Speaker 10: Guys?

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Speaker 11: Matt?

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Speaker 1: I would I want to.

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Speaker 12: Say, you hit the nail on the head about the

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Speaker 12: Mark Pope's doing the same thing. I don't know if

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Speaker 12: there's a hex or what, but why can we not

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I really don't know. I mean, I like, okay,

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Speaker 2: An argument for moreno over quaintance, Like, I can understand

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Speaker 2: that argument. Maybe quaintance gives six million energy and all that,

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Speaker 2: but what is the argument for not starting Jaywen Lowe?

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Speaker 1: I really don't like. I'd love to hear his articulation

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Speaker 1: of it. Has has somebody asked him, Billy, like, what

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Speaker 1: why is he now not starting jail?

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Speaker 3: Well, he said that they hit a wall about three

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Speaker 3: for that energy spark plug hits a wall Kentucky. He said,

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Speaker 3: That's exactly what he said in the.

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Speaker 7: Well, and the only other thing was just that.

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Speaker 1: Either no, there's not, No, there's not. I appreciate the call.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, then bring Jalen low in with two minutes

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Speaker 2: two minutes in. I don't know, but I mean at

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Speaker 1: Aberdeen got fouled, and then somebody hit a three chance.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so we were up five to nothing, so we

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Speaker 3: Minutes, right, that's correct, it was nine.

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Speaker 2: I don't think we hit I don't think we hit

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Speaker 2: I mean we made two free throws and we.

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Speaker 1: Hit a thirty.

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Speaker 2: And that first offensive possession I think where Aberdeen got

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Speaker 2: fouled was a really ugly position. The ball just fell

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Speaker 2: got fouled. The Chailer three was a good I think

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Speaker 2: somebody drove away, drove and kicked. But I don't understand

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Speaker 2: not starting low. But be that as a what's next, Sean, Sean,

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Speaker 2: go ahead, Sean hey Man.

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Speaker 9: Thanks for checking my call.

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Speaker 7: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 9: What happened to the days where.

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Speaker 11: You took just play the best players, Play the best players,

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Speaker 11: the most half player players, the ones that can shoot.

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Speaker 13: And play them.

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00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,920
Speaker 14: Why wait on people to make changes, Just.

443
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Speaker 6: Play the best players.

444
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,479
Speaker 15: That's I'm confused by this.

445
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I mean let's just look in the

446
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:38,679
Speaker 1: second half.

447
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,679
Speaker 2: For the most part, that's what we did, and we

448
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 2: basically played them to a draw in the second half.

449
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 1: So you're the question, why don't we do it in

450
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:47,920
Speaker 1: the first half?

451
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 14: You know, thank you, thank you, thank you for your call.

452
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Speaker 5: I appreciate it.

453
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 2: Thank you. I mean, you know, I don't know. I

454
00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 2: don't know eighty seven. Also not sure Billy, who are fourth?

455
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 2: Our fifth best player is? So I think that what

456
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 2: I mean by that is I think there's no doubt

457
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 2: that our lineup needs to have.

458
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:18,920
Speaker 1: Low oh Way, Diabate, then either.

459
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 2: Aberdeen or Chandler at the three, although they both have deficiencies,

460
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 2: but you probably need one of them.

461
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 1: But then is it Cam Williams is a quaintance? Is

462
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,919
Speaker 1: it Quaintance? And Cam Williams? You know, are you just

463
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 1: never gonna see Noah again? Are we gonna? I mean,

464
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:39,120
Speaker 1: what about Jasper Johnson?

465
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Speaker 11: Right? Like?

466
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 1: Yeah? About Marine?

467
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:45,400
Speaker 2: Like I don't know, I don't think, I don't know

468
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 2: who those The only three people I know need to be.

469
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,120
Speaker 1: On the floor are low Away and Diabate.

470
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 2: And then probably Quaintance although he just needs more reps.

471
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, it probably needs to be a quaintance. But I

472
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Speaker 3: don't know if you can leader on the floor anymore

473
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:05,360
Speaker 3: now if he can't you because he kills you defense, which.

474
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 1: Is weird because last year he played pretty good defense

475
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,679
Speaker 1: at the end of the year, but he's he was

476
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 1: bad defensively today.

477
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,360
Speaker 2: I thought, O way, I think Oway was on an

478
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,360
Speaker 2: Aberdeen kind of we're on filon.

479
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,199
Speaker 1: I actually thought they did a pretty good job, but

480
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: the rest of it was not good. What's next, Donnie, Donnie,

481
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 1: go ahead, Donnie.

482
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,359
Speaker 16: Oh gosh, I don't I don't know where to start

483
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:36,640
Speaker 16: overall you can from watching this in my living room.

484
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,919
Speaker 16: Defense defense, defense, And I'm going to go down some

485
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,439
Speaker 16: another road here. The coach and staff has got to

486
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 16: find a better way to get this team ready. No hustling,

487
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 16: no fight. They don't play hard. All right, let's throw

488
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 16: that out. Here's what bothers me also selfish, selfish play,

489
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 16: no assist. Okay, getting back to my defense, Here's what

490
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:11,120
Speaker 16: I don't get. Kentucky's good on defense on the ball.

491
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 16: We are like grade stood school kids and pick and row. Yeah,

492
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Speaker 16: I would like someone to explain to me, what explained

493
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Speaker 16: to me why we didn't switch. I would switch every

494
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 16: dag gonna play because their offense is set up for

495
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 16: picking row. Now let's take that a little bit farther.

496
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 16: The row isn't there because they're gonna shoot the three.

497
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:47,399
Speaker 16: And the shots that Alabama missed Matt in the second half,

498
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 16: they were still wide open.

499
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,680
Speaker 2: They were You're right, You're right about that. A lot

500
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 2: of their misses in the second half were open. I

501
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,680
Speaker 2: think you I actually think that's a really good analysis.

502
00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: You are right.

503
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 2: We are pretty good on the ball, pretty good, not great,

504
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 2: but we're pretty good.

505
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: On the ball.

506
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 2: And then I actually think we played pretty good post defense.

507
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,880
Speaker 2: But we are so awful at all screens. I mean,

508
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 2: you know, now they used to be everything was a

509
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 2: pick and roll. Now their slip screen and fade screen

510
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 2: and all these variou screens. But I don't care which

511
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 2: one people run. We're bad at all of them. And

512
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 2: I mean, I think you make a good point, especially

513
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 2: against a team like Alabama who doesn't really exploit mismatches.

514
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,159
Speaker 1: Now Low very well.

515
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 2: I don't know why you wouldn't switch on all of them.

516
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 2: I really don't. I think we have a pretty versatile

517
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 2: group of defenders. We don't have any real slow guys

518
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:40,400
Speaker 2: like Andrew Carr last year.

519
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 1: So I'm with you. I don't know why you wouldn't

520
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: do that, but you're right. You hit it. Our our problem.

521
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 16: I appreciate go ahead, Yes, one other comment, get over it,

522
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 16: Get over it. It was time for Tow to move on.

523
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 16: Fans all the cal Fountain. I love him, don't get

524
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 16: me wrong, but it was time for him to go.

525
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:07,120
Speaker 5: Get over it.

526
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a lot of truth to that too,

527
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 2: even if you disagreed with the situation, like appreciate the call.

528
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: It's like when you have a divorce. I use the

529
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: divorce analogy a lot. Billy, they ain't coming home right

530
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: Unless you're Bobby Petrino. You don't go back to where

531
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 1: you were. He did twice twice. But no, unless you're

532
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: dating Bobby like, it ain't gonna happen. So who's next?

533
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 3: Hunter?

534
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 1: Is next? Hunter? Eight five, nine eighty seven, go a

535
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: go ahead, Hunter?

536
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 17: Hey, I'll let other people talk about why we went

537
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 17: under or went under all the screens and helped off

538
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 17: shooters and all this. But I got a little bit

539
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 17: of comic relief for BBN because I think we need it.

540
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 17: Did anybody else see in the second half? The weirdest

541
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 17: thing that. I think I've ever seen a coach do.

542
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: What was that?

543
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 17: Coach? Pope took a stick of gum out, shoot it

544
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 17: real hard for about three and a half four seconds,

545
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 17: and then spit it back out. That's the weirdest thing

546
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 17: I've ever seen.

547
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: When did that happen?

548
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 17: I don't know, about eight ten minutes to go in

549
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 17: the game.

550
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: It was weird.

551
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 2: I didn't see that, I will say, and I appreciate

552
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 2: the call. The first three or four seconds of gum

553
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 2: are the best. Yeah, right, you get the sugar out. Yeah,

554
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 2: you get the sugar out of it. And if you

555
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 2: have a cheap piece of gum, it's only gonna last

556
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 2: about three or four seconds.

557
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: But I didn't see that.

558
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 2: Do you think that's weird, billy to take three or

559
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 2: four seconds of gum and then stop a.

560
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 3: Little crazy behavior. But maybe you just got to get

561
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 3: some anger out.

562
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 2: I need to see that, Cliff, I need to see

563
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 2: how long, because maybe that's weird.

564
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: I know.

565
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 2: When what are the little gums that are in the

566
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 2: little squares that you pop up?

567
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: It's like they look like little mints? What do they call?

568
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: What are those? I'm not sure they have really they're

569
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: real powerful, Yeah, you know, like you get them.

570
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 2: They look like a thing of tail and all right,

571
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 2: you know they come in one of those and then

572
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 2: you pop it icebreaker.

573
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 1: I think you're right.

574
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,239
Speaker 2: Those are really good for like seven seconds, but then

575
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 2: they don't hold up, so.

576
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 3: You just need the breath for the incoming kiss. You're

577
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 3: going in on, Stub, All.

578
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: Right, Billy, Stub, go ahead, Stub.

579
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 15: So I want to know how in the world do

580
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 15: you hit a wall a few minutes into a game,

581
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 15: a college basketball game. I had to listen to the

582
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 15: game on radio, and so Billy probably heard this. But

583
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 15: at one point Jack Gibbon said, I think it was

584
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 15: in the second half. He goes, I wish I could

585
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 15: sit here and tell you that these are hard, tough

586
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 15: shots that Alabama's making, he said, but they're not. And

587
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 15: then Tom Leach at one point they came down and

588
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 15: hit a three. They went under the screen, of course,

589
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 15: and he goes, I don't you know that's what they're

590
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 15: going to do?

591
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 18: Why do you?

592
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 15: And then he was talking about the shoot around and

593
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 15: the practices and leading up to that, and that all

594
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 15: that stuff was harped on. So I don't know. To me,

595
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 15: that's just inattention to detail. I think Mark Pope acts

596
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 15: the way he acts because I think he a knows

597
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 15: that he probably whiffed in this class and b knows

598
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 15: or underachieving and doesn't be any solution in it.

599
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 1: You know what, You may be right that that's the

600
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: I think everything you just said is correct. I appreciate

601
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: the calling.

602
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 2: I like that Jack, especially considering Jack's on the official broadcast.

603
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 2: He will say critiques, which I think is good. I

604
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 2: think you're probably right about that. As to why Mark

605
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 2: is like he is, he probably knows that this wasn't

606
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 2: built as well as he thought, and he also probably knows.

607
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: That it's going to be hard to fix.

608
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 2: I still think you judge people by like their actions

609
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 2: in times of adversity, and I.

610
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: Still think he's been in these postgame things.

611
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 2: And even if it is the case that this team

612
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 2: is poorly constructed, which it probably is, and is underachieving,

613
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 2: they can still play hard and they can still be

614
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 2: well prepared.

615
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: And the fact that these starts are so bad, I.

616
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 2: Don't know how you can say anything except they're not

617
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 2: well prepared. How can you say anything else? Honestly, I

618
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 2: don't know. And then if you don't like how we start.

619
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 2: Why don't we play Jane len Lowe at the beginning

620
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 2: of the games? Why are we not playing Kim Williams.

621
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 2: I'm not again, and I've said all that. Let's do

622
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 2: one more and we'll take a break.

623
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Speaker 19: Jake, go ahead, Jake, Hey, Matt, got to have you

624
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 19: back from holiday break.

625
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: Hope all is pain? Appreciate yep, just.

626
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 19: One one observation and then a quick question. I'll hang up.

627
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 19: So I think one of Pope's biggest faults so far

628
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 19: is he tends to not trust his own nyes. And

629
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 19: a couple of examples. What I mean is last year,

630
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 19: you know, we had a big debate about Amario Williams

631
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 19: and how ad minutes he was playing. You know, he's

632
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 19: playing twenty twenty five a game most of bb An's

633
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 19: I shuld be playing thirty, and he cited like fatigue

634
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 19: as a reason, like his play would decrease, even though

635
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 19: we all do that's kind of you know, not really

636
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 19: what our eyes are telling us. And then this year,

637
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 19: you know, if you remember earlier in the season when

638
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 19: Brandon Garrison was playing a lot and he sided in

639
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 19: a postgame presser, I believe that he's actually a second

640
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 19: most efficient offensive player, even though we all were watching

641
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 19: it was it going well. So I think I think

642
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 19: just the over analytics I think sometimes is hurting Mark

643
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 19: and I think it's what's preventing them from from being

644
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 19: optimal in terms of lineup substitutions that stuff. And then

645
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 19: the quick question is, with not playing and starting JQ

646
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 19: in low do you think this could have a negative

647
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 19: adverse impact on recruiting in the future for star players

648
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 19: when to come to us because they know that we're

649
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 19: not always gonna play the best players all the time.

650
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: I you know, I think it's a question. It's a question.

651
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 2: I think it's a fair question. I think probably a

652
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 2: bigger issue for that is the fact that we're not

653
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 2: playing Jasper Johnson at all. I don't think star recruits

654
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 2: necessarily would look at Jalen Lowe because he wasn't a

655
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 2: star recruit and kind of say one way or the other. Now,

656
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 2: Jayon Quaint's a little different. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna guess,

657
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,240
Speaker 2: and I could be wrong. I'm gonna guess Jayan Quaints,

658
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess. Both these guys are starting in a

659
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 2: couple of weeks. But Jayden Quaints, I think almost certainly

660
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 2: is because, like he's really good. I think the case

661
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Speaker 2: for not starting Jayden Quaints is better than the one

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Speaker 2: for low, which is this guy hadn't played basketball at

663
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Speaker 2: over a year, right.

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Speaker 1: So I'm okay with it.

665
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Speaker 2: I do think not playing Jasper Johnson, who is a

666
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Speaker 2: McDonald's All American, that could have a negative effect on recruiting.

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Speaker 1: With that said, when Jasper Johnson has played, I haven't.

668
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Speaker 2: Really felt like he needed more minutes, right, So you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, and I appreciate the call. I but

670
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Speaker 2: I do think if you're talking, I have heard some

671
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Speaker 2: folks that cover recruiting for Kentucky say that Jasper Johnson

672
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Speaker 2: not getting minutes is an issue with some of these

673
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Speaker 2: guys because Jasper Johnson's kind of well known in the

674
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Speaker 2: recruiting world, like he just has that personality, like he

675
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Speaker 2: was well known on social media and him not playing

676
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 2: that might actually be a little bit of an issue.

677
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Speaker 2: Let me say this, and nothing with the first caller,

678
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Speaker 2: because he was very passionate and all that. I disagree

679
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Speaker 2: with him on the it's Kentucky fans' fault. I hate

680
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 2: when we don't play well and it's all of a sudden.

681
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Speaker 2: The people who listen to this show's fault as if

682
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Speaker 2: we did anything.

683
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Speaker 1: But besides that caller, I actually thought the calls in

684
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Speaker 1: that segment were really, really good, really good analysis.

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Speaker 2: We'll take a break, be right back. This is the

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Speaker 2: Local Toy Dealers KSR post game jow Welcome back. It

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Speaker 2: is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show.

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Speaker 1: Good text in the text machine. This is actually, I

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Speaker 1: think a relatively.

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Speaker 2: Stable postgame bad loss situation seven seven two seven seven

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Speaker 2: four five four on the text machine. One person rights, Matt,

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Speaker 2: all right, just me and you talking. Are you at

693
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Speaker 2: all worried that this job just doesn't work for Pope?

694
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Speaker 1: Not yet?

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Speaker 2: I mean, the caller said a minute ago, I think

696
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Speaker 2: it might be clear it's not a home run Higher.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think that's probably fair. But that doesn't mean it

699
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Speaker 2: can't work and be really successful.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it was.

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Speaker 2: A home run Higher off the court, but that's only

702
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 2: part of the job, and the other part of the

703
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 2: job is you gotta win.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I think it's very important to remember he went to

706
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Speaker 2: Sweet sixteen last year, and even though the regular season

707
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,879
Speaker 2: record wasn't great, it was still had some really great

708
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Speaker 2: wins and.

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Speaker 1: I think that was a successful year. This year is fun.

710
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Speaker 1: This year's not.

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Speaker 2: We haven't even played half our games yet, so I'm

712
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Speaker 2: not giving up by any means. I'm just pointed in

713
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Speaker 2: the way the roster construction ended up and in these performances.

714
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Speaker 2: But I'm not there yet.

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Speaker 1: What is. I am still worried about the recruiting of

716
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Speaker 1: top talent, but that'll play itself out over the next

717
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Speaker 1: couple months. I am.

718
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Speaker 2: I'm baffled by this team right now, but there's still

719
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Speaker 2: I mean, there is still time. There's a lot of

720
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Speaker 2: time for this to get better. I think the ceiling,

721
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Speaker 2: which I thought could be a title at the begend

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Speaker 2: of the year, I don't think that ceiling is there now.

723
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Speaker 1: But I do think this can still be a good team.

724
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Speaker 1: But I'm baffled by what's been happening. So I want

725
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Speaker 1: to see this season play out. And there's gonna be

726
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Speaker 1: no scenario that I can imagine where I'm like, oh,

727
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Speaker 1: he needs to go. I can't for me, like, I'm

728
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Speaker 1: not even in the ballpark of that. But I am

729
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Speaker 1: in the ballpark of Okay.

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Speaker 2: There's some troubling signs here, and some of the things

731
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Speaker 2: I was worried about. And some of the things people

732
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Speaker 2: told me to maybe be worried about have manifested themselves

733
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Speaker 2: here in the last couple of months.

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Speaker 1: Who's up next, Mike, Mike, what's up? Mike?

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Speaker 14: Hey, guys Perton lost, how are you doing today?

736
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Speaker 1: Good?

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Speaker 5: So this is my thing is that?

738
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Speaker 14: So you know, I'm I'm that guy Mark Pope. I

739
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Speaker 14: was really excited when he came in. You know, I

740
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Speaker 14: felt like that we had an opportunity to really go

741
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Speaker 14: back to the Rick Catino era, you know, with defense,

742
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Speaker 14: defense minded coaching, team press, you know, the whole bringing

743
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Speaker 14: the energy every single game. Uh. And this to me, honestly,

744
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Speaker 14: this season boils down to efforts. It boils down to

745
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Speaker 14: who wants it more. And I don't see a lot

746
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Speaker 14: of that on the court. I don't see a lot

747
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Speaker 14: of it. And they're just their body language and they're wanting.

748
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Speaker 14: And so it's very shocking to me because I go

749
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Speaker 14: back and I'm that dude that watches on YouTube, you know,

750
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Speaker 14: the nineteen ninety teams and you know, and then on

751
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Speaker 14: up you know, I'm just that guy. But I just

752
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Speaker 14: don't understand. I'm hope is it just drives me up.

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Speaker 20: I mean.

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Speaker 14: And this is my question to you, do you feel

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Speaker 14: like because of the situation with the ni L and

756
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Speaker 14: the coach and the team and the players getting paid

757
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Speaker 14: the money they're getting paid, that coaches maybe are losing

758
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Speaker 14: some of that what's the words, uh, some of that

759
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Speaker 14: authority that they should make.

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Speaker 2: Baby but maybe, but that means you just have to

761
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Speaker 2: be a different kind of coach. So you know, let's

762
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Speaker 2: put it like this. You could be Bobby Knight in

763
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Speaker 2: the seventies and it worked, right. You could scream and

764
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Speaker 2: yell and cuss into mean players and it worked. I

765
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Speaker 2: think you would agree. By the nineties that style didn't

766
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Speaker 2: work anymore. Right, had to be a new style, and

767
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Speaker 2: that new style tended to be embodied by Mike Krzyzewski,

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Speaker 2: Rick Patino, John cal Perry. This sort of you could

769
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Speaker 2: be above the program, a larger than life figure. You

770
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Speaker 2: were respected, you could get along with the players, but

771
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Speaker 2: you were still in charge and.

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Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, So that worked in

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Speaker 1: the nineties.

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Speaker 2: Okay, now we're in an era where maybe that doesn't

775
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Speaker 2: work anymore, right, And now you're in an era where

776
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Speaker 2: you have to do something maybe a more akin to

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Speaker 2: the way NBA coaches coach, which is a guy like

778
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Speaker 2: Steve Kerr, who he made bicker with his but like

779
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Speaker 2: his players respect him. But he's also not screaming and

780
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Speaker 2: yelling at him all the time like Greg Popovich. Right,

781
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Speaker 2: maybe that's the kind of college coach you have to

782
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Speaker 2: have now. Maybe the way Nat Oates does it works now.

783
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Speaker 2: Of course Danny Hurley this is mine and wins two titles.

784
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,439
Speaker 2: So I don't know, but I'm just saying you might

785
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 2: be right that the kind of coach that you need

786
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 2: has changed. But like, okay, now you have to adapt.

787
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Speaker 2: And on paper, Mark Pope should be able to adapt

788
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Speaker 2: to that because he's not a yeller and a screamer

789
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Speaker 2: like you would think he would be good.

790
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Speaker 1: For this era. He's gone, you would think, you know,

791
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I look at some of it, like like, just think

793
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Speaker 2: about who made the final four last year?

794
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Speaker 1: Right, it was Kelvin Sampson, an.

795
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Speaker 2: Older school, old school coach but kind of known as

796
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Speaker 2: a player's coach, Todd Golden, young smart guy, John Shire,

797
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Speaker 2: young smart guy, and was it was Debama make it

798
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Speaker 2: last year?

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Speaker 1: I think they did, and then Nate Oakes, right, Auburn

800
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Speaker 1: or was it Auburn Okay Bruce Pearl, known as a

801
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: player's coach, although he yells, so maybe you just have

802
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: to be like that. But in theory, Mark Pope should

803
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Speaker 1: be like that, and it just hasn't hadn't totally worked.

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Speaker 3: Who's next, Matt, Let's give out our Johnny Rocker personal

805
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Speaker 3: injury attorney, moneymaker of the game injury.

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Speaker 1: Why can't you just bring that in out of nowhere,

807
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 1: like you don't even tell me it's coming. You just

808
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 1: I like to keeping me all right?

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Speaker 3: All right, go ahead, So injured, get small town compassion

810
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 3: with big city results. When you call the Rocker at

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Speaker 3: two seven zero three two one four four two nine,

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Speaker 3: I think we only have two guys that we can

813
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Speaker 3: choose from today, and we're going with Jalen Low twenty

814
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Speaker 3: one points eight of sixteen, shooting three rebounds to assist,

815
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Speaker 3: three turnovers, one block, and two steals in twenty seven minutes.

816
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Speaker 3: He actually had the second worst plus minus on the

817
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Speaker 3: team at minus eighteen.

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Speaker 1: That was weird to me. I noticed that.

819
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Speaker 2: I wonder why that is. I guess because he was

820
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Speaker 2: on the floor to some during that run they had.

821
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Speaker 1: In the first half.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's dat can be deceiving at times, but

823
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Speaker 3: he's our money there of the game.

824
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Speaker 2: It can No, he was the best player. Oh, he

825
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,919
Speaker 2: is the best player for for without question. Who's next?

826
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Speaker 1: Michael, Michael, go ahead.

827
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Speaker 21: Michael in that first time?

828
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Speaker 7: Long time?

829
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Speaker 1: Who are what's up?

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Speaker 21: I think a lot of people are going to have

831
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Speaker 21: their opinions about Pope and this year's team, but I

832
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Speaker 21: just wanted to be objected and bringing a couple of

833
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:18,320
Speaker 21: stats to the table. So we have played in thirty

834
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Speaker 21: four games against Power conference teams plus Gondaga since Mark

835
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 21: Pope has become the Pope or has become the coach.

836
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Speaker 21: What percentage of those do you think we've been down

837
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Speaker 21: by double digits at some point?

838
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Speaker 1: That's a great question. A lot. What's the answer.

839
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Speaker 21: Fifty three eighteen thirty four games?

840
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Speaker 1: So over half say that's bad.

841
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 2: That's really bad to be down double digits in over

842
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,800
Speaker 2: half the games, and we have about a five hundred

843
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 2: record right against those teams.

844
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Speaker 21: Roughly, Yeah, it's.

845
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Speaker 1: I think it's something like that. Now, that's that's that's

846
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 1: a that's bad.

847
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Speaker 21: Well, it gets worse. So the other one is what

848
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 21: percentage of those have we been down by at least

849
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Speaker 21: points during the game.

850
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, seven or eight.

851
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Speaker 21: Eight of thirty four, nearly a quarter of the Power

852
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Speaker 21: Conference game. So to me, both of those are really concerning,

853
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 21: not only for this year, but I think just in

854
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 21: general kind of going forward. And that's all I got.

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Speaker 1: It's a great, great point being down. I appreciate the call.

856
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Speaker 2: Being down twenty points in one fourth of your game

857
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 2: against Power Conference teams is really bad.

858
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 1: Like that's real, that's crazy.

859
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 3: It's a crazy stuck.

860
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I think back, it feels like

861
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 2: Kentucky hasn't been down twenty to teams very much ever.

862
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: And to be down eight times in two years, that's all.

863
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: That's bad. And and I don't know if I thought

864
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Speaker 1: about it those terms before, but that's really bad. Who's next?

865
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Speaker 1: His next?

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Speaker 22: Dave, go ahead, David pay A lot of great points made.

867
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Speaker 22: I'll be quick here. One thing, you know what coach

868
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 22: Pub's resume was when he came. A big talking point

869
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 22: was how he leading his offense was in complex and

870
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 22: all that last year it really was, you know, we

871
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 22: pretty much we had everything to it, Martin Williams. This year, listen,

872
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 22: there's no movement. You take the day for example. I

873
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,919
Speaker 22: mean it's either Jalen Lowe or always puts their hand

874
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 22: down credit and get to the rim everybody else's standings. Now,

875
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 22: it's been that way all year. I think that's a

876
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 22: big part of the offense problem. I think that's one

877
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,439
Speaker 22: reason why we're our three point percent just so low,

878
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 22: because the shots are contested, there's no inside out play.

879
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 22: But yeah, that twenty point deficit a quarter of those

880
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 22: that's man, thanks you guys.

881
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 2: It's a great point. Great, I mean everybody's making that

882
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 2: is a great point. You We initiate no offense outside

883
00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 2: of Jay Lowe, you know, outside of low and then

884
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 2: away lowering his head and going to the back.

885
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:04,840
Speaker 1: We really don't initiate any offense.

886
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 2: And uh, you know, someone said it might have been

887
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 2: Jay Billis, it might.

888
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 1: Have been Jack Gibbons. I can't remember. Those were the

889
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 1: two voices I heard.

890
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 2: Somebody said something like looking at their assist numbers and

891
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 2: we had like nine or something, and they said, what

892
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 2: was it, you're shooting poorly from three.

893
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 1: Well I'm not gonna be able to articulate it, but.

894
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 2: The premise was because we have no assist it's partially

895
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 2: why we're not shooting the ball well, because we end

896
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 2: up taking contested shots. Somebody said that more articulately than

897
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 2: I just did, but it was either Billis or Gibbons.

898
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:38,280
Speaker 1: Who's next?

899
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 3: Rob is next?

900
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 5: Rob?

901
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:40,399
Speaker 1: Go ahead? Rob?

902
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 20: Hey, Matt, you know some of the points I was

903
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 20: going to make here lately in this postgame show, it's

904
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 20: starting to make itself more evident, and you're seeing the

905
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 20: fan base more and more look to the future with worry.

906
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 20: And I just look at all these games he's losing,

907
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 20: and each one of these teams has better players than

908
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 20: he missed out on in the portal and recruiting, and

909
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 20: I just don't see them getting Tyrene Stokes. I don't

910
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 20: see them getting Christian Collins. And as this fan base

911
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 20: builds looking towards the future, do you think that pressure

912
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 20: is just going to affect Pope even more as.

913
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 1: We go forward? Yes?

914
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this stuff builds on itself, right, like

915
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 2: no doubt. You know, when things aren't going well, you

916
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,320
Speaker 2: look to the future, right, and when the future doesn't

917
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 2: look bright and things aren't going well, that's not a

918
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 2: good combination. So you have no recruits signed that can

919
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 2: still fix itself. But it's an issue We've talked a

920
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 2: lot about it over the last month. And then when

921
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 2: you're struggling this year and you don't have recruits for

922
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 2: next year, that is a concern, without question.

923
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: So I yeah, people should you look, people should be concerned.

924
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 1: This is Kentucky.

925
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 2: Contrary to the first callers point, this is Kentucky.

926
00:47:58,880 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 1: This is what you get.

927
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 2: This show will go up, it will be one of

928
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 2: the eight or nine most listened to podcasts in America.

929
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 2: Sports podcast tomorrow. That's what you get when you come

930
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:10,360
Speaker 2: to Kentucky. If you don't want that, go somewhere else,

931
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 2: all right, But when you're at Kentucky, that's what this is.

932
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 2: And so you're exactly right. It's a concern, and I

933
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:21,359
Speaker 2: think you're reasonable to be concerned. Appreciate the call. It's

934
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,399
Speaker 2: it's like it'd be like Kaylin de Boor if he's

935
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,719
Speaker 2: complaining right now. The Alabama football fans are mad they

936
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 2: lost thirty eight to three. Dude, you were in Washington.

937
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 2: No one cared. Right, you're in Seattle. They got the Seahawks,

938
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,840
Speaker 2: and they got the Kraken and they got the Mariners,

939
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:44,880
Speaker 2: and so Washington is like you can do whatever. But

940
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 2: you went to Alabama. And you got a lot of

941
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 2: money to go to Alabama, and with Alabama comes all

942
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 2: that Alabama news.

943
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:53,839
Speaker 1: Well that's the Kentuckiness.

944
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 2: And so you know, the one consistent position I will

945
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 2: have is I'm not blaming our fan base expectations, and

946
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 2: it is reasonable to be a little concerned.

947
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:05,800
Speaker 1: Steve. One more, We'll take a final break. Who's next?

948
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 3: How about Bob and Jamestown?

949
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 1: How about it? Bob? What's up Mary? Christmas? And happy

950
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: New Year? Bob?

951
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 9: Now you too, my Matt, tell your mom. We hope

952
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:21,320
Speaker 9: everything works out for and we'll get happy in New Year. Anyway,

953
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 9: We're in conference play now and it's gonna be a

954
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 9: tough night and Big Blue Nation for all the wives, girlfriends,

955
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 9: kids and dogs tonight. But I mean, at this team

956
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 9: doesn't seem to know the tradition of excellence at Kentucky basketball.

957
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 9: I mean, when you've got two guys that are getting

958
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:51,399
Speaker 9: double figures, I mean, if these guys can't get three

959
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 9: five pointers in forty minutes, I mean, I just don't understand.

960
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 9: They just don't understand the tradition of excellence is basketball.

961
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 1: What does three five pointers mean?

962
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:18,439
Speaker 18: Yeah, we got the score and rebown. Okay, thanks, make

963
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 18: a break to get a shine and get open.

964
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you appreciate the call. What does

965
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:28,439
Speaker 1: that mean?

966
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 3: I think he means like three or five three pointers,

967
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 3: like maybe let's get him going.

968
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 2: But girlfriends of oh yeah, see, I gave him a

969
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 2: very nice greety.

970
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 3: It is the family.

971
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: That's yeah, exactly right. Maybe the first guy was right.

972
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 1: May five eighth, twenty two eighty seven. We'll take a break,

973
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: come back. Final segments A local Toyota Dealers ks R

974
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:58,320
Speaker 1: post game show. Welcome back. It is a local Kentucky

975
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 1: Toyota Dealers KSR postgame show.

976
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 2: That's what I get for New Year being nice to Bob.

977
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 2: That's what I get. You made me do that, Billy.

978
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 2: We've been working on my new Well it wasn't terrible,

979
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 2: but it was also very Bob. Two A to Zho

980
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 2: twenty two eighty seven. Tonight your bucks play here in

981
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:22,040
Speaker 2: just a few minutes. By the time people listen to

982
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 2: this on podcast, games is probably.

983
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 1: Gonna be over. Are they beating Carolina to get to

984
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:27,280
Speaker 1: go to the playoff?

985
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, they will. It'll be the most bucks thing ever.

986
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 3: They'll win in Atlanta, will win their game versus New

987
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 3: Orleans so it will make Carolina the division winner.

988
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: You've heard that's your prediction? Is that the Billy r

989
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 1: Sports lock of the week. It is? That is?

990
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 3: All right, what's gonna happen?

991
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 1: All right, well we'll see that's that game is? It's today?

992
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:47,319
Speaker 2: And then what Seattle and San Francisco tonight for the

993
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:50,800
Speaker 2: one seed and then my let's see tomorrow night's Ravens Steelers.

994
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 2: Right you yes, learn all this on the NFL cover

995
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 2: zero Pike. Are we going to the super Bowl? Have

996
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 2: you found out?

997
00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 3: I mean they're talking like they're gonna send us a

998
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 3: radio row. I don't know about the game, so you

999
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 3: have so they have responded to No, they haven't, but

1000
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 3: I mean initial emails. So it's very.

1001
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:11,359
Speaker 1: He answers. You don't know.

1002
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 3: No, it's up in the air still.

1003
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 1: But okay, all right, all right, who's up next?

1004
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 3: Jim is up next?

1005
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:21,800
Speaker 1: Jim? Go ahead? Jim?

1006
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 5: Hey, Matt, first time?

1007
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 9: Long time?

1008
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 13: Who Two things?

1009
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 5: Two things. I'm the guy that I've watched the games

1010
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 5: on the radio. I mean, uh, Tom leach is you know,

1011
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 5: he paints a picture in my mind every game, nine

1012
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 5: ten games. I don't get any subscriptions or anything, but uh,

1013
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 5: two stats that I noticed don't seem like we have

1014
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 5: enough of. One is fouls. I don't see players getting

1015
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:50,319
Speaker 5: in foul trouble, And two is assist And I'll just

1016
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 5: ask your opinion on either of those two things.

1017
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 2: Well, fouls fouls I think have a lot to do

1018
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 2: with can pit. Sometimes you're fouling and it's good because

1019
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 2: you're aggressive, and sometimes you're fouling because you're being lazy

1020
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 2: and reaching.

1021
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,720
Speaker 1: So I think that's hard to make a generalization on fouls. Assists.

1022
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 2: I think it's a it's it's a completely fair generalization

1023
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:14,480
Speaker 2: to not have enough assists. We don't. We don't run

1024
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:17,719
Speaker 2: an offense that has a lot of flow. I think

1025
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:20,960
Speaker 2: we don't because we can't shoot, and so I think

1026
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 2: they believe a lot of our best action.

1027
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 1: Has to be individual.

1028
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:27,279
Speaker 2: My problem is, I don't think there's anybody on this

1029
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:29,840
Speaker 2: team that can consistently beat their man off the dribble

1030
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 2: besides Jaylen Lowe. Jasper Johnson can, but he has other mistakes.

1031
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 2: But these other guys can't beat their guy off the dribble.

1032
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 2: Olway is physical enough that he can sometimes like bull

1033
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 2: his way through there, but Aberdeen, Chandler, Cam Williams. All

1034
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:47,000
Speaker 2: these guys, you have to get them shots. They can't

1035
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 2: get their own shot. Jalen Low's the only guy on

1036
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 2: the team own shot.

1037
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:51,719
Speaker 1: Right.

1038
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 5: Do you think we shtill have a chance to make

1039
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 5: the n Tournament?

1040
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, for sure. I appreciate it the call for sure.

1041
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 2: First of all the SEC's that was the hard game

1042
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 2: we'll play in the SEC, and it was a terrible performance.

1043
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:05,560
Speaker 2: But let me just look at my little calendar here,

1044
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:07,760
Speaker 2: all right, so let me read you the next few games.

1045
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 2: Missouri at home Wednesday, should win. Mississippi State at home

1046
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 2: Wednesday or Saturday, should win at LSU. They're okay, but

1047
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 2: but that's a game you need to win at Tennessee.

1048
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:22,360
Speaker 2: That's tough. But that's probably your second hardest game in

1049
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:26,920
Speaker 2: the conference. Then Texas at home, and then Old Miss

1050
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 2: at home. My point is there's winnable games here in

1051
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 2: the next few weeks.

1052
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 1: Now, if we.

1053
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 2: Lose to Missouri at home on Tuesday, or we lose

1054
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 2: to Mississippi State at home on Saturday, then that's a

1055
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 2: different conversation. Let's see where we are after that before

1056
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 2: we go to at LSU. Assuming we win those two

1057
00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 2: games at LSU, game.

1058
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:50,319
Speaker 1: Is gonna be big to me? Who's next? Nick? Nick?

1059
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:51,240
Speaker 1: Go ahead, and Nick.

1060
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:55,880
Speaker 11: Just going off to your point about the basics.

1061
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: Matt.

1062
00:54:56,560 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 11: What gets me is I know that when he when

1063
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 11: they're not not getting out on three point shooters, when

1064
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 11: they are not being on not doing what they're supposed

1065
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 11: to do on defense, that's coaching. Hey, they're not getting

1066
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,439
Speaker 11: stopped in practice, they're not getting told, they're not being

1067
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 11: corrected on the spot when it's wrong in practice. And

1068
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:20,239
Speaker 11: that's terrible coaching. I'm sorry, but it is. And Mark

1069
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 11: is not being a good coach right now. It is honest,

1070
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 11: a bit futured to me. And the way that we

1071
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 11: get we're getting like that stat about twenty points. That's unacceptable.

1072
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:39,320
Speaker 11: It's just not Kentucky basketball. We he got the it

1073
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 11: and one. I'll quit on that. Could you say something

1074
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 11: about the quarterback that we got who got an injury

1075
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:48,719
Speaker 11: in the show?

1076
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,480
Speaker 1: Well? Do wait? I appreciate Cad. We don't have him yet,

1077
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:53,799
Speaker 1: do Shandon, Billy? I haven't.

1078
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:55,359
Speaker 3: I haven't heard anything.

1079
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 2: On everything you said. I agree it is poor coaching.

1080
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 2: We play like a poor coach team. It is worth noting.

1081
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 2: We will spend a lot of time talking about this Monday,

1082
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 2: but I do want to note, since I haven't been

1083
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 2: on the radio, yesterday and today were massive days for

1084
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 2: UK football in terms of the people they have visiting

1085
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 2: as part of the transfer portal class. They had some

1086
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 2: big time people here, including Sam Levitt, the quarterback in

1087
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 2: Arizona State. Right now, he's ranked as a number one

1088
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 2: quarterback in the portal. There'll probably be a couple of

1089
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:27,600
Speaker 2: people who enter the portal later that will pass him,

1090
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 2: but he'll be a top five portal quarterback. Most people

1091
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:33,839
Speaker 2: will tell you Kentucky is the favorite, but Texas Tech

1092
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 2: is right there as well.

1093
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens.

1094
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 2: He met with Stein yesterday and I was told I

1095
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:43,480
Speaker 2: think they were up in I talked to somebody at

1096
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:45,719
Speaker 2: twelve thirty last night and Stein was still meeting with

1097
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 2: him then, so you know, hopefully that worked out. We

1098
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 2: have the receiver here from Texas. We had a running back.

1099
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 1: From Texas, Teyvon Wallace, who is Trevor Wallace's brother from Arkansas.

1100
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 2: He's here, a ton of people here. They'll probably get

1101
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 2: some commitments in the next few days. Some of these

1102
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:05,800
Speaker 2: guys they're trying to get are going to visit other schools,

1103
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 2: so we'll see, but I am excited they front loaded

1104
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:13,719
Speaker 2: their visits in a way other schools didn't because they

1105
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 2: had to because will Stein has to go back to

1106
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 2: Oregon to prepare for the next game. So they brought

1107
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 2: a lot of their top guys here. There's an article

1108
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 2: on Kentucky Sports Radio that showcases like fifteen kids were

1109
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 2: here and we'll just have to see how it plays out.

1110
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:32,880
Speaker 2: I'll talk more about this on Monday. I feel very

1111
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 2: good about where UK football is from a nil slash

1112
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 2: portal slash future standpoint. Some of my concerns I've had

1113
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 2: about the basketball still have We'll learn more about them

1114
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:51,920
Speaker 2: over the next few weeks. But football, from what I've

1115
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 2: learned in the last week, I feel better about the

1116
00:57:56,520 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 2: stability of what Kentucky football can accomplished. It'll be up

1117
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 2: to the coaches to do it. But can't accomplish then

1118
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 2: I have in a long, long time. Matter of fact,

1119
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 2: I would say the ceiling for me now is higher

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00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 2: than it's ever been because I think structurally Kentucky's got

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00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:15,800
Speaker 2: a really good situation.

1122
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 1: Not the best.

1123
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:20,760
Speaker 2: There are teams of better situations, but good, and the

1124
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 2: refshare era has the potential to.

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00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:25,479
Speaker 1: Be good for Kentucky if they do it correctly. Let's

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00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 1: do four more. Who's next, Chris, Chris, go ahead, Chris, Hey.

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00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 13: Matthew, I think Tayshawn would have killed with those five winers.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine how good he would have been? Jody

1129
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 1: Meeks too?

1130
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, absolutely. I think our problem is our coach

1131
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 13: is just too tall. How many bigs have been great coaches?

1132
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 13: They're all plucky little guards.

1133
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Have there been good Phil Jackson

1134
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 1: was pretty tall, wasn't he? Yes? He was, he was.

1135
00:58:58,000 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call them there.

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00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 2: You're right they use we are I mean, think about

1137
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 2: the best college coaches, Billy, they're all little guys.

1138
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:07,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting. Why do you think sinners don't become coaches?

1139
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 2: Is it just a stereotype that really tall people can't

1140
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 2: be smart?

1141
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 1: Maybe? Can you think of a really good tall college coach?

1142
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:22,600
Speaker 13: Hmmm?

1143
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:26,200
Speaker 3: Who is the old Georgetown coach back in the day?

1144
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:30,120
Speaker 2: John Thompson was very tall. Yes, that's a good one. Okay,

1145
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:33,600
Speaker 2: so John Thompson, that's a boy. I can't think of

1146
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 2: another one, though he was tall. I don't know how

1147
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 2: tall he was, but he's a big man, I don't

1148
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 2: have a good question. Well, while we're thinking about it,

1149
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:46,919
Speaker 2: who's next, Jerry, Jerry, go ahead, Jerry Man.

1150
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 10: I got two things I get off for real quick buddy.

1151
00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:51,360
Speaker 10: I I didn't get to watch the game today. I

1152
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 10: didn't realize low twenty one. But I want the quaintness

1153
00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 10: type a good ball game.

1154
00:59:55,680 --> 01:00:00,120
Speaker 2: And I missed miss some shots around the basket, and

1155
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 2: I thought got beat a couple of times.

1156
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 1: He he didn't play great, but he wasn't terrible. But

1157
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 1: he didn't play great.

1158
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 10: But you think the next maybe starting the next game

1159
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 10: or two to his start roll Land acquaintance.

1160
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 2: I think there's an argument with two teams you're playing

1161
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:17,760
Speaker 2: that on paper, you're you should be better than it

1162
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:20,920
Speaker 2: then and they're both in rupt that maybe that would be.

1163
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 1: The time to switch and start those guys. We'll see

1164
01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:23,800
Speaker 1: what he ends up doing.

1165
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:27,360
Speaker 10: Okay, Another quick thing, man, I watched Stokes players today.

1166
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:31,200
Speaker 10: The kid from Warrison at re recruiting. Yes, and he's

1167
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:34,480
Speaker 10: playing a tournament in Arizona. He say he plays on

1168
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:36,400
Speaker 10: the same team as JJ Crawford.

1169
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:37,240
Speaker 1: I'm probably the.

1170
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:39,640
Speaker 10: Best freshman in the country. Who is I think his

1171
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 10: daddy either coaches assistant coach. Anyways, he had him and

1172
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:46,560
Speaker 10: JJ Crawford got into it. Crawford told him he wouldn't hustling,

1173
01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:49,680
Speaker 10: so they take him out. JJ Crawford told him, Man,

1174
01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 10: they take him out of a game about five minutes

1175
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:54,240
Speaker 10: ago on the second quarter and didn't put him back

1176
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:56,880
Speaker 10: in the game. But the second half he didn't do

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01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 10: nothing but rip the heart out of that team. He

1178
01:00:59,280 --> 01:00:59,800
Speaker 10: took that game.

1179
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 6: Take it happened.

1180
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:04,480
Speaker 10: He's six eight, about two forty and he ain't nothing.

1181
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:05,320
Speaker 1: But a doll. Matt.

1182
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 2: He's great, he'll be He's he's a great player. He's

1183
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 2: got there. There are issues that people worry about with

1184
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:16,280
Speaker 2: attitude and a lot of things, but when it comes

1185
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:19,680
Speaker 2: to playing, when his head is in it, he's awesome.

1186
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:23,760
Speaker 2: And uh, Kentucky needs him and I don't know if

1187
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:25,080
Speaker 2: they're gonna get him, but they need it.

1188
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:27,240
Speaker 1: Did you find any tall coaches?

1189
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:30,800
Speaker 3: Does Bill Russell count?

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01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:32,720
Speaker 1: Yeah?

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01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:34,720
Speaker 2: I mean Bill Russell? I think though didn't he just

1192
01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:37,560
Speaker 2: coach himself. I think he was a player coach.

1193
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:38,959
Speaker 3: He was a player coach.

1194
01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 1: Uh.

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01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 2: So it's pretty easy when you can coach yourself and

1196
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 2: you're really good. Yeah, right now, I'm going Phil Jackson,

1197
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:49,760
Speaker 2: John Thompson.

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01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:53,040
Speaker 1: Is Greg Popovich tall.

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01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's He's decently big. Wes unseled, Yeah he was?

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01:01:57,960 --> 01:01:59,560
Speaker 1: What was he a good coach? Wes Ide don't.

1201
01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:02,520
Speaker 3: I don't know that. I just see players that were coaches.

1202
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, who's next?

1203
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:06,400
Speaker 3: Two more Austin, Austin.

1204
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:08,959
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Austin, Matt.

1205
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 7: I think you're super fair with your analysis. Appreciate that.

1206
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:13,360
Speaker 7: I don't want to be fair. I want to be

1207
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 7: a fan. I'm just a basketball Bennie. I don't have

1208
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:19,520
Speaker 7: an almost Ivy League degree. But what drives me nuts

1209
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:21,840
Speaker 7: is late in the second half, we go to this

1210
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:24,720
Speaker 7: high two man game with low acquaintance, and it seems

1211
01:02:24,720 --> 01:02:27,320
Speaker 7: like we're running, they're driving, and if it's not there,

1212
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:29,240
Speaker 7: he's kicking it for a dunk or a three at

1213
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:31,880
Speaker 7: least an attempt, which we don't give many of those.

1214
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 7: I wish we could do that in the first half.

1215
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 7: A wait, we don't start our best players, so I

1216
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:38,240
Speaker 7: guess we can't build our offense from there and move out.

1217
01:02:38,560 --> 01:02:41,560
Speaker 7: What's so frustrating to me is it's like last year

1218
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:46,200
Speaker 7: we had a break from the cow horrific offensive set,

1219
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 7: and it was like a breath of fresh air and

1220
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 7: now it's like we've reverted to those cow years and

1221
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:53,480
Speaker 7: it's it's driving me nuts.

1222
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:56,520
Speaker 2: It's like we play by the way with players that

1223
01:02:56,560 --> 01:03:01,320
Speaker 2: aren't as good. See that's it's been. What has been

1224
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:04,480
Speaker 2: frustrating to me is I'm with you. I feel like

1225
01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:07,520
Speaker 2: we're running a cal offense and the guys aren't is good,

1226
01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:11,800
Speaker 2: So it's like we're running. It's like we're running with

1227
01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 2: in that like the I feel like I'm watching the

1228
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:18,919
Speaker 2: Oscar teams without Oscar, you know how frustrating they could

1229
01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:21,760
Speaker 2: be offensively, Like that's kind of what I feel like

1230
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:24,600
Speaker 2: I'm watching. I'm watching the Oscar teams without Oscar.

1231
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 7: I'm in Alabama. I was at the game today. Alabama

1232
01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:31,840
Speaker 7: fans are saying your team is awful to watch. I'm like, yes,

1233
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 7: I know, and I still came to the game. One

1234
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:37,320
Speaker 7: more things. Sorry, well too. I'm sick of being in

1235
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 7: Alabama and then it always just we go down there

1236
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:41,960
Speaker 7: in Alabama so much better than us. I look at

1237
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:45,040
Speaker 7: Oates fighting and passionate and screaming that. Look at Pope,

1238
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:47,280
Speaker 7: he's not doing it. Last thing, I think the preseason

1239
01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:50,919
Speaker 7: hype was our offense is going against our defense, which

1240
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:55,160
Speaker 7: made our offense look really good, and it's not appreciate, appreciate, appreciate.

1241
01:03:57,000 --> 01:03:59,440
Speaker 2: I think they ran a different offense last year, though

1242
01:03:59,440 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 2: I do that this is not that they are running

1243
01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:04,200
Speaker 2: a cal offense.

1244
01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:05,959
Speaker 1: Without cow players. I mean, that's that's what they're doing.

1245
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 2: And it reminds me of that, Like imagine the Oscar

1246
01:04:10,120 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 2: team where he had tie tie okay, and imagine that

1247
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:18,640
Speaker 2: team if Oscar didn't play so like Lowe's.

1248
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:19,360
Speaker 1: Kind of like ty Tye.

1249
01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:22,000
Speaker 2: He can get a shot, but then you've got like

1250
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:27,360
Speaker 2: a couple of other okay players, some athletes all over the place,

1251
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:30,280
Speaker 2: but they just they just are disjointed.

1252
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:32,960
Speaker 1: That's kind of how I feel. I feel like this

1253
01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 1: that's what we're looking at.

1254
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:37,200
Speaker 2: Always a little bit like caseon Wallace in the sense

1255
01:04:37,240 --> 01:04:41,240
Speaker 2: that he scores a lot, but like you know, I

1256
01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 2: don't know. That's what I feel like I'm watching sometimes

1257
01:04:44,240 --> 01:04:46,160
Speaker 2: and and that's that's hard to watch.

1258
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:49,560
Speaker 1: One more, Who's next, Bobby, Bobby? Go ahead, Bobby?

1259
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:54,520
Speaker 8: Thanks Matt, first time, long time. Who I'm gonna close,

1260
01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:56,120
Speaker 8: I'm gonna close the guy out.

1261
01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:58,360
Speaker 5: And talked about the stick of Gum mystery.

1262
01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:01,200
Speaker 8: So I went back and found it at the five

1263
01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:07,200
Speaker 8: minute eleven Mark obviously second half, Uh passes out of

1264
01:05:07,240 --> 01:05:09,400
Speaker 8: bounds miss kettle by Oh way.

1265
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:12,240
Speaker 22: Pope passed the duck to not get hit with the ball.

1266
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:15,920
Speaker 8: During that brief period of time out, Hope puts a

1267
01:05:15,960 --> 01:05:19,520
Speaker 8: sticky gum in his mouth literally ten seconds choose it,

1268
01:05:19,560 --> 01:05:21,240
Speaker 8: spits it out, continues.

1269
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:22,200
Speaker 5: That's all I.

1270
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:25,760
Speaker 2: Got, all right, I appreciate it. The mystery salved. There

1271
01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:29,200
Speaker 2: you go. Some other good tall coaches, real quick, very bird.

1272
01:05:29,560 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, of course he didn't.

1273
01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:35,960
Speaker 2: Coach very long, but he was pretty good. Uh, Papa six'

1274
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:38,200
Speaker 2: four do you? Count i'm six? Four does that count

1275
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:38,840
Speaker 2: six fourth?

1276
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:43,000
Speaker 1: Tall? Yes all, right but basketball it's not that. Tall

1277
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:44,880
Speaker 1: but but, okay you're.

1278
01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:47,360
Speaker 3: Right i'm speaking from a perspective.

1279
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:50,240
Speaker 2: Here, yeah, YEAH i mean basketball is not crazy. Tall

1280
01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 2: Matt painter is six to.

1281
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 1: Seven that's.

1282
01:05:54,560 --> 01:06:00,520
Speaker 3: Tall i'm gonna rank college coaches by height in terms of.

1283
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 2: Success If John thompson's gonna be number one And Matt

1284
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:09,800
Speaker 2: paynter number, two unless someone gives me a better. One

1285
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:13,200
Speaker 2: Bobby knight was six.' five he's obviously a. GREAT coach

1286
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 2: i don't KNOW if i consider six y, five Tall

1287
01:06:16,160 --> 01:06:20,520
Speaker 2: but i'll put him on the list AND then i

1288
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:21,120
Speaker 2: can't Think.

1289
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:23,280
Speaker 1: Of maybe you do have to, Be Short So mark

1290
01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 1: pope has it if he. Gets going not a lot

1291
01:06:25,680 --> 01:06:26,280
Speaker 1: of people for him.

1292
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:32,080
Speaker 2: To, PASS yeah I Mean john thompson was like six

1293
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:35,240
Speaker 2: eight or, six', Nine so yeah pope might.

1294
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:35,360
Speaker 1: Be.

1295
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:37,720
Speaker 2: The tallest now we just got to make sure he's

1296
01:06:37,760 --> 01:06:40,400
Speaker 2: good so that he gets. On the, List all right

1297
01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 2: thank you folks very. Much for listening enjoy the Rest of.

1298
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:46,360
Speaker 2: Your saturday night i'll be back tomorrow MORNING Doing the

1299
01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:49,040
Speaker 2: Espn show with Myron and then i'm back on The.

1300
01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:53,600
Speaker 1: Show on monday we will see. You folks later Kats.

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