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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone. It is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show.

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Speaker 1: Kentucky falls in rupperna to Alabama one to oh, two

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Speaker 1: to ninety seven, their first home loss of the year

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Speaker 1: and their first loss against a top fifteen team after

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Speaker 1: five victories. You can give a shout eight five to nine,

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Speaker 1: two eighth, twenty two eighty seven. A lot of you

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Speaker 1: are driving back home or heading wherever you are, so

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Speaker 1: feel free to give me a shout. The Cats, you know,

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Speaker 1: scored ninety seven points and still lose. Really the first

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Speaker 1: time this year where they've had a game where they've

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Speaker 1: played pretty well offensively and still we're not able to

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Speaker 1: get the victory. And the other games where Kentucky's lost,

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Speaker 1: their point total has been in the sixties. This one

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Speaker 1: was ninety seven and still a loss. And I thought, honestly,

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Speaker 1: the better team today one Alabama. A couple things that

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Speaker 1: I thought were crucial to the game ended up playing

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Speaker 1: out before the game. If you were listening yesterday, we

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Speaker 1: said basically two things were important. One was Grant Nelson,

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Speaker 1: because I think the one consistent thing we've seen this

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Speaker 1: year is teams that have a guy at the four,

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Speaker 1: sometimes at the three, but really at the four, who

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Speaker 1: is versatile, can shoot from outside and go to the basket.

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Speaker 1: They really give us a hard time, even you know,

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Speaker 1: going back to Cooper Flag, to Asa Newell at Georgia,

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Speaker 1: the two guys at Florida that got all those rebounds,

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Speaker 1: and then again Grant Nelson here today and he had

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Speaker 1: a great first half, nineteen points in the first half,

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Speaker 1: twenty six points in the game. He was a real

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Speaker 1: issue for us, and I thought was really the reason

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Speaker 1: Alabama was ahead at halftime and a half where Kentucky

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Speaker 1: may have even outplayed Alabama but just couldn't really do

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Speaker 1: anything with Grant Nelson. And then the second thing, And

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Speaker 1: it sounds very simplistic, but Drew and I both made

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Speaker 1: the point. These two teams love to shoot threes, and

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Speaker 1: they're both good at it. Whoever hits the most will win. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, Alabama made thirteen, Kentucky made eleven. We lost

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Speaker 1: by five. It really, I'm not saying the whole game

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Speaker 1: can be broken down into something that simple, but it's

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Speaker 1: a pretty important thing. These two teams each have strengths

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Speaker 1: outside of three point shooting, but the one thing they

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Speaker 1: share is three point shooting, and they made two more

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Speaker 1: of them than we did, and we had open looks.

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Speaker 1: We had chances to hit shots that I think if

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Speaker 1: you hit, maybe it's a different ending. Almanor had a

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Speaker 1: couple of open threes. I thought, you know, Perry in

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Speaker 1: the second half, I had an open three that was big.

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Speaker 1: Butler had an open three. You know, you miss those.

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Speaker 1: And Alabama in that little run where it was tied

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Speaker 1: eighty one eighty one and then they scored nine straight points,

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Speaker 1: they hit two open threes in similar situations, and in

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Speaker 1: my opinion, that was maybe even the difference in the

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Speaker 1: game some you know, smaller, smaller things. First of all,

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Speaker 1: I thought, even though his stat line looks pretty good

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Speaker 1: and I think he played well defensively, I thought Lamont

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Speaker 1: Butler struggled offensively, especially down the stretch that little sequence

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Speaker 1: from eighty one to eighty one to ninety eighty one,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously as a sequence where they won the game,

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Speaker 1: and Lamont made a couple big mistakes during that during

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Speaker 1: that sequence, especially on offense. The turnover on the fast

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Speaker 1: break was huge. It was eighty four eighty one. We

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Speaker 1: had a chance to get an easy basket there, maybe

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Speaker 1: even an am one, and he throws it away, then

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Speaker 1: they come down and hit a three. And then the

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Speaker 1: next sequence for us, Butler gets a step and gets

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Speaker 1: into the lane, but then throws a lob to Amari

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Speaker 1: that just really didn't have much of a chance of success,

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Speaker 1: and Amari doesn't catch it. Eighty seven eighty one becomes

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Speaker 1: then that's kind of that. I think Amari Williams is

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Speaker 1: really is a good player. He hustles a lot, but

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Speaker 1: when he is having to be a centerpiece of your offense,

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Speaker 1: you're going to struggle. And there were three or four

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Speaker 1: times where he tried to initiate offense by dribbling. I

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Speaker 1: never think that's really a good thing for us, and

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Speaker 1: even throwing lobs to him. I think I saw a

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Speaker 1: stat somewhere that we're one of the worst teams in

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Speaker 1: the country at throwing and executing lobbs. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: shocked at that, because again, we're not a crazy athletic team.

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Speaker 1: We're a good shooting team, we're a good execution team,

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Speaker 1: but we're not crazy athletic, and I think you see

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Speaker 1: stuff that maybe some of our guys, it's not their

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Speaker 1: strong point defensively. You know, you give up one hundred

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Speaker 1: and two, it's gonna be hard to win. We gave

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Speaker 1: up one hundred and two today. You know, I don't

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Speaker 1: just don't think we're ever going to be great at defense.

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Speaker 1: I just don't think this team is built with guys

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Speaker 1: sometimes oh Way. I mean, I think Carr is a

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Speaker 1: big defensive liability, Bray is a defensive liability, and Robinson

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Speaker 1: can be a defensive liability. Perry's a defensive liability. So

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Speaker 1: you get that many guys on the court that are

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Speaker 1: not great defenders, You're never going to be a great

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Speaker 1: defensive team. Now. What you can do, however, is get

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Speaker 1: loose balls and get rebounds. And we did give up

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Speaker 1: fifteen offensive rebounds. Now that's a big number. It didn't

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Speaker 1: crush us, though, because we actually outscored them on second

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Speaker 1: up fifteen, which is too many, But I don't think

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Speaker 1: that's why we lost. I think part of the re

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Speaker 1: and we struggled. There was fifty fifty balls. You heard

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Speaker 1: Mark Pope say on the post game that he thought

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Speaker 1: we just weren't We were like a step slow getting

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Speaker 1: to some of those fifty fifty balls, And I kind

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Speaker 1: of agree. Some of their offensive rebounds were long threes

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Speaker 1: that we just really didn't scramble and weren't in a

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Speaker 1: up one hundred and two. But I think we're gonna

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Speaker 1: give up one hundred and two against teams like that.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes they ended up shooting eighty five percent from the

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Speaker 1: free throw line. What were they, Billy twenty six of

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Speaker 2: Throw Alabama, are you yeah? Yeah, they were twenty nine

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Speaker 1: Twenty nine to thirty four. That's a great percentage. They

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Speaker 1: got thirty four free throws. We got twenty four free throws,

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Speaker 1: but they got thirty four. And you know, when you

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Speaker 1: most of these teams, we've actually had some pretty good

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Speaker 1: free throw percentage luck this year when the other team

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Speaker 1: shoots them. Not today, twenty nine to thirty four, and

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Speaker 1: they made the big ones when they needed to. You know,

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Speaker 1: there was the big foul on the three pointer by Sears.

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Speaker 1: That is the fourth time in the last three games

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Speaker 1: we have had a landing area three point foul called

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Speaker 1: on us, and you know, it's frustrating to watch those calls.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, the NCAA announced before the

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Speaker 1: to stop doing it. Like, whether you think that's a

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Speaker 1: of conversation about fouls in general. We're just not doing

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Speaker 1: a good job of drawing fouls. And I think you know,

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Speaker 1: Almanor had a three at the end where they went

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Speaker 1: but he didn't fall down, and like, they're not gonna

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Speaker 1: do a better job of drawing fouls. These other teams

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Speaker 1: and you know, we gave up thirty four free throws.

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Speaker 1: And I actually think the refs a lot of the

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Speaker 1: game kind of let the guys play. We were not

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Speaker 1: sometimes I think that, but like some of it is also,

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Speaker 1: Nelson was very good. You know. I I heard J.

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Speaker 1: Billis say one time, a long time ago, when two

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Speaker 1: teams are basically even, if the top two players in

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Speaker 1: the game are on one of the two sides, that

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Speaker 1: two best players on the FLOORI tonight were Sears and Nelson,

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Speaker 1: and that's why we lost. If a game is close

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Speaker 1: they're gonna win. And I think that's kind of what

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Speaker 1: thought there was a chance they could lose this game.

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Speaker 1: That's why I thought it was so important that they

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Speaker 1: beat Mississippi State, and they beat Texas A and M,

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Speaker 1: and they did. This game probably makes it hard for

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Speaker 1: us to win the SEC, but I don't know that

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Speaker 1: we were going to win the SEC anyway. I still

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Speaker 1: think a really good goal for this team is to

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Speaker 1: get the double by be a top four in the league,

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Speaker 1: and then if you're top four in the league, you're

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Speaker 1: probably gonna be a three seed in the tournament. I

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Speaker 1: think if the tournament started tomorrow, we'd be a three

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Speaker 1: game that's going to be very, very difficult to win,

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Speaker 1: and I think if you do lose, not the end

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Speaker 1: after that? Billy? Do you know after after Vangs?

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Speaker 3: I don't. I'll pull it up right now here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, pull it up. The game at Vanding next Saturday,

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Speaker 1: I do think is very important. It's sold out, and

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Speaker 1: out with a lot of Kentucky fans there. So we

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Speaker 3: What's after Tennessee versus Arkansasary.

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Speaker 1: Obviously have to win that one.

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Speaker 3: What's next and you're at Old Miss February four?

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Speaker 1: Tough game but winnable, but a tough game. And then

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Speaker 1: what's the next one?

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Speaker 3: You're at home versus South Carolina.

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Speaker 1: Again, you will win that one. So there is this

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Speaker 1: little sequence here where you play. You play if you

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Speaker 1: win what you're supposed to you. If you can win

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Speaker 1: at Vandy, you win Arkansas, and you win South Carolina,

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Speaker 1: you get those three, and then you play at Tennessee

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Speaker 1: and at Old Miss. You know, if you could steal

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Speaker 1: one of those and go four and one in that sequence,

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Speaker 1: be seven and three in conference, I think you would

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Speaker 1: love where you're sitting. Love where you're sitting. So we

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Speaker 1: played five ranked teams to start the conference. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: play two in our next five games instead of five.

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Speaker 1: Gotta take advantage of that during this sequence. And uh,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna look at these five and say, we'd love

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Speaker 1: to go four and one, four to one, Gotta go

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Speaker 1: three and two, but four and one, and I feel

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Speaker 1: like you're in pretty good shape. Hey, Fi, I've nine

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Speaker 1: two eighth twenty two eighty seven. We're gonna take your calls.

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Speaker 1: Disappointing loss against a really good Alabama team. Uh, you

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Speaker 1: know at some point the top fifteen team had to

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I don't. I think that worry is

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Speaker 1: Well, I do too, but you also, and I appreciate

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Speaker 5: Hi, Matt.

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Speaker 6: I enjoy your postgame analysis. I'm seventy three years old,

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Speaker 6: and I agree with you. I just think I'm happy, basically,

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Speaker 1: I think that is a perfectly like I think that

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Speaker 1: Michael, go ahead, Michael, Hey, what'sten? Man?

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Speaker 7: I'll I'm going to be a fan, that's just gonna say.

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Speaker 1: As it was.

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Speaker 7: I'm proud of watching the kids play the way they

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Speaker 1: That I totally agree with you. I mean, that was

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I really feel like if that portion that

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Speaker 7: And anyways, appreciate listening to yall, y'all have a good day.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate the call. No, that was the swing. And even

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Speaker 1: out Sears, but Sears gets the ball and then he

433
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Speaker 1: kicks it out for an open three, and the guy

434
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Speaker 1: makes it. And you know, that may have just been

435
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Speaker 1: a bad bounce because Amari blocked, you know, and MARII

436
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,119
Speaker 1: did exactly what he was supposed to do. It's just

437
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 1: it fell into sears hand. And then he kicked it

438
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Speaker 1: out and the guy hits a three. And so it

439
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,439
Speaker 1: went from what could have been a tie game to

440
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Speaker 1: a six point game. And then of course the next

441
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Speaker 1: possession I think had an open three misses. It comes

442
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 1: down we play twenty three seconds of good defense and

443
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 1: then the guy shoots the three and lands on Butler

444
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: and or oh Way or whoever it was. And that's that,

445
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 1: you know, I mean that that that little run loses

446
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Speaker 1: you the game. Hey, if I'm nine two eighty seven,

447
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 1: who's next, Kyle, Kyle, go ahead, Kyle.

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Speaker 8: Hey, Matt, I'm gonna piggyback off the last two collars

449
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,399
Speaker 8: and then add a little bit of just like a

450
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Speaker 8: generalized thing, I think it is important to look at

451
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Speaker 8: like this. I think we're a fringe Elite eight team,

452
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Speaker 8: probably a Sweet sixteen team. But you're looking at two

453
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Speaker 8: teams who are on paper, probably Elite eight teams. Sweet

454
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Speaker 8: sixteen team. So, as you said, it comes down to

455
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Speaker 8: sometimes just those balances. Maybe we can get them back

456
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Speaker 8: at Alabama. It's nothing to hang our head over. But

457
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Speaker 8: I think where I've started noticing this team starts to

458
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,640
Speaker 8: struggle or when we lose games is if you look

459
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Speaker 8: at that five minutes before the end of the first half,

460
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Speaker 8: and then I don't want to put the last minute

461
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Speaker 8: in because fALS come into that. But maybe like the

462
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 8: five minutes before that, those swings have like killed us

463
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Speaker 8: in some of these games where we either shouldn't have

464
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Speaker 8: won or we end up winning, like at Gonzaga or

465
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Speaker 8: against the Duke.

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Speaker 1: We struggled a little bit at the end of first halves.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember. There is a game and I can't

468
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Speaker 1: remember which one it was where I felt like that

469
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 1: run was really good for us. But yes, we have

470
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Speaker 1: had some problems. I think tonight we haven't even I

471
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Speaker 1: haven't mentioned it yet. I think fatigue was an issue tonight.

472
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Speaker 1: You know, Andrew Carr did not play well and he

473
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 1: was in foul trouble, and Butler, I mean had to

474
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Speaker 1: play because Perry couldn't really guard seers. Butler had to

475
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Speaker 1: play pretty much the whole game. And I kind of

476
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Speaker 1: felt like at the end Butler and Robinson maybe there

477
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Speaker 1: was a little fatigue there at the end as well.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I guess like what I look at and I

479
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:08,120
Speaker 8: was texting like a like a friend group, is that

480
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Speaker 8: I felt like we should have been up maybe five

481
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 8: or seven at the end of the first half. And

482
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Speaker 8: when we were down too, I felt really concerned.

483
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Speaker 1: I think we should have been we should have been up,

484
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Speaker 1: But I think it was I think it was Grant Nelson.

485
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Speaker 1: We get Nelson. He kills absolutely he and again I'm

486
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Speaker 1: not picking on Car, but Grant Nelson abused Car in

487
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 1: that first half. He just abused him and and and

488
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Speaker 1: that was the difference. It was kind of like in

489
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Speaker 1: some ways the A and M game in reverse. If

490
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Speaker 1: you remember the A and M game, we probably should

491
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Speaker 1: have been behind and Jackson Robinson just had a great half.

492
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Speaker 1: Well I think that's what.

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Speaker 8: Happened at the time, minute, yes or or half. Like Yeah,

494
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Speaker 8: as you talked about earlier, the individual players making the

495
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Speaker 8: game important. So if you have that player who does that,

496
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Speaker 8: you end up winning. But before you go on to

497
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Speaker 8: the next point and you can talking about what we

498
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Speaker 8: were but are we going to see a game under

499
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Speaker 8: two and a half hours this year in the SEC,

500
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Speaker 8: or should we just make this the NFL?

501
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Speaker 1: I mean that could I appreciate the call the the

502
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Speaker 1: Matt Norlander CBS was talking about how the SEC games

503
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Speaker 1: are longer than any other conferences this year, and I

504
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 1: think there's a few things about. One of them is

505
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Speaker 1: these monitor reviews. I mean, I think he said the

506
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Speaker 1: A and M Alabama game the other night had eleven

507
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,879
Speaker 1: monitor reviews Billy the course of the game. I mean

508
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,199
Speaker 1: the fact that they went to the monitor on a

509
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:37,199
Speaker 1: shot clock one minute into the game, like who like

510
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: stop the rule needs to be monitored, like last two minutes,

511
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: last three minutes, and each coach gets one challenge. That's it.

512
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: There's no reason to do this. I mean they were

513
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: looking at stuff that wasn't even close right. I mean

514
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: that slows the game down. And then part of it

515
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Speaker 1: are the fouls. I mean, you know there we've we

516
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: specifically have played in a lot of games of fouls.

517
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Speaker 1: And again I'm not saying there aren't calls to go

518
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Speaker 1: against us, but part of the reason we foil so

519
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 1: much is because we're not good defenders. We get beat

520
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 1: and so we foul to keep them from score. I mean,

521
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: that's part of it. Is we foul a lot because

522
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 1: we've been beaten. You know, I think if you go

523
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 1: and look at the guys who, generally speaking foul the most,

524
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: it's usually the guys that we don't that aren't the

525
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: best defenders. Car has been probably leads the team in fouls.

526
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Speaker 1: So you know, it is what it is. Let's do

527
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Speaker 1: one more and we'll take a break. Chris, Chris, go ahead, Chris.

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Speaker 9: Hey, guys, thanks for taking my call. First time caller,

529
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Speaker 9: actually five year old of the game. My daughter of

530
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 9: the game. She loved it. Star Pats kids and the

531
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Speaker 9: popcorn was was great them right. Yes, I've got a

532
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 9: couple of things. I thought it was a well played game,

533
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 9: both really good teams. Toward the end some of the

534
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 9: fifty to fifty balls went their way, and I thought,

535
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 9: you know, you all touched on it. Fatigue did play

536
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 9: a factor. I think toward the end there some of

537
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 9: those fifty balls that Mark Pope team I think would

538
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 9: get went their way, and about ball kind of bounced

539
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 9: the wrong way. But I do want to talk a

540
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 9: little bit about our big specifically Williams and the fit

541
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Speaker 9: for the offense.

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Speaker 1: Big Z.

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Speaker 9: I think a lot of people would agree would have

544
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 9: been an awesome fit for this offense. And his hair

545
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 9: was on fire playing for Arkansas earlier in the season.

546
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 9: He was banging threes and looking really good. The last

547
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 9: three games that they've played, he's scored zero points and

548
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 9: he's had ten or less minutes played. I don't know

549
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 9: if he's heard or what he's got going on, but

550
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 9: we've already had one free big Z moment when he

551
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 9: was at Uka. I think we need another free big

552
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 9: Z moment when they come on February first.

553
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: Well, I think, I think, But there's a lot of players.

554
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: There's a lot of players out there that are I mean,

555
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call we know Z because he was here,

556
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: but I mean there are dudes all over the country

557
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: that you know my here's my guess. My guess is

558
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Speaker 1: his Pope's big men next year are going to be

559
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 1: a returning garrison, and then he will go find a

560
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 1: guy somewhere to be what you're talking about. I agree

561
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Speaker 1: with you. I don't think Amari is the ideal big

562
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: for Pope's offense. He can't shoot threes, and I think

563
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: Pope would like to have a big who can dribble.

564
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: And while Amari, certainly I think things he can dribble,

565
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: it is not his strong suit. Now. I think the

566
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: thing Pope probably likes is his passing, which is probably

567
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Speaker 1: why he brought him in because he's a He's a

568
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: good passer, really good passer. But I think you will

569
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 1: see probably next year in the portal him get a

570
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: big that is more attuned to how he plays. I've

571
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: got a feeling, and I have no idea if this

572
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 1: is true, but I got a feeling that our big

573
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: most years is gonna be a transfer that Mark is

574
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: gonna look around and see because the big is so

575
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: important for his system with the passing and running the

576
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Speaker 1: offense at the top of the key, He'll look around

577
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: and go, where are the bigs that can shoot that

578
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: are good passers at the top of the key. I'm

579
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: gonna go look for a dude like that and are smart.

580
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be what he'll do going forward.

581
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: But with this year, he had to get who he

582
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: could get. He looked at Amari, he looked at Garrison,

583
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: and he looked at Osibor. And if you if you

584
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: were to watch great Osibor play, he's a load. But

585
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: he's also a good passer, Like I can see why

586
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: he was interested in him, right, So you know, I

587
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: think the passing is why Maury is a center. Hey,

588
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven,

589
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: we will take a break and we will come back.

590
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 1: Kats tough loss against Alabama. It's the Local Toy Dealers

591
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: KSR postgame show, Welcome back. It is the Local Toy

592
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: Dealers KSR postgame show. It's in the cylinder. Is the

593
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: rule I was trying to think of.

594
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Speaker 3: That makes sense?

595
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what they called the thing on the bre

596
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: the Braya play aff nine two eighth twenty two eighty seven.

597
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:27,479
Speaker 1: I need somebody reminded me as I should have. As

598
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: we also have Malachi Moreno coming next year, who is

599
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: very very talented. I don't know how much, Like I

600
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: don't know if he can be here, I don't know.

601
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: Maybe that's Pope's plan is to have Garrison as the

602
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: starter in Malachi's the bench player. Garrison. You know, Garrison defensively,

603
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 1: I don't love the way, you know, he's a step

604
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: slow to actually looking at the foul leaders. He's actually

605
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: sat third on the team in fouls and he plays

606
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: significantly less minutes than everybody else, so he's also a

607
00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: kind of a foul foul first guy. One person writes

608
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: Matt next, our team shoots a lot of threes, and

609
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: when we make them, we're good. When we don't, we're bad.

610
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: Is it just that simple? Yeah? But no, I mean yes,

611
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: I think it was that simple today because we were

612
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: playing a team that plays just like us. But I

613
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 1: don't think it's that simple. Like next week we played

614
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Speaker 1: Bandy or when we played A and M. I think

615
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: it's different in those games. But against the team Florida

616
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: and Alabama are going to play just like us, and

617
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: I think whoever makes the most shots wins. We said

618
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: that before the game, and I think that'll be true

619
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Speaker 1: down in Tuscaloosa two. And I also just think the

620
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: one thing this team has struggled with is when we

621
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: play against a guy that we just cannot guard, we

622
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: have a hard time overcoming that. The only team I

623
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: think we've beaten that had a dude we just couldn't

624
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 1: guard was Cooper Flag and Duke we couldn't guard him,

625
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: but like he made those airs at the end of

626
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: the game, but we couldn't tonight, we could not guard

627
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 1: Nelson in the first half, and we could not guard

628
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 1: Seers in the second half. And even even when he

629
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: didn't score, he was kicking it out for open looks

630
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 1: like we just we had no answer for those two

631
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: guys tonight, and I think it's ultimately what took us down.

632
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: Who's next, Andy, Andy? Go ahead, Andy?

633
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Speaker 9: Hey, how's it going?

634
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: What's up?

635
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Speaker 9: Yeah?

636
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Speaker 10: Yeah, A couple of things, you know, you know, people

637
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,720
Speaker 10: talking about the free throw discrepancy and the foul calls.

638
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,240
Speaker 10: I mean, I don't really know if that's the best

639
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 10: thing to really kind of blame the game on. I

640
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 10: think the Georgia thing is one thing, but it's kind

641
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 10: of just the nature of how we play. I mean,

642
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 10: you know, they take a lot outside shots and they

643
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 10: don't really drive the ball a lot. So I mean

644
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 10: that's just kind of how it's gonna end up.

645
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: I totally agree with that. I Mean, we don't, you know,

646
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: Jackson Robinson, Kobe Brea, they avoid contact. Oh way gets

647
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,280
Speaker 1: a little Butler will draw cont try to draw content,

648
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: but he also fades away. We just you're we just

649
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: don't play a way that's gonna draw a lot of fouls,

650
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: especially at the rim. So we're we're not gonna get

651
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: as many free throws as everybody else the way we play.

652
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 11: Yeah, and I think I think, well, I think Butler.

653
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 10: I think Butler could sort of fix that. You know.

654
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 10: I like that he plays off a two feet but

655
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 10: I think that, you know, he sort of like he

656
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 10: drives to the rim. I think that he's predetermined, he

657
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,799
Speaker 10: already makes up in his mind that he's gonna come

658
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 10: to a jump stop and pump fake when I think

659
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,399
Speaker 10: that he should just lay the ball up and try

660
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 10: to draw contact instead of trying to go for a

661
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:42,919
Speaker 10: pump take and get him up in the air.

662
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that. I think that's I think that's

663
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: a pretty good critique. Also, you know, he had that

664
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 1: play at the end of the game where he gave

665
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 1: up a wide open layup to circle around and shoot

666
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: a contested three. I don't know what he was doing

667
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: right there, but uh, you know, listen, he's a great defenders,

668
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: he's the only guy we have. It's a really good

669
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: but I didn't think tonight was his greatest game offensively.

670
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 12: Do you agree or disagree?

671
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 10: But I think they kind of surrendered the game really

672
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 10: sort of in the first half and especially in the

673
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 10: second half, they stopped trying to run with him, they

674
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,320
Speaker 10: stopped trying to match them on their three point attempts.

675
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 10: And even in the first half, there was at least

676
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 10: like three straight possessions where they just forced started force

677
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 10: feeding the ball into Mary Williams. And I didn't really understand.

678
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 1: That those three possessions were big to me. Yeah, those

679
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,319
Speaker 1: three possessions were big to me. Twice they force fed

680
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: him and once he tried to take a guy off

681
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 1: the dribble. And I, you know, I like Omari Williams,

682
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: and I don't think he played bad tonight, although his

683
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: plus minus was awful. I think he was like minus eighteen.

684
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: But you I don't know. I don't know. I don't

685
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: think you forced the ball to him offensively. Sometimes it's

686
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: gonna happen, but like when he takes off dribbling from

687
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 1: the free throw line, I just am like, oh no,

688
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 1: so you're right. There were like three straight possessions that

689
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 1: kind of went through Amari, and I don't think we

690
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: scored on any of them.

691
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 10: Yeah, I don't understand that. I'm not saying like they

692
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 10: to me, it just seemed like they surrendered it in

693
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 10: that sense. They stopped trying to match the volume on

694
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 10: their three point shots. I mean they got to shoot

695
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 10: more to be able to to be able to win

696
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 10: a game like that.

697
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate the call. I mean I think Brandon

698
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: Garrison was like plus ten tonight and Amar was minus

699
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: like eighteen. But I mean that's one game. There have

700
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: been a couple of games this year where a Mari

701
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: was first and plus minus, including I think our last one.

702
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: So you know that stat can be a little misleading

703
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: depending in an individual game.

704
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 3: Who's next, Stub?

705
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: Is next Stub? What's up stub?

706
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 13: Hey? Man?

707
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 14: So the SEC is not messing around, man, I've been

708
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 14: on my calculator for the past few minutes. So first

709
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 14: of all, Mark Pope works the officials. You can work

710
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 14: the officials, not be a lunatic about it.

711
00:37:58,880 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 11: He worked.

712
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree.

713
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 14: But the five teams that Kentucky played outside the SEC

714
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 14: and the powerful Conference Duke Clembs in the house that

715
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 14: Gonziga Louisville, Yeah, those teams shot one hundred and one

716
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 14: free throws. Okay, the five SEC opponents have shot one

717
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:19,760
Speaker 14: hundred and fifty. Okay, It's it's not even close.

718
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: Man.

719
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 14: These teams are so good and so skilled. If Duke

720
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 14: was in the SEC, they'd be two and three, I

721
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 14: think five games in.

722
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Speaker 1: I think it's also when you're playing those when you're

723
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: playing those other teams you, I mean there's a culture

724
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 1: of officials too, like how many fouls they call and

725
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: the SEC officials may just call more. I mean, I

726
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: don't know, but you're right. The athleticism is so good

727
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 1: in the SEC, you're gonna get more collisions, which means

728
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,240
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna get more fouls.

729
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 14: And we just have guys that don't. Our guys I

730
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 14: think are so they're I think they're a little bit

731
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 14: more under size even when they do draw contact. I

732
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 14: think the officiles are just like, well, the other team's

733
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 14: just bigger, more athletic. I mean, Kobe brew has only

734
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 14: shot ten free throws for the year. Jackson Robinson's only

735
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:13,280
Speaker 14: shot twenty seven.

736
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:17,360
Speaker 1: Yes, but think about Kobe Bray anyway, he avoids contact,

737
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like Kobe doesn't Jackson. That

738
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 1: number should be higher. But you know, I appreciate the call.

739
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:25,759
Speaker 1: The person on our team that I think gets the

740
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: worst whistle, to be honest with you, is Amari because

741
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: I think the very nature he fouls a lot, and

742
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: he gets fouled a lot, and I think they end

743
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: up just It's like when Shaq used to play, Like

744
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: Shaq got filed more than anyone in the league, but

745
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 1: he also was massive, and I think they used it

746
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 1: against him and Amari. I think Mari's the one guy

747
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: that I think gets fouled and then doesn't get the

748
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: call more than most because he he Amari does not

749
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: avoid contact, but you know, he's also not the greatest

750
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: free throw shoo, Who's next?

751
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 2: It's hard to avoid contact when a guy like Grant

752
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 2: Nelson pushes off every single shot that he has.

753
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: Wow, you have some strong feelings there. You are you

754
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 1: anti Grant Nelson? Yeah? I mean you don't like Wist

755
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: carving him.

756
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 3: He was carving him up.

757
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 1: I mean I thought he was you know, in the

758
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: second half, I think he only had five points, but

759
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: I thought the first half he was he was great.

760
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 1: He was great, Like that was the dude that alb

761
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: maybe thought they were getting when they were he originally

762
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: transferred who's next? Hunter? What's up? Hunter?

763
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 5: Matt?

764
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 12: How are you doing.

765
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: Good?

766
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 5: Yeah?

767
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 12: For my first ever game, that was a top two

768
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 12: atmosphere and it wasn't too.

769
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 14: That's right.

770
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 1: I'm sure, yeah, you like that. That was really's line. Yeah,

771
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 1: it was. It sounded loud in there, and you know,

772
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: again with ESPN, it's hard to tell sometimes, but it

773
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 1: sounded like it was a good atmosphere.

774
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was saut with Mario.

775
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 12: Mario said this was just as good as little and

776
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 12: I agree just from hearing it. But my two points

777
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 12: as far as like the game goes, really what it

778
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 12: just kind of came down to everyone blaming the rest

779
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 12: and like maybe it was a factor, but ultimately it

780
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 12: just came down to, like you said, the fifty to

781
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 12: fifty balls, and honestly, it was a lot of trying

782
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 12: to do one handed rebounding instead of too, and what

783
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 12: was happening is they'd have to pop that ball up

784
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 12: with the one hand and then you're scrambling trying to

785
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 12: find it where if they got the two handball, maybe

786
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 12: we're gonna able to get more rebounds.

787
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 4: Could be a different ball game.

788
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 1: I think you're right, y'all. Tell you the one guy

789
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: we have that does rebound with two hands is a way.

790
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: I thought he had some really strong rebounds tonight. I

791
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:32,280
Speaker 1: love the way he crashed the glass.

792
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 12: Yeah, he did an awesome job. It's just everyone else again.

793
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 12: It was the fifty to fifty balls. And then my

794
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,879
Speaker 12: second point is I'm not worried about this game at all,

795
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 12: just especially because I could see it, like in the

796
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 12: March's postgame show after he was done nswering and he

797
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 12: would cut to the brake, you could just see on

798
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:52,799
Speaker 12: his face that he was just like he was just

799
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 12: sad and angry and he wanted to put on the

800
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,319
Speaker 12: best performance he could. And I know that that's going

801
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 12: to changelate into this by many bye weeks that we

802
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 12: have and I am not worried to come.

803
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up. I appreciate the call.

804
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 1: He both said in the media postgame press conference, and

805
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: then he said on his radio show he used the

806
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:18,720
Speaker 1: phrase losing is the worst, and you know, I love,

807
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 1: I love that he hates to lose. He says, we

808
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 1: are supposed to win every game. That is a stark

809
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: contrast from you know, Wade till March and its process

810
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. He is like, we should win

811
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 1: every game, and I love. I feel like Billy, if

812
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: he were not the coach, he would be pacing in

813
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,839
Speaker 1: his room, like I'm pacing in my room, right.

814
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 3: You think you do a lot of the similar stuff

815
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:47,800
Speaker 3: you do.

816
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I think he would do. I think he

817
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: would go up and get in the shower, right. Like.

818
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like it matters to him

819
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,280
Speaker 1: on such a level. And I really do. I really

820
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: do appreciate ate that about him, that it You know,

821
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: this is the second time now we've lost a game.

822
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 1: Uh this in Ohio State where we were losing going

823
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: into a week a bye and you can tell he

824
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: hates that, like he's gonna it's gonna bother him all

825
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: week that we lost going into a bye. I like

826
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: that about him. I like that. I like that these

827
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: regular games matter because they do matter us. I mean,

828
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: on one level, if you're in the tournament, like it's

829
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 1: all the same, but it's not here, Like here, we

830
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: want to win these games, and I like that he

831
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: seems like he does too. Who's next, Jake, Jake, Go ahead.

832
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:41,240
Speaker 15: Jake, Hey, Matt, I've just got a couple of points.

833
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 15: I know this has been talked about a lot, and

834
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 15: this is not a complaint about the officiating at all,

835
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 15: because all of the fouls I thought were pretty legitimate,

836
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 15: but I really think that Alabama getting in the bonus

837
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 15: like six minutes into the second half as well as

838
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,760
Speaker 15: they were shooting huge, that was huge.

839
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: Yeah. Huge. We had we had three three fouls in

840
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: like thirty seconds in that game, and that got them

841
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: in the bonus early. And you're right with him shooting

842
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 1: the way they were, that was huge.

843
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 15: Yeah. And then my other point, you brought up Garrison's defense,

844
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 15: and I agree with you that his defense is pretty bad,

845
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 15: but I've really enjoyed watching his development as an offensive

846
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 15: player throughout the season so far. Yeah, I think he

847
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 15: had if I'm correct, I think he had eleven point

848
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 15: six rebounds, five assists, and no turnovers today. So I mean,

849
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:33,759
Speaker 15: if he can keep just improving and if he can

850
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 15: get better on defense, I think he could be a

851
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:37,760
Speaker 15: difference maker for us later in the season.

852
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 13: Well.

853
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 1: And his ability to shoot threes has an impact with

854
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: the other players, right, they have to come out and

855
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: guard him him and they have to close guard him,

856
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:49,879
Speaker 1: they have to face guard him, which they don't face

857
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: guard a marn So that's a big deal. That allows

858
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: backdoor cuts, that allows guys to uh to get more space.

859
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: You know, in the first half, Alabama was doing to

860
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: us every possession what Garrison allows us to do on offense,

861
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: which is play five out and then take a guy

862
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: off the dribble or backcut, et cetera. So yeah, I mean,

863
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 1: I think Garrison next year will be our starting center,

864
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, his defense needs to improve,

865
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Speaker 1: but there's a lot of stuff I think he does

866
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: really well.

867
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 15: Yeah. And then my last question, what would you think

868
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:29,760
Speaker 15: about him maybe getting more minutes over at car because

869
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 15: in my opinion, neither of them are really great defensively,

870
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 15: and I I.

871
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 1: Just don't think you can play him and Williams together.

872
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:42,359
Speaker 1: I don't think that's you know, and I appreciate the call.

873
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: If there was ever a game, you could probably do it.

874
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: It would like being in Starkansas, because you know, Cal

875
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 1: plays plays two bigs together a lot. But I just

876
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 1: I don't know that that works with him with Williams,

877
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: you know, I do think though, with Garrison, you know,

878
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: you could at all manure at the four. You know,

879
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: I thought going into the year you'd be able to

880
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 1: play Brea at the four a lot, and I just

881
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: don't think you can because he can't guard those guys

882
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: and he struggles with the guys at the three too.

883
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,399
Speaker 1: But he just when he's had to play the four

884
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 1: and we've only had one big out there, we do struggle.

885
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: I mean, he just he has a heart. He has

886
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: a heart. He can't buy. He can't rebound with the fours,

887
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: that's the problem. He can't really guard the threes or

888
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: the fours, but he can't rebound with the fours, and

889
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: that that hurts us. And so if you're putting you know,

890
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: car or Garrison at the five with him at the four,

891
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 1: you kind of have a defensive problem. They went on

892
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: a ten oh run and our lineup I think was

893
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:50,879
Speaker 1: was was Perry allmnore or excuse me, Perry, Braa, Garrison

894
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: and then maybe Oway and Robinson and it just that

895
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: lineup can't play can't play defense? Billy? Do you? I mean,

896
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: I know, I guess you don't hear because you're here

897
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,279
Speaker 1: in the radio broadcast, but do you can we get one?

898
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: Billis game without the ice cream?

899
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 5: Just?

900
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 3: What did they do it again?

901
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:07,879
Speaker 1: Again? Wow?

902
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 11: Like?

903
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:10,919
Speaker 1: Is there any like will they ever have a game

904
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 1: where they don't do it? Ever?

905
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think that's kind of Jay's

906
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 2: thing at this point now. So I mean, yeah, kill

907
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 2: some time after a commercial break.

908
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:22,919
Speaker 1: SMU beat Miami by forty five points on the road

909
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 1: today forty five, and Virginia lost by twenty at Louisville.

910
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:33,800
Speaker 1: Those two coaches listen Tony Bennett, Larra Naga legends. But

911
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 1: quitting on your team mid season and then watching them

912
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: collapse is to me a really really bad look. We'll

913
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 1: take a break and be right back. It's the Local

914
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show. Walk. I'm back. It is

915
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 1: final segment, Local Toy Dealers KSR Postgame Show. You got

916
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and the Texans about to start. It's freezing

917
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: cold in Kansas City. Already started, by the way, has

918
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 1: already started.

919
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Kansas City.

920
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Tennessee is losing to Vanderbilt in the second

921
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:07,359
Speaker 1: half forty one thirty seven. Vandy trying to pull an

922
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: upset in in Nashville. We'll see what happens. And then

923
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 1: at midnight tonight, Billy the TikTok CEO has announced they

924
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: will pull TikTok at midnight tonight. What do you think

925
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: about that?

926
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:21,359
Speaker 3: It's disappointing.

927
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess Trump announced that he would give them

928
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 1: ninety more days, but then I saw he actually doesn't

929
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 1: have the power to do that unless they can prove

930
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 1: that there are papers ready for it to be sold.

931
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:41,800
Speaker 1: So but I feel like Monday there's gonna be a

932
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:43,319
Speaker 1: lot of things that they go. I don't know if

933
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,960
Speaker 1: he can do that, and then maybe they will anyway,

934
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 1: but either way, it's going off at midnight tonight. So

935
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: get your get all your tiktoks in tonight. You're gonna

936
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:54,320
Speaker 1: give like a goodbye billy.

937
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 2: No, but I am going to be disappointed to not

938
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 2: see any more dancing videos from you. I mean you

939
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 2: kind of got started and then didn't really a lot

940
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 2: after that.

941
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 1: Well we I mean we've we the KSR account has

942
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: gotten a lot of people. You know, I bet it'll

943
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 1: be back, even if it's gone for a little while.

944
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 1: I kind of bet it'll be uh be back. My

945
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:19,120
Speaker 1: My Democratic Party is really terrible at PR because I mean,

946
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 1: think about this. They set this thing up where the

947
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 1: Republicans and Trump wanted it banned, the Democrats helped him

948
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: band it, ban it, and now Trump's gonna get to

949
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 1: save it. He's gonna come in and save it like

950
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 1: we are the worst at PR, like the worst, and

951
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 1: like Trump's really good at pr like he it was

952
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: literally their idea and then he's gonna be the one

953
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 1: that gets to save it. So oh well, Uh, if

954
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 1: I'm nine to two eight twenty two, eighty seven, another

955
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,280
Speaker 1: three for bandy, Man, they're hot? Who's up next? Joy

956
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 1: is no Joy? What's up? Joy?

957
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:55,839
Speaker 8: Hey man?

958
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 16: I have two things. One was at the ball game

959
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 16: about the officiating. After we have a ninth foul called

960
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 16: on us and uh, they had won. Pope actually got

961
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 16: to talk to the official, and he was hot and

962
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,279
Speaker 16: when he sat down, Oh, he was hot. And when

963
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 16: he sat down, he was still hot.

964
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:14,880
Speaker 5: Uh.

965
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:17,359
Speaker 16: Fox had to go out and talk to coach.

966
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 5: Fox had got and talked to the official.

967
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:22,959
Speaker 1: See, none of that was on television, so I didn't

968
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:27,439
Speaker 1: get to see that. You got so you, Pope get hot?

969
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: We want Somebody called this week and asked if he

970
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 1: did that? So you saw it?

971
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 16: Yes, he did, he and and it changed. I mean

972
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 16: you started seeing foul came on both ends that way,

973
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,840
Speaker 16: because every time they went down the floor, uh, and

974
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 16: it was a stoppage and play Alabama's coach would be

975
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 16: talking to an official. It was every stinking time that

976
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 16: they go down he would be talking to the officials,

977
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,400
Speaker 16: and I think Pope finally said, hey, wait a minute,

978
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:54,840
Speaker 16: I needed my chance to talk to you too. So anyway,

979
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 16: that was one thing, but the other one I have

980
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,280
Speaker 16: to tell a funny story about Arkansas. I was listening

981
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 16: to Paul on the other day and a guy called

982
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 16: in and he's an Arkansas fan, and he said, mister Finebaum,

983
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 16: I think you probably know more about coach cal than

984
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:10,759
Speaker 16: we do. But what kind of offense does he run?

985
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,959
Speaker 16: He said, he dribbles the ball all around the floor

986
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 16: and then he shoots a shot at the last second.

987
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 16: And I thought that's exactly the kind of offense that

988
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:19,360
Speaker 16: he blames.

989
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:23,359
Speaker 1: So yeah, no, no, you're exactly right. Well he Uh

990
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 1: we could have told him that, couldn't we. We kind

991
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 1: of knew that in bad no, but they didn't listen.

992
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:30,360
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. They got a big one tonight.

993
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 1: They can't lose tonight. They have any chance of pulling

994
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 1: it off in Missouri tonight, Billy.

995
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:36,879
Speaker 3: No, No, not on the road.

996
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 2: I don't think they're gonna win until they can get

997
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:40,239
Speaker 2: an easy team at home.

998
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 3: LSU.

999
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: I mean, for some reason, I feel like though maybe

1000
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 1: they pull on from the Ashes tonight we'll see uh eight,

1001
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: I'm nine twenty two eighty seven. Vaney up ten now

1002
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Let's do five more. Who's next?

1003
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:56,360
Speaker 3: Greg?

1004
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 1: Greg? Go ahead?

1005
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 5: Greg at second time caller?

1006
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: Love your show? All right?

1007
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:06,799
Speaker 11: Two points And first of all, I love I love

1008
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,840
Speaker 11: Pope so but just two points and it just drives

1009
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 11: me crazy. And I coached, so you know, first part

1010
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:15,800
Speaker 11: of the game for me is so important.

1011
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 14: The first half.

1012
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 1: I get my.

1013
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:21,319
Speaker 11: Teams to drive the ball and get get fouls right,

1014
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:23,840
Speaker 11: and I isolate on the two players, the three players,

1015
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 11: and one player that I know is gonna kill us

1016
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 11: in this game. I go after him and drive at

1017
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 11: him and get him in foul trouble. Well, he did

1018
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,479
Speaker 11: it the second half with Nelson, and it just drove

1019
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 11: me crazy. Why didn't we do in the first half.

1020
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 11: That's one point.

1021
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,479
Speaker 1: No, we did. I think that's a really good that's

1022
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: a really good point. They did clearly start going at Nelson.

1023
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:44,480
Speaker 1: He got his fourth foul, he had to sit a

1024
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 1: little bit. Probably should have done that earlier.

1025
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:50,319
Speaker 11: Yeah, it makes the game so easy because you got

1026
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,839
Speaker 11: in a foul trail. The second point is I hear

1027
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,800
Speaker 11: what you're saying about defense, right, We're never gonna be defense.

1028
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 11: But I'm watching this team play defense. And I did

1029
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:00,920
Speaker 11: the same thing with Cals because he couldn't coach defense

1030
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:05,279
Speaker 11: for crap. But the things they're doing are so correctable.

1031
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 11: It's stuff you learn in seventh grade. Don't let your

1032
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 11: man drive baseline. They keep doing it, and they keep

1033
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 11: doing it. Amari put your ding hands up in the

1034
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 11: air and some of the other ones.

1035
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: I wonder how coach shoe I wonder about I feel like,

1036
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,840
Speaker 1: and I could be wrong about this, but I wonder

1037
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,359
Speaker 1: if they tell him to or if he just does

1038
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 1: it on his own. I feel like Amari sits back

1039
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: like a half a step to then try to go

1040
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 1: for a block. I don't know if you notice that.

1041
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:34,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, but he doesn't.

1042
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:35,919
Speaker 11: But he doesn't do it.

1043
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:39,360
Speaker 1: Wait, he doesn't always get it, but yeah.

1044
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But two things to that point you

1045
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:46,719
Speaker 11: had If you look at Iday watch twenty twelve video, right,

1046
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 11: they were great at the second guys and the third

1047
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 11: guys behind. They would wait and then he'd jump up

1048
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 11: and block it. It's perfect if you want to do that,

1049
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,879
Speaker 11: but watch the film how they did it. Second thing,

1050
00:53:57,040 --> 00:54:01,719
Speaker 11: off ball defense and help We're still terrible at it.

1051
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,279
Speaker 11: They got a couple of times. Today they kind of

1052
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:05,839
Speaker 11: got it a little bit. I saw a little bit

1053
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 11: of progress. But if you see guys coming in, you've

1054
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 11: got to cut them off your guy a little bit

1055
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:13,479
Speaker 11: and then go towards the ball and help out.

1056
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 4: They did it a little bit.

1057
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 11: Better, but you know, it's just gotta get back and

1058
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:19,919
Speaker 11: those are all correctable things, right, all.

1059
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 1: Right, Well, that's yeah, that's a fair point. I might

1060
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: have to let you go because we're gonna get cut

1061
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: off here, but I appreciate the call. But those are

1062
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 1: all good points. You know, you you probably know more

1063
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 1: about it than I do. Four more vanding down up

1064
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:38,320
Speaker 1: thirteen four more. Who's next? Drew, Drew, go ahead.

1065
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 17: Drew, Hey, Matt for some very long time.

1066
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: Who Ah.

1067
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:50,320
Speaker 17: Just a quick point about Amari Williams. I mean, honestly,

1068
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 17: I think overall he could be great at the end

1069
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 17: of the season. We just got to get him to

1070
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 17: play a little bit more aggressive, and that I mean

1071
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 17: going to grabbing the ball with two hands, going to

1072
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 17: the basket, not really trying to be pretty with it

1073
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 17: and fading away. But I think by the time the

1074
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 17: season's over, I think he could be really good for us.

1075
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 17: And then the question I had for you, and just

1076
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:13,440
Speaker 17: real quick about the officiating, like Guinea Fan, I mean,

1077
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:15,959
Speaker 17: I hate the officiating, but that's not why we lost

1078
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:19,279
Speaker 17: the game. With the gambling that we have now with

1079
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 17: all these sports, do you think, I mean, is there

1080
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:24,360
Speaker 17: any way that like some kind of accountability will be

1081
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Speaker 17: brought with bad calls and miscalls and things like that,

1082
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 17: just kind of want to get your take on.

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00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 1: Well, the officials do get graded now, right, Like they

1084
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 1: get graded by the league, and they don't release those grades,

1085
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:40,359
Speaker 1: but it decides who gets the marquee games, who gets

1086
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:43,880
Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament, who gets the final four. Now, I

1087
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 1: mean are those grades good? I don't really know. I

1088
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,400
Speaker 1: mean I don't see them, but they are graded. Now,

1089
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: if you're talking about with gambling, like if you're thinking like, oh, well,

1090
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: there could be a ref achieving, I mean I would

1091
00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: say to you if any ref thought about doing that,

1092
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: he is an idiot, because you would be looking at

1093
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:08,359
Speaker 1: federal prison. So yeah, it's not just like a little thing.

1094
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:12,759
Speaker 1: It's like a you know, federal prison thing. And so

1095
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 1: like go see what Michael Porter's brother is looking at

1096
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:19,560
Speaker 1: for the Raptors, right, now, so, uh yeah, I don't

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00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: I would be surprised anything like that. I just.

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00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 17: Yeah, I wasn't trying to excuse anything like that.

1099
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 1: I just didn't know.

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Speaker 17: I mean, there's a lot more money at stake, and

1101
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 17: liked calls, miscalls, things like that if there would be

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00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 17: just something, and I didn't. I didn't know that there

1103
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:33,160
Speaker 17: was anything.

1104
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Speaker 1: And they do get graded. They do get graded and

1105
00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:38,280
Speaker 1: and and I appreciate the call. They don't release the grades,

1106
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 1: but it decides who gets the big games in the

1107
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 1: Marquee the Marquee Games three more. Who's next? W C,

1108
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:46,399
Speaker 1: w C? What's up?

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00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 5: Thanks taking my call? Man, little I guess first time? Well,

1110
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:56,440
Speaker 5: I got on there one time a little bit okay,

1111
00:56:57,880 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 5: it's a little bit easier to get plead or not.

1112
00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:03,719
Speaker 5: That was the before and after of the Duke game. Yeah,

1113
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:09,360
Speaker 5: I yes, So I tried to get through beforehand and

1114
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:12,360
Speaker 5: a sudden and I was gone. Predicted the score for

1115
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 5: you and I didn't get on and I texted to you.

1116
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 5: I know that you read the text because.

1117
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 3: I may have.

1118
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: I mean it was a while, okay, but what did

1119
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 1: you say?

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00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:26,960
Speaker 5: I know I know you did, because when you came

1121
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 5: on the air, you said that we just got through

1122
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 5: beating Duke by a certain score. You see the score

1123
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 5: that I sent you instead of instead of the score

1124
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 5: that the game actually was.

1125
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I guess you got my brain.

1126
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 5: Then, yeah, okay, Well I think we if you go

1127
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:46,919
Speaker 5: back about ten months and think about what we thought

1128
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 5: we might be at this time of year, you compare

1129
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 5: that to where we are now, and everybody'd be real happy.

1130
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 1: I please totally agree with you on that. Totally agree

1131
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 1: with you.

1132
00:57:56,440 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 5: I'm sure glad we've got coach Pope instead of coach Octave.

1133
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 5: You know that Alabama coaches. His name is eight notes,

1134
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:10,480
Speaker 5: eight notes. You know all your musicians know that, you

1135
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 5: know eight consecutive.

1136
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 1: He's a good coach too, I will say, I mean.

1137
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 5: He's a good conan heed to start calling him coach

1138
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:23,200
Speaker 5: Octave minds a lot, but he's okay. But anyway, that

1139
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 5: but about that game, and another little point about the

1140
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 5: last game or the next home game. Uh yeah, I

1141
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 5: know you all when you played played Florida. Have you

1142
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 5: all serve GATORA? We do, yes, Well, now you know

1143
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 5: there's a certain part of the pigs and that a

1144
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 5: minute of the port you could serve some pork dishes

1145
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:48,640
Speaker 5: there that.

1146
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 1: Now you we we're already doing. Don't you worry about it.

1147
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. We're already Uh, we're already playing

1148
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:58,280
Speaker 1: it on that. Uh. I like Naos. By way, I

1149
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:00,560
Speaker 1: didn't know until today that he was a man teacher.

1150
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 1: Did you know that? Have they said that before?

1151
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 3: I did not know that.

1152
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: I've never heard that. He looked like a math teacher,

1153
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 1: but he was a math teacher. He said he was

1154
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:11,120
Speaker 1: a high school math teacher when Bobby Hurley hired him

1155
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: as an assistant at Buffalo. So he's smart, he's a

1156
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:17,840
Speaker 1: good coach, like the two. I think it was easy

1157
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 1: when he first got here to kind of dismiss him

1158
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: as just a loud mouth blah blah blah. But he's

1159
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:24,800
Speaker 1: he's a good coach, and he his schemes are good.

1160
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 1: And I think you can tell Pope respects his offense

1161
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:32,520
Speaker 1: and vice versa. So I think I think though that's

1162
00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 1: a he's a he's a he's a smart, smart guy.

1163
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:40,680
Speaker 1: Two more, who's next, Luke, Luke? What's up? Luke? Hey?

1164
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 18: Matt just kind of wanted to say, I think, you know, obviously,

1165
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 18: losing sucks, but I don't think that my view on

1166
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:50,400
Speaker 18: the team as a whole is necessarily changed after today.

1167
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 18: I think this is kind of who we are. We

1168
00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:57,280
Speaker 18: are a Sweet sixteen, Elite eight team, and Alabama to me,

1169
00:59:57,600 --> 01:00:00,120
Speaker 18: is an Elite eight final four team. I think we

1170
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:05,160
Speaker 18: are a slight step below them because they, in my opinion,

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01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 18: I think the difference is very simple. They have a

1172
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 18: Mark Sears and we don't. We just don't have that

1173
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:14,000
Speaker 18: truly elite go to guy. I mean, we have a

1174
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:17,120
Speaker 18: group of very good players, and we're very very well coached,

1175
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:20,600
Speaker 18: and I'm obviously very very excited about what Mark Pope

1176
01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 18: can do here in his time at Kentucky. But I

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01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:27,200
Speaker 18: just don't think that we are truly an elite elite team.

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01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:29,840
Speaker 18: I think we are a top fifteen, top ten team,

1179
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:32,440
Speaker 18: but I don't think that we are a top five

1180
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 18: team where we're a legitimate national title contender. Now that

1181
01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:38,440
Speaker 18: does not mean that something crazy can't happen where we

1182
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 18: can make a Final four. I'm not going to rule

1183
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 18: that out, and I'm not down on the team by

1184
01:00:42,560 --> 01:00:44,959
Speaker 18: any stretch, but I've always felt that that's who we are.

1185
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 8: That's kind of who we are.

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01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 18: But one more thing, real quick, I just want to say,

1187
01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:52,400
Speaker 18: we obviously play them again, so we will have a

1188
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 18: chance to go down there in about a month and

1189
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:57,200
Speaker 18: what they did to us today, we will have the

1190
01:00:57,240 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 18: opportunity to return the favor and do that to them

1191
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:01,160
Speaker 18: and them on their home floor.

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Speaker 1: Totally agree, And for the tournament, you're better off winning.

1193
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:07,800
Speaker 1: If you had somebody explain this to me, when you

1194
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:11,520
Speaker 1: play a team twice for the tournament, you're actually better

1195
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:13,400
Speaker 1: off beating them there and losing at home than the

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01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 1: other way around. So if you.

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Speaker 7: Can, yeah, would it weird?

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Speaker 18: That makes no sense, But it doesn't understand the net

1199
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:22,640
Speaker 18: rank and don't make sense. But that's you know, it

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01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 18: is what it is. But you know, I'm still very

1201
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:28,040
Speaker 18: excited about this team. We're obviously very very very good.

1202
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:31,880
Speaker 18: The question is is can we can we shore up

1203
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:35,480
Speaker 18: the defense to become more of a truly elite team.

1204
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:39,160
Speaker 18: And I'm not really sure what the exact answer is

1205
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:40,280
Speaker 18: because I know, I think.

1206
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:42,200
Speaker 1: The difference is what you said just a minute ago,

1207
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:44,560
Speaker 1: and I appreciate the call. The difference is we don't

1208
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:48,680
Speaker 1: have a Mark Sears right like Mark Sears, and remember

1209
01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:51,600
Speaker 1: Grant Nelson has been a little disappointing at Alabama, but

1210
01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:53,800
Speaker 1: he was a he was one of the maybe the

1211
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 1: best player in the portal last year, two years ago

1212
01:01:56,680 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 1: or whenever he was there. Mark Sears is like he's been.

1213
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:03,880
Speaker 1: He's not had the best year, but last year was

1214
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 1: he was an SEC Player of the Year candidate and

1215
01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 1: they maybe even won it. Who won it last year?

1216
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 1: It was Reeves, Sears and somebody else? Were the three guys? Oh,

1217
01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:19,480
Speaker 1: Dalton connects connect one but Jackson Robinson's good, but he's

1218
01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:24,280
Speaker 1: not that. And Andrew Carr is good, but he's not

1219
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:28,320
Speaker 1: Grant Nelson. And I honestly think if you take Mark

1220
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:34,600
Speaker 1: Sears and Grant Nelson and then put him up against say,

1221
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 1: Robinson and Carr, that's the difference in the two teams, honestly,

1222
01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:43,920
Speaker 1: is that those guys Robinson and Carr might be our

1223
01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 1: two best scores, even though Oway probably leads a team

1224
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:48,919
Speaker 1: in scoring. But if I'm just talking about guys who

1225
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:52,120
Speaker 1: at their peak can get can get you buckets, and

1226
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:54,920
Speaker 1: their two guys are better. And that's I think, ultimately

1227
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:58,360
Speaker 1: probably what it is. Let's do one more. Who's next, Mike, Mike,

1228
01:02:58,400 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 1: go ahead.

1229
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:04,080
Speaker 13: Mike, Hey, Matt how a, y'all doing the night doing good.

1230
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:05,080
Speaker 1: All right.

1231
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 13: I just want to say I'm not too worried about

1232
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:10,480
Speaker 13: the loss tonight. Alabama's a good team and I got

1233
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:13,040
Speaker 13: faith in Pope. I'll figure it out. And I also

1234
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 13: want to say that me and my wife listened.

1235
01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 5: To you every day and we love you all, but

1236
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:19,120
Speaker 5: but we disagree with you.

1237
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:23,680
Speaker 13: I with you, but we disagree with you. With Jay

1238
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 13: Billis and the ice cream, we look forward to that way. Ever,

1239
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:30,200
Speaker 13: he calls the game that is a rubber arena, saying

1240
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:33,600
Speaker 13: he only does that at rub So just lay off

1241
01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:36,360
Speaker 13: of him a little bit twitch the ice.

1242
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:41,480
Speaker 1: Cream, understand, But I love you to death. Appreciate the call.

1243
01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 1: All right. So there's one vote for the ice cream,

1244
01:03:43,800 --> 01:03:47,920
Speaker 1: Billy for the bringing it up. I got taking an opinion,

1245
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:50,480
Speaker 1: why not? The ice cream is good? Like I've only

1246
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:52,640
Speaker 1: had it once or twice and it seemed fine. And

1247
01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 1: then I met the young woman who who started it

1248
01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:58,680
Speaker 1: and her dad, and they seem really really nice people,

1249
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:01,280
Speaker 1: so I wanted to succeed. I I'm just saying, I'm

1250
01:04:01,320 --> 01:04:04,240
Speaker 1: just surprised they bring it up every single time he's

1251
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 1: on there. But you know what, that's okay. Maybe that's

1252
01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:12,040
Speaker 1: the thing that's our thing, right, that's the Willy played

1253
01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:14,960
Speaker 1: wide receiver. It's just it will be that imperpetuity every

1254
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:17,440
Speaker 1: long as Jay billis is the announcer. Hey, thank you

1255
01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:21,040
Speaker 1: folks very much. If you get up tomorrow morning and

1256
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:24,880
Speaker 1: you are are feeling it, turn on ESPN Radio. Listen

1257
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:28,880
Speaker 1: to me on the NFL pregame show. We are off

1258
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:33,360
Speaker 1: on Monday. We're taking the holiday off and then we'll

1259
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:36,920
Speaker 1: be back Tuesday. National Championship Game is Monday night at

1260
01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:39,680
Speaker 1: the bar. We're giving away money, so be watching my

1261
01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:41,480
Speaker 1: social media. I got to see how many spots we

1262
01:04:41,520 --> 01:04:44,440
Speaker 1: have opened, but I'm gonna give away the final few spots. Billy.

1263
01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:47,880
Speaker 1: Enjoy your holiday, and thank you all very much. Alabama

1264
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:51,320
Speaker 1: wins one seven. We'll get him next week. This has

1265
01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:54,000
Speaker 1: been the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show