KSR - 2024-02-20- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 20, 2024

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Now here's Matt Jones. Welcome everyone at Kentucky Sports Radio. Tuesday, February the 20th. I'm Matt Jones. We are here at the KS Bar and Grill on a beautiful winter day. Still winter, you would say, in February. I still got snow in my front yard, so I'd say yes. All right.

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office, you call T.J. I'll make them pay. We were off yesterday for President's Day, except Shannon. Although, Shannon, just for the record, I gave you the option to be off. I told Billy if he didn't want to do a show, he didn't have to. And Billy said, Yeah. But here's what Billy said. Billy said Shannon and I'll do it.

And I was like, don't you want to run it by Shannon? So I kind of feel like now I know Drew that Billy's in charge of the show. And we know that they hate presidents while the rest of us observed. So in the future when I need something, I might as well just go to Billy because Shannon lets Billy speak for you for what I can tell. Billy and I already ran it by each other. But, you know, I thought that we used to work on presidents day. We did. We did.

But then I realized you could take it off. Especially like 2016 through 2020. For some reason, we always work. on front of the street. You think I didn't want to honor Trump? Yes. Yeah, well, I feel like Biden deserves the time off. You know, he's got a nap.

It's fine. What I hear is Shannon just got another comp day. That's what I'm hearing. Yeah, so that's why he worked. I mean, I don't like how everybody, Shannon and Billy, you have to understand. We are not full-time, my heart, boys. Correct.

Shannon and Billy are. So Shannon and Billy working yesterday, they get a free day of a vacation. So let's be clear. Like with us, if we work yesterday, it doesn't count towards anything. We just have to keep working. They get a free extra bonus day if they work. So like, let's be real. I'm glad they did it, but also the incentives are a little.

You don't want to squabble with vacation days with me. I'm not squabble. I'm not squabbling. I'm just saying to you, I was glad you all did the show and I heard good things. And so now we are. Reggie Hanson on. Yeah, that's great. first African-American player,

according to Billy, was able to come on yesterday, which was probably exciting. I got three texts yesterday about Shannon doing the show and I was not doing it, and all three of them said he gets a comp day for this, right? Like, it's even obvious. Everybody knows. They know it's okay.

I'm not hurting. I'm not like it's fine. I was excited to actually do it coming off the win on Saturday. I mean, I think we assumed we would lose. And we were like, let's just have a day where we don't. And then we win. We win. And it would have been nice actually to be there.

I want to get to the game. But first, you know, since it just happened last night, I'm going to do something that we don't normally do here, which is lead off with the Daytona 500. It's very rare. Let me tell you why. Very rare. All right, I haven't, I'm not, you know, I used to really be in an ask.

Yes, you did. I used to, like, we're talking like 97 to about 04. I watched every race, right? Like, I knew who all, I knew who handsome Harry Gant was Rick Mast, awesome bill from Dawsonville, Jeff Burton, Ward Button, all of them. Now, very rarely turn it on. If I see that it's Bristol, might turn it on.

Daytona or Talladega, if I see that it's on, I'll watch it. But when they go to the regular tracks, I'm just not interested. But yesterday, it was on a Monday afternoon, right? Got rained out Sunday. Got rained out Sunday. So it's on at a time where, you know, Drew's a holiday. Let's turn it on. So the problem with Daytona is most of the race doesn't matter because they stay bunched up.

And it really doesn't matter. The race starts with about 20 laps to go. Yeah. So people say that about all NASCAR, but that's not really true. It's definitely true at the super speedways. But with 20 laps to go, I'm going to be honest with you, there's no better entertainment. Because they just go, I mean, they just pass each other over and over. They're bunched up, et cetera.

So, you know, I was sitting there watching it and I was like, they're going to have a wreck. They always have a wreck. Always have a wreck. You know, when's the wreck coming? No, it's going to come. They have the wreck. It was a bad wreck. Took out like half the field, right?

But I have to tell you, I don't know. I don't think, I mean, they may have done this before, and I'd never noticed it, but I was mesmerized by the replays of the wreck. Specifically, they had a camera inside of the car looking at, like, 10 or 15 different drivers when they wrecked. And for the first time, I don't know what it was. I don't know if the cameras are better or whatever. You could see, I felt like, how scared the drivers were when the wrecked.

First of all, I mean, when they hit, their bodies just slamming around, right? And remember, they're restrained in. And their bodies are like that. Then, Shannon, the thing that's been on my mind ever since. And again, I'm sure he was exaggerating. But one of the announcers, I don't know who's the, I don't know who the announcers are now. I recognize the play-by-play guy's voice. The rest of them, I don't know who they are.

But Shannon, he goes, notice how when they wreck, now they don't keep their hands on the steering wheel. As they're spinning, they take their hands off and they put them to their chest like this. Okay. Like they, Shannon, I'm like. Bracing for impact. Bracing for, they put it on their chest like this and they just let the steering wheel go. and I see one or two of them do it, and I think, wow, that's crazy. Yeah.

And then the announcer goes, let me explain to the viewers why they're doing it. If they keep their hands on their steering wheel, they'll rip their thumbs off. Oh, my. Now, I'm sure that's an exaggeration. Did that actually happen maybe before? But they said they'll rip their thumbs off. And then I started watching the steering wheel. And Drew, I think they would rip their thumbs off because the steering wheel, I guess they have a new

car now. It's called like next generation car. And whatever it is, it makes it safer, but a downside is the steering wheel takes a lot of the impact, probably so it doesn't go on the driver, right? But it makes the steering wheel like go everywhere. And I'm sitting there watching it and Chanan, I'm thinking, what if somebody's thumb got ripped off in the middle of the middle of it? If you see a thumb just flying by the camera. So a lot of the newer drivers, think about how you drive your car. Do you put your thumbs on the inside or do you put your thumbs? When you hold the steering wheel, put your thumbs on the inside. I do. I do. I'm inside. Feels like it. Or my knee sometimes. Yes. You put your thumbs on the inside. The newer drivers, knowing that it might rip their thumbs off,

put their hands, no thumbs inside. But some of the older ones are used to having their thumbs inside. And so the moment they wreck in one of the big wrecks, hands off the wheel, put their arms like this. They said Danica was in Indy cars first. She brought it to NASCAR, because in Indy car they don't have power steering. So like it was bad in Indy car, so she learned to do that when you were wrecking, and now they all do it, they followed her. And so it's crazy to watch these people, Shannon, in a wreck going 200 miles an hour, and the first thing they do is take their hands off the steering.

Well, if I knew my thumbs might fly off my hands, I think I'd be doing the same thing, knowing that. So I just found it absolutely fascinating, and I tweeted it, and then, of course, all the know-it-all-shay-old shay. I already knew that. Well, thank you. I'm glad you already knew it. I didn't know. I didn't know it. Had you ever heard that now?

I had never heard that. It's amazing to have that much awareness when you're, like you said, going 200 miles an hour, spinning around to have the awareness like... Well, it's not what you would think to do. Can you imagine if you got in a wreck on the highway, the first thing you'd think is let go with the steering wheel? I'm going to think that now, though. Like, is that... I don't know if that... I don't think that applies to us.

I don't never hear of regular drivers getting their thumbs ripped off. I don't know. But it is weird to watch them. The moment they start spinning, hands are off the wheel. And it shows you how focused and in the zone they are that in the middle of that they're thinking what they're supposed to be doing to be safe, whereas the rest of us would just think we're in a wreck doing 200. I would just start screaming. Yeah. And they just stay calm and know what to do.

A couple of them, it was like they were like robots. The moment they started spinning, bam, hands on their, on their chest. And then when I heard Danica started it, I kind of thought, I'd like to know how that went down. Yeah. I could see Danica walking around the garage. going, hey, when you wreck, take your hands off the wheel. And then them walking away and going, oh, here we go. We brought these women in here.

And they always say, but she was right. Yeah. You know, and now they all do it. I'm worried Ryan's going to have like a minor fender bender and cross his arms and let go the wheel. Yeah, I don't think you're supposed to do it. I think it's only if you're going 200 miles an hour in the corner with restrictor plates. Well, I do go 200 on New Circle sometimes.

I can do that then. I'll do that. Keep my thumbs from getting ripped off. That's crazy. So I think I'm sure he's exaggerating. I'm sure your thumbs don't get ripped off. But I don't want to take the chance, Shannon, if I'm one of those drivers, right? Dislocate at them would be bad, too.

That's another thing they said they've had drivers dislocate their arms. There's so much impact in the thing, so that's another reason they let go. Wow. So that was my Daytona 500. That's what I took from the race. When it was over, I realized I wasn't certain who won. Yeah, because the guy won under caution, right? Yeah, which is boring.

That's boring. William Byron. He drives Jeff Gordon's old car. I was at my parents' house yesterday and my dad was yelling at the TV for a driver and I asked him what he was watching. I had no clue the Daytona 500 was yesterday until right at the end. Didn't get much coverage. But yeah, is it normally on a Sunday? Yeah, it rained out.

Okay, that makes sense. It's usually during the day. They should work on the marketing. It's usually during the day and the NBA All-Star game is at night. That's kind of how it usually. But I noticed, you know, when I watched, first of all, no one that drives when I watch is still in it. And even the ones that I've picked up recently, there's only. only a couple of them, like Brad Keselowski, Joey Legano that had that nickname you hated,

Slice Bread. He's still in it. But most of the dudes, I didn't even know. Or they're kids of people that I did know when you used to watch. Harrison Burton, who's Wardbutton's son. I mean, like, that's when you feel old when all the drivers are the kids are the ones you watch. You're right, though, 25 years ago, the Daytona 500 was huge. The Sunday after the Super Bowl and then the Daytona 500, and they were both massive.

massive events. I like that anymore. Now, what was a massive event was Kentucky beating over. Yes, it was. Nobody's thumbs got ripped off. But we led from start to finish. Domination, really. I mean, like, just continue.

It was just a thorough dissection of the team. Drew was the only one that picked Kentucky to win. I watched it here at the bar. It was fun, wasn't it? I mean, it was the way Cal has won in years past. We won basically by controlling tempo, playing defense, you know, waiting for them to lose. It was, if you're John Cal Perry, it's exactly how you want to play basketball and how you want to win. Yeah, and that was probably the hardest game on the schedule.

That may be the best team they played during the regular season. And it was crazy packed environment, and you went in there and you kicked their ass led from start to finish. And you got off to a great start, Drew, which took the crowd out. Yep. And then every time the crowd wanted to come back, you'd make. make a basket to shut them up, kind of what Tennessee did to us a few weeks ago and not getting the Rup crowd into it, we did to Auburn. Yeah, that was my key to the game is don't go in there.

You've gone down to just about every team, 10 to 5, nothing too big. But at Auburn, you don't want to look up and it's 20 to 4, and they avoided that. It did even better. They took the lead right away against Gonzaga and Tennessee and Rupp Arena. Kentucky led for like a total of a minute and a half or something silly in two games. I love that at Auburn, they led for 39 minutes, took it right away. and never look back. It almost proved maybe this team needs some road atmosphere.

They said they'd rather play on the road. I mean, maybe. Maybe that's what it is. I just, I loved how they played. I love that, you know, when we need a bucket, Antonio Reeves, right? When we needed a big play down the stretch, somebody made it. Hugo played very well. A dude played very well.

He basically limited his lineup to six guys. He basically played six dudes, and that worked. It was except for the fact that we I still think we need to shoot more threes. Otherwise, Ryan, honestly, I'm not sure you could have asked for anything else. And you see what a difference DJ Wagner makes. I mean, the defense, the last two games have been much improved. And it's all because of him, him coming out and just that intensity and on the ball defense. I think the other guys feed off that.

And you can see a huge difference on the defensive end now that he's back and healthy, I think. It kept feeling like, oh, we're not feeling they were. They would make runs. And it's like, oh, they're about to tie it up. but then Kentucky would have an answer every single time to keep their lead. It seemed like it was Reeves most of the time. But you knew Auburn was going to fight back, but Kentucky just wouldn't let them take that lead.

I mean, they'd get it to two, Kentucky would hit a three. They'd get four, Kentucky would get a nice let. I saw four moments that it felt like they would slip away and make a run, and Reeves scored all four times. Three times with a bucket, once with a foul, where he made the two three throws. Dude, he is just that guy. He's been so consistent all year long. he deserves all this recognition he's getting now because he deserves all-American recognition.

I thought they'd win a track meet though. I even parlayed the overall. It's not how I thought they'd win if they were going to do it. So very impressive. 859-280-2287. There's no way you could have thought. That's how they would win, but they did. We will take a break.

Take your calls. Be right back. Keep our thumbs. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. To talk to Matt Jones and the crew, call the Clark's Pump and Shop phone line at 859-280-2-287 or 1-800-606-4-263. and send us the Kentucky brandit tweet of the day by a tweeting Matt at KY Sports Radio. It's exactly what the NASCAR drivers do.

They have Jesus take the wheel and they just say, well, hope this works out. That would be such a helpless field. That's exactly what I was getting ready to say. You're going 200 miles an hour. Your car is spinning out of control and you're supposed to take your hands off the wheel. Like you have no control now whatsoever. Yeah. Wow.

It's wild. And it's so much about the physics of cars. Like the fact that when you see it like pieces blow off and you would think, well, that's bad. But then that's how they're designed to do it because when the pieces blow off, I guess it takes away some of the energy which helps slow the car down because it's counterintuitive. Right. And you would think, well, I want my car to stay together. Right. You actually want it to fly apart, which is odd.

Yeah. That would be hard to resist grabbing that wheel as you're spinning around in circles. Apparently NASCAR, the new car, the next generation car, has rack and pinion steel. steering, which is why it jerks like that. Do you know what rack and pinion steering is? Heard of it. I have no, I couldn't explain it. Explain it to us, Drew. What do you know? I didn't have that option when I bought my Toyota.

It seems like a new technology I'm not familiar with. I see mine doesn't have the pinion. I think that's like lane correction, right? It just keeps you in the lane. I don't know. I don't think that's it. But they added rack and pinions. Now listen to this story.

It's the text machine. This could be my Kentucky branded text of the day. Early. From Kentuckybranded.com. When you hear it, you'll see why. Matt, my dad is a retired state trooper. He had both his thumbs ripped off in a chase. He was hit head on, had to have both thumbs fused solid with bones out of his feet.

Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. So it obviously. So now are you going to think about your thumbs? Yes, sitting there in the steering wheel? Maybe you learned to do it with the thumbs out. Drive with my thumbs on the outside of the wheel now. We'll try that for a while.

Buckle up, put your thumbs out. Put your thumbs out. Yeah. So there you go. How about that? Well, God bless your dad, his state trooper. He now works for the Kentucky Supreme Court.

Did you intentionally give that guy a thumbs up? You did that on purpose, didn't you, Shannon? Here a guy walks in as we're telling this story, he gives him a thumbs up. Show off. That is a show off by you right. What a show off. One person writes, Matt, is Reeves are go-

two player now. He's always been our go-to player. I still okay, so I get first of all, I think I've made it very clear Antonio is my favorite play, really for two years. Yeah. But I still get the people who go Matt, you still don't think we can win a title with him as

the best player? I mean, it's best maybe shouldn't be the word I used. I still think if we get to a game where we need a bucket with a minute to go, you're better off having him off the ball than on it. Meaning like you're better off having DJ or Reed or Wagner take it to the basket and then he spots up than having the ball in his hand and he has to create the shot.

Last year he couldn't create a shot. This year he can, Ryan, but I still think I'd rather have him as the option you run a play for rather than the guy trying to go one-on-one. So when I say best, I guess what I mean is ball in his hand at the end of the game. And to his credit, he has done such a great job working on that because like you said last year, he was just a spot-up guy. He couldn't create his own shot. well with the offseat you see how much he's worked on it because now he gets most of his points on the floater and the short jumper.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's, I mean, we think of him as a three-point shooter coming to the year, but that's one of the best floaters we've ever seen. Quickly had one that seemed unstoppable Reeves is right there with him. Tehran had a great one. There's somebody else, maybe Boggins. But Quickly's was great. He's finishing at the rim, too.

He's doing it all three levels. When he shoots the floater, he missed one Saturday. And I remember thinking, well, that never happens. Like, I just consider it buckets the moment he takes it, to be honest with you. The fact he's developed that now, you know, teams were coming out on him so much to try to prevent him of shooting at three. Now that he's got that in his arsenal where he can beat the guy and shoot the floaters. What about Ugo playing 36 minutes? Oh, that was awesome.

I love how Ugo, I mean, they're all very happy. This whole team's full of guys that are just happy. But Ugo might be number one in the category of just being excited. After that game where he had 10 blocks, he was run around Rup Arena taking pictures. telling people to check it. He had 11. You know, he's just, I don't want to say he's goofing off because he's serious, but you can just tell he is enjoying every second of this. It feels like, Shannon, he has the biggest hands on earth.

Like, it feels like you know how Mickey Mouse has those gloves? It feels like when he stands there, I feel like his finger is going to hit the ceiling. He just feels like a huge human being. Now I'm not going to be able to watch him without thinking of him with Mickey Mouse gloves on his hands. He's got to keep his thumbs out of the wheel because. Because he's, and 36 minutes. I mean, if you had told me at any point he would play 30, I didn't know if he'd play 36 minutes the whole SEC season and to do it in one game.

There are games where I think, yeah, you might need that. Maybe not 36. That's still a lot. We were playing a big man. But Auburn's front court stretches the floor. I thought this was a game where he might actually have trouble because you have to close out on those guys and lots of running around keeping up a Williams and Broome. But he hung right with him.

The whole game played the most minutes. I was really worried about how he was going to do in this game for that reason. And without Trey Mitchell, you know, Bradshaw played, what, three minutes, something like that, three or four minutes? I think it was all he played. Poor Z. Z didn't play. Oh, he played.

Like, two plays. Yeah, two plays. And, like, he gave up a bucket. He missed a shot. Why don't he miss a shot or something happened on offense? And he gave up a bucket. And then, guy was like that. It was very lost.

It was a little bit of taking a shot. In a situation like that. What do you make of the fact that this is now four times in the last four years? where we've gone into a game, huge underdogs, we all think we're going to lose, and then we win. Like, what do you make of that? On a couple teams that have been disappointing, yet we still win this game every year.

Why? To me, I just think that's when Cal's at his best. When everybody dis, you know... You could even throw in the Kansas game, where we won by 20. I mean, you could say it's five games if you throw in that one. I mean, like Ryan says, the common denominator, there's Cal. I don't know what he's telling them behind closed doors,

occasionally we get peaks in the journey video that's always fun to look at that Kansas one especially was really good but I'd say whatever he's doing to get them motivated your backs against the wall you're in this building where you're the bad guy it does even makes it sound like he's showing him social media these days saying you know even our own fans

don't believe in you he caught a way to rally for him but see the thing about the clutter is he he needs yeah he does Cal needs it fuels his life the reality is he is fueled by the criticism of others.

I mean, for all the talk about not caring about it, he cares about it immensely. It fuels him. I'm fine with it. You know, he took last night on the radio show a shot at quote-unquote radio guys. Well, clearly that's us. Fine. I didn't even respond. I didn't say it worked good.

If that's what gets it to go, I mean, that's not why we say it, but if that's what gets it to go, he needs it. He's always needed it. It used to be before he came here, people told me he was. obsessed with the fact that basketball times, whatever that is, would criticize it. Then it was 40 and Goodman and tipped it, right? Then it was, you know, Dane O'Neill or Seth Davis or whoever it was. And unfortunately, I think now it's kind of become us or even the online fans.

The Kyle Tucker thing probably is on his brain quite a bit. I actually think he's madder at Kyle than he is. see but just when you see when he talks because some of the things he talks about are in Kyle articles but whatever it is Ryan if that's what gets him going then the result is still good yeah I think that's what clearly motivates him and I think that's when he is at his best and Drew and Shannon I we work with the guy who's kind of the same way you tell somebody you can't do this you're going to prove him wrong and do it yeah no I mean that's you're exactly right I mean I see a lot of that What I hear is, I'm the same way.

Like, I tell myself not to, but you do. And then you want to be like, I'm going to tell these people to stuff it. Clearly, Cal has that. I think so. And it seems to work. All right. We'll take a break. Take calls right for this.

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Rack and Pinyinion steering, right? Okay, let's hear it. It's used in modern vehicles to facilitate. facilitate steering control. It has a rack, a straight bar with teeth, and a pinion, a small round gear. So picture that in your head. A straight bar with teeth and a small round gear. And it allows the driver to easily turn the wheels, providing efficient control. Opinion. Yeah. I have plenty of those. Yeah. This show is full opinions. And when they're good, we rack them. So it's, it's It's exactly what it says.

So there you go. There we go. That's the physics and science portion of today's KSR. Before we go to the phones, the ESPN just released a new mock draft. Just so you know, when it comes to mock drafts, to me there's only two that are, as they would say, accurate. ESPN and the athletic. There's that NBA draft.net. I'm not trying to, like, knock the – but that's just a dude that lives in Lexington.

like every he got he did a good job getting that website chanin baderaft dot net yeah but he always overrates kentucky players because he lives here and he's like he might even be listening to show i don't know the man but he like lives here so you know and he's not a scout so so i mean it's his opinion but the guys that talked ultimately the mott drafts are about what the NBA guys are saying and jonathan giovanni and sam vicini are the best at that if you look historically Here's what's interesting to me. Their mock drafts are way different. They both released a new one this morning, and they're way different.

Like, they have people, like, the first two picks are going to be two Australian dudes, or two guys that play in Australia. One of them's Olivier Saar's brother. Yeah. And then there's some other guy. But after that, I mean, it's wild the difference. But here's what ESPN has. I'm just going to use that one.

Okay. Has Dilleyham number three? Shepard number 12 Wagner 27 then in the second round Ugo 38 Justin Edwards 51 Bradshaw Z and Reeves not picked

I'm surprised Reeves is not in there at all and I'm surprised that Ugo has made a big jump up to the 30s just a few weeks ago Z was like 14th and now he's undrafted it's crazy that fluctuation I said it at the time at halftime of the Georgia games he should have gone and gotten in his car yeah just wait until draft night entered the he would have been a top 10 pick if he had just said good seeing y'all it's true

he was nobody was that that next day not everyone put him on their boards but everyone went crazy right what would have happened if he said at halftime you know what i'm declaring for the draft i had a good half food poisoning i'm going home i'll see you good i mean drew's right i mean we would have thought of him as the greatest player that ever played at kentucky Yeah. If he left after that game. What about Dillingham number three? I'm starting to agree with that one.

I think that if you're a manager, three is high, but top ten, maybe top five, you have to think about what that guy can become. And do you want to be one of the ones where you're like, I picked him for, you know, whoever. He, his, I'm not saying he's going to be this. But, like, he could be Iverson. He's got a wide range. Now, he could also be a failure.

You know what I mean? But he could be Iverson. He could. Like he's that. When he gets going, and except he can shoot, like he can really shoot. Iverson was a good defender, though, and he's not really. But Dillon Ham and the Auburn game made one really bad turnover. But to Cal's credit, he let him stay out there.

I think in other years, he would have yanked him out immediately. But in the second half, he mostly played Wagner, which was probably the right thing to do in that game. DJ, I'm telling you, man, was awesome. Justin Edwards was good, too. He was good. I thought he played well. I just let me say this. If you don't pick Antonio Reeves, you're insane.

Yeah. I mean, if you don't want to, look, I know he's older, but you cannot tell me that dude can't score in the NBA. Right? Of course he can. I know he's older, but still, dude, a guy that shoots like that, I mean, stop. He's, I just don't know how he can't,

how you couldn't put him on an NBA roster. Cal seems to agree. Cal said after the game, he's playing in the NBA, which I would not have thought when he got here that could happen. Who's up first? We'll start with Clay. Clay, what's up, Clay? Hey, guys. First time, long time here on the radio. Who are called the Billy Rutledge,

pre-game show, or post-game show a time or two. The first time I'm here on the radio. And, you know, speaking about Billy, big two thumbs up to Shannon and Billy for yesterday's work. And then first off, I just want to say I'm here in Knoxville. And a long-time KSR follower, listener. It's obviously better and easier with social media. these days, but I just want to thank you all for the 15 plus years of message boards and comments sections and post and radio show.

Well, thank you. Keep it a guy in Knoxville connected to the Kentucky program. That's very kind of you. Thank you. Yeah, anytime. Two things on the game. One thing I think, I think the press has been huge. And I think one thing people aren't thinking about Calgary or whoever, I forget who said,

talk about the aggressiveness. And I do think that helps just getting us. aggressive. Yeah, we don't really press. We just pick up full court, and I do think it gets the guys more engaged. I think you're, I think you're right. What's your second thing? Right. Right. And along with that press, I've been wanting to do some sort of three-quarter court type press. I know Cal wouldn't do that. They're not going to do that. Yeah. I don't do that. But like you said, picking them up full court, I think that shaves five or ten seconds off. It does, and that's why I appreciate the call. That's why a lot of teams do it. They're never going to full court press. First of all, no team full court presses like Petino and those guys.

Like, that just doesn't happen anymore. But picking a guy up, Drew, and kind of harassing them starting three-fourths of the court, I do feel like it gets our guys engaged at the beginning. I like that. With the press, I worried, especially trying to put it in at this point, we'd have guys really lost. I mean, they get lost on an inbound still occasionally. I don't want to give them the full court to get lost.

but I agree with picking them up in the half court, especially just being a little more aggressive when you have the depth to do it now. Assuming you have the full roster at some point, I like throwing a little more at teams. I like your word, engage. I think it does engage him a little more, especially guys like with Reed that maybe not the best on ball defender, but yet he's able to get his hands on some balls and stuff.

He's going to break Roddo's single season record potentially. He needs like, what, 23, I think? Yeah, we have like a couple of pretty big records that could get broken. Antonio Reeves has a chance to break the scoring record for guys who played in Kentucky for two years. He's going to come in second for sure as long as he doesn't get hurt, and he might come in first, and then Shepard's got a chance to break the Steels record for a single season, which is held by Rondo. Pretty good company if he ends up doing that.

Who's next? Richard. Richard, go ahead, Richard. I agree with that. I agree with that. I think a big key, and I appreciate the call, is just get. to just get Shepard Reeves and Dillingham open for three. I mean, because when they're open, they're money.

Yeah. When they're open. Now, when they're not open, it's, you know, it's hit or miss a little bit, Drew. But when they are open, when Shepard and Reeves are open, you just run down the court. It's going in. I agree. And I kind of add Dillingham to that conversation, too. They only took, what, 12, 13 at Auburn.

You still won that game. But being greedy, I need a lot more than. that, especially, as we've said many times. Those guys are going to be in the top 25 all time for field goal percentage in a season. I want as many three-pointers as they can take without, you know, getting too gimmicky and throwing off an offense. And not to be Antonio Reeves agent, but nine times in the last two years has gone on the road and scored 20 plus.

The only player since Rick Patino got here that's done that nine times in two. years is Jody Meeks. I remember him. He was pretty good. He was pretty good player. He was pretty good score. I mean, isn't that amazing? Nine times in two years.

Kevin Grevy did it 20 times in his career, but that was over three years. And there are people who did more, but like, you look at the list of people who've done that. They're all legends. And then here. I thought Bob and Jamestown said he doesn't show up. I hung up on Bob and Jamestown, by the way, Shannon. Did you know that? You do every time he calls.

Yeah, but I mean, he came in. laid down at North Carolina. I just said, hang up. Not after a win. You're not doing that. By the way, we won the North Carolina game, too. Another thing people forget. 859-280-2287.

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It was rocking here Saturday during the game. Ryan, I did something I never do. What was that? Which is watch a game in public. Yeah. You know, I never do that. You may have been the good luck charm. You may have turned the season around.

Well, probably. You had 16 people here with you. Yeah. The place was packed. It was a lot of fun. You know, it was exciting, but I watched it here. And so I think what we ought to do, I feel like it was because of me that we want. I think so too.

So will you and Drew watch the game here with me tomorrow night? 9 o'clock tip? 9 o'clock tips. Okay, so normally, Shannon, for a road game at 9 o'clock, we don't get much of a crowd here. Yeah. But I feel like since we won a road game with me being here, I think we're. should come watch it tomorrow night. Now, it might be many people, Ryan, but maybe it will,

and maybe that's the good luck charm is watching the game in public. And if we win tomorrow night, I promise to watch the games in public. Now, we may go to the games, but not sit in my hotel room on these road games. What do you think? Yeah, I think you need to sit at the same table, same place. Yeah, you can't mess up the mojo if we're going to do this. I was walking around. We can sit anywhere.

As long as you're in the building. you watch the game here with me. Okay. Do the pregame show and then come back? We'll go and then come back at night. Okay. I'm in it. Are you in?

You picked a good game because I actually don't have post-game responsibilities. I'm off Thursday and Friday. So not only will I be here, I might bring my fastball. Get out of town. Oh, are you going to do? I'm not doing the show Thursday. I'm going to Nashville. Might as well start a night early.

All right. All right. So if you want to come watch the game with us, you know, don't make it just be us. What's that fun of this? I don't think we've had a nine o'clock road game yet, have we? I do want to add one thing. Who were we last week when you did it? What was that game when you did it?

That was Old Miss at home. I don't think we've had a 9 o'clock road game yet. We had a bunch of them last year. We didn't have them this year. I will say last year we did a game watch party. I spent the whole time getting ice in Missouri won by like 25. That's not going to happen this time. So let's reverse that mojo coming into our second game watching.

So if you want to come, Drew is saying he's going to tie one on. Yep. I've got to do a little work after the game. I can't get too crazy. I don't want to be writing with one eye open. Yeah, I think that's the best riding. I'll break out my UK basketball jersey even for this big game. No, that's what everybody wants.

That's why. I want people to come here and eat and drink. I don't think people come here to see you. LSU, do we need some kind of, some theme? I think it's probably a little light for us to order new food. I mean, I can still just wear a mask. What's the drink that people in Louisiana drink? Hurricanes.

I wonder if I'll see if our bartenders. That's a quick mix. I do figure it out. I do want to ask you a question because we're still talking. basketball. How did your parley do of the Auburn game? We lost every leg. Trey Donaldson. Man, every time they said his name. If you had bet against me, you would have hit it. I'd won the exact same amount of money. I bet with you. I was all on board with you. It was over quick, because I had the over at half time. But I would have bet that. You know what? That 14 team parlay on

Saturday I told you about. You know, I know the only game I lost. Oh, you've got to be kidding. You hit 13 out 14? What would be the game that would make you sickest to have lost as the 14th team? Shannon, I bet $10 it would have won $1,300. Oh my. Louisville. South Carolina, who blew that lead to LSU. South Carolina was one of them. If they just hold on to an 18-point second half lead, it's $1,300. I was sitting out in the car watching the end of it because, you know, the Kentucky game was right after it. Yeah. I was sitting there watching it, and I'm like, they're not going to let them come back.

Oh, no. I still, I couldn't believe. 13 of 14, and the one you lose, they had an 18-point lead in the second half. That's a tough beat right there. You need that insurance. I've had a lot of bad beats. That one might have been. There were two games after South Carolina, so it didn't, like, crush me.

But then when I look back later that night and saw I won those two games. It's crazy. All right, who's next? Christy. Christy. What's up, Christy? Hey guys. My husband and I are big NASCAR fans.

So my girls grew up watching NASCAR. So a few years ago, my daughter, hydroplane, it spun her car. And the first thing she said she did was she remembered she had to take her hands off the steering wheel. Wow. See, all these people are learning things that I didn't know. I didn't realize, oh, crap, I'm not going 200 miles an hour. Yeah, I mean, so she, well, maybe she shouldn't have done it, you're saying. But she did it anyway.

Yeah, it was crazy. But if you go back and watch the race when they re-showed Ryan Blaney, he forgot to take his hands off the steering wheel. And it jerked. They asked him because it can break their wrists as well. Oh, so he, oh, Blaney. Okay, well, I appreciate the call. Blaney forgot.

Wow. Well, I have to tell you, watching those in-car cameras, they showed like seven or eight of them back to back with some pretty amazing television. And like I don't know if they give awards for that kind of stuff, but for the inside thumbbreaking cam, I would have given an award, Drew. So was NASCAR on its way back? We got some new camera angles, some new technology. I mean, the problem is, who are these people? I had never heard of the guy that won.

Yeah, I barely have. And then, like, they said who won last year, and I didn't even remember that person was a person. So it is crazy how the popularity of that sport has really diminished. Shannon, we got some breaking news this morning. Running a nah. It happened about an hour ago, but Jayden Smith, four-star linebacker from Michigan, decommits from Michigan and will come to Kentucky this fall. It's a big get.

Huge get. We have three Smiths. All linebackers are defensive ends in this class. If they're five-star and four-star, I don't care if everybody on the defense is Smith. Bring them on. That's a good-old. I don't still waiting to happen, too. Yeah.

They're all Jay Smith. And they're all Jays. Yeah, we're going to have the like three letters on their first name. Chad, Jass. So Jim Harbaal leaving helps us out. You know, Kentucky has surprisingly kind of snuck into that Michigan recruiting market the last couple of years and stolen a couple guys out of there. We got a chance to have a very good young defense, assuming over time, Drew, you know, nowadays you've got to say, can you keep these guys all these years? But if you do.

Heck, yeah, this was a big. surprise. I mean, signing day was two weeks ago. You kind of think you have what you have at this point, but you get a four star. He's in the top 300 for on three. That's big, we're pretty proud of those rankings. Think out the holly of him, and Brad White was in until the very end when he committed to Michigan. But, you know, Harbaal even reopened it, so Brad White got what he wanted. Just a little bit after signing day. Huge good. Who's up next? Nick. Nick. Nick, go ahead, Nick. Hey, fellas, how you all doing? Doing good. How are you? I was going to find.

Hey, just a couple of things here real quick. Did you all have the opportunity of listening to the post game from Auburn coach? Pearl, I did not. What did he say? Oh, guys, you got to go back and listen to it. He wanted everything but the contract

to sign for Kentucky to come and coach. I tell you, the thing about it was the thing about it was he mentioned or stated that he was going to turn into two incidents that happened of the game to the SEC. Yeah, that's what. I mean, like, they make mistakes, but I didn't feel

like anything was egregious. That picture they showed of the Ugo play where the kid got hurt, they were saying that was an Ugo foul. The other kid hit Hugo in the face first with his off hand. I mean, you know, listen, refs make mistakes,

but I didn't think there was anything egregious, egregious on Saturday. Oh, absolutely not. Just with the actions that he had on the sidelines, they're doing the elbow, freaking throughout the game, throwing the elbow up to the rest of the butt, that Ugo elbow, just going out of his tie rate doing trying to get things changed.

Yeah. You know, that's the game. That's part of the game. That's part of it. I appreciate the call. The Ugo thing, I mean, I thought they might call that a flagrant, but he didn't do it on purpose. So I can see why they wouldn't, they didn't call it.

I mean, he didn't come close to do it. He didn't throw his elbow. He hit him like with his hand or his arm. He didn't mean to. Even Jay Billis said that. But Bruce was hot. If that T-shirt wasn't a medium, it was coming off. He was so good.

What was Billis ranting about Reeves changing his pivot foot? He didn't change his pivot foot. He kept saying that over and over. He didn't do it. I was like, Jay, get some ice cream. We'll be right back. Hour number two. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite.

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