KSR - 2024-11-13- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: November 13, 2024

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Welcome, everyone, Kentucky Sports Radio Wednesday, November the 13th. It is Celebration Day here at the KS Bar and Grill in Lexington, where the sun is shining a little bit brighter after Kentucky beats Duke, 7772 in Atlanta in the Champions Classic in a game that has everyone pumped. We've got a bunch of people here. We got Louisville, Bullitt County, Evansville, Harrigott, Tennessee is in the house. Richmond. Everybody has made it here at KS Bar.

It's Wings Day. You can come join us for what should be. I didn't even bother writing down topics. Oh, you don't. I know what we're talking about. What else is there to talk about? I mean, like, there's no reason to write down topics. This is two hours of celebration.

You can give us a shout on the Clark's Puppet Shop phone line, 859-280-20-287. A-Vision Auto Glass Text Machine, 772-7-7-4-274. This edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office, you call T.J. I'll Make them Pay. Here's the best way I can summarize last night. When I have a late-night game and I have to do a post-game show and it's like 1-132 when we get done, I just assume, man, you know, I'm going to go upstairs. I'm going to put on the most boring show I can and try to get to sleep. I didn't want to sleep at 2 o'clock after we got done. I wanted to get on the internet and read all the stuff.

It was like the old days of the early CalPari area where I wanted to hear what everybody said. I was looking up. I'm listening to like podcast. I'm listening to Jeff Goodman talk. You know who wants to hear Jeff Goodman talk? I did last night because I wanted to hear him talk about us. It was just one of those moments where you're like, this is special, this is fun. And I didn't want the night to end.

I ended up not going to bed to like three. because I just wanted to celebrate as much as I could. Well, from the events that happened on State Street, you weren't alone. There are a lot of people who stayed up late last night. This place in here went crazy. I mean, we're all excited because we're back. You know, it's that moment that we're back, that moment that Calapary had it, you know, with John Wall and that group and they beat North Carolina.

We got it last night. We did get it last night. And for the people that were there in Atlanta, that had to be like a really cool environment. Now I'm kicking myself if I didn't go. You know, I've been to so many of those. road special event games that we lose. Then you come back home. I kind of wish I'd been there because I have a bunch of friends.

One of our co-owners, this bar was there, a friend of mine from high school, and they're texting me. You know, I don't know about you. I had friends that don't text me about basketball all of a sudden remembering that they were UK fans last night going, ah, can you believe it? Drew, just an exciting, exciting night. Yeah, it just felt different going into that game, too. I think we all picked Kentucky to win.

And that wasn't really... But we didn't really believe that. No, that's what I... Let me make the point. I mean, it felt, something felt different. Really in the last week leading into this game, there was, like, a bit of fan bases around Kentucky and excitement and confidence was the players and Pope just in how they prepare and have been playing for each other.

I genuinely expected Kentucky to win. Now, first half got a little... That attitude changed a little bit. Yesterday just felt different all day going into that. I don't... Yeah, it did. Like, if, Kentucky's back, the game happened, but we felt back even before it tipped off. At halftime, I did.

didn't think we were winning. I mean, I have to say, even midway through the first half, I was like, well, they're better than us. I mean, I kind of felt that way. And honestly, they probably are better than us if you're just looking at talent. But man, they played hard. And they outcoached them in the second half. I mean, that was a case where we made adjustments and Shire didn't make adjustments to the adjustments, and they fought for every possession. I mean, that Kentucky got almost nothing easy. There were no easy baskets. There were no, like, we can get to the rim and we can score on this guy. As a matter of fact, that was part of, I wonder about this team's issue. Still wonder a little bit about it. Can you get a bucket

when you need to? I mean, we had, there was a period of time, Amari Williams is clearing out people from the top of the key. I'm not sure that that should be a regular function of our offense, but Andrew Carr, you know, having to take people. Kirk Cresa hits a big three. Brandon Garrison hits a three. Oway gets steals. I mean, basically everyone on the team, except maybe our best player, had to make a huge play in the second half, and you get the win. And I just, if you were going to draw up, Ryan, how you wanted to win the game to make you the happiest, I think you would have drawn that up. You would have drawn it up to where at the end, we felt like for the first time in a long time,

we won a game we had no business winning. You're right. Kentucky didn't play very well. Their best player had one point, but like you said, they showed a lot of grit and a lot of toughness. And Duke's best player, I know he turned it over twice at the end,

but looked like a superstar, and we stood through it. And it was just like you said, Otega, those stills at the end of the game, just making these little plays. But you said something earlier. When's the last time we said our coach out coach the other coach?

It's been a while as we've been able to say that. It's been a while, well, okay, to be fair, to Cal, there were games where I felt like they came in with a game plan that really worked a couple years ago at Arkansas when we weren't playing well, and then Reeves made all those shots. But I don't think there's been a lot where I felt like we adjusted to win a game. Like in the middle of it, we adjusted and we did something at that point drew to win. That was, I think, a very unique feeling for us in the last few years. years. Yeah, and that's what we got to get used to. We had so much talent. How many times we hear

I'm taking talent every time? Well, last night, again, for the 10th straight time of Champions Classic, the talented team full of freshmen fizzled out in the second half, but for the first time it wasn't us. I mean, that's how teams have been beating talent for a long time in college basketball. We've just been so blinded because we've been the talented one losing. We're going to have a team that might go down on a lot of games. I thought it was very interesting after the game when Pope said, well, you know early on, you're just collecting data. It's like, what? He said collective data. When they're trilling.

I mean, can you imagine John Caliperi or a lot of coaches of that style saying, oh, the first part of the game is all about collecting data to get your plan together. But that's just the way Pope looked at that. And then it worked because the second half was night and day different. They reminded me of a Kansas team. It feels like every year Kansas plays above their roster. They usually have one star and then a bunch of dudes that are like Perry Ellis, right, who just make, make shots. we elect like a Kansas team, but our star didn't play well, and we still won. And I've seen Kansas do that over the years, where you have a guy like Hunter Dickinson

doesn't play well or pick your random dude they have, and yet they still find a way to win. That's kind of how I felt we did. I just want to talk about like the last few plays down the stretch because I think, you know, how many times have we gone into these games? 67, 67, and there's like a sense of dread. we're up two, and then they'd get a play, which normally would be the play where we lose the game. Cooper Flag takes us one on two, makes an amazing shot at the free throw line, gets fouled, and they go from down two to up one. There's a lot of games where we come down, take a bad shot, and the game's over right there.

And then they go, look, Cooper Flag is the number one pick, here's the play. and then we get car gets a clear out and gets an and one which was a massive play in the game and all of a sudden we're back up too right that's not normally going to happen then they come down score tie it we come down Kresa if he hit that three it would have been if he did that three the amount of trash talking yeah would have been like forget it. I thought that shot was a little deep at that point in the game. That's my guy, so whatever. But the shot clock was going down. It was. It was. It was. It was. So he needed, somebody needed to shoot it. So then now the game's tied. They have the ball. And then the play

of the night is that steal by away. I mean, if you watch, if you go back and watch the game, they show Pope say at the timeout at like two and a half minutes or three minutes, watch flag spin. And that's exactly what happens. He spins, rips the ball, O'Way goes down. I'm sitting there screaming as he's running. Stop, stop, stop, because I wanted to get the last shot. But he attacks, gets foul, makes both free throws, right?

And then they come down and basically get Cooper to step on the in line. I mean, great defense right there. You know, Carr kind of couldn't guard him. So in those key moments, they actually, Braya wasn't a great defender on him either, but they both kind of brayer in O'way did what they could and we ended up gutting out of win. I didn't have Andrew Carr being our guy that we were going to go to late in the game to go get us a bucketly in the post, though, and he did it. He made some really big shots for us down there to late in the game.

We still don't really have a guy who can take someone off the dribble and get a big basket. We just, it needs to be Robinson, but he wasn't him last night. We just don't really have a guy to do that. But they found a way to make up for it by having dudes step up, make plays, hit, you know, hit the jumper that matters, and it worked itself out. Yeah, an O-Way finishing the game like that, I mean, we talked about all the players who could lead this team, and it's still very early. But he has been the biggest surprise, the most consistent, maybe just the best overall player to this point. I think he probably has been the best overall player so far. The steel, and then he got the rebound on the Butler missed free throw.

You know, it took effort to go get that, you know? effort plays. And that was actually, I thought to myself when he got that rebound, it was almost a free play, meaning like if they had called over the back, we're up three and we give them a one-in-one, right, which is what we've been yelling at Cal to do for years is when you're up three foul. So I actually thought, I don't know if they thought this, but it's actually a good time to try to go and get that rebound because a foul wouldn't even kill you there, Drew, because you'd put them on the line with a one-and-one.

Yeah, I agree with that. And also, you just mentioned this, going back to O'Wade, seeing them close out a game with free throws, the Champions Classic, was it last year, you go to the line, you have a chance to go up three, there's 10 seconds on the clock. It was two years ago, Michigan State. And they don't make them, Michigan State scores the other way. I think on an inbound playing, you go to overtime. Just seeing Kentucky finish the job like that was refreshing.

It gives me a lot of confidence moving ahead. It's the first time we've beaten it. It's only our fourth win over Duke in 60 years. That's crazy. So I want to talk about a little bit, though, from a fan standpoint. I think this game was like for the fans. I said that Lexington felt different yesterday. It just did.

Like there was blue. People were wearing blue at noon, wherever they were, right? Yeah. You could just kind of feel it. You know, I knew it was going to be special when we came in to do this pregame show at 615 and half the bar was already full for a 9-9-15 game. when this game started, it was packed in here. And there was an energy.

It wasn't just people were here. There were C-A-T-S chance. There was a lot of that kind of stuff going on. We'll talk later about Ryan ended up with his shirt off. Our numbers for the post-game show were like through the roof at 1 a.m. I decided I'm going to text Mark Pope and see if he will jump on. They agree. From the team bus.

It's awesome. All right. We've only once in the history of the show had a basketball. basketball coach on the post game. Cal did it once when they beat Louisville probably 10, 12 years ago when they beat them. I think it was the year we beat them with the freshman, you know, with the Harrison twins and all those guys. Maybe it was one of those years. But that doesn't happen very often.

Then, you know, when I hear, Pope, if you didn't listen to it yet on my postgame show, said he showed the team a montage. of our history with Duke over the years. Starting in 1978, he says he showed them the Duke win and the national shot title, showed them what happened with Christian Leitner, showed him what happened in 1998, and said he wanted them to see there's a string that runs through it

now that you're part of. He wants them to understand what this. That is so cool. Yes. That is so cool to make you connected to the greater history. This is not just a regular game. This is something that a thing that's kind of connected through time. And then the celebration after.

I mean, here, people losing it. Out on State Street, maybe a little bit premature excitement to burn stuff on the street. But you know what? Whatever. You're in college if you want. Just online, it was like the old days. And I just love it for the fans. I love that, you know, a guy called in and said last year at the Champions Classic,

It was like 75-25-Carolina, excuse me, for the CBS Classic. It was 75-25-25-Carolina Kentucky. This year, 70-30 Kentucky Duke. Like a lot of blue in there last night. Our fans are back. Yeah. And that's very cool. Back, we can pound our chest because we know we can back it up now.

You know, we were led to believe we had these really, really great teams in recent years, didn't really back it up. These guys are going to be able to back it up this year. And they're backing it up even though we have less town. Yeah. We do have less. we have less talent and yet still finding a way to win. Yeah, and on the Pope thing of explaining Kentucky to them, it's not just Pope,

coach speak. Like, Otega O' Wade, it seemed genuine in the postgame press conference. He's like, when I look down and see Kentucky, there's an expectation of me that I have to play a certain way. He's looking at Carr, and they're like, there's just so much Kentucky, Kentucky, Kentucky from these guys. And they're talking about how they were able to finish the game because that was on their chest.

And it's not like a corny slogan that they've been told in media training to this is the message we want to get across. You can tell they're really living and believing it. Yeah, it was great. And even things like Kentucky's starting to open up, they let Kirk Crea go on Jeff Goodman's little postgame show live. Well, Jeff Goodman and Kirkreaser are friends. You ever think Caliperi would have let a player go on a postgame show with Jeff Goodman?

No. But if you watched it, it was great. You could tell those guys like each other, and he opened up. He said, I love that he said something like there was a guy in the crowd making fun of my stash with a Duke fan. and then I went to see him afterwards and he didn't have much to say after that. I love that. I feel like that's going in the right direction for what these fans want and it was very cool.

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wings here starting at 11 o'clock. Let's talk about some other things about the game that stuck out. First of all, a guy I mentioned here, and I think he's right, I think we've warmed down. You know, I think at the end, you know, they're not, they're really talented. And by the way, I think they're going to be really good at the end of the year. I don't want to play them in the tournament. I think they're, their first six are really good. But I only think they have six. Again, kind of flipping the script, like we said, they're kind like Cal teams of the past, you know, and have like six guys, and then you really didn't have a bench. I don't think they have a bench. So when they got tired and then the one guy kept

cramping up, I think it made it to where they were exhausted. And at the end, you could really tell they were kind of a step behind our guys. Yeah, I think it was at the eight-minute TV timeout in the second half, they're up four, and I tweeted out, said, hey, Duke looks tired. This is the time of Kentucky make a run because they did. I think they were already worn down by then. I'm sitting next to him called it, Ryan's over here. This ball nowhere right here just talking about how tired the Blue Devils were and then it just kept wearing them down. Although early on, it was all fun in games at the end. First couple minutes, it looked like a enormous talent differential when Duke was, I think Cooper Flagg on the first play,

finished at the rim right past Andrew Carr. It looked like Andrew Carr couldn't play in that game, but to his credit the second half, they don't win it with that. No, I mean. Early on, Duke looked very, very, very, very good. abused him on every one of the first five minutes of possessions. I thought they weren't going to be able to play Andrew Carr because he was just getting, they were switching off and getting guys on him. And then they did that a little bit to Brea in the second half. But you know what?

Those guys adjusted, found a way to make it work. Then the other thing is that full court pass. Yeah. I assume that was a drawn up play. Pope said it's a read. And that like if a guy's in a certain place, Braya will throw that pass. well, might be the best pass we've seen in Lexington since the old Miss game. I mean, it was, you know, that's a gutsy pass.

There's 5.5 seconds left. If he throws it too far, well, first of all, he throws it too short, Duke gets it. If he throws it too far and it goes out of bounds, they get the ball back underneath the goal. So that is a gutsy, gutsy pass to throw, and he threw it perfectly. Guy mentioned it was the old Joe B. Hall Rick Rick play. It's a play. You see a lot of times even in high school where the two deep guys run as fast they came to the baseline and somebody breaks the other way and that's kind of what it was.

And Brea threw a dart. That was perfect pass. And then, you know, Butler's got to make at least one of the free throws and he does. Made the first one, yeah. No, Brea throw and the ball was in the air. It felt like it was up there for a because I didn't love it. I mean, he connected. After he connected, it's like, hey, what are you doing Saturday?

Can you be at Crokerfield? But, I mean, that felt very, very, very, very gutsy in the moment. Yeah, I mean, it really did. So let's just go through real quick, the guys, the contributions of everybody. You know, Jackson Robinson did not play well. And you can look at that a couple different ways. Like, I thought that was going to be a stage where he really showed where he was. It didn't happen.

Hopefully that's not a symbol of things to come. But we won without it. We won without our best player. I mean, their best player had 26. our best player had won in the game and really didn't look like he wanted to shoot a lot of the game, to be quite frank with you, but still win. I thought O'A was great. Defensively, great getting turnovers, lettuce and scoring.

Bray hit a couple big threes in the first half when we needed them. I mean, we really needed those. Those are times where we were kind of struggling. Butler, I thought Butler was excellent. You know, I mean, a lot of people, I think, kind of focus on his limitations. but the dude is gritty and he does the little things drew during the game. Yeah, we saw a lot of what we've been talking about leading into it, his defense. And speaking of defense, I mean, Robinson had no offense.

He took zero shots in the first half. But he was engaged on the other end. You know, I mean, he had at least two stills, a couple blocks. It's not like he was pouting thinking he wasted an opportunity in that game. He was still doing everything he could on the other end and being active. And he's a guy they put on Cooper Flagg in the second half for a long period of time, too. Yeah. Kirk Creeza came in, gave us energy exactly.

when we needed it. We really needed his little boost right there, hit a big three. Hit a big three. He gets under people's skin. You can just tell. Like, I mean, if he was on the other team, we would hate him. He is, he is, and I say this is a compliment, he's a Duke player. Like if I'm, you know, my top 10 hated Dukies list. If he was on Duke, he would be fighting to try to be on that list. But I consider that a compliment. Marie Williams played really well defensively. Like I said, maybe not so much taking guys one-on-one at the top of the key. Amari, I'm not sure that's necessarily what I want him to do, but still had good moments. Brandon Garrison was huge.

Yeah, he was. Brandon Garrison was huge. I mean, had four straight points, a big block. I've actually thought his, I mean, I couldn't believe he took that three. That was definitely a no, no, no, yes. A long two, actually. Yeah, he didn't even get a long two. Didn't even get it.

But it went in. So you got to like that. And then, of course, Carr had been the one player in the first four games, Drew, that we really hadn't seen have an offensive explosion. You and I both felt like it's coming. It's coming. And it came this week. Yeah, offensively, he was too good for what we saw a little bit in the exhibitions

and the first games at Rupp. Wasn't hitting his threes. He was two for three last night. And like we said, early on, he looked like he did need to be in the game. To go back to a cow line, that's a, I can't play you this game is how he looks. in those first couple minutes. But to his credit, they don't win it without him.

He turned it on. He hit some threes. He's very efficient from the field. And he's kind of what, you know, defensively is what he is. But offensively, we saw what he can be. What did it have to be like to be Mark Pope last night? Like, Sir, to get on that bus win in your third game is the alma mater. I mean, we had no players when he got here, not one.

And he took, I don't want to say it's a rag tag group. I don't think that. This isn't the bad news bears, but it is like the mid-major bears, and he took them in a few months and had them beat a team that Jay Williams says is the most talented Duke team in 20 years. And by the way, I don't think that was a crazy statement, he said. I think we'll look back on that. There's talent on that team.

Oh, a lot of talent. And then we beat them. You know, Mark Pope kind of recruited dudes to fit his system, and that's what he went out to do. I got to get guys that fit what I want to do offensive. and we're seeing that he's got those pieces. He put the pieces together. You just got to love it.

It is so exciting. Let's talk to some of you all. I want to talk to fans. We got a woman who's supposed to be naked in Cynthia. We got the kid that won the tickets here. We got the family from Williamsburg. Love to talk to all of you. We'll be right back.

KSR. T.J. Smith, personal injury attorney. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back, Techies Sports Radio. All right, let's talk fan experience here for just a second here at the bar. Place was full.

It was exciting. I was here. Then I don't know if it was nervousness, but I scratched my neck and started bleeding from my neck. And I could. Which is not what you want to do in a restaurant. Like, people don't like to come to a restaurant and see the guy who owns it bleeding. So I was like, you know what? I'm going to go home at halftime and fix the cut.

And then, of course, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, most. Jo switched when I did that, so I was like, I can't go back. But I did see, and Mario's working on a video of what it was like. What was it like towards the end? Everybody just immediately jumping up and down, hollering and screaming, got their phones out, video record everything. Drew's doing his rapid reactions, like right there in the middle. Everybody's gathered around him. It was a fun, chaotic mess that I enjoyed and wanted to be a part of.

It was loud during the entire game. It was loud, yeah. Yeah, I mean, and we haven't had one. I know we keep saying this, but we opened the Tyler Hero season, and we have not had games like this. We haven't had regular season games to celebrate. You know what? We had it a lot for football, but we haven't had it for basketball. Ryan took his shirt off, Drew.

Can we understand why in the needing this table? We know exactly why, and that's why we stuck around hoping that Kentucky would give him that opportunity. There's a video of you that, like, is something. Sexy? No. Mario took it. It's Mario with a selfie with you doing the running man with your shirt off and the big hat on. That had to make your girlfriend proud.

I texted her the way home. I said, just don't look on social media for a while. You don't want to see this. I cut the rapid reaction a couple of minutes short. I had a few things planned because he was shirtless. He had both his fingers in my ears. I don't even know what you're doing with that. And he wouldn't stop making conipel jokes.

And I just thought it's a good time. time to wrap up this. By the way, your rapid reaction looked fun. I mean, it was a lot of fun. It looked fun. Thanks for everyone who participated. Yeah, there was a lot. You did it from here.

It looked a lot. It looked really fun. I had a friend who was at the game tell me that that was one of the better, it goes to the Champions Classic every year, said best champions classic Kentucky environment since the 2015 when we blew out Kansas with the, with the team that went 38 and 1. I've been to about all of these except last night. And it genuinely got to dreading it. because the turnout wasn't getting as good.

And when you've lost so many in a row, it got to the point you just knew what was going to happen. And now I think like, okay, the neutral site game in New York right before Christmas, I kind of feel like that's going to be more fun than I would have thought otherwise. You know, anyone on the West Coast now, you've got to find your way to Seattle for the Gonzaga game.

Like if you're a Kentucky fan on the West Coast. And then we got to sneak into the building for the Clemson game. We can get, we blue can get in, right? We've got to find a way that's going to be cool in a true road environment. That's going to be the next neat test. That's probably going to be the toughest environment they play in before they get into conference play. It'll be harder than the Gonzaga environment because the Gonzaga environment is in an NBA arena in Seattle. It's not in the kennel.

That's their home arena. So it'll be rocking. Like we talked about yesterday, it's a big deal to Clemson fans knowing that Kentucky's going to come and play on their court. And Eastern, by the way, played Clemson all right last night. I mean, I think they were down four at halftime or something. I ended up losing by a little bit more. All right, who's up first shit? We'll start with Roscoe.

Roscoe, how are you? Roscoe is a good first. Hey, good morning, guys. It's a great name for the first caller after Kentucky win. Go ahead, Roscoe. Well, thank you. And let me just say Ryan is sexy as can be. I'll slow down.

Let's not get too excited about a win. Family show. I love Ryan. So let me have that moment there. Hey, I think this win exposes. Cali Perry's coaching ability. And I think the Arkansas fans are going to put a lot of early pressure on Calipari's tenure at Arkansas, especially if he has mediocre results with a loaded team.

That's all I want to say. And I want to listen to what you guys have to say about that. Well, I appreciate to call. Look, I mean, this is a huge win. And I don't think we, I don't think it's good to spend the post of the win in pettiness about the past coach. But let me be petty for just one second. I watched on Saturday the end of the Arkansas Baylor game.

And if you go back and watch the last four minutes of the Arkansas Baylor game, Drew, and then compare it to the last four minutes of this game, I'm sorry, it's just a difference in coaching and execution. It just is. They were in the same position in the Arkansas Baylor game. It was tied with like four minutes to go. And they down the stretch had no offense, and they stood around and hoped somebody would make.

make a play and Baylor schemed up stuff to get shots and they took they ended the game with an off balance three and then you look at the last four minutes of our game and you saw guys making plays getting steals doing the smart thing I don't know how you can't say that at least when it comes Arkansas is more talented than we are but at least when it comes to end of game execution how can you not say that one was better than the other And I don't think it's being petty because it's not just Kentucky fans being Kentucky fans and sticking their chest out right now. They're like national basketball media people saying Kentucky would have lost that game if John Kyle Perry was the coach. Like people that watch the sport for their careers and don't have any fan of any direction are writing right now and have already written Kentucky doesn't win that game of Cowles and still coach.

It's just a fact. And wait till we get the dudes. Like we don't really have the dudes right now. I mean, these guys are good. and their experience. And I think you're going to see dudes like this on the team from now on. They're always going to have some of these. But we don't have elite talent.

Ryan, wait till we have elite talent. Like, wait until we have this kind of coaching. And then you imagine if you had a Cooper flag to add to that team. Yeah. Right? Like, imagine if you had a guy like that to add to the, let's say you had four seniors in Cooper flag or even four seniors and can't nipple.

Like that's a whole other thing. A friend texted during the show said that out of bounds play we were talking about that Braia pass. Pope and those guys probably practiced that a dozen times. The former coach probably just had Andrew Carr standing with his arm of it. No, we saw what happened. I'll act out what would have happened. Watch your donut.

The guy would have stood there to inbound the ball. Three people would have been standing at like a quarter court. They'd have run to the baseline and held the ball like this. they all would have been denied the ball, and they would have set there time out. Then we would have walked back to the thing. They'd have come back out and they'd have done the exact same thing, right? Yeah. It happened.

It happened in multiple games last year. They would have never even considered to throw the length of the court. It's different. It's just different. I don't care what anybody says. It's different. Well, they didn't have time to work on it in their defense. And then after it was over, they go, we didn't work on in-bounds plays.

We didn't work on zone. They're young. They're not machines. I'm just saying. You're not wrong. You're cooking there. I'm afraid to speak. But on the talent coming in,

Caleb Wilson's number five player in the country, he was there last night and tweeted something like, I'm in the house tonight. One of those things. He seems to be leaning very heavily towards Lexington, and last night only helped that. Yeah. Who's up?

The worry for top elite talent like Caleb Wilson is, can Mark Pope get the best out of me? Well, games like that. show that they can. Yeah. I think he had fun last night. Who's next? Adam.

Adam. Go ahead, Adam. I guess. Great win last night. And two-year-old's point about, you know, Cal usually having a young team and we always want him to call timeout at the end of the game. I was having flashbacks to 98, and your younger crowd won't know this. But the last four minutes in that 98 game, Duke was without a timeout.

And it wasn't that exaggerated last night, but they took their last time out with 2. 10 left. That's a great point. You know, with the guys cramping and yeah, on the timeout, okay, they didn't get to run a timeout. Once we made the two free throws to go up two, you're exactly right. They didn't have a timeout. And so they ended up with Cooper Flagg just having to work it in the sideline. That's a great analogy, sir, because in 98, Tubby didn't have timeouts, tubby took advantage of it. Sir, you're right. They did the same thing here. Yeah, yeah, just awesome, awesome game plan. And in-game adjustment. by Pope.

You know, I'll make a confession the past, you know, probably since COVID, when Kentucky gets behind by double digits, I'm turning it off. I've got better things to do. I've seen them come back a million times, but really since COVID, you know, I'm turning that game off.

Last night I started to do the same thing. I was like, no, Pope, you know, we'll give the analytics a shot. He's going to make adjustments. I'm going to give it a shot. Watch this thing through. Damn glad I did. Me too.

There were multiple times in the game. I appreciate the call, Ryan, where they were, I think, Duke was one shot away from putting it away. You're right. And they just kept missing them. Yeah. There were multiple times where they were up nine and had an open look and missed it.

I thought the big sequence was like with six minutes to go or whatever, we were down six. They got the ball, missed a jumper, offensive rebound, missed three. Offensive rebound, missed three. All the shots were open. If they hit one of those, they might have won the game. But they didn't. And again, I'd go back to how many Kentucky games where I would think if we had just hit that shot, it would have put them away and we couldn't hit the shot.

It was last night was the reverse of all of these games we've had over the years. Yeah, that series you're just talking about where they kept getting the offensive rebound and kicking it out, but kept missing the shot. I said, look, they're giving us a chance. We need to make a run like right now and get back in the game. Because even I think one time Duke was up 10, they had a wide open three. Could have put them up like 13 and they missed a shot. I missed it. Don't miss. Club Blue. I had the guy who runs Club Blue just send me the happiest messages in the world after the win last night. Club

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I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth. Listen to Superhuman on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio here at the KS Bar and Grill. Let's talk scheduling here for a second. Guess who's going to be on the show tomorrow, Drew? I'm going to guess who up? Doran Lamb and Marcus Teague will be in the building tomorrow. Nice. At 11 o'clock, they're coming to KS. Bar going to do an interview with us.

First time we've interviewed with them in person, maybe ever, and they're going to be here if you want to come meet them. I'm sure they'd love to say hi. You'll be welcome here tomorrow. I'm excited about it. Janet, just have the dump button ready, okay? That's all I'm asking. Just have the dumb button.

They have a new podcast, and they're coming in. You've got to tell them the show is FCC regulated. Yeah, I don't know if they're a little podcast. They're used to that. If you've listened their podcast, they're going to have to work on that. But they will be here in the building tomorrow. Friday, we are in Louisville. We don't do a lot of remotes in Louisville, but we got one Friday with the new whiskey thief in Louisville.

Where is that? Yeah, it's down on Market Street. On Market Street in Newloo. It's actually Nanny Goat Strut. That's a street. That's the name of a street. Yep. Nanny.

Nanny goat strut. He's shaking his head. I wonder why it's called. called Nanny Goat Strutt. But it's a really big and nice place. I've already been for an event there. It's going to be a fun one. All right.

So Nanny Goat Strutt at the Whiskey Thief Friday. So Ron Laman Marks Teague tomorrow, that's Friday. Then the U.K. women play Louisville Friday night in Lexington. So I would say to you, we should pack that house for Kenny. By the way, Kenny's the women's basketball version of Trilly Donovan has made a thing tonight like Kentucky may get a huge women's commitment today. This afternoon. Well, like a huge player, right? Be ready for maybe some good news coming to that way. Yeah, I mean, that's like ranked high the person is. Yeah, it would be a good get. A lot of other

schools in the mix looking like it should be good news. So Kenny Brooks, that's Friday night against Louisville. So a lot of stuff going here in these next couple days. When person writes, Matt, should Mitch Barnhart be gloating right now? Yeah. I mean, how many people believed in that when it was, in the moment it was announced, I want everybody to look in their heart and soul. In the moment it was announced, or you heard about it, how many of you thought it was a good idea in that moment? I didn't.

I'm just being honest, and I'd say it if he was here. I didn't. Now, 24 hours later, I did. But in that moment, I didn't necessarily believe it was a good idea. I was wrong. This was a good idea. And Mitch believed it. You know, I can say this now.

I had a conversation with Mitch kind of before the show to talk about the interview, not to like say what I was going to say, but to just say, hey, you're doing this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he was 100% convinced right then, and I didn't argue with him because I wasn't going to, it's not my place. But I was like, loom. I mean, clearly it worked, and you have to admire going with your gut in that moment, right?

I think he deserves a little gloating today, maybe take a little victory lap, because his interview he did with you on the show that day turned a lot of fans' impressions about the hire. A lot of us were a little questioning it, but after that interview, I think we've all kind of got on board with it. There needs to be a documentary on those 24 hours. Like, I've never seen a collective mindset change quicker than the Kentucky. basketball fans did in those 24 hours. You're absolutely right. I tweeted that Mitch went to a steakhouse and someone else's tab mortared chicken tenders talking about the Pope hire. I was a little

disappointed myself, but he deserves all the credit of the world. He knew what he was doing. It's worked out so far. Kenny Brooks looks like it's going to work out. Yeah. Stick with Nick Mingeone worked out last year. Mitch is on a little bit of a heater right now, even though a lot of people, including me, have been critical on my other things. The coaching hires have been great lately. 6 p.m. Saturday for UK women's basketball. I said Friday, Saturday. Okay. So that's even better.

Kentucky football game will be over. It will be over. Oh, people should make that a weekend. Kentucky football 1.30, it'll end and then go to the women's game. And it's the Louisville game for crying out loud. Yeah, let's pack it. I didn't rise of Saturday. Well, now they make it.

I wonder if I'm just going to throw this out there, UK. You ought to think about letting me do the post-game show from the game. It's a good idea. You the football post game from. Like, don't let the whole JMI thing. No, I mean it. Like, I could go live right as the women's basketball game was started. No, I think it would be a great idea.

My not laughing is because they probably won't do it, but they should. That would really, that. Okay, Bob. To you, I'm just saying that that would be a smart idea. Who's next? Mike. Mike, go ahead, Mike. Can you hear me?

Yes. What a classic last night. I mean, a heck of a basketball game. Duke is the real deal. Don't let anybody say anything about it. They're a legit basketball team. I see them going to lead eight, maybe Final Four. We played our butts off last night.

Props to Coach Hope for, I mean, what a game plan at the second half. I mean, what an adjustment. I mean, he just took that game over in the second half. But, yeah, like, I bet Cal sitting over there in Arkansas thinking, how the heck did he win that game? That's a good question. I appreciate the call. Drew did DeKal watch the game.

Oh, yes. I said this yesterday. A thousand percent. If they didn't have a game tonight, I think he would have been in the building wearing a fake mustache. He was so interested in what was going to happen. He definitely watched that game. I've said this before.

As much as he said, he didn't look at the clutter, I have heard so many stories that the man knows all about all the clutter that I am very confident. If he watched the game, that had to be a rough one. because he's probably loving the first half yeah but the second half they had to be rough it's probably confused what are they doing what is the sorcery they weren't doing that in the first half are they allowed to change

are you allowed to what do you think you watch the game I think I can just picture Cal and Brad sitting up in the in the basement in their man cave watching every second the basement would be tin roof remember they live above the tin roof well surely they've got a house by now don't they get a house by now They play Troy tonight. I mean, you know, Troy, they should beat Troy. But you know if they were to lose that game?

That would be a funny, 24 hours. And let me say this about Duke. They're good. They are good. Like, don't act like, oh, well, they turned it over. They get, they're good. That's a good Duke team. They're going to be right there at the end of the year.

They're good. I don't like to praise Duke, but John Shire had a good game plan. I mean, we struggled to score in the first. first half. Like we got luck, we hit, I won't say lucky, we hit our first five threes, but we really struggled to, once they put ball pressure on us, we had a hard, hard time with it. And they are, we focus on their offense, but they're really good defensively, Ryan. And for us, that's the best Duke defensive team I've seen in a long time. And to be able to beat that one is a, is a feather in our cap. They had a great defensive plan. They had it, you know, where they were given Amari

Williams if he wanted to go one-on-one from the top of the game we said okay we're going to give him that forced to Mario Williams to take a 15-foot jumper we'll give him that yeah their defense was really good on us I thought their defense especially on our I mean on our stars their defense was good but we still found a way to win and that's what's exciting 859 28027 we're going to open up the bar here at KS bar good crowd of folks ready to celebrate let me hear your happiness about that win last night there you go we'll be right back our number two is KSR Another podcast from some SNL, late-night comedy guy, not quite.

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