KSR - 2025-02-03- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 3, 2025

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look there's one main story obviously and that is the loss to Arkansas. Saturday was one of those days that it's hard to even like go into in terms of I was just talking to my bar manager the biggest basketball day we've ever had the second biggest day in the history of the bar and if we had won probably would have been the biggest. The amount of people in here was crazy. Rupp Arena was full 45 minutes before the game. I've never seen it full that early in my entire time of going. The buzz before the intro was something that it's hard to even articulate what the feeling was.

It was excitement slash nervousness slash anger slash happiness slash, oh, there's tubby. I mean like just a million things. And then, of course, the loss, which is, I think, a really, really tough one. I don't know, guys. I did the post-game show. So let's just let me, I'll go to each of you. What's the thing about Saturday that stands out the most to you? You're right.

Saturday is what Kentucky basketball is all about. Saturday kind of tipifies our craziness we have for our program. And it was nuts all day long. But, man, I really, I don't believe what I saw Saturday night. I know we'll get into it. But it just played out like a dagon movie. You know, the villain. We were the villain.

Yeah. We lost. I know it. But, you know, and the Arkansas team that struggled offensively all year to score 60 points, lights it up for 87. And the three dudes doing the lighting and lighting it up were, had our uniform on last year. I mean, it was just, after the game,

I did something I've never done before. I went for a drive. Wow. It shook me so much. You went for a drive? I went for a drive. And I heard Mark Pope... You had to, like, get the thoughts out of here.

I guess so. And I heard Mark Pope on this postgame show, and he sounded like somebody had shot his dog, and I turned it off. I just, I could not listen to it anymore. I was so shook. Wow. What about you?

That's quite an emotional reaction. What about you? I didn't go for a drive. I didn't get to sleep either, but I will say I woke up Sunday, had a big old bowl of crow after all my talking leading up to that game. I knew going into it, I knew DJ was going to have opportunities, and I thought if DJ has a game, we could be in trouble. But, you know, I even said on the show, I thought a Z would play pretty well.

We knew a dude we didn't have a matchup for. But the back of my brain was like a DJ Wagner game is how this goes wrong, and that's what it was, plus everyone else. I mean, they were last in the SEC in two point and three point percentage. They were 290th in the country in three-point percentage, and they shoot 52%. I mean, you got to just tip the cap. In that moment, getting booed, the pressure on them, for them to go out and play like that, you got to throw your hands in the air and say, well, you know, Arkansas deserves it.

No, they completely outplayed us, especially in the second half. I thought the first half was very well played by both teams. You know, the narrative that has developed online of, oh, our booze motivated them, and, you know, me-oh-e-k karma. Yeah, I mean, the booze motivated both teams. The score halftime was 46-45. I mean, both teams were rolling in the first half. So I don't, nothing that happened pre-game had any effect on the game.

Something happened at halftime. And for me, the irony of all ironies is John Calpherry won with halftime adjustments. Yeah, I know. I mean, that that is the thing that gets you. Their shot chart looked like a shot chart from Mark Pope. and I've been looking at their shot charts. They've been the same as they were last year. It's just this time he was like, you know what?

Maybe everybody had a point. Maybe I'll shoot threes and layups. Now they had to make them, which is, that's the surprise. They make 13 out of what, 24, whatever threes. That is the surprise. That's why they won. At the end of the day, they won because of lose balls and they hit those shots. It was really John L. Davis in the first half, DJ Wagner,

in the second half. And, you know, Wagner, I actually thought looked shook in the first half. I thought he doesn't like this, but then he came out in the second half and probably had his best half as a basketball player in college and we lose. You're right. First half, he couldn't hit anything. I mean, his shots were off. And he looked nervous to me in the first half.

I thought, I actually thought the opposite of what the, I thought the booze had gotten to him. But then in the second half, whatever happened, he came in and played. He became an All-American in the second half. Dude, hit absolutely everything. 17 points, all 17 of these points in the second half, could not miss. Big Z, every time he spotted up, I thought to myself, oh, no. And boom.

The Big Z three, I think he hit the most important shot of the game. Yeah. I mean, we went from down 11 to down six. Crowd is into it. We play 25 seconds a really good defense on the shot clock, and then Anzley Almanor is one rotation short, which gives Z an open look, and he makes it. And then immediately we try to force.

a bounce pass that gets stolen. I think it was Kobe Braya. It was Kobe. And then they get a layup and the lead is right back to 11 again. And I thought at that point that's when it was over. Definitely. Even though there were several minutes left, that was the dagger. Because as Kentucky was getting that momentum, Rupp Arena woke back up, you start thinking,

all right, the math's going to math here and Arkansas is going to go cold. They've been too hot. And then Big Z throws in another one. And on the Wagner point, he went 0 for 5 in the first half, seven for eight in the second. I mean, what a turnaround. At halftime, I was. That was my talking point with my friends there. We're all right.

DJ's 0 for 5. He's gone cold. These other guys have to come down. Nope, went the other way and DJ turned it on. And the other guys did come down. And then he came out and had... The three Kentucky dudes ended up with, what, 52 points, I think. So the three Kentucky guys had 52 points.

In their entire time at Kentucky, they never combined for more than 34. And I don't think they've combined for 52 this year in a game. And so, I mean, they, you know, you got to shake their hand. I, the, you know, the Calipari thing, there's an argument that, like, if he had made some of these changes, he might still be the coach here. I mean, if they played like that regularly. Now, they haven't played like that all year. And so this could end up being like a one-off, like, he got one moment, right?

But it doesn't make it any easier for our fan base who, you know, I do want to say to our fan base, like stop blaming each other okay they hired our coach which we were happy about but then they everybody was talking trash all summer one fan base was going to have to lose we lost and that's what happens and you know what I still think long term we're in a lot better situation than they are but for one night they got us and all you can do is shake their hand and go they got us how many time did you say last week this is the type of game that caliperie wins once a year Once a year. He does it once a year, and he did it to us.

Yep. And he usually does it in the game, oddly, that the fans really, really want for whatever reason. And he did it. And, you know, I thought, and look, you don't have to, you know I'll be critical if I need to be of him. I thought he handled the night about as well as you could. Agreed. I thought his, you know, he comes out and he gets booed. The booze, you know, if you weren't there, you have to understand.

were a lot of people clapping and booing. It's just the people who were like, and the people that booing were like, and so like the booze are going to be louder, right? I don't know who was doing. I actually think there was a lot more clapping than people at home think there was. But there was booing and it was loud.

And there were, the 9 o'clock thing was a big part of that, Drew. There were a lot of people who that's what they wanted to do. And it was funny to me, shows you how fickle younger people are. The students were like Cal's biggest avixtaping. advocates last year, and they were the loudest booers. No, I mean, I'm not kidding. Like, they were the people ready to do it the most.

It's just funny how when you're young, you're just like, whatever, you know. I mean, I think that's what they were doing. Yeah, and booze are naturally louder, you didn't deep voice and all that. But I was actually surprised that the player booing was as loud as it was. I knew they would get booed by a few people. I thought we'd hear it. But that was the most shocking part of the pregame is how bad they got it. I was really surprised that a do and Big Z got booed, period.

I don't like the player booed part. I just, I'm not, but again, I get it. I was, I was really surprised when a do, because I think a do went first, no, Z went first. And I thought he'll get applause. And then he didn't. Right. And he got booed. And then it was a little louder on a dues.

And then it was really loud on DJs. You're right. And then it was really loud on cows. And it was like, but people just had to get that out. out, I think. And then, you know, every time they touched the ball, they were booing them. I mean, that did kind of surprise me a little bit, that reaction they got from the rough crowd during the game every time they touched it.

Yeah, and, you know, did it motivate them? Well, sure it did. Yeah. Sure it did. I mean, of course. But you know what, that can also go both ways. You can be scared to death if they, and they, to their credit, weren't. But for me, we lost because of basketball.

Because, again, in the first half, both teams were lighting it up. Sure. Like, we got up 18 to 12. and if we get a couple stops there, who knows what happens, which gets to my biggest complaint about the game, you know, I'm a numbers guy, I'm an analytics guy, I'll take analytics over regular life. But it feels like to me when we're rolling,

we've got to be careful putting in that second unit in mass. We're still doing like hockey line changes, and I don't think we're good enough with these injuries to be bringing in, hey, we're up 1812. Okay, Garrison Chandler Perry right now. I just don't think we can do that. Right. I think, and that's when they, we went from 1812 to down 21-18 in like 30 seconds.

I agree with you. I think there was some player, some rotations that just didn't seem to make sense at times. The big one, you mentioned in the first half, when we were struggling to come out of halftime, you know. And I don't want to knock on any of the kids, but he played some kids that maybe we're having a hard time, and maybe they shouldn't have been playing them. Trent, no, it didn't play one second. Yeah, I mean, if you're going to go to the bench, why not? He's had some success in the last few games. But, you know, go look at Arkansas's minutes, Drew.

Their top three guys played like 38, 37, and 39 minutes. I'm kind of looking at Robinson O'Way and Williams and saying, guys, 39 minutes, good luck. I mean, they did it, you know? I mean, I think we almost have to do that. I get this idea, keep playing guys, but we just got some guys that when the other team's really athletic, they just can't be out there. Yeah, and Pope's done this forever. If you go back and look at his teams,

no one plays a whole lot of minutes. It's shared like that, and I don't know why that's in his system, but Saturday was a game where Marry Williams need to play about every minute his legs could take because when they would go to him inside, the weight difference he had on Big Z, he was doing everything he wanted. He rebounded well.

I think he led the team in assists. He was great. But he only played like 25 minutes. I mean, you got to give a little more run. There was a little bit there. But yeah, he was so good. and I just feel like Pope needs to leave the best players on the floor more than he has. Leave them in.

I mean, last year our complaints were bring the best players in. Now we're like, leave them in. You know, I don't know. Maybe, look, I get it playing a lot of bench players. Okay, remember what our bench was to start the year. Yeah. Our bench was to start the year, Brea, Kerr, right, you know, who else? Then it was Almanor.

And then Almanor. All right. That's a different 5, 6, 7A. than Garrison Chandler Perry, right? So, I mean, when Almanor goes from eighth man to a starter, I mean, man, you just got to play these guys because our drop-off is pretty big right now to the next group. I mean, we're over 20 games into the season.

It's not like it's a conditioning thing. These guys are ready to, they could go 35-plus minutes that they needed to, and I think they should have. He should just rode with these main guys on Saturday. Yeah, I think that was a mistake. But, you know, I mean, we eat crow on it. Does it end the season? No.

Does it change to me the overall trajectory of the programs? No. But for one night, it stinks. I mean, it stinks. Like, you can't act like my mom called me yesterday, and she was treating me like we'd had a death in the family. She really was. Shannon, she was like, are you okay?

And I was like, yeah, I'm just in Louisville, you know? And she said, I mean, it's okay. if you're not okay. She was doing a welfare check on you. Yeah, I was like, I mean, I'm down. I mean, I wanted to win, but I'll be all right. And she was like, I mean, you can talk to me about it if you need to. Like you just had a breakup.

Yeah, but I mean, like, I was down. But I think she was worried like, are you really down? I'm not, I'm not, I am honestly upset for two reasons. One, I wanted to get this one for Pope. Yes. And for the fan base. And two, we just lost to a bad team at home, and that's not good. These are the games you've got to win.

That's the first quad two loss. But I also know we can go to Ole Miss tomorrow night and win. Yeah, you can't let Cal beat you twice now. You can't go out flat tomorrow night. Ole Miss will be the favorite. Yeah. But you know what? We can still win.

That's the games in Pope. We're using our best. So it's amazing. 8, 5, 9, we are 6 and 1 against the top 15, and we are 1 and 5 against power 6 teams outside of the top. It's just a really good thing they beat Tennessee, because if not, you'd be on a, what, 4-game losing streak? Yes, but that's what we're doing all year,

is we're winning these games, and then we play, and we're like, well, we got South Carolina home next Saturday. Well, I'm not making a prediction. You know, who knows? This group, you just don't know. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's KSR.

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The problem is, while I'm amazed at how well he fights on defense, he looks terrified on offense. And so he takes a shooter off the floor at a perimeter space for you, which is something I don't think you can have in Pope's offense. I think in Pope's office, you better have four guys who can shoot. And he didn't look like he wanted to shoot. And Brea couldn't make a shot. And then they were basically making it. I mean, they had the belief. And by the way, this is exactly what?

who was it that did this that did this to us. Vandy, they were like, Jackson Robinson is not going to beat us. That was what they, I mean, in the second half, they do not leave his side. Jackson Robinson is not going to beat us.

Away, Brea, if you do it, you do it. He ain't doing it. And then O'A and Brea just weren't able to do it. And Robinson, I mean, he got a couple shots off and they went in. He played, he went six for nine. He's got to shoot more than nine times. But I think they were like, he is not

beating us and we'll live with the other guys. Bray hit the early three in that run when they got it to 18 to 12 and then when he go, O for five after that, completely disappeared. On Chandler, I thought he played really good defense, but 17 minutes in the game needed to probably be like 10. Like you're saying offensively, there was a key possession late in the game where he had a little floater, missed it. I think he missed a free throw. He just doesn't look ready on that end of the floor, but he got some deflections and played on ball defense on Davis pretty well, but still way too many minutes for him. And there's a huge drop off, if we're honest, at least has been an SEC play between

Amari and Garrison. You've heard my frustrations about Amari, but the reality is, especially defensively, it's just a huge drop off. I mean, Amari played, think about this, we lost by 10. So the average, your average time as a player, if you were doing plus minus, would be minus 10. Because that was what the final score was. So you have to remember, it's not even zero. It's minus 10.

Amari was plus 14. Or excuse me, am I right about it? No, plus two. Mari was plus two. Garrison was minus 14. That means you were winning when Williams played and you still ended up losing by 10. That means Amari was a, if you look at the other guys, they're all kind of, nothing really sticks out, but Garrison sticks out.

I mean, the Big Z was the real dagger, but another half dagger was Brandon Garrison missed a three, and then DJ made a three, and I think Knox got a steal in a dunk or something, but the Garrison three, they're only down six maybe, that was a big miss for him. Yeah. I mean, he's made a couple this year, so I get it, but. The offense late in the game just came, dump it down to Amari and let him beat Z one-on-one down in the post. That was kind of our offense there for a ball. I want you to think about the irony there.

Their offense was spread out, shoot threes, and we were dumping it into the post, like throwing it into Oscar against Kansas State. I mean, like we literally, we almost flipped styles with them in the second half. We let them play our style, and we were playing the style of a gal that we didn't want to play anymore, which is dump the ball and then, you know,

and three's more than two. They didn't want to let Big Z shoot last year, and even this year he wasn't shooting that much. That's the most threes he's taken all season. I mean, they just let Big Z go. You know, I mean, if your cow, like if your cow, is there a better night you could have had? I mean, you come out, you get booed. You don't like that, but then there's some, here's my, here's how I take Cal walking out. He knew he was going to get booed, and there's a part that it hurt.

but he's also got a little juice where he's like all right well I guess this is how it is and then when it's over and he wins like this side of him that really hasn't been hit back since he was like you know blank root patina blank Jim Calhut like when he was doing that

I'm sure he felt that way in the locker room after and I mean I can't are you going to watch the Vice documentary I'm not going to be able to. No, no. It went to where we thought it was going to be a nightmare for him to a celebration. I can't watch that. Yeah, and it's going to be, I'm sure that there'll be some scenes of him going, you know.

But I'll also say this, though, about our fans. I see a lot of people online sort of yelling like the fans, you can think the fans were wrong to do whatever they do. That's just your personal opinion. But it did not affect the game. Remember, we got up 18 to 12, right? We were the ones that came out on fire. We lost because they were better in the second half than we were. They made adjustments we didn't.

That's why we lost. We didn't lose because Carmel Gitchie, if you're not classy. First of all, a lot of the people talking about being classy. You ought to see the mentions you've written me before in the past. But secondly, we lost because oddly they out-schemed and out-hustled us. They did. And that's like we actually should give them respect and credit for saying they went and won the game. And we just didn't.

Caliperi also, you know, after the game, he said the right things. He did. He said the right things. But you know secretly he was just he was jumping up and down pumping his fists so happy that he got that win. Of course. And if you, if it were me, I'd be the same way. Of course. Of course he would.

In the locker room, that clip comes out, and he's given a speech, and he says, I'm happy for my three guys, and then he pauses. And he goes, and me, and he jumps right on top of him. I just kind of had a little grin, like, cow, I can't believe you did this to us. Yeah. Let me ask you a question. Do you think this win makes it better or worse the next time he comes? I kind of thought if we won the next time he comes, it won't be a thing.

It's still going to be a thing. Yes, it is. It's still going to be a thing. Which I don't think it, if he wins, or if we win, then I think it's like, all right, we won the divorce. We wish you luck. We've got it out of our system. There's a chance we might face him in the SEC tournament. Now there's a ton of fans.

I had a ton of my friends going, we got to play him in the SEC tournament. Like, we got to beat him in the SEC. Cal won't care. He doesn't care about the SEC tournament. That's true. He doesn't care about the SEC tournament. But that might end his season, depending on what finishes. We'll take a break right back.

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Let's start with some, you know, can't all be gloom and do. Let's talk about some of the sights and sounds of Saturday. First of all, KSbar, we ran out of beer. As a matter of fact, right now, there is not one bottle of beer in this. Shannon, I'm serious. We drank the town dry. There's no beer here left. We've got some taps, I think, to have them, but we're out of a lot of those, too.

Yesterday, if you came here, it was like, you're going to be on healthy Sunday because we sober Sunday. Yes, it was a sober Sunday. I think we get another shipment in here early this afternoon, but there was no beer. Secondly, the moment that Cal came out, and then when he and Pope shook hands, I intentionally took the view up. There were some people here that were cow people that I hadn't seen. in a long time that I was friends with.

And it was nice to see some of those people. Because a lot of them, you know, they just left. And then just were like out of your life, right? Derby Shire's dad, for example, is somebody that I've always been really close to. And it was nice to get to see him. I haven't seen him since they left. And it was good to catch up with him and talk.

And, you know, there were other people. But then I also was respectful enough. Like, I'm not going to go get in the assistance faces. Right. You're going to be up in the mix. Like, there's no reason for me. I'm sure they would have been fine, but, like, there's no reason to me. So when Cal walks in, Shannon, I'm in the first row of the crowd, right?

Like, I want to watch it, but I want to be before. But I look at the media swarm in the center of it. Yeah. And what I see is Cal searching for Pope, Pope, and it is Cal, Pope, and Mario. Right there in the middle. I mean, Mario, when Cal walked out, Mario was not only, I don't know if this showed at home or not, but Mario was not only in the camera group.

His camera was like in Cal's face. I mean, even, like, you know, I always tell you to back up? Mario was up his nose. Mario was up his nose, and I was like, I wanted to scream Mario back up because he is like right up on him. And there is somewhere. Someone took a picture. If you watch on TV, I look later, the camera's on one side of the court.

But someone in the crowd on the other side has to have a picture where the backdropers, the media, and I guarantee you that picture, yes. I haven't saved on my phone already. Cal Pope. Well, Mario got pushed back right here. He's still in it. He's still in it. Cal Pope and Mario, my man got up in him.

There's one point where Cal's walking out, and he turns around. It looks like almost runs into Mario. Like, you know, he turned around and boom, right? There's Mario. No, he did run into him because in his way. Secondly, you know, it was like there were people at this game that I haven't seen at games in a long time, although I mean, I haven't been to games in a long time. But at the same time, like there was some everybody who's kind of anybody in the Lexington

celebrity, this would have been your place to be, Ryan, because all your little, you know, your little private men's club. people were there, right? I mean, the outfit, Shannon, like everybody put on their best bedazzled sweat, right? Like, it was, the outfits were amazing. Like, it was a who's who of who thinks they're who everywhere. And it made me laugh, Drew. It was hilarious. If we're going to talk about outfits, the Tyson guys went full Tyson chicken mascot gear. Did you see them? They had Tyson letterman jackets, Tyson hats, red pants. They went full costume.

The Tyson people are right there, right? I saw them eating Chick-fil-A, by the way. I don't know. Is that Tyson-branded chicken? I'm not. That's a good question. It was just quite a scene. I mean, front row, you got Joe and Kelly Craft next to Jamie Comer,

who just was walking by going, Joe Biden, Joe Biden, like screaming at people. You know, I mean, he had to get that out. Like, it was, the whole thing was amazing. The cameras caught Cal and Joe Craft and Kelly Crafts making hands and hugging and making nice nice. That was the only person he told. It was the only people he said hello to. He went, hey Joe, hey Kelly, and just walked right on by and was like so.

You mentioned Tubby? I saw Randall Cobb was there also. Let me tell you about Tubby for a second. Tubby walks in and everybody's eyes are on when his cow coming out. Tubby was walking in like, I don't know that any people even realized he was there. Really? He was just walking by and people weren't. Like he would walk by a person and they'd be looking over here.

and then their next-door neighbor would go, I think that was tubby. They just walked by. That's how much the attention was. Second thing, I do want to give a shout to women's team. I sat in Louisville at a restaurant, made them figure out where the SEC network was to turn on the second half. When I turned it on, we're up one.

Like, I don't know, 46, 45 or whatever. They go on a 16-0 run the moment we turn the TV on. Georgia Amor, I'm going to go ahead and say, She's my favorite player in basketball right now, period, include the men's, whatever. I'm not missing another of their games. She is amazing. She is all over the play.

She had 43 points. Okay, she tied the school record. But it's not just that. She's so fun. She talks, I don't know that she talks trash, but it sure looks like that she talks trash. And she runs around and the passes and the shots, and she will shoot. You talk about no. conscience. But she still went like 15 to 22. Like she didn't miss much. I was sitting there at this

bar in Louisville just hooting and hollering. And I'm the only person in the place watching. I'm not missing them again. They only have like eight games left. I've watched most of their games this year. I'm not missing another one. She is going to go along, go down with Valerie Steele and Ryan Howard as the best player to ever play here. And people, I know she gets some attention, but she needs to get more attention. She's unbelievable. That was the best medicine. yesterday after Saturday. I was in a funk like everyone else Sunday morning, but then she goes and does that. Not just in any game. That was the 13th ranked team in the country. On the road. At Oklahoma. She also had eight assists. Yeah. School record in points and then eight assists and with efficient

seven threes, I think. Seven. I mean, she gets the ball, right? And she's just like, boop, blah, blah, blah. She's just like everywhere. And she's so low to the ground that these these young women like they don't even know how to stay next to her and then as soon as you think she's about to pass bam three in your eye just in your eye and then she runs down the court with this grin and i know the grin it's max's grin it's that australian sarcastic grin i've seen it a million times and she does it i i could watch i could watch the women's team play they are so much fun and they play like three or four ranked teams in the next four or five games i mean i'm I'm definitely going to the next time they're here.

She's the best player on campus right now. There's no doubt about it, 43 points, 8 assists. They're 19 and 2. Like I said, just knocked off a top 15 team on their floor. She's the smallest player on the floor. She's always the best player on the floor. I love that about it. I really do.

Like, the most, when's their next game? They have a week off. They're at Old Miss next Monday. Then they're at home for Texas, Georgia. After that, you've got Tennessee and LSU. They're going. They're home against Texas on the 13th. Yep.

Day before Valentine's day. Pre-valent. There we go. Yeah, let's go. You want to go? Mario, you back up if you go. Who's next? Chad.

Chad, go ahead, Chad. Hey, good morning, Matt. Good morning. First off, I want to say I'm thankful for Pope. I wouldn't trade Pope for 10 Calipari's. Now that I've got that out of the way, I don't think DJ Wagner scores near 17 points of Butler is healthy. I think that was we just struggled defensively because of him not being in. there and I know you touched on it earlier about Chandler.

The guy played 17 minutes in the game. He did a great job in the first half, shutting down Janelle Davis, but he has no offensive threat whatsoever. You're right about that. That's probably too many. To be fair to Arkansas, I think you're exactly right. I think we probably win that game with Butler. But then they could reasonably go, we lost Boogie Fan.

Yeah. Right? Like they can reasonably say the same thing, you know. know. Yeah, I agree with that, but I watch Trent Noah play back in a lot out of old, and, you know, Pope is talking about, hey, you know, we're having trouble fitting him in the lineup because we're so heavy at that position. But I'll tell you something, that kid is an absolute baller. He can rebound, play defense. Well, we've seen him. Yeah, he's great. But there's a big difference, to be fair, between playing in the 13th region and playing, you know. He's had, don't give me wrong. Mountain Mamba's had good minutes.

And he'll have more. I appreciate the call. And he maybe should play instead of Chandler. But also, his weakness is guarding guys one-on-one, and that was everyone's weakness on Saturday. The reason I was hoping he'd get in there, you know, Arkansas was playing just more physical than we were, and they were getting all the loose balls.

He's been good at that. That's what Trent has been good at. Yeah, so I thought that might help spark Kentucky if you give him a couple minutes. I definitely think they should have given him a shot. I didn't understand. and like not at all, you know, playing it. Yeah, he doesn't change the outcome, but he earned it the way he played at Tennessee. He played 12 minutes.

He had that fearless three-pointer from the logo. To go from that to not even get a glance in this game, I thought he at least deserved a chance. Yeah, I did too. 859-280-2287. Let's see. We'll take a break. We'll be right back. This is KASR.

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So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back. radio those of you ask me about the read shepherd thing i'm going to talk about it second hour just i'm going to give it just a little uh room to breathe 772 7754 uh 5254 ryan by the way people are sending me pictures of mario he was not just he was involved in everything like he was in every single picture of everything he is look at him he was just he's like a paparazzi member yeah i was at home watching and he was in a lot of the esbian shots you know

as the reporters and the photographers trying to catch Cal and it come out. I'm glad the Duke North Carolina game got over early. It was a route so we could enjoy all that, you know? Yeah, it was weird with the intro. I went home. I walked home after Cal came out. Then I went there and I rewound to watch because I want to watch the intro. Yeah.

They opened the broadcast with my voice. I didn't even catch that. Yes. They opened the broadcast with me going, Kentucky basketball, nobody cares about winning more than Kentucky basketball. Then it was like Jay Billis, and then it was like Jay Williams. And then later in the game, when they were talking about the people about how when he left, the fans were ready for him to go, they put up these articles, first article.

The only blog I've written in two years was the one that said the CalPerry era ends in a whimper, and there it is. Then comes Tyler Thompson's next. It's like, well, thanks for reading and listening, ESPN. What about the people that were tweeting you saying you, You're the guy that told everybody to boo yesterday, Saturday. I saw a couple of those tweets coming at you. People are idiots.

Like, if you don't, you didn't listen to the show. Anyone who's listening right now knows that I did not tell anyone to boo. Never said it. Ever. And I said I wasn't going to boo. But it's a perfect example of how it doesn't even matter what you say. People will hear what they want to hear. You know, this was that dude on the, uh, whatever, Pope's cats.

What, first of all, what a name. Jim Arthur M. Ullanday. It's quite a name, quite a mouthful. I mean, that sounds like a regal person. Yeah, is that a general? Jim Arthur M. Undle. I guess. Former a lacrosse player at Duke.

Yes, exactly. I guess he runs that, that's that board. I was telling you about that, Pope's cats, that for some reason seems not really favorable to Pope or the cats. Like, they're all cow people. and I guess they hate us and he just wrote what about KSR people

and especially Matt Jones who encouraged the fan base to boo loudly at Coach Cow None of us ever said any of that That never happened Never happened Never happened But then of course

I mistakenly look at the comments And it's all I'm sure nice people going Well why did you do that That was rude And I'm like I mean I didn't You said all week fans should do what they want to do.

You said it's okay if they do. It's okay if they cheer. Yeah, because I'm not their dad. I'm not. There's a lot of people that seem to want to be the Kentucky fan base's father and mother and tell them what to do. They can do whatever they want. They're grown people. And John Caliperi can handle it.

I'm not saying it made him thrilled. Probably didn't. But you know what? He proved he can handle it. It didn't make us thrilled when he said, we lost the Tennessee by 22 in the SEC tournament, but I get to go see my dogs. I wasn't thrilled by that comment.

So people can express whatever emotions they want. There were a lot of people clapping. A lot of people clapping. And good for that. Like, they can do that stuff. That didn't come through on the TV broadcast. All we hear are the booze. Let's practice something.

I'm going to clap. Okay. You move the mic back and you boo. You don't have to take it off, but just put it close to your mic. All right. All right. Ready? Boo!

Anybody hear that clap? Let's try again. We give that same reaction. We're going to get way too different sounds, and that's kind of what happened. What did you think of Kyle's little people's eyebrow that they captured as he was walking through the tone? He was smiling, but he kind of raised his eyebrows. I thought that was probably good. That was a good play by him.

At the Jopi Hall program, that was a nice touch. I will say, all right, I'm all for Mark Pope's niceness. He inspires me to be nice, right? Yeah. I'm all for that, like, you know, the Mormon's smiles that we saw at BYU. Everybody's friendly and happy, and I'm for it. But all right, Mark, sometimes I need you to be like, brr. Nasty.

Yes. Brer! Doesn't always, like, you don't have to smile. Like, this is one of those brurs, just once or twice. Like I said, his post-game radio show with Tom Leach, he couldn't even talk. He would start talking. he would pause. Well, I mean,

pause. Those guys are pause. I mean, he couldn't even get the words out. He was so upset. Yeah. It's clear he's messed up with this roster. He doesn't know what to do right now without Butler, Crease up.

Okay, so what do we think about? Cars back a little bit. I bet he's not playing tomorrow night. But Pope said. I mean, he said, we're trying to create a new team. He did. If you only heard 97% of his comments, you'd think this kid wasn't playing.

Yeah. But then he did say, we'll give it a go with him one more time. Sounds to me like he's got something in his shoulder that probably needs to be fixed, and both he and Butler are trying to say he could probably play with it, but it's probably not best for, this is just my read. Hurt, probably going to have to have surgery at some point, but could play in pain but won't be 100%,

and he and Butler are both trying to decide, do we do it? That's how I read it. Is that how you read it? Yeah, they're trying to figure out the right of course. equation there of how much to play him without hurt him long term in the postseason. It's a little comforting as we've seen on social media. His dad and mom have shared things that seem like it. They say he'll be back eventually.

And then Butler was in that Brandon Garrison live a week ago saying he'll be back, but I still don't feel like we'll see it soon. 80% Butler is better than what we have. Yeah. So we need him. He's a super tough kid. He doesn't want to go out like this. It's his last year playing collegiate basketball.

He's at Kentucky. He's going to give it a go at some point. Who's next? Tyler. Tyler, go ahead, Tyler. Hey, Matt. Cal Perry ain't as good as he once was, as good once as he ever was.

That's true. I mean, that's a really good point. I mean, he can only meet the sisters once every two years, but once every two years, yep. Yeah, and, but even Cal Perry said this was one game, and, you know, I'd expect this poke. team to get back up, dusts itself off, and get back to work. And, you know, the best way to avenge this lies in Nashville.

I agree. And also, I appreciate the call. I think part of the best way to avenge it is don't think about it anymore. They still got a ton of work to do to just get in the tournament. And we, you know, this team's won a lot of really good games. The sort of post-script for this team is going to be written by what we do in March, both in the SEC and the NCAA term. Yeah, I saw a wild reaction after the loss.

I mean, the loss definitely sucked, and there are some big flaws with this team. But did people forget he beat Duke, Louisville, Florida, Gonzaga, lay out all the rivals. He already has the record for top 25 wins in a regular season. It's been a pretty good ride so far, even though Saturday was off. I haven't seen a lot of really anti-Pope stuff, which is good, because there shouldn't be. I mean, he lost, and that stinks. But we won a lot of good ones.

and there's still a lot of this season left to go. What is this? The third time where he's won a game I didn't think he would win and lose a game I didn't think they'd lose. You know, the Clemson-Gonzagga week. You know, the Tennessee, Arkansas week. Well, I actually thought that was last week for us. I thought that was going to be the Vandy, Tennessee.

Like, we lost at Vandy, but then won at Tennessee. Well, that's win at Ole Miss and keep it going. Yeah. Yeah, so who knows? 859-2-80-2287. We'll take a break. When we come back, we do need to talk about. about the,

the shepherd thing. Because while I will tell you what, again, you just judge it by the average fan, that's what people were riding me the most. It really upset people. It really did. Yeah. And honestly, when I saw it, well, when I saw it,

you all were here, I thought it was AI. You thought the pregame show, yeah. I thought it had to be AI. I was like, there's no way that guy, there's no way that kid did that. And then he did. So we will talk about it. And more, we are here at KS Bar and Grill.

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