KSR - 2025-02-12- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 12, 2025

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A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-7745254 in this edition sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office. Call T.J. He'll make them pay. We are here at the KS. Bar & Grill. It is Wings Day, dollar wings all day and night. You're not going to get a better deal in Lexington. And a nice post-win crowd already here this morning to celebrate another big win by the cats. this time against the Vols, sweeping the season series, five of the last six against Tennessee as they win 85-74. Ryan, you know, it was a party atmosphere in Lexington. It was a party here before the game. It was a party at Rupp Arena.

I think when Otega Owe got that dunk at the end, that's one of the louder pops as they use in wrestling that I've heard in Rupp Arena in quite some time. the two Kentucky kids combined for 19 points. Kobe Brea makes big shots. Anzley Almanor maybe makes the biggest play of the game. What a bizarre way to win against your rival in Ruperina. You're right, man. It is a great day to celebrate for all those reasons you just listed.

You're playing short-handed. You basically your top three point guard are out, and you had to go with two Kentucky kids off the bench and Anzley Alamanoor to carry you, and those three guys came through for you. I mean, you can make a strong argument that the four biggest players in the game were all dudes that in the first game didn't start. I mean, you could really say that Kobe Brea, Almanor, and Perry and Noah were the two.

I mean, Butler played really well in O way too. But, I mean, if you're just talking about like made the plays that were most important in the moments, Drew, it's four guys. As I said on the post game show, you had dudes that at the beginning of the year were the 9th, 10th, and 11th, men on the team in Almanor, Perry, and Noah combined for 32 points against the best defensive team in the country. That's crazy. Yeah, especially there at the end. Tennessee was up, I guess, three, and that it felt like there was a run of a couple Almanor buckets, couple Brea threes, the capped with the lob to Oway, but a lot of the secondary players were the ones making the big plays down the stretch which just made it so much more fun to see knowing that they had this

shorthanded roster and they really went by the next man up. I mean, everybody here had to think when it was 58, 55, Tennessee. After we'd been up 9 or 10, and we let them come back, they take the lead. I think they had scored on eight straight possessions, and Butler goes down. There has to be a sense that everybody was like, well, this is over, right? Like, we've lost Butler, we don't have Robinson,

car is still not close to 100%. We had a few possessions where we had no movement on offense, and it was like, well, this is it. And then out of nowhere, Anzley Almanor beats a guy off the dribble and gets an AN1. Like, I mean, you could not have seen that happen. The Anzley Almanor play, we've not seen that all year long for him to beat anybody off the dribble. A huge point of the game of him to get that three-point play. That was, that one got a fist pump for me at home.

And I don't always fist pump, but that was a fist pump. I couldn't believe it. And then, you know, Mountain Mamba with three first half threes. I mean, that, he still looks like he's strong. 12 years old. He does. And he gets three first half threes, makes free throws down the stretch. You know, Travis Perry taking dudes off the bounce and banking in shots.

Kobe Braya just keeps scooting back and making far. It was just an amazing victory, oddly. Yeah, career high for Travis Perry. Did it all in the first half. And I love the Noah free throws late in the game. Where there are two minutes left. I mean, that kid wasn't even supposed to be on this team a year ago. Yeah.

First free throws of the year. He had not shot a free throw all season. Then you put him on the team, and it's like, well, maybe year three, he'll be something. No, at Tennessee hitting from the logo, and when Tennessee comes here knocking down two clutch free throws down the stretch, it's been amazing seeing the two guys that were in last year's KHSAA Sweet 16 step up in year one. I said on the postgame show that I know who he is. He is our kid like that dude at Clemson. He's going to be that guy.

You know the dude at Clemson. You look at him, you go, how's that guy good? Shefflin, I think is his name. And because he doesn't have a body that would make you think he's good, it doesn't look like he could be quick, and yet he's really good. That's going to be Trent Noah. Trent's a better shooter than Shefflin. Shefflin's probably a better rebounder, stronger.

But I think that's going to be Noah. He's going to be one of these guys when he's a junior and senior people are like, how did he just score 18 points against us? I kind of feel like that's going to be him. He is. He's one of those guys that just has the ability to get his hands on balls, whether deflections or steals or rebounds or something. He's always at the right spot at the right time.

And I think, I don't know if it was Tom or somebody said last night, you know, the dude didn't even play one minute in the first four SEC games this year. That's crazy. It's crazy. And he was in, like, he was in the last five, and he should have been. Should have been. And he should have been. I mean, he was making the plays to be in there at the end. It was just bizarre to see how they were playing.

And then, I don't know, we have some sort of voodoo on Tennessee this year. I don't think people realize, because we have hit 50% of our threes in. both games. But that's the number one three-point defense in the country. They are number one in the country, and yet we've made 25 threes against them. And then while they can't shoot, they shoot like they've never seen a basketball against us. It's crazy. Yeah, we, I mean, we wanted to recreate what happened in Knoxville when they went 11 for 45. We knew that wasn't likely, but somehow they managed to have a worse percentage. They didn't take as many. Did they really? But Lanier and Ziegler went 0 for 9 from 3 last night.

Oh, for 11? Or 0 for 11, excuse me. And then they were 4 for 21 in the other games. So add that up, and those guys were just throwing bricks in these games. And that's how you beat Tennessee's make them shoot. And even though Ziegler came into this game, 7 for 8 in his last two games, there's something about that Kentucky logo. He just cannot play well in Kentucky games.

They just can't do it. And it was clear that they had made the decision we're not going to shoot. It was interesting. I think once again, Pope outskirts. So Barnes, so Barnes clearly told his team, we're not shooting 45-3s. That's not what we do.

Because you could tell, when those guys had open threes, they didn't want to take them. So you could tell Barnes and said, you're going to go to the, but we then decided, you know what, well, we'll just back up farther.

We'll let you shoot long twos, and they shot a ton of them. Now, they made a bunch of them. They actually shot long twos pretty well. But I think Pope was probably like, I'm good with them shooting long twos. If they make them, they make them. And they ended up finding a way to make

Rick Barnes take worse shots than they took the week before. You're right. Their offense early was that they were going to take whoever was guarded. If it was Brayer or one of the weak defenders, they were going to go right at him. Ganey, I don't know how many times he drove to the basket. Every time Perry came in, Ziegler would try to go right at him. They did take, but those were defensive mismatches. By the time we had the right lineup in, they were shooting 15-feet-free-throw line jumpers,

and they made a bunch of them. But I think they were, I think Pope was probably all right. that as a strategy. Yeah, and there was a couple times where Tennessee did go to the lane or make a long two, and you're like, ah, and then it, bang, a three on the other end, you're like, well, okay, we can keep doing this if they want to play that game, three is worth more than two. It's just, the

philosophy, the formula, whatever we call it, is there to beat Tennessee, it was just so fun to watch them throw bricks again all night. I want to play them again in Nashville. That might get a little cocky. Yeah, it's a little cocky. I was so confident going into that game, I just think it's a good matchup. I don't think Barnes can play with the Kentucky team like that. I thought it was going to be a bad matchup. I, I kind of

of thought at the beginning of the year they were the worst matchup for us but it seems to me it's turned out that they are the best and I think it's their lineup they don't really have they don't really have great athletes like Arkansas killed us with athletes their

their dudes are not great athletes and the ones that are short so we seem to be able to you know our best defenders are Butler in O'Way their best players are at the one and the two so that probably helps their center is the only dude who's played well against us in these games, Milichick, but otherwise we've been good.

I think they thought Lanier was Dalton Connect round two, and he's not close to that. He's just not been as good. He's fine, but I mean, he's not the star that they need him to be. You really see how good Kentucky can be when Bray is hitting those shots, though, man. When he's hitting the shots. He's a different thing. We're a different team. So, first of all, when you, Billy said something on the post-game show.

Was the halftime show the best thing you've ever seen ever? It's the greatest thing ever. Pay-pay. What happened? Juggler. Man, I was there. Witchcraft, sorcery. I don't know.

I'm still, I was up all night. I couldn't sleep. I stared at the ceiling. How'd she do that? What did she do? She laid on her back. And then she took kind of like your boy, Darlington, but used her feet. She took a chair and just started spinning it with her feet.

Like, it was unbelievable. Just the chair alone. But then they brought out this basketball goal that was probably 20, 30 feet high, and it had had three levels to it. And she kicked the ball, and it would land on one level. And then she'd juggle it and land on the next one. and then the next one and it went in a hoop at the top. I know that sounds like it doesn't make sense.

Go to my Twitter to see the video, but Red Panda is on the hot seat. Firepackers, I love you. We have a new number one. Billy said it was the most impressive thing he's ever seen. I don't even know how you would begin to learn you have this talent, how you would practice it. I always wonder with things like that, what's the first time you do it? Like the very first time you do it, you got to be like, what am I doing? And the thing about when Drew was saying, like, she went from platform to platform, those platforms were on like a swivel.

They weren't like stationing. They were on a swivel. She'd put it near it and it would like move on its own. No, I watched his video. Oh, you watched his video. Okay. Well, so besides that, I mean, that was a highlight, honestly. I'm serious.

Talk about the crowd. They liked Pepe too. We were all big Pepe fans. Not about the crowd specifically. Oh, okay. Okay. No, and also, it was a great crowd. The rain, the slush, did not.

hold them back at all. That was just as good as, I don't want to say Arkansas close, but the Florida game that was so awesome. The biggest home games of the year, it's right there with them, if not the best. This has been a great run of home games. I mean, if you start the crowd we had for Louisville, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, I mean, that's a heck of a run. And we still got Auburn. Still got Auburn coming up. I mean, that's, you got your money's worth with season this year, Ryan, in terms of the games you get in rub. Well, you know, we were all a little concerned what the crowd was actually going to be like, but then we got to feel during the pregame show here at the restaurant that it was a...

I was shocked, by the way. I was, dude. I was shocked. I mean, I kind of... This restaurant before the game tends to be a pretty good judge, and I pulled up here at four, and I was like, man, there's more cars that I thought. And we were full three hours for the game, and I went on a weeknight. It usually gets full by the end of our show, but it's not always at the start.

And it was a line at the beginning. And I went, oh, this weather's not going to keep the crowd away. I was shocked, too. I mean, you're talking 4 o'clock Lexington in the rain people were in here. It was a Saturday night crowd is what it felt like. There was a little too much orange, but, you know, I'm glad they came and visited. Spent a little money and enjoyed their night in Lexington. But that was just a prelude of what happened at Ruff.

So after the game, Mark Pope said about Lamont, Butler, Jackson, Robinson, it would be a little while, but he did think they'd be back ready. So I sort of saw that as to say those last couple games the regular season, maybe Auburn, LSU, Missouri, maybe we have those guys, but that I think we have to mentally prepare going into Texas, Vandy, and maybe even Alabama on the road, that we're not going to have those dudes. Alabama on the road without those dudes is going to be a tough task. But Texas and Vandy, I think we can beat them with the lineup we have.

It won't be easy, but I think you can win those games, Ryan. Especially, yeah, if Brady's shooting the way he's shooting, and you get that contribution to those three guys off the bench, they shone. They can be at a very high level without those guys, which if you told me before the game that you're going to lose them both, I would think we're in big trouble against Tennessee. Oh, when Butler went down, I thought we're losing this one,

and then I looked at the schedule, and I was like, are we going to be all right? You know, and now you won this one. I said we need to win one game this week. We already did. I think at Texas, if you can get that one, but you got Vanney at home. That's not easy, but it's at home.

So, you know, our sketch, we've gotten through a lot of the tough schedule. This was a big win last night. I've been promoting my four-game win streak here. We're halfway there. The Butler News, that hurts it a little bit. I'm sticking with it, though. One time I saw a whole Texas game,

they don't play a lot of defense, which gives me a little hope there. They've got destroyed. Yeah, last night. And Arkansas beat them there. They got destroyed by Vandy, so they're on a pretty big downhill run, so hopefully we can take advantage of that. Yeah, win that one. You've got to feel good about Vandy at home, and at that point, just see if you can knock off Auburn, Alabama, and really make the season special. Yeah, you got seven left.

You got at Alabama, I'm going to put that one as a loss. I don't know that we can win that one. But then at Oklahoma, at Texas, at Missouri, none of those are obvious wins, but you could win them all if you play well. LSU at home, I feel good about. Vandy at home you feel good about it. you got Auburn at home, and we'll see what happens with that one. I feel a lot better about the Texas game after watching them last night. They against Alabama.

That came on right after the Kentucky game, so you got to watch and a lot while listening to your post-game show. Yeah, they're having some issues. They seem like they're going the wrong direction. I thought they played pretty well earlier than the season, but they're going backwards. Well, I was thinking about the league last night. I mean, part of why the league is so good is if you look at the 16 teams in the league, there's a strong argument that 14 of the 16 are either kind of what we thought or better. that really only Texas and Arkansas are worse, but Texas is worse.

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Thank you to all the fans. I wondered when that was going to happen, and then they did it during those free throws at the end. That made me happy. Finally, after all this time, we got that. Loud enough, you could hear it even. on TV. He heard it on the TV. I do want to talk for a second about the two kids from Kentucky because, you know, I think it's important when we talk about them to like realize, I mean, look, they are the seventh, eighth guys.

I mean, I'm not trying to say they're the key to the team. But there is certainly, it is certainly the case that for citizens of Kentucky, having two Kentucky kids on the team playing well is really important. then you throw in that they're from small towns right like they're not just from lexington and louisville they're from harland and they're from eddyville right like that matters one of them's in eastern kentucky one of them's in western kentucky they played in the state championship in the finals like it's almost like a storybook thing and then neither of them the last coach really didn't want either one of them he ended up recruiting perry but that was almost forced on him didn't recruit noah then they

end up on the team with a guy that played at Kentucky bringing them in. So it's almost like a perfect story. But then for them to actually contribute in their first year and to do it like being dudes from Kentucky, I mean, Trent Noah looks like a dude that plays in the 13th region. You know, he doesn't, he's not like a super athlete, but he works hard and he makes shots. And then to beat Tennessee. You know, Trent Noah said, my mama gets her hair done in Knoxville. Like, I love that. That's such a, that's like, that's like such a thing someone in the 13th region would say.

People's moms in Middlesboro and Harlan, they get their hair done in Knoxville. I get it. I just think that makes it so much more special, especially to rural Kentucky. Like rural Kentucky, part of why we love the 92 team so much, they were rural Kentuckyans. And we just, I mean, we just don't get a lot of those, right? I mean, it just doesn't happen very much. Darius Miller and Dante Allen played a little bit. Patrick Sparks back in the day.

It just doesn't happen, though, and to have two of them on one team, Ryan, I just think it's really kind of a special thing for fans to watch it take play. And like you said, not just sitting on the bench contributing, playing meaningful minutes. You know, these two guys probably would never have got one minute last year if Cal was here. He just wouldn't play those guys. Pope has put them in early enough, get their feet wet, knock the run, rust off so when he needs them, they can contribute, and that's exactly what happened last night. And I think we can all see a world where in like two years they're really playing.

Like they're either starters or six men. I mean, I think I become more and more convinced. I think Noah can be really good. I mean, I think Perry can be a really good role player. His defense is always going to hurt him a little bit. But I think Noah can, like, be one of your best players at some point. I think it's just exciting to see. Yeah, with them being from Kentucky, I mean, more than the,

half the fan base grew up wanting to be a Kentucky basketball player, and the percentage of that happening is less than half a percent, but these two actually lived it. So it's almost like they're living everyone's in the crowd's dream. No, they are. We were all in the driveway thinking that we were going to be that, or dreaming we'd be that. They're actually doing it. So it just kind of, when your whole life, you've wanted to be that and you're seeing someone actually live it, it's a lot easier to root for. I said this on the post game show, that I think somewhere after the Fox Monk here, because I think kids really, really liked Fox and Monk. But between that year and like before last season, I feel like when I

was around kids in Kentucky, they just weren't as excited about it as they were when I was a kid. And it just didn't, it felt like there were still Kentucky fans, but I just didn't see kids like growing up with that, this is the most important thing in the world that I did. And then I think last year with Reed and Rob, some of that came back. Kids really liked Reed Shepard and Rob Dealingham. They felt a connection to them. And now I think this group you're seeing it again. Otega Owey, kids seem to really like him maybe just because of his, I don't know, his hair or just the way he plays. And then they, you know, kids in Kentucky can look at Trent Noah and they can look at Travis Perry and say that can be me.

And I think that really has made between Reed and Rob last year and those guys this year, I think it's really made. I just, I see more kids in here before the game. They're wearing the jersey. You know what I mean? I feel that thing back, which I really like. And I do think Reed and Rob had a lot to jump start that last year. I think Reed Rob were a big part of. I do.

And how about your 13th region, man? Back to back years. Reed last year and Trent this year coming out of the 13th region. I mean, you guys probably listening get tired of me talking about the 13th region. And it's not just the 13th. The 14th has this, the 50. I mean, I'm not trying to like monopolize it. But southeastern Kentucky, no place in.

America has been hit harder by the change in the economy than southeast Kentucky. Coal, just being off interstates, you know, having really no political representation for reasons that are beyond this show, like really none. And to have Reed last year and now Trent Noah this year, just the pride that that brings in a group of people, I think it's immensely important. and I just and I love that read last year but Noah this year as well like Noah is Harlan when you say my mama gets her hair done in Knoxville like that's a Harlan thing and I and I I love that that's happening outside of Pepe last night my biggest smile might have been Trent Noah saying his mom gets his done his hair done in Knoxville I mean that is the most Kentucky thing even the phrase get your hair done is a mountain phrase right like that's a mountain thing to say and then with Travis for a little different reasons, but on the other side of the state, you know, Eddieville ain't that big, but, you know, your region's 13, mine's region too.

I grew up going to Venture River Water Park in Lyon County. I have several friends around there, and they're beaming with pride, too, at the whole Miss game, a whole truckload went down of them. So having each end of the state makes it even more special, too. Well, it's a fun team to be around, and whatever happens the rest of the year. You know, we got seven games, we got the SEC tournament and the NCAA tournament. I don't know what's going to happen. I mean, honestly, anything could happen.

there is a reigniting of that flame that I think makes Kentucky different, right? I mean, you saw it during the Patino era, most of the tubby era, slipped a little bit at the end, certainly the first few years of the Cal era, but it's not been the same in the last five or six years. And it kind of got reignited last year, but I think it's fully aflame again this year. And Mark and those guys, you know, I think people like having these plays. players, they're kind of misfits from all these random schools and they come together and work. I just think it's neat to have that back. And I'll thank Pope for that this year, no matter what happens the rest of the season.

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Text machine, 772, 7754. This is going to be my text today because I, you know, I can't, this is hard for me to fath. This person writes, what if I told you before the game that Butler, Carr, Robinson, and Williams would combine for 14 points and we'd beat Tennessee. I'd say you're dreaming probably. That'd be hard. I would have had to think, well, Kobe Brea went for 30. That's the only way we could have won that game. And we still won.

And even though he made, what, he had, 14, like, he still, like, I mean, he scored, but he didn't go off. So, yeah, I mean, that is amazing that those dudes, I mean, that's, that's basically four of your five starters to start the season combined for 14 points and you still won the game. So, you know, we've kind of been critical of saying Pope should leave his starters in there more often. I still believe that. Not necessarily. Well, my problem is only with the line changes. I don't like the put all five of those guys in together. I don't think that works.

And it didn't work last night. I mean, we were up 10. They put all five of those guys in together, and then it was a three-point game. You just can't do that. But what we've seen is that those guys combined with starters, I think, can really work well. I haven't seen the plus minus,

but I'd say Trent Noah must have been. Noah was first. Yeah. It was actually Carr was first, I think. Was he? Noah or Carr. Williams and Carr are tied at 16. Trent Noah, 18. He's the leader.

Yeah, so Noah, Carr, and Williams. And that makes, watching the game, you know, not trying to be critical. I thought Brandon Garrison was bad. I thought he played really poorly. So it doesn't surprise me that we were a lot better with Williams. Yeah. I'd say, Perry was probably a negative. Is he a negative?

Minus nine. Minus nine. But that was in part because they put him in and those line changes, and those line changes just don't, I don't think they work for this team. And Mr. Automatic, Oway, another double, this team. game. We had 13, but it's every single game this season. The only person in the SEC has done that. Let's note that for a second. This is an amazing statistic. I mean, he has gotten double figures in every game. The last person to get 24 straight games was Malik Monk, who if you remember, was pretty amazing. I said the wrong stat on the air last night. Antonio Reeves last year had double figures in every game but won.

He had nine points in one game. O.A. doesn't put up the big numbers that Reeves does. But that's an amazing thing for that kid to be double figures every game. You talk about something I wouldn't have seen. I didn't even think he was going to start before the season starts. Yeah, this summer we're talking about potential starting lineups. We never put him in the starting lineup. Now he's the guy who's been the most consistent all year. And do we get him back?

Yes. Oh, I think he'll be a big piece of next year. So next year we can have Oway, Garrison, and then whatever happens with Kerr. Yeah. And then the other year. Yeah. Oway and Garrison and him. All right, who's up first, Shannon?

All right, let's start with Jay and Lyndon. Jay and Lyndon. How are you? I'm okay. The only disappointing thing last night is I had the flu and I couldn't go to the game. But, man, I wanted to see this. The best thing to come on the show in a while is you being from eastern Kentucky coming up with the Mountain Mamba. I didn't come up with it, to be fair.

I didn't come up. I don't want to take credit for it. It was a guy or a person on the KS. board. Skippy. Skippy. So we got to give credit to Skippy on KS. board. I'll take, you know, I'll take credit for anything I do. I'm not humble about it, but I didn't do that one. You got to give that to Skippy, who came up with Mountain Bomba. Well, I mean you

vetting it. So I want to throw down a gauntlet here since Travis Perry's from Western Kentucky. I think fans need to share their nicknames for Travis Perry with Drew, with Drew being Western Kentucky, and Drew's going to help get the nickname for Travis Perry because we need a nickname for both of them. All right, I'll let Drew, we'll let Drew, if I sort of vetted the Mountain Mamba, we'll let Drew vet the Western Kentucky Travis Perry name. People have already sent me some. Send all of your suggestions to Travis, to Drew Franklin. That's a good idea, Jay. I appreciate the call. There's been a few that are okay. We're not ready to commit to any. None are quite like Mountain Mamba.

Right now the leader is Venture River Monster because Venture River is the water park there. I think that's going to be hard. Venture River Monsters a lot. I need to say something to Mark Pope. Love you, Mark Pope. We all adore you. Stop trying to switch it to hollerballer. We have all settled on Mountain Mamba. He keeps saying, I prefer Hollerballer. No, sorry.

Mountain Mamba is already won. Don't confuse us with the second one. Let's just stay with the one that people like. Because Trent Noah likes it, too. He said he likes it. I think Jack asked me about it last night of the post game show, and Trent embraced it. He thought it was awesome.

Plus, Holler and Baller don't. Don't rhyme. Right? You can go bowler, holler, baller, but like you're trying a little hard there. Mountain Mamba is the way to go. I didn't see any Mountain Mamba T-shirts last night, but I saw a sweet Mountain Angel baby t-shirt. By the way, have they not been selling those? Like, come on.

Skippy, get on it. Kentucky Brandon, what are you doing? I like Tom Leach, who doesn't even tweet that much, tweeted out like a song about Mountain Mamba last night. I mean, everybody's all in on it. Yeah, I think that's the way to go. Who's next? Let's go to Greg. Greg, go ahead, Greg.

Hey, can you hear me? Yes, I can. Yeah, thanks for taking my call. Just wanted to mention two things real quick. So 12 and 24 from the three-point line, that was the same, exact same we shot at Tennessee. So that was awesome to see, like, catching ready to shoot really didn't take a bunch of bad threes. No, not really? To see one, especially to see one go in for Oway is huge because, you know, he went through a bunch of struggles, I feel like,

especially in the middle of the season, and to see him hit one. this game and the last game, I think it's huge risk confidence. Totally agree. I appreciate the call. I like the point about being ready to shoot. There were a couple times I thought that was obvious. Trit Noah's third three, as Jay Billis noted, he knew he was going to shoot it before he even got it. Like he, that's confidence. Ansley-Almanor got it a couple times. It's going up. He hit one at the top of the key where I knew he, you saw two passes before it got to him.

He was like, I'm going to catch this and it's going to go in. O.A. did not want to shoot his. three, but he did, and it went in. And that's good. I need him to get that confidence going, because he needs to shoot. And then Kobe Brea looked so smooth on those two long threes. You know, our offense, our offense was struggling to get movement. And Kobe Brea got us the movement in the last five minutes. Basically, the threes, and then they came out so far on him. He took them off the dribble, through the lob to Otega. Kobe Brea kind of ran the show in those last few minutes.

He did, and he would step back a little further, hit it, and then the next one step back a little further, hit that. We've talked about his three-point shooting with the Alleyoop, and he threw up to O'way. I think that was the – Well, that was the dagger. I think that was the dagger. But he only gets to do that, I think, because he hits the threes before.

Yeah, I had a bad angle on that, so I didn't even realize until this morning, like the close-up. It's a look-away alley-oop, too. I mean, that was really play the game outside of Pepe. And this is not a team that's been good at the Alli-Ups. You and Pepe? I mean, you have something you need to tell us? No, but when you are somewhere and you see greatness, you have to appreciate it.

I didn't see. I have no. She could be 12, she could be 90. I don't know. I don't know. No clue. But when you see greatness in front of you, it doesn't come around often. And you have to soak.

Did I hear you're trying to, like, reach out to her? Is this? Maybe. I just, I have questions. I'm telling you, my mind has not been right. Okay, so you're saying she's going to be at the women's game tomorrow. She's going to, yeah. I'm trying to, trying to, try to,

range of how the hell did you do that between now and Thursday. Why don't you ask if she wants to come here tomorrow during the show? I want her to teach me to spend the, I'll spend a KS. bar table. We're not going to give her any money. But if she wants to. I'll give her money. I'm telling you,

you're just going to give her. Whatever she needs. We'll put her up downtown. I'm telling my brain has, it was completely chained last night at half time of that game. By the way, Georgia Amor. Wait a minute. Is it today or tomorrow she's going to be here? It may be today.

Oh, well, actually. I think it is today. You all may get it. I hope so. She was going to come before the Texas game. I don't think she would come the day of the game. No, probably not. So it's probably today.

Well, let's wait and see, I guess. Well, if she walks in here at 11.30, you'll know. I know she's coming at 1130. Okay. But I'm not sure if it's today and tomorrow. Hey, attention, bourbon lovers. Commonwealth Causes is back with their February bourbon raffle. $20,000 worth of bourbon.

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It's amazing they get this every time they do a raffle. They've got this kind of a package. I'm going to see if this is today. She's coming. Yeah, it's today. All right. Okay. So at 1130, Georgia Amor will be here. I'm glad I reminded myself. She might have just walked in and I would have gone, wow, what are you doing? You came for lunch? And then I would remember that she's supposed to do the show. We'll take a break. Be right back. This is KS.R. Last night, a blown call changed the game. This morning, the international.

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All right, what happened? I got a message, you know, we did that little thing yesterday where I did the talk about the Constitution and I put a couple tweets out, etc. I got a message from one of the news networks

that wanted me to come on one of their prime-time shows last night. I'm not going to say which one, but the Fox, CNN, MSNBC, one of those shows, that wanted me to have that conversation from my tweets and from this show. And I said, all right, I'll do that. And they were like, we'll tape it about 8.30. I was like, you can't do it. They're like, what do you can't do?

I was like, Kentucky's playing. And they said, yeah, but this is this show. And I was like, I'm sorry. It's like, Kentucky's playing in Tennessee. And I go, I'll do it tomorrow. And they're like, well, it'll be over tomorrow. And I was like, well, then I won't be on. You couldn't, at 8.30, that's when things were really happening.

You would have missed the most of the crucial points of the game. Exactly. You think I'm going to miss Kobe Brea making those shots to talk about, you know, the executive. Like, I've got, there's a game going on. Forget we the people. Everybody who, like, everybody who, like, tweets me, oh, you're liberal, I know my priorities, okay? First place is beating Kentucky basketball. Yeah, I might be a stinking liberal, but first time I'm a Kentucky fan.

I'm not missing the game to go talk about the Constitution. Come on. There'll be other constitutions. The Constitution's been around a while. Yeah. Alamanoor beat Tennessee. That's exactly. Constitution doesn't need me.

Anzley Almanor needs me. Amen. Did you watch the, during the post game show I watched, did you watch Creighton and Yukon at all? I did not. Okay, so first of all, two things I liked about the Creighton, Yukon. Creighton was playing Yukon in Omaha. It was at 9 o'clock.

They decided to have dollar beer night. Oh, boy. So the crowd was, by the end of the game, I was like, these people are going to have to be escorted out of here. I mean, Omaha hadn't seen that excitement since they started making those stakes there. I mean, that was the last time. Then, Yukon wins, Danny Hurling. Like, it's good for the sport he's there.

I think he's a jerk, but it is good for the sport to have him. need villain coaches. We need somebody like that. He walks off the court and people are yelling at him. He won. They won the game. They're yelling at him. And he just looks up at the crowd and goes, two rings, beep-de-beep.

Two rings. And then he looks at the guy in the crowd and goes, shut up, baldy. Wait a minute. Danny Hurley, who himself has no hair, says, shut up baldy. I thought, like, the dude just has no, I don't know if he has no self-awareness or if he doesn't care, but, like, yelling shut up baldy to the guy in the crowd. When you yourself are bald is a pretty astounding move, Drew. Yeah, I saw that clip.

He was doing well with the two rings. Stick with that point. The bald on bald crime, his whole argument went out the window there. And they asked him after the game, they said, you know, hey, you yelled two rings and shut up bald. D. Do you think that was a good thing to do? And his answer was, yes, I just wish there were more people to hear it because they all left. It's like he just doubles down.

On some level, you almost have to respect what a jerk he is. It would not have worked here, by the way. It just would not have worked here. But he is kind of, he's like the perfect Yukon coach in some ways. We need a villain. We need somebody like that. I think in college basketball, too, we can. Everybody, Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky, all can gain.

The only thing that would be better is if he was at Duke. Like, if he was doing that stuff at Duke, it would be like even more. But Yukon, I mean, you know, you and I've had interactions with Yukon fans over the years. Like, if you're got, a dude like that is kind of perfect for Yukon. Yeah, my original KSR name, someone had like Drew's bloody lip. That's from a Yukon game. Yeah, I thought about you when I went to the hockey game. So people may not remember this, but many years ago, Drew and I went to, was it Kentucky Yukon Walsier or a different year?

It was the Wall year. in Madison Square Garden. And if you've ever been to Madison Square Garden, for a modern, like for an arena that's historic, the way you get up and down is really like old school and kind of bizarre. It's like these elevators, and it's a very condensed space. I mean, you would think you were in the, like, you would not think you were in the world's most famous arena

when you get up and down. And Drew, you got punched in the crowd, right? And then we were trying to walk out, and I think you were still angry about, having been punched in the crowd. So there was more mouthing going on. And you can't get away. The problem is you're stuck.

Yeah. And there were a lot more Yukon fans than there were Kentucky fans. And you and I hadn't been working together that long at that point. I was there with my roommate. But I was with you on the way out, and I was like, this dude's going to get me beat up in the middle of Madison Square. Let me defend my. I've told this before. I was with a young woman, and they called her something we don't say.

And I turned around. I was like, hey, man, keep it on me. Don't call her that again. And he said, oh, blank. And I was like, I wish you hadn't have done that. And at that point, me and my friend, we made a decision. That may have been how it started. But later on in the walkway, I don't know how it started, but there were a lot of people yelling.

And I thought to myself this. It wasn't just me. I watched, and people there were know it. I've talked to people that I didn't know back then that saw it. I watched an elderly man. I don't mean someone like 50. I mean this guy was at least 75, 80. He got completely sucker punched by a college kid and just, far.

holding him in Madison Square Garden. They were in there hitting everybody. There were fights on the subway. We saw someone reach in and punch a Kentucky fan as the door were closed and he took off running. That's why I will always hate Yukon. So Danny Hurley is the perfect coach for that group. Perfect coach. I think he fits in well with him.

Who's up next? It's going to Brian. Brian. Go ahead, Brian. Yeah, I just want to make a quick comment about Trent Noah. One of the big things that I absolutely love about that guy's game is his effort. he comes in defensively. He's in a guarding position, clapping,

and I think that that plays a big row into defense and the offense kind of mentality. And I really think that I'm not saying that he takes Kobe Bray's place or anything like that, but when they need that energy and that spark, he's definitely a guy that can help produce that for this team. I mean, he's done a great job. I mean, he's done a great job.

I appreciate the call. The injuries, I think really the injuries, Takar kind of opened up his opportunity to get minutes, and he's been able to take it. Let me ask you, though, about injuries in general. Like, you know, you heard the comments last night about Robinson and Butler. Are you feeling like we will get a healthy Robinson and Butler for March? I absolutely think they'll be back for March. I don't think we're going to see him anytime soon.

And we all saw what happened to Butler. You know, he was hustle play, diving for a loose ball, but then that shoulder kind of got twisted up underneath him. tell you to tweaked it immediately. That worries me he may be out for longer than Robinson. Robinson's wrist may be something like after a week, he might be coming back. Yeah. Yeah, as long as I'm at the point now, as long as they're here in March.

Right. As long as they're here in March, I mean, I'd love to have them in this regular season, but we need them in March because our ceiling is low without them. I'm not saying they can't win a game or two, but like we got to have them to be consistently get six, four straight wins, right? But I did feel good that Pope said pretty definitively that he thought they would be ready in March. Yeah, I agree with you all.

If they need to rest them rest of your tournament seating is good. Lennardi even before last night called him a lock. I know some Kentucky fans were worried long term. I mean, if you got to go to a Missouri or play some of these games without them, the March postseason run is much more important. Yeah, I mean, I think you're exactly right. You might say if we played them both, we'd beat Texas, but I'd rather take the loss at Texas and keep them healthy

than risk losing one of them for the year to try to win that game. I think the South Carolina game was a must win. You know, maybe the Vandy game next week's a must win. But this Saturday, it's really more important to me that we keep this team healthy. Although I definitely want to win, we need to keep them healthy. Keep them healthy because those two guys are the two main factors for us to maybe do something in March. So we need them both as healthy as possible. One of my buddies who's married woman says,

I too almost got in a fist fight that night versus Yukon. I feel Drew's pain. I've been to a lot of sporting events. I've never seen anything like that game in the garden. There were fights everywhere. Yeah. They are a nasty lot. All right, we'll take a break.

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