KSR - 2025-11-12- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: November 12, 2025

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Now, here's Matt Jones. Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Wednesday, November 12th. I'm Matt Jones here at the KS Bar and Grill, where it is Wings Day. You know, sad game, but you could cheer yourself up with some dollar wings or, uh, I don't know, we almost got rid of all the makers marked glasses. I don't know if we're saving them for another event. But we are here.

Love to see you. Give us to Shal and Clark's Puppet Shop phone line 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass Text Machine is 772-7-7-4-25-4 in this edition. It's sponsored by a T.J. Smith Law Office. You call T.J. I'll make them pay. Cats lose last night in a disappointing game in Louisville, 96 to 88. I was up on the post-game show talking about it. you can listen to that. We actually had really good calls breaking up, probably the most

X and O post-game show we've had. Mario and I were at the game. I'll just give a couple quick thoughts and then pass it to you guys since you haven't got to talk about it, Ryan. Amazing atmosphere at the game. I mean, that was, that's probably, that's probably as good an atmosphere they've had in Louisville in 10 years. I mean, it was, it was loud pre-game. People were in there. A lot of Kentucky fans made the trip. Low arena was 95% Louisville, but you get in the up arena, and there was a lot of Kentucky fans up there. A lot of blue up in the upper arena. So it was a cool environment.

It was exciting without being like hostile like it used to be, except for one or two, you know, examples of people saying punches were thrown. You know, it went from when I used to go to those games and it would be blank you, Matt, to, I. The student section all told me I was number one. Well, that's nice. Which I thought was very nice of them to say. For Louisville, it was like all the, it was like their royalty in the crowd. Obviously, I saw you said Donovan Mitchell's was on TV a little bit. Was he there?

I didn't see, do they show him a lot? Maybe 45 times. Yeah. They had a ton of former players. It was a great environment. And it was, I would say, probably the hardest environment at Kentucky will play in all year. I don't think they'll get in a more wild environment. than that. Basketball-wise, you know, for 30 minutes, I thought we played really, really poorly.

Last 10 minutes, I actually thought Kentucky played pretty good. Wish they'd done better down the stretch in those last three minutes. But you go from the 10-minute mark to three-minute mark. Kentucky showed, in my opinion, how they can be a really, really good team. But it was interesting who was on the floor during that period of time, not necessarily who you would have thought. I'll give you my quick takeaways. First of all, um, negative. Really disappointed in the game. Really disappointed our defense. Let's start with that.

Defense is just awful. For 30 minutes awful. And honestly in the first half, atrocious, got a little better in the second half, but just atrocious in the first half. We gave up 51. It could have been 60. You know, I mean, they got every shot they wanted. Very disappointed in Otago away. I mean, I don't, I don't know.

It just doesn't look like the same. guy. I don't know if it's something, I don't know if when he was going through the NBA process, people were saying to him, hey, you got to shoot more threes, you got to whatever. But the guy that went and tacked the basket and drew fouls and all that, it's just, we haven't seen that guy yet this year. I liked, Denzel Aberdeen was great. I liked the way Lowe played most of the game, really bad decision-making in the last three minutes. That's got to be better. Brandon Garrison, man, we got to work on his defense. Field of 68 was talking about, I was listening to their podcast driving from Louis

this morning, five straight possessions early in the game where we gave up shots, four of which they made, open threes, and they put all of them on Brandon Garrison on his decision-making. I haven't seen the clip, but they put him all on Brandon Garrison saying he was in the wrong place, didn't know where he was going, et cetera, cut off one time knocked Aberdeen so he couldn't go. the guy, got to be better. And then, you know, I put a little bit on Pope. It took him too long to realize we needed to go small. It took him too long.

We were out there fighting with guys. We had three guys who couldn't shoot on the floor a lot of the time. And then once he said, okay, let's go low, Aberdeen Chandler, hey, let's put Cam Williams in. Then all of a sudden, look like a different team a little bit. So I put it, I think he'd got, and he said that after game. It took him too long to change his coaching on that. He got out-coached by Pat Kelsey yesterday.

So that's my take. What about yours? The pace was insane. I mean, that pace was insane. And this Louisville handled it better than Kentucky did, where they had 20 assists and only six turnovers. Yeah, they had 20 and 6. We had 14 assists, 14 turnovers.

I mean, that's the game right there, honestly. You could just summarize it in that. And I think our defense didn't handle the pace very well. You're right. Our defense, which I thought was, remember I said, elite, elite, elite, did not look elite yet. Not in transition. No. Awful.

Anytime they got in transition, they would either give up a wide open shot immediately, Drew, or in secondary transition, give up a shot. Yeah, I have a very long list of complaints, but my two biggest in the reason they lost the game, you both hit them there a little bit, was the turnovers and the points off turnovers, which you just said,

and then their best player showed up, and our best player, I'm not even sure, got on the bus. I said on the pregame show, you cannot let Brown be the best player tonight, or it'll be game over, because his best is probably better than every other one's best. Well, he was by far the best. And the preseason SEC player of the year, I'll be honest, when he committed a foul at the end,

I was hoping it was his fifth and it was his fourth. I was like, I honestly wanted him to foul out because he was hurting them on both ends. He just didn't seem to be in the game at any moment. It is not a good sign. Two things. One, that our best frame, like our best time frame of the game, our two senior leaders were both not in. O.A and Diabate. And our two

worst plus minus guys were O'A and Diabate. Like that's not a good sign. A minus 16's crazy for O'A. O'A was minus 16. DeAvote was like minus 11. I mean O'Awe's minus 16. When we made the best, the best lineup that was on

the floor was Lowe, Aberdeen, Chandler Williams, and then either Moreno or Garrison. That was the best lineup. When they brought O'A in, we'd give up points again. I'm shocked about how he played last night. I didn't think we'd have a game all season where he

would be removed from the lineup in a late game situation. I thought he was too valuable with this team what they do. But Pope took him out because he was hurting him. The Hardy dude did a great job defensively on him, but not when you're your best player, you've got to step up and make plays. Well, and he also, I mean, first he took bad threes. He did. But then

it was clear he didn't want to take him, and he was like giving up an open three to shoot a contested mid-range. I which is not his game at all. I was just, I was really, really, some of the other weaknesses I could foresee. I could have foreseen Garrison's not great in a pick and row. I could have foreseen Lowe may take bad shots down the stretch. You know, I could have foreseen maybe we'll go cold.

I just didn't foresee like O.A. At times being like the worst player on the floor. He needs lanes for his office. Yes, he does. He's got a little bit Archie Goodwin in him. He lowers that head and gets to the rim, but it was working last year. but that's because they had shooters around him where he had the lane. When they're clogging up the paint last night and the ball sticking,

he doesn't have an offense, but that was only part of his problems. He wasn't guarding. He had five turnovers. Yeah. Either McNeely or Cromwell hit a three at the top of the key in the second half, wide open, and Oway had just gotten lost and kind of threw his arms up. It was his man. So it wasn't just that the offense wasn't helping him out and giving him opportunities.

He seemed like he wasn't even engaged in anything. Really surprising. Because I don't remember him having a game like that even last year either. I've said all year, I said during the summer, he can't be our best player. He just can't because I don't. I love that he was first team preseason this, SEC player of the year. I wasn't going to pick him for that just because I just don't think he's that guy. I think he's a great second option.

But like one of these guys, whether it's low, whether it's Aberdeen, whether it's, they're going to have to be our primary score, and he's got to be second. But he can't be like non-existent, which is. what he was for a lot of the game yesterday. And a net negative. It wasn't just that he scored 12 points, but he was a net negative. Five turnovers. Five turnovers, man.

You can't be five fouls. So he had five miss three. One for six from three. Five turnovers. Foules. I mean, look, if you put it a different way, you go one for six from three. You miss five threes. You have five turnovers.

You've just given them ten runouts. Now throw on all your fouls. That's ten runouts, right? And then the fouls. You just can't do that. And that's your player of the year. I never would have projected that that could even possibly not. one time all season long.

You know, with the media practice, Josiah, I remember he told me, said, Dad, his shot is broke. It's worse. It's worse. Yeah. Like, he now does this thing where, like, he moves it in front of his face. He did that a little last year, but it seems a lot more kind of, it's. I agree.

It's worse. And, yeah, I was, I was disappointed. And I was disappointed. I mean, Popes, he got out coached. Now, he's a smart guy. Last 10 minutes, they switched. They changed. They got to where they needed to be, and I think if we were to play Louisville again tonight,

you'd see that line up a lot more. Yeah. But he taught me a new word last night. What's that? Dumb effort. What do you mean? That's two words. Phrase.

Tell me a new phrase. I'd never heard that phrase used before, dumb effort. Okay. Well, he's right. I don't think we didn't try. We just were in the wrong place over and over and over. over and over and over. And again, they got, they fixed that in the second half,

but I think it just took too long, Drew. And when they were switching everything, Louisville was getting the matchup they wanted, that a lot of times involved Brandon Garrison. Yes, it did. That wasn't helping. They changed that up a little bit in the second half. I know we all had memories of Duke and Gonzaga,

like, well, maybe Pope just likes to get in a hole. That one was, that 13-0 run. That did them in the first half. I know we had a little bit of hope to get within four. That even felt like Fool's gold to me. The four three-pointers, that was nice. but, I mean, Chandler pulled up from five feet. Aberdeens was contested.

Williams hits like his first through the year. It wasn't like the offense found something. Those guys all just hit shots. So even when they got back in it, I didn't feel like they were ever really stood a chance. Well, there was one moment. When Lowe got the tie up and we go to break and we have the ball and it's a four-point game. And then he drives. He gets fouled.

I said this last night. He was passing to Chandler for a three. I wish they hadn't called the foul. Chandler was wide open in the corner. I'd like to have seen him take that shot because that could have cut it to one. And if he shoots that three and makes it, that crowd, because that crowd was getting nervous, you could just tell. They were saying on the broadcast. You could tell the crowd was getting nervous.

And I think if they had made that shot, but then they call the foul and then Lowe misses the free throw, that was tough. Because Aberdeen had just missed a one-and-one like right before that. I mean, those are four points right there. If your two guards got to hit those free throws. I hated lows three in transition. Even though they were hot, I think he had numbers. They were getting downhill. He was probably going to draw a foul.

Their big man was backpedaling. I feel like it could have gotten an easy two if he'd kept going. That's the first thing I said to you guys. You walked in. I screamed at the TV at that position last night. You cut it four. You've got the ball. Your point guard has it.

Instead of running any offense, making some execution, he jacked up a three from the logo. I didn't like it. He made two missing that free throw and doing that was bad. With that said, we ain't even in the game, if not for him. Like, the offense without him is a cluster. Now, the offense with him, if he shoots too much, is. But, like, you know, at the beginning of the game, some of that,

you could remember the first couple minutes, and then they put him in and they score. You immediately had a couple alley-hoop lobs as soon as he came to the game. What happened, by the way, we did a great job early in the game at getting Biggs, dunks. Yes. And that just went away. It just completely. went away. They brought in with Khalifa's dad that came out there. Why do you keep saying that?

Just because he's the only person who's last name Khalifa. He's a BYU. Yeah. Caliph and he looks like he's 45 years old. He does. He moves like it too, but he actually played okay. Yeah. Pope loves him. I do think that headband might be doing some help for the hairline. That's seem a little older than most players. Doing strong work.

To their credit. I mean, your boy Frue had some big dunks. Frue. After we make all that fun of fru. My guy Ruth's didn't really play much. I mentioned him in the pregame. Yeah. But it was all. Prior didn't do a lot after talking. Brown and Conwell, they're great. 54 combined or 53 combined.

Well, they had the two best players on the floor. I mean, at the end of the game, if you put two even teams next to each other, and then they have the two best players, they're going to win. And that's what happened. I mean, we, some ways we're lucky to only lose by you. I don't know. I don't fully believe that. They were getting ready to run us off the court there for a minute.

Twice. So how many times do teams miss. seven straight free throws at the end of the game, and we got zero points off of that. That is crazy for a team to miss seven straight, and we did nothing. But they were up 18, they were up 18 once and 20 later, and we still, and both times we fought back, so that's a good sign. But, you know, Pope sounded dejected after the game, and he should have. That was a bad performance, and what's a little concerning is if you were to have said to me

after the game, who are the three players that disappointed you the most? I probably would have said Oway, Diabate, and Garrison. That's it. And that should be your three that are the most solid. You know, road rivalry game, those are three that I think show up looking for a fight. They're engaged and they weren't. And they were probably our three most disappointing players on the floor. 859-280-2287.

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Welcome back, Tech Sports Radio. Let's get some text, message comments. One person writes, Matt, are you worried long term about the team or just disappointing the game? more disappointed than worried long term. I mean, I think they're going to be all right, but I also think they've got to get some stuff set. I mean, I like low at the one, Aberdeen at the two, but if we get games like that from O.A, you're going to have to start playing Chandler at the three.

I don't care what the NIL is for everybody else, right? Same thing for Moreno and Garrison. I mean, you know, we're getting close to me saying Moreno needs to be starting, which I would have never imagined. Especially right. And maybe more minutes for Yelovic. He probably slid his feet better against McEl Brown than anybody on a couple of those switches. He had two great possessions guarding.

He came off the bench, give him a spark in the first half. Cam Williams came off the bench, give him a spark in the second half. I like Aberdeen at the two because I think it allows him to find his offense. And you kind of have two guys who can distribute and lead. So I like having those guys in at the same time. Yeah, he turned it on and had one of the higher scoring games Kentucky's had in the rivalry, but I'll admit after back-to-back airballs, which were in that 13-0 run, I was pretty tired of seeing him too.

Now, he started making him after that, but he had a rough stretch there. He did have a rough stretch. Jasper had some rough stretch. We shot, how many air balls did we shoot? Aberdeen had three air-ball threes on his own. And that one stretch you're talking about, he had them back-to-back-to-back. Yeah, and then another one later. How do you end up with, how do you, if you're Aberdeen, either make it or it's an airball?

We're four for ten, three were air balls. And, you know, we all want Jasper to do well, but we kept hearing about he and Brown in the same class, know each other, teammates. Brown looked like he's on another level. Yeah, no, he is. I think he took four threes, but none of them looks like even close. A brief appearance for him last night. I don't understand why we went under screens so much last night. I mean, we went under screens.

I don't know what that game playing was or if guys just didn't read it right. But, I mean, how many? We stopped that doing that in the second half, but in the first half, we didn't stop. We went under all, and was just giving up shot after shot after shot. They don't even have good bigs. McNeely, when they did that a couple times with him, man. How do you leave him? He can do one thing.

That's it. Make him beat you off the dribble. Plus, we're so long down low. Make them score over us. If they do, shake their hand and say, okay. Yeah, if Frue, who just got to college basketball was like, wow, this robbery's crazy. If he's in there beating you, all right. Yeah.

Good job, Frue. I mean, McCale Brown beats us at the rim, fair enough. But then make these other guys beat us at the rim. Don't let them shoot threes. And to Louisville's credit, it didn't help that they had an answer every single time Kentucky did something. Especially at the end when we were dreaming a little bit, that three-point play. That was a huge play. That was playing the game.

And who ended up on him, Garrison? I think they switched. Yeah. I mean, any time McHale Brown's got the ball and there's a pick and roll and it's low in Garrison, it's over. Like, Pope, like, they need to make it to where there's a universal, we cannot make low on Brown. You know, just say to Aberdeen or O'A, you do not leave him no matter what, because they kept in and up with that. And he's just not going to be able to guard him.

It kind of reminds me of Kobe Braya last year in some ways, the different players, but there's just guys Kobe Brea couldn't guard. Lowe's not going to be able to guard a dude like Mikhail Brown. And why not put Diabate to 5 when you're in a late game situation like that? He was bad, though. He guard one through five. He can. He can.

But he also, I mean, he made some terrible reason. That's why he wasn't in at the end. Quaintance can't get back soon enough. I truly believe some of their layups would have ended up in the third row of Quintners in the game. Because Garrison's just not a shot blocker, and that's where he specializes. We just got to win the football game now. That's all we need to win the football game and forget it. That would be hilarious.

That's what you're waiting on. Two weeks, a little over two weeks, bring on the football game. All right, so we play Michigan State on Tuesday. Completely different team. Like, more like Purdue than like Louisville. do you feel good about that game I do they don't shoot very well now it is in New York I hope we're not

doing the whole the whole team gets engaged in Central Park and we go see Lynn Manuel all right we can do that later I like that too but this is a business trip let's get focused and go win a New York City game against a team that can't shoot I'm glad they had their Christmas party last year I love New York Christmas too

yeah we did we show it up last year Ohio State smoked them after everyone had their holiday vacation You know, I really thought we would have trouble against a team like Purdue, but then they proved me wrong in that exhibition game. So I'm not worried about playing teams like that. I'm more worried about teams now that are played like Alabama and Louisville. So part of the thing, I said this towards the very end of the post game show last night.

A caller made this point. He made a really good point. All right. So last year, I firmly believe if you're trying to figure out how this Kentucky team ended up, you've got to go back to last year. And specifically, you got to go back to the three games against Alabama. because I think we could have played Alabama 30 times last year and not one, right? We just could not guard them.

And I think Mark Pope, after being years at BYU and Utah Valley and playing Big 12 teams, he kind of saw those Alabama games. I mean, he said this to me back in the spring. We got to get a team of guys who can play in that game. Yep. Right. Because we actually, in those Alabama games, if you go back, shot the ball pretty well, just to stay. in it. So I think he built

this roster thinking about playing against the Alabama type teams. Louisville's one of those teams. Yes, it is. Right? They're one of those teams this year. So you build a roster to guard those guys. And you so inevitably lose a little shooting, maybe lose a little offense,

but the idea is I am not going to let them score 100 points on a season. And then we didn't even guard them. That's what's frustrating to me. You built your roster to have a shot in games like that and you sacrificed offense to try to guard teams like that and then we didn't guard them any better than we did last year drew and that's frustrating

yeah i mean looks like we've given up a little bit of shooting to help out on defense but if the end result is still the same i'd rather just go back to checking up three yeah a better chance of making them we've played the game of who would you take from last year's team put on this team a few times. After last night, I'm changing my pick to Lamont Butler and some defense in the back court. Also, Lamont Butler killed Louisville last year. But those guards were missing a sturdy defender in the back court last night. Aberdeen and O'A should be good defenders. That's why they're here in some ways. I think O'ways was just, he wasn't there. Did not look like he was given full energy. Louisville was playing like they were on fire, and Kelsey deserves credit for that.

And O'A. looked kind of like going through the motions a little bit. Someone on Twitter is like He looks like he's aura farming out there and just trying to look cool. I know that's probably saying. What do you say? Or a farming? Ora farming? Just like, look at me out here. I'm just, I'm Otega Owey.

I'm the player of the year over here. Look at me. But a lot of guys are out there a little more hungry and fighting. I've never heard the phrase aura farming. That's what you do. Do you plant seeds? Have you seen the kid on the canoe? You know, Mario, what's his name?

He's aura farming. He canoes? Aren't you the TikToker? Yeah, but I don't go into the aura farming now. Look it up. That's what Oway was doing a little bit. Trying to be a little too cool when a lot of guys were hungry and playing with energy trying to actually do something. I did think a lot of our other guys did play hungry and energy.

I mean, I did think Aberdeen, Lowe, Chandler, Moreno. You know, I did think those guys were playing. Even Garrison was not playing well, but he was playing with energy. But there was a sense for me that, like, nine of them were full speed, and then O.A. was kind of, I don't know. He was aura farming. He was o'er farming. He was o'er farming. He was canoeing.

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Now, more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio, 859, 280, 2287. One person writes, Matt, I was at the game. I saw all the students flipping you off. You waved at them, and they didn't know what to do.

Yeah, I just went, but I acted like they were saying. I just went, yeah, well, thank you. I am number one. So no issues with you, though, inside? No, I thought it was actually, people were a lot nicer to me than they used to be. It shows you time heals all wounds. Yeah. Right?

They saw a lot of people I hadn't seen in a long time. Saw Shannon's guy, Jerry Eves. Yep. Jerry. Se. Brown, like a lot of people from back in the day that I, the only person didn't talk to, Pat 40 still didn't really seem to want to talk to me. You see Vince? I did.

I saw Vince. I saw Vince. Vince was set a little part of the game by. the UK pitch. What color was he wearing red? He was wearing red, but I think he was barely. Neutral? Purple.

Yes. Yeah, I think he was like, he was got a half into it. I did see Mario take his camera up in the Louisville cheering section. Yeah, I look up, Mario's in the Louisville student section. I was like, Deb Moore at UK was like, watch him. Be careful. We can't protect him. Get him out of there.

So I kicked the UK kid out. So I don't know who this kid is, but let me give a shout out to this kid. A kid went in the U of L student section. One kid in blue And apparently did not have a ticket for that Like he wasn't even a U of L student He was just like I'm gonna sit in a U of L student section With the UK shirt and he was like

And they kicked him out But I give him credit for trying That's a boss move. You know what I mean? Just he wasn't a U.S. student that's a UK fan He just went in there and was like I'm a student now I like that. It's my spirit animal

You know, at the football game was it two years ago where we won at Louisville, there was that one UK fan doing L's Downs. That's one of the great videos of all time, yeah. Yeah, I still think about that guy. I hope he's doing well. He represented us well at their stadium. He's a GIF or whatever online. You can look him up.

If you look about L's Down, I think he's the first person that comes up. Well, the poor kid that Mario went to interview in the student section last night looked like he was scared to death for a little while. He should have been. They were the rowdyest people. They were, their student section was good last night. I mean, listen, they had a really good, they had a really good atmosphere the entire time. I mean, it was, you know, I'm glad we got to do that because we're going to face that in the SEC.

But that'll probably be the best atmosphere we get all year, I would think. 859. They've had there in what, like eight years? How about the first sellout since COVID? That's crazy. That's crazy. They haven't sold a game out since COVID. That's nuts, isn't it?

Yeah. And I don't want to complain about this after the, loss. Luckily, we've been complaining about since it started, but I, even today, hate the game being where it was. I mean, credit to them, it still matters. We got to hold our L, but it would still be better down the road, because we're just, there's too much going on right now. It snuck up on us, and then we're going to move on to the next football is still here. I wish the game was isolated further in the season. Shannon, this is probably for you as a Louisville guy. It was interesting to me, because I did the pregame show at the studio, which for people who don't know,

that's on 4th Street, right? Yeah. And so, Mario and I left the studio to walk to the game. And 4th Street was as dead as anything's ever been. It's dead all the time. All the time. Which you would think before the UK U of L game there'd be people in there. Dead. Dead dead. I saw Gordon Beersh's as closed, even in the last couple weeks.

So dead dead. So I was like, man, poor Louisville downtown. But then it just looks like everything's moved down next to the river, Shannon. Because like all those bars and restaurants down next the river, those two or three streets were packed with people. Down on Market Street, Main Street. That kind of area. Yeah. So that market Main Street, so what used to be people, so people always say downtown's dead.

Four Street is the deadest thing that's ever existed. No clubs there anymore. It's all restaurants now. Nothing. All gone. But that Market Street, Main Street, has new things coming in. So it was interesting, Shannon, just to see how much downtown's changed even in the last few years. Yeah, I mean, Four Street used to be the place to go to.

You had club after club and you would just bounce around from bar to bar, but now it's all restaurants. Guy Fierreys is down here. Like, I Fiery's was dead. Like, it was all dead. But then once you got down close to the arena, it was wild. It was like kind of a cool atmosphere. So, all right, who's up first? Let's go to Cindy.

Cindy, go ahead, Cindy. Hey, thanks for taking my call. I'm Kentucky till I die. Can any of you all tell me if Donovan Mitchell was at the game? He was at the game, yes. I think that was, he was the only one they showed. I think as I didn't want to lose, but I sure got to talk. tired of CNN. And go cats.

I'll see you in New York. Yeah, Ryan, you made a joke about that. You were being Mr. Funny Man online. I think they showed Donovan Mitchell more than he showed Pat Kelsey during the broadcast. And I am not even making, joking about that. They absolutely did. Do you think Mark Pope got out coached? Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to admit.

In-game and just getting them ready. I mean, from the tip, Louisville seemed to want it a lot more. I think Pope finally made some good adjustments, but it waited way too late to do it. That's what. So I feel good that he made the adjustments. We've had coach that would have never made an adjust. True.

We did make an adjust, but it was too late. And I'm not just saying Cam Williams, okay? I mean, I think that was part of it. But, you know, Pope didn't know that Kim Williams hadn't hit a shot all year, so he didn't know he was going to do that. I just mean the idea of spreading it out and going small. Like, we waited way too long to go small. We kept trying to force, like, this Diabate Garrison thing is going to work.

One of those two guys, this is my prediction. One of these two guys ended up on the bench. because I don't think those two dudes, Drew, can play together. I just don't. Against a lot of teams, them playing together just kills our offense. Yeah, and it was the non-shooting lineups for way too long, which we thought we had gotten away from that with the last regime that didn't have enough shooters on the court.

This team, I worry that that'll linger, and that's what hurts O'A, can't get to the lanes. Maybe Trent Noah is the answer, but the shooting has to get more consistent, or this offense is going to continue to be safe. Why didn't Noah play, you think? He said he went through warm-ups with his ankle. Maybe he tweaked it during warm-ups or maybe he just felt like he couldn't.

He would have probably wasn't a great game for him, but, you know, I'd like to have just, it wouldn't have been the worst to say, okay, maybe he could have played that Cam Williams role and been the four just shooting threes. I don't know. What do you think was the most efficient lineup last night? The lineup that I thought was the best was Lowe, Aberdeen, Chandler, Williams Moreno. To me, that was the lineup that was when the team looked the best.

They didn't even play that lineup much, did they? Well, they did down the stretch. Those guys played down the stretch for a while. And then they bring O.A. in and Garrison. They kind of would switch Chandler and Moreno for sometimes putting in O'A and Garrison. But like at the end of the game, Johnson didn't play. No. Diabate didn't play.

I'm with you, though, on the Williams thing. He looked great. Both of his shots had four rebounds in like 10 minutes. You didn't know that was going to have a game. don't pull into Louisville thinking I'm a unleashed family tonight just based on what we've seen now it's great that he did it and hopefully we get more of it but I can't put

Pope on not playing him early just how bad he's looking but I'd like to have seen maybe early in the second half yellow it yellowich I thought I had a good first half so I'd like maybe to see him a little bit instead I just know I knew last night the Diabate Garrison thing was not going to work who's next let's go to Dustin

Dustin go ahead Dustin hey Matt so I have some scum But I'm going to need a Wani Nana. We don't Wani Nana Strangers Scuttlebutt, so you just have to say. All right, all right, all right. So I went to the remote yesterday, guys, and great show. And I did an interview with your media team.

And while I was there, I decided to go to the game. So I went, and after the game, I didn't want to fight traffic, so I went to a bar on Main Street. And so I made some friends with some wool. and Kentucky fans was talking to them. They went outside to smoke, and they were talking to somebody in Kentucky gear. So here's the Scuddle Butt. And so while they're talking to this person in Kentucky gear, they asked how long they were Kentucky fans. Okay, you've got to get to the Scuttle But quicker.

This is a lot of lead in. What's the Scuttle But? Yeah. Okay. So the person said that they're a diehard Louisville fan, but they work for PSR. and they asked well why are you working for KSR and they did the Calzada money and I showed them somebody that it could have you talking about are you talking about are you talking about Olivia that just started could have yes okay all right well there were

pictures of her in Louisville gear in the background check on those yeah well I appreciate to call I don't know you call he's calling people out There he is. Yeah. I think he deserves a whiny-n-na for that. Yeah, with the UK, but I guess that's, well, more disappointment. It's on Mario. Yeah, Mario.

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Text Machine, a couple people calling that caller a narc. Then a couple people saying that's what you get, Matt, when you hire. One person writes, Matt, you once hired a Vandy fan too. But that worked out. Who? Me? You, yeah. What are you talking about?

I mean, I've been a Kentucky fan, but I've always disclosed that I was a Vanderbiltel fan. I didn't pretend that I wasn't. I know, but the point was when I got you, you were a Vandy fan. you've come around. Sure, but I was also a Kentucky fan as a kid growing up. I liked both teams. Yeah. He grew up one to play for Bob Knight.

That's true. You're in Indiana fan. Drew and I are the only true fans on this show. Yeah, but I was a kid, I was definitely going to play point guard for Bob Knight. No doubt about it. Look at that. And you, who did you like when you were a kid? No, just, no, teams.

Okay, you can't pause. What's the answer? Kentucky. Okay. All right. So we have Florida. I think Billy was a Florida fan. Billy was a Florida fan.

Billy was a Florida. He was a fan when he was younger. Yeah. It's right. But so, you know, hopefully you end up winning him over. One person writes, Matt, the biggest upset of last night was not Louisville beating Kentucky. It was that you were the best dancer on the twist video. Truth.

We've said, believe it or not. I've told you all. Nobody believe me. I've seen you dance. You've got rhythms. I knew you'd be the best one. Ranking them, I think I would probably go, this is just objectively. Me one, Drew two, Mario 3, Ryan 4.

Shannon, you were the worst. I put no effort into it. Which is crazy because you're in a band. You would think you would be... Well, I don't do you chubby checkers the twist when we're up on stage. You would think you would at least have rhythm. I do. I just wasn't putting any effort into the video.

People were asking about the face you were making when you did your... Well, I was doing... A couple people... I said that too. Wait a minute. A couple people recognized that was Vincent Vega from... Pulp Fiction. That's the face he's making when he's doing the...

When he's doing the Jack Rabbit Slim Twist contest. It looked like you had a tummy. issue or something. No, I mean, that was, I was, a couple of people got the reference in the thing. But Shannon was disappointed. All these people wrote me, Mario, and they're like, oh, we didn't know you were, I told you, I've told people. It wasn't that good. Slow down, first of all. It was good. I mean, Janet Reno was talking about your dancing for 30 years. First of all, I think she's passed away. Rest in peace. Rest in peace, Janet Reno. Your dance partner. Yes. One person writes, Matt, now after this game, we have five games left

against power non-conference teams, how many do we win? All right, so Michigan State, North Carolina, Indiana, St. John's. Who's our other one? Gonzaga. What's our record in those five games? I had us said undefeated in the non-conference, so I'm already a lot off of my prediction. I feel better about Michigan State. I think they'll respond.

They don't have shooters. The St. John's, when I'm looking to, is the potential hell still. I mean, they play like Louisville. Yeah. You know, I mean, they're going to be a lot like Louisville. Probably not quite as athletic, but maybe better shooters than Louisville. And Pope, I don't care of what he says, looking over and seeing Rick Petino, has to get in his head just a little bit.

I mean, that was his coach. I know he's going to want to win it, but that will affect him seeing his old boss over there. I must say we win the two home games, Indiana and North Carolina. I think we beat. I think we lose the St. John's. and then we'll split Gonzaga and Michigan State. I think we need to beat Michigan State. Of all those teams, they're the worst one,

and that's who we play next week. So I think that becomes a very important game for us next week. Gonzaga, didn't they, like, kill Creighton last night? Maybe by 30. Yeah. Yeah, Gonzaga maybe is better than I thought. I'm with you. I think they'll go three and two in these last five games.

But I think North Carolina just lost one of their stars or something. Didn't one of their star players just out for the season or something? Who? I don't know. I thought I heard him say that last night. Jay Billis was talking about it. Gonzaga? North Carolina.

Oh, yeah, Seth Trimble. He broke his arm lifting weights. Did you read that story? I saw it sort of weight room malfunctioned. It said like the something, the bench or whatever collapsed and then collapsed on his arm and broke it. That's what it was. Yeah, that looked it. That seemed awful.

The headline I saw was vague, but it suggested that there was an equipment. It took four people to lift off of him, whatever it was that fell on his arm. Why is a basketball player lifting that much weight anyway? I don't know. Football player. But, I mean, if it takes four guys to lift it off of you, that's... All right, who's of weights? Me too.

That's why. Who's up next? Leave them where they're at. Justin. Yeah, who needs to move them? Justin, go ahead, Justin. Two statements. I have a question.

I've never been to a little of Kentucky game until last night, but you said that inside it wasn't that bad. And I agree, but I was standing outside and probably got five things thrown at me. before I even went in the door, so I thought that was crazy. Oh, wait me, you had people throwing things at you outside? Yeah, fireball, two Gatorade and two beer cans. Well, let me ask you questions, just out of curiosity. Were you saying anything or you were just standing there silently? Just standing there.

You're standing next to recycling bin? That just sounds like a bunch of trash. Yeah, wow. Well, I'm sorry you had to deal with that. That feels like a little aggressive on their part. and then I thought obviously O'Way not playing good but like I thought Louisville took advantage of the matchup problems that we had and then we never did because like Neely couldn't guard

anybody on the court and it just seemed like we didn't put him any and then I think that's a great point I mean they would get McNeely I would have said anytime Low Aberdeen or Oway is one-on-one with McNeely clear them out and take them to the basket. And we didn't do that. And I don't know why exactly, because you're right. You've got to take advantage of that if he's going to be in. Yeah, and then my question is, it didn't have anything to do with the end result,

but do you know why they didn't review the out of bounds in the last minute? It was a close play, and they just never went to. I think you have to have a challenge, don't you even in the last two? Oh, excuse me. So in the last two minutes, they will review, as I understand it, and I could be wrong about this, this isn't the new rule. They'll review everything except out of bounds. The out of bounds, you still have to have a challenge because they didn't want to get to what they had last year where they were reviewing every single out of bounds play at the end of the game. So I think in the last two minutes, the ref can initiate a challenge, but on out of bounds, you still have to have the one from the game.

Okay, well, I didn't know they changed that. Appreciate it to call. Yeah, I mean, because you remember, last year they were getting the point in the last two minutes, they just reviewed every single play out of bounds, and I think they're getting rid of that. So refs can initiate a challenge in the last two minutes, but it has to be like a goaltend or a charge or something like that. It can't be an out of bounds. And Popad already used his challenge and lost, so he didn't have any left.

That was a bad challenge. And what's bad is he uses the challenge, and then I think on the next play, we would have won the challenge, and he used it on the wrong one. On the one he challenged in real time, I even thought it was Louisville's ball. I was like, what are you doing? Then we needed one replay to know that they had it right. They may have to have somebody just with like a little TV over there looking because he, that would end up being, and that ended up being a big play because literally with a minute left, they might have been able to get that there.

I think that would have been a huge turnaround for Kentucky. They were able to have had that challenge and win it and get the ball back. By the way, sitting there in the first half, this is another thing. It was clear the refs were letting them play. Now, in the second half, I thought they called it a lot closer. But in the first half, they were letting them play, and Louisville just was more physical than we were. Like, they were on drives to the basket, they were hitting our guys and were not getting fouls, and then we weren't hitting them back.

You know, we were, that changed a little bit in the second half. But in the first half, very few foul calls, and I don't think Kentucky match. You got to play to the way the referees are calling the game. And that's where Otega excels. That's his game, man. Yeah, that's true. Taking contact and finishing. That's a great point.

When he sees that, he should be like, all right, this is my time. Yeah. And it, and it's because we, I was sitting, I was actually in the Louisville player family section. What? I know. It was kind of odd. And one of the players, families, I won't say which ones, said they listen to our show every day. Oh.

So I actually think you all entertaining. Thank you to the Frus. Hello. Whiz Khalifa's listening. They were, they were the Germans. That's exactly right. We will take a break and come back. We are here at KS Bar.

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