KSR - 2026-02-25- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: February 25, 2026

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Yeah, I did not have a voice last night. It was gone. And now, a little better today. Hopefully, I'm doing a steroid treatment tomorrow. You know, I've diagnosed myself. Yeah, we heard this. First, the Clark's pumping shop phone line is 859-280-2287. A-Vision Autoglass Text Machine, 772-742-25-4.

In this edition, sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office, if you call DJ, I'll make them pay. I believe, Ryan, you have two vocal cords. Am I right about that? I'm not aware. Are you a doctor, ma'am? you work for a doctor, so she's basically a doctor. She can confirm. I think my right one is working.

Okay. My left one is weak. The left one's letting you down. And the left one, I think, does my high volume. Like the high pitch, and the right one does the low volume. So the right one is working, but then when I try, no, this is how it works, ma'am. You may not, you weren't there that day when they taught this. and then the left one

when I try to go well then it doesn't work your left court is your doof and smirts core yeah that's my doof and schmerts cord and it's not working right now and so it's only the other one so doof and smirts on the IR today gotta keep a low voice

it's going to be like you know late deep sexy voice man I didn't ask you this is going to be like you know late night with Matt Jones for today

well good looking forward to hear it you do sound much better even though it's still got a little ways to go, there's progress. Well, it's deep. You know, this is the kind of hot talking life. Is it? Well, I think people think sometimes I'll meet somebody, and then they'll hear my show, and they go,

that doesn't sound like you, but it's because it's like, but I'm not going to be able to know today. But you feel fine. It's just your voice messed up. Yeah, I'm a little congested, but I feel fine. I'm not sick. It's weird. Like last night, you know, the game's going on,

and I'm wanting, I'm like, you know, you feel like you could do the shows because I feel fine, but when you can't talk, you can't talk. Like I said, I'm taking a steroid, doing like by Mark McGuire tonight. Okay. And hopefully tomorrow, because I want, you know, if it's like this, I couldn't do the show in Madisonville Friday, which we're, of course, going to your hometown. That's right. Very excited about going to my hometown.

We'll get you back. That steroid sounds like it'll help. I do this about once a year. Again, ma'am, I mean, I can help you. Left vocal cord right. And the left one needs some work. The left one is the high voice vocal cord, according to you. It's science.

Okay. No, no, no, no. Listen, I don't need your facts. I did my own research. I learned from RFK. You do your own research. But you did learn last time or do not drink a lot of water to help. No, no, no.

I mean, don't flood yourself. I've been drinking water because you need to do that. But don't flood yourself like I did a few years ago. Cats win last night. What was the final score? 7364? 7263? 7263.

You know, not the prettiest basketball game in the world, but the key thing, Ryan, was to win, and we did that. Yeah, it was an ugly game, hard to watch, especially that first half. First half, both teams were pretty bad. But they had to win it. Had to, had to, had to. I don't care how ugly it was.

They walked out of there with a win, which is desperately what they needed, our fan base needed, as we head down these last three games of the year. Yeah, that was an ugly game, but before I just said, as Ryan just said, get out of there with a win. I don't care what it looks like. I even predicted it being closer than it was,

so I can't switch up and nitpick. I'm just glad they got out of that losing funk and got out of the bubble talk just by getting a victory, and then we'll worry about what needs to so good fix moving forward. That's the key. The key is now they're in the tournament, right? Like now, I think they could lose every game, and they would be in the tournament. They needed that one.

And I think it's important you won Ryan without O'Rei really playing well. I mean, O'A played bad, and they still won. And I don't know if that would have happened a month ago. You're right. Yeah, with O'A. only scoring eight points. You found a way to win without, you know, South Carolina did a good job on him, shutting him down and keeping him away. but Aberdeen stepped up Diabate

his best game he's played in a long time he stepped up they had some guys step up we still had some guys to struggle but some guys Chandler hit another big shot I mean he had like two threes the first three of the game then the big shot at the end of the game Aberdeen and Diabate

to me won him the game they did Aberdeen hit the threes in the first half when we just could not score and then Diabate in the last six or eight minutes making big plays and then Chandler obviously hits the big shot. He didn't play great, but he hit the shot at the beginning of the game

and the one at the end of the game that I thought were big. Yeah, Aberdeen and Chandler helped make up for O.A. Aberdeen especially, but I thought the big difference was they finally got help from the four with Yellovich more so in the first half than Diabate in the second. They combined for like 23, 24 points. I think that was a big help, and if they're going to put together any kind of run, they're going to need more of that from those guys because the guards just need help, and they finally got it last night. Did you, you know, when they, did you ever think we were going to lose? I felt like South Carolina was so bad. There's no way they're going to lose the game.

I mean, it was uncomfortably close for a while, and we struggled, but I thought South Carolina is just a bad basketball team. So, no, Andrew Cuyalli. I mean, South Carolina, first of all, Shannon, there was a little child on South Carolina. Yeah, there was. And people tell me that guy's famous. Did you know that? What's he famous for?

Being a little child. He, what is his name, Ellis? That's what you're talking about that guy. Why is he famous? I didn't know he was famous. I just couldn't believe he was in the SEC. When I tweeted about, I didn't even mention his name,

but there were people like, put respect on Eli, is that his name, Eli Ellis? Put respect on his name, he's famous. But then I looked him up and I couldn't find him. So is he famous, Mario? For what? No, it's probably TikToks. It's TikToks. Well, anyway, it looks like a child.

I honestly thought that, like, somebody, you know how rich donors, their kids will get to clean the floor and stuff during games? I thought that's what happened. I thought they had a donor who they decided would let a 14-year-old play. Their whole team, I mean, I don't say this to be rude to them because they almost beat us. It looked like the team from Team Wolf. Have you seen Tim? No, of course. You know, there's one guy whose jersey's a little too tight and is big.

A little chunky. They had that guy. Yeah, he had him. And he kind of ate us up for a couple minutes. Yeah, he did. They had, like, kids. They had a guy from the science fair. That's kind of what they look like.

A buddy of my texted and said, is South Carolina's NIL group on? Because it did look like kind of a Teen Wolf group. I was trying to stay excited about the win and not downplay. Kentucky winning on the road in the SEC because that's hard. But South Carolina is really bad. I know that guy, the Elijah, I don't know. That Elijah is strong. He had a little run where he scored like seven points.

But outside of that, he was 0 for seven from three. He had that capuch or how do you say his name, they had 10 feet of space. We're taking open threes and just bricking them one after another. Now, Kentucky was doing a little bit of that too. But both teams had wide open shots from deep and could not make them. South Carolina hit four to start the game. and finished with eight for the game. They just went absolutely cold.

I'd like to do like a player by player. Not just this game, because I don't know how much there is to analyze this game, but just in general, state of the players. Okay. All right. O.A. did not play well, but it's been great this year. Would you agree?

And even though he didn't play well offensively, he still was guarded Mici Johnson a lot of the game. He did a good job. Did a good job locking him up, and I think he had five steals. Yeah, last night. So the defensive end for O'A was good. Offensive end, they just shut him down.

He once or twice a game just dribbles into three people and loses the ball. Like that's going to happen. You just have to accept it. But good. Aberdeen is my MVP of the SEC play. Not because he's been our best player. O-A-Haz. But Aberdeen, the reason we don't stink is because of Aberdeen.

Do you agree with that? Yeah, and, you know, South Carolina led for most of the game early. I think they were up. First 10 minutes went up early, and then they had that 10-0 run, and part of it was he hit those back-to-back threes, and that was the first time we got the go big blue chant from the crowd. That completely flipped the game. By the way.

Shout out. Not many South Carolina fans, but a lot of Kentucky fans. $4 tickets. $4? $4 to go see Kentucky basketball on the road to the other side. A lot of empty seats available. Yeah. I'll say it's about Aberdeen, too.

Zero turnovers last night. I love the kid. And I couldn't stand watching him play in the first half of the year. Agreed. I'm with you. And I love him now. He's played great. Chandler, not played great, but hit shots when it matters and has been important for the team.

Very important. And, yeah, like you said, he kind of struggled, but he still hit the big shot at the end of the game. He just got that knack for at the end of the game making the big play, and he did it again last night. Malachi has been. Much better than I would have thought and good. You've started to see in the last five or six games his lack of strength is starting to hurt him because guys are taking the ball from him. But he had, what, 11 rebounds last night?

So that was big for him as well. Yeah, they won the rebounding battle 48 to 28. That's nuts. I mean, like, does South Carolina? Do their players even have arms? Like, how do you lose that bad inside? But Malachi was a big part of it. If you remember Teen Wolf, they don't rebound.

That's true. That's true. They don't feel. the need to. Till he turns into the wolf, then he's all over the place. Their guys haven't turned into the wolf yet. They'll do that at the SEC tournament. That's when the little child becomes a wolf.

He's the guy. You don't remember the storyline. I do. I didn't get the connection to South Carolina, but I see it now. Diabate, inconsistent, but brings a level of toughness that nobody else on the team has that I think is big, and you saw that last night. He took over last night. He's just bullying

in inside, playing good defense, getting big rebounds. Now when he gets the ball, he ain't going to pass it back out. He gets the ball. I mean, you can see it. He will get the ball sometimes, and it's like, this is going up. And he dribbles, he puts his head down.

Yeah, put his head down. He dribbles it very low to the ground. Like, he's almost to blow his knee. And he just, and they could send five people a police department guard dogs he shoots going up and ain't nothing

that's going to stop him and he shoots probably 20% on those shots but when he gets them they tend to be an AN1 that's right and so but I like his rebounding and his toughness football could have used him on the goal line last year I think that lower my head run through anything

could have worked on the other side of campus but it became very clear in the second half they realized they had a big advantage inside and they just bullied their way in. I mean, he even had the breakaway where he went into end, got the end one finish. That was a great play. He cut a few times. They hit him on passes inside, but they made him part of the attack.

He missed. One of the biggest plays of the game, he made a move. It was another I'm not going to pass move. Missed, but Garrison was able to get the put back and got an end one. And that was really Diabate created that play. Yeah, DeVoste, when you're talking about he makes that move, he's a lot of time he just doesn't even shoot it. He just throws it up.

He just kind of throw it. He just kind of throwing. He didn't play great, but hit a couple big threes. He did? Missed a few as well. Was he one of six or something? He didn't matter how he finished. But the one was felt good.

I think the one was the sixth one. He started O for five. Yeah. And then, you know. We got to talk about it. It's not fun to talk about. So Trent has made three baskets in February. No, he's made zero.

He has two free throws. That's all he has. Well, that's in the last two weeks. No, he has no made-full goal since January. That's even worse. Those shots last night made me cry. I mean, his first three, the one in the corner, maybe the worst shot that's ever been taken.

It was like three feet short left. So I didn't see it. I stepped out of the room. Don't watch it. Well, I got a bunch of texts about it, and I'm like, well, I have to go rewind this now to see how bad it was. And I wish I hadn't. Yeah.

It was bad. breaks all of our hearts too. We see that, I think. Brandon Garrison, you know, it's Mario's fault. He brings it out of me. Although he did hit what I think was the shot that put us in the lead for good last night. He hit a big bucket, had a big and one play there late in the game. But he's frustrating.

He made some good passes. Had a couple good passes. You're right. And then Jasper, I don't know, man. I don't know either with Jasper. I've been trying to be his number one supporter, but he's struggling right now for sure, you know, missing some shots. He normally hits.

I don't know if he just lost his confidence and he's shooting, and that's affecting his overall game. It's more than struggling, though. I mean, he can't dribble. They just trap him and take it from him. I mean, they just take the ball from him. Well, one of them is almost back-to-back. He got lucky the ball rolled over to Diabate on the block,

but he almost got stripped on back-to-back plays. Yeah. You know, I mean, he's getting to the point where it's becoming unplayable. Well, I thought those guys played, a couple guys played over 37 minutes last night, I think, Colin and O.A. and Aberdeen. Yeah. Can we make it 39?

Deerbate saved the bitch, but the Noah Jasper Garrison Group went one for 11 from the field and 0 for 6 from 3. Those three guys. Ouch. Ouch. Yeah, ouch is right. 859-280-2287. We're going to take a break.

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You have to really like a band to buy their music. Especially today. Stealing their music. Yeah. I mean, like, I've bought one album in 15 years, and it was the Tyler Childers Purgatory on vinyl. On vinyl. Yeah, he signed it for me. It's actually at my house.

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Eli Ellis apparently played with Jasper Johnson at Overtime Elite. And he has 700,000 followers on Instagram. Is it just like, I mean, he's a child? Is he good? At basketball? Or at Instagram? At TikTok. He seems to be better at Instagram.

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One person writes, Matt, we all love Jasper and Noah because they're from Kentucky. But can you play those guys in the postseason? I mean, I don't think you have a choice at least for a few minutes. But I don't know. It's tough. I feel bad for him. I mean, you know, look, Trenton was starting at the beginning of the year. You know, he was starting.

Yep. he's at least rebounded he had five again last night that's 10 and two games five in the first half so he finds something else to do but it's clear he has the yips or something mental i don't know how you break him out of it heck well i guess you got some tough opponents left but i'd try to just feed him some shots and try to get him out of the funk because i do think you'll need him to hit some shots if you're going to go on any kind of run and like you said i don't know if you said it off the air on the air those after he banked that one off the side of the board the other two threes he had were wide open i mean he had wide open great looks

those are shots that he would hit down and he'd sleep. So he's got to have his confidence issue. I think the same thing with Jasper. I think the confidence with him may be affecting his whole game. Yeah, one time, Yelovich and Noah were 0 for 8 from 3, which is not what you want. No. And most of them were open. Yelovitch made all his twos.

He drove a lot. He did. I wish we'd take a few more garrison minutes and just pass him over. I'm fine handing some garrisons to some Yelovitch's. Yellovich has some mistakes, but I don't think they rub it my soul as much as the Garrison ones to. He's had a lot of turnovers in the last week, but he's getting a little better. One person writes, Matt, what about Peter Burns burning you at halftime? Okay, that was a big thing to everybody last night.

I thought it was really funny. I did too. He said, for people who didn't hear it, coming out of the break, Aberdeen is hotter than Matt Jones watching the stakes. of the union. Great line. Great line. First of all, I'm glad the fan base knows me well enough to know that it means like angry and not like Trump's getting me in a lather to use Shannon's or to use Ryan's words.

But I was really surprised he said it. I'm kind of surprised because, you know, they say during games, don't bring that apology, you know, don't do any of that. So I think it was funny. You know, Peter, I like Peter. We're friends. me laugh. But it was also like our fan base knows what that means.

And it's cool. Like I liked it. I thought it was funny. There was a lot of them though. Does he owe you money or something? He's trying to make up for it with publicity? Peter, you do realize other people are watching this game other than Matt Jones, right? It was like he was just catering it to you.

I understand, but that's good. It's good for you. I mean, he did it three times. I missed the third one. I guess I was in the car driving home when he did the third one. He talked about a tweet. guy I'd send about Diabate. Okay.

Yeah, both times I was watching the game and I heard it and like... Shaden, were you jealous? Did you not want him to say something about you? I thought the guy named Peter Burns might mention STD, but he didn't. Anyway, you would think that. I think he sees what Tom Hart has with the fan base. And he might be like, I would like to have some of that too. I'll drop some nuggets.

Well, smart. Like he's... Yes. I wonder if Tom might be a little jealous. And I think we have Tom Saturday. Yeah, we do. Maybe we get it back and forth. Peter Burns, I'll tell you, having spent some time with Immaculate Dresser,

best dresser, see the best dresser in broadcasting? And he dresses like that southern, like he dresses like he's going to Keenland. Yes, he does. You know what I mean? Platt on the coat. Yeah, so he dresses like his life is perpetually going to Keel. Yeah, some pastels. Yeah.

I'm hearing a budding bromance going on here between you two. Well, first of all, haven't you hosted with him before? Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, like, it sounds to me like Shannon is complete jealousy here. No, I like Peter. I like it. He just mentioned to you like every time when they went to break, it was you. Well, it was a lot.

I thought maybe he had like a bet on how many times he could mention you. I mean, we're talking about it. I enjoyed it, not a complaint. I just wondered what was going on. That website awful announcing put out the video of him saying that about the State of the Union. It would not have made a difference. It was another team, but he knows Kentucky fans. He knows we were watching it.

He didn't do it for South Carolina fans watching the game. Well, maybe there's a South Carolina guy. We just don't recognize the reference. By the way, how hot were you watching that last night? I didn't watch it. I'm not going to watch the stadium. Are you kidding me? I walked two hours long, wasn't it?

Billy was watching it on mute. When I saw the thing said it was going to be two, maybe three hours, I was like, are you? Yeah. Why would I do that? Yeah, I don't care. Who's talking? I'm not listening for two hours. It's also I hate it.

Not just him. I hate the whole thing. I hate that, like, they all get in line, like, children to take selfies with the picture, and then they clap and stand and sit and, like, you know, I mean, that was, in the past, that was, like, 40 minutes. And everybody's shut up. Just speak and get out. But now it's like a whole show, and then they bring in, you know, sad stories, happy stories. you know, I just, I've never liked it, to be honest with you.

Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton ruined it because Bill Clinton, like, was so good at it that it then became like a production, and I don't like it. They introduced the hockey team, right? They didn't give them seats. Didn't they have to walk in and then leave? Get out of here. Or maybe they were like, I ain't staying here. Just give us our hours.

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presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back, Kentucky Sports Radio, 859-280-2287. Text machine, 772-7-4-5-25-4. One person writes, Ryan said he wouldn't listen to anyone speak for two hours, yet he's on the radio for two hours every single day.

Well, we have a conversation to sit there and listen to one guy, talk for two hours. I don't care who it is. I'm probably going to struggle to stay, alert and a sleep of the wake. So you don't listen to like Big Blue Insider? Never heard a podcast? I don't listen to a podcast very often. You don't listen to Big Blue Insider? Won't they have a discussion? So you just don't want to listen to one person? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, like sit in front of a TV and watch somebody speak for two hours. That's a lot. You know, we have Friday people coming to hear us

speak at Madisonville. We have people watching us speak right now in front of you. Have you ever seen a comedy special? Yeah. You ever like those? Didn't you go see a comedy show in Cincinnati? You go see a guy talk to his puppets for two hours. That's not by himself. That's entertainment right there.

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Winverson writes, Matt, I love Jasper, Trent. It makes me sad not to see them play well, but the reality is not everyone can play, and I think we go six guys, and Garrison and Jasper and Noah only when people need a quick breather. That's what I would do. I mean, you've got to remember,

go back to our national championship team in 2012. We only played six guys. Eloy Vargas was kind of the occasional seventh, but they basically played what? Lamb, Gilchrist, Miller, Teague, Davis, Terrence Jones. I guess Kyle Wilcher was the seventh. He played a little. Eloy would play a little, but they basically were a six-man rotation.

Yeah, and it's not ideal, but we see what these guys are doing right now. Unless just a light goes off with Trent and the shot keeps going in, he could play a little more because he has been rebounding. But, I mean, Jasper's gotten to the point where it seems like he just can't bring the ball up. I don't know if that can be fixed in a couple weeks. Now that we're in the tournament, before we go to the phone, do these last three games,

like, do they matter? I mean, obviously they matter, but like, we're not going to be higher than a six at most, and we're not going to be lower than probably a 10 or 11. Does it matter? Can it help us keep from playing on Wednesday night at the SEC tournament if we win? That matters.

That matters. Right now, I looked at it, assuming the games finished tonight, like I think they will. We would be a seven seed right now in the SEC tournament, which would give you a buy. But our schedules are harder than everyone. I mean, if you don't want to play on Wednesday, what you're sitting there hoping is Texas loses games, Missouri loses games. Missouri winning last night.

Missouri winning didn't help us. That was bad for us. Although it now made it to where, if we kept winning in Tennessee, were to lose, because Tennessee has a couple hard games, we have the tiebreaker against them. But Missouri winning did not help us because they have the tiebreaker against us. I don't think it matters for seating. But if you're one of these people, whether a fan or you're on the damn team, if you think you have a run in March, you need to turn a corner now and make some of these games and show you're capable and get some momentum going. I just want us to be a 6, 7, or 10-11 seed.

I don't want us to be an 8-9 because we ain't beating these 1-seats. Right. Yeah. I mean, I've always thought you'd be better off being an 11 seed than being an 8. Because you're going to play a 6 and a 3 instead of a 1. And the 1s are so good this year, in my opinion. There's so much better than the other teams. I want to win this game Saturday just for them to show me something.

Vanderbilt punked you. They not just beat you. They embarrassed you down to Nashville. You played horrible. Show some pride, man. Man up and come out and try to win this. not just try to win this game on Saturday. Yeah, we need to shut up Shannon since he thought my name was mentioned too much.

It was. Maybe he could mention it four times next game. Okay. I'm going to challenge him to do that. Who's up first? Let's go ahead, Will. Will. Go ahead, Will.

Wow, I was not expecting to be the first caller chosen. I feel honored. You should. Thank you. Well, I was going to say I called yesterday, and I have to do a little bit of a victory lap because I said we have a little bit of a rivalry with South Carolina, and it was a close game, just like I thought it would be. And really and truly, this was when we lost Calipari

was when we lost to South Carolina. So that was a pivotal turning point in that rivalry. And honestly, when I saw that Meeci Johnson was still on that roster, that's when I thought we could lose. Because I talked shit to him at that game. I appreciate he ended up treating us. I appreciate the call. You can't cuss.

We do not have a rivalry with South Carolina. We've got to stop with that. It's not, if I were to list our SEC basketball rivals. Football, a little different. Yeah. I actually think we are a little bit of a rival with them in football. Basketball, if you were ranked the SEC rivals, Tennessee one, Florida, two, Vandy, three, Arkansas, four.

I'd even go Mississippi State above South Carolina, even though there's not much there either. Yeah, I mean, South Carolina to me would be, the only ones less are like Oklahoma. But even Texas A&M I can remember games more than South Carolina. I mean, Texas, no, Oklahoma, no, Missouri. I mean, like, would they be like 10th in the SEC for me? But most teams you named are pretty new. We hadn't even had time to build stuff up. And tickets for $4.

You can't call yourself a rivalry if it's $4 to get into the game. There were a lot of empty seats last night at that game. I didn't expect a good crowd. I couldn't believe how many. empties were in the lower bowl when they would zoom out a little bit. I mean, did we have as many people as they did? It looked like we had several people call in on their way home, said like there's just an entire section of UK fans.

That's what we kept hearing on the broadcast. When I was in law school, I went to that game every year. We played them twice a year. And I remember I was there once when the space shuttle crashed. I don't know why I'm telling you that. But I just remember we were playing South Carolina once. You didn't crash there, right? No, but I think I was in, I was in,

And I think it was the space shuttle Columbia That crashed Interesting People don't seem as interested about that as I thought they would be I've been to Columbia more than any other SEC town for the basketballers Didn't the space shuttle Columbia explode in 1986 though That's the challenger Oh, the challenger

Yes That was a pretty big one Yeah, that's what I thought you were talking about No Columbia Look it up Shannon See when the space shuttle claim And see if it was like January or February, because I think we were playing. I was at Duke.

I think we were playing South Carolina. February 1st, 2003? 2003. There you go. And was it the space show of Columbia? Yeah. Yes. That's why Peter Bones dropped.

Peter Bones. That's why Peter Bones dropped. Bobby Bones had him Peter Bones. We also, we did play on that day. And we won by, do you remember? Before I tell you, the score now. One by 18.

Big games from Marquis Estel, Keith Bogan, and Eric Daniels. There we go. You got two major errors there. Yeah. The Space Shuttle Challenger and Peter Bones. Peter Bones. And I remember the exact. That was just a lot of you and I right there.

Who's next? Ben. Ben. Go ahead, Ben. Hey, guys. I was really happy that we went on my flight overall, trying to change directions here. I was watching a YouTube or a TikTok video last night. And this guy suggested for the NBA All-Star game next year.

They do the Team World, Team USA, and then Team Kentucky. I saw that, yeah. So it was Max Kellerman. He's doing an interview with Rich Paul. I appreciate the call, LeBron's agent. And they're talking about the All-Star game. And they suggested next year, Team USA, Team World, Team Kentucky. and it was like, Team World was like, Luca, Janice, Yokic, really good team.

Team USA was like, LeBron, Durant, Curry, Tatum, and then Team Kentucky. And Rich Paul's like, Kentucky's not going to be, and they were like, hang on. And they was like, Shea, Booker, Maxie, Towns, Bam, Randall. And he was like, oh. Yeah. He was like, yeah, that would be a good game. A good little game, good little squad. Oh, and Deeran Fox is like your eighth man.

Uh-huh. Got a pretty good squad. Yeah, Deer & Fox was on it. I mean, he didn't even have a read or any of that. I mean, that's, you know, if you were to look at the way they had it set up, the USA and the world team would be better, but not by a lot. I mean, we would put a competitive game against them. Could Wall and Cousins coach and just be a part of it somehow?

Oh, Davis. Obviously, Davis was on the team, was on the team, too. I'd love to see it. Of course, Kentucky, we'd love to see it. We'd love to see it to see how they would be. Well, and all those guys they mentioned have been All-Stars in the last two years. So it wasn't like it wasn't like it was crazy. I mean, all those guys had been all-stars.

Shaden Sharp. He's had a great year in the NBA. We've taken him? Yes. Cheney, would you count Shaden Sharp? Probably not. He warmed up. Caldard Johnson, Emmanuel Cookley, Tyler Hero.

I mean, Drake was on a lay-up line at one point. Is he on the team? Yeah. I mean, Shaden Sharp is not, I don't consider Shaden Sharp a Kentucky player. But I don't have anything against the guy, but I feel like you have to play. Like, I will consider Jaden Quentin's a Kentucky player, even though it was only three games. He played. He played. I don't think I consider Shaden Sharp one.

But I do kind of consider Enis one, even though he didn't play. He was trying. Because he tried. There's nothing in Shaden's way except He tried his agent. So I do consider him one, but I don't Shaden. Is that bad of me? Well, yeah, because we all got to Rup Arena early to watch him warm up and go through the layup.

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Yeah. Welcome back. 859-280-2287. Techie Sports Radio. One person writes, Matt, my favorite thing of the day yesterday was Indiana. likely out of the tournament. All right. It's a common talking point, Drew, for people to go,

oh, we're becoming Indiana. People need to understand what Indiana is. Okay, Indiana hasn't made the Final Four since 1996, okay? Or 95, something like that. Been forever. But they also, they're not just, like, bad. They're really bad. They are now firmly on the cut line of the bubble,

maybe out. Last night they lost a Northwestern, and the stat that came up was amazing to me. They have lost a Northwestern, Indiana, six straight times. Oh, wow. Whole man away. Six straight times. Northwestern. That's amazing, Drew.

It's embarrassing. Yeah. I think, well, now this year Nebraska's got a good team, but I think even when they were losing to those Nebraska team, we went to one of them. Yeah, we went to a good team. We were at a game, and Nebraska won't on senior day, and I was excited because I hate Indiana, but I kept thinking how far this program has fallen, and I'm sitting here watching Nebraska celebrate in Bloomington. So I'm not trying to, like, downplay the concerns people have.

Like, this guy right here was talking about how he has season tickets, and he can't even make himself go to the 9 o'clock games. And I get all that. But I just, we've got to stop saying we're going to become Indiana. Indiana is like, Indiana is on a different, I mean, If you were to rank the programs of the last 20 years, is Indiana even in the top 40? Maybe not. I mean, maybe not.

They had that one good run, that one year, but that was about it. I mean, that's so, you know, it is perspective because you would not want to be Indiana. And they just keep hiring new coaches and it doesn't work. They did just hire GM, though. If I could copy one thing Indiana is doing, I would like to do that. Yeah, and it's true. We need to do that. What about, by the way, people when they talk about GM, I keep seeing the name Tayshan Prince.

You know, normally I don't like the idea of you get a guy because he went here. But Taichon's the assistant GM for the Grizzling. That actually is one that would be kind of good. Yeah, he's got a resume that can back up putting him in that position. He knows about roster development, roster management, budgeting for players and stuff. That's why that's his life. And also just love him. Yeah.

I mean, he may be, he's top five all time. me and just person I love Tayshan Prince. Yeah, I don't put him in that category of like the list of former players. He's a legit candidate if you look at him. I think Nazis in that territory too. Those two are like beloved around the NBA. Yeah. Been at a lot of stops, played a lot and worked for a lot of teams.

I can't even imagine the connections they have in the league. So those are two that I would put aside from the typical don't get a former player conversation. Yeah. Who's next? Mike. Mike. Mike.

Mike. Mike. Mike. All right. Who's next? Alex. Alex, go ahead, Alex. You can feel the left court.

Hey, guys. My name's Alex Green. We're setting up here at the, we're setting up for the state wrestling tournament this weekend, Thursday, Friday's DeBoys. Girls is on Saturday here at the horse park. If you guys, anybody listening is able to come, we'd love to have you.

We've got the Randy brothers going for six and five-time, respectfully. We have two girls going for three-timers. We have several guys this year that have signed a wrestle division one. we're setting the mats up All-tech arena You guys come to be a part of it All right

I appreciate the call The brothers Aren't they like going to Iowa Or something signed to big an I L deal Am I right about that All right, there you go Never mind They are without a doubt

The best wrestlers this state has ever produced I mean they're not just state champions They won is like seventh graders Didn't they? Yeah So I feel like they're going to win this year They're world champions These guys are just amazing

They'll probably be in the Olympics They are world champions? Yes. Yeah. And they're from where? Union County. Boy, they got something in the water there. Yes, they do.

They're right. They're actually in factoring. That's my area. I don't mess with Union County. Yeah. You know, I don't fight people from Clay County or Union County. Amen. Or really any of the counties.

If you had to fight a county, which county are you fighting? That's a great question. That is a good question. All right, so you're saying I get a random county and I can, and I, the average citizen in that county. You're fighting for humanity and you have to pick a Kentucky County. So we're basically saying what is the weakest county

in Kentucky? I got the answer, I think. All right, before you do it, I'm not going anywhere in the eastern Kentucky, forget it. I'm not going out in western Kentucky because they're out there in the farms with the tractors and the hay and I'm not doing that. So I've got to go, I'm probably going to fight somebody from

Jessamine County. Jess. Okay. Well, I mean, it's suburbie, right? There's a Christian college there. They don't fight, right? The Lord doesn't want them to do that. When Wilmore.

So I'm going to say, and Jared Polson, he's not a fighter. I'm going to say, Jessman. What about you? I think I'd just go at Oldham. That's the answer right there. But the problem with Oldham, they're just rich. They just hit you with their wallet. Here's the problem with Oldham.

There's some country Oldham people, too. Like, it's not, we, all think of the rich people but like i almost got shot in legrange remember at the court house like there there's some so yeah there's a lot of rich people but they got some other people that so i hold them i'm talking a gunfight though or hand-to-hand combat hand-to-hand listen this dude could have beat me in the hand-to-hand combat too you should have seen his truck anybody can win with a gun it could have been anything what about you i'm thinking a risk reward, though.

Like, do I get Papa John's Castle if I win with that, like, Eagle Clock and the rotating driveway? Yeah. I'm looking at territories I could take over. There's another part of Oldham County, though, than the, what about you? Oh, it's, the answer's Oldham County.

There is no doubt. I know guys here. It is with no question. Are there any, like, redneck Jessman County, though? Yes. Oh, yes. Out in the county?

Like, where in the county? Like, you want you to get, well, even Nicholasville itself. City of Nicholasville. Oh, Nicholsville can't fight. Oh, yes, they can. Honestly, my second one's Fade County. I'll step outside right now.

Somebody hadn't been to Georgetown Road. What are you talking about? I mean, there are spots. I'm certainly going to lose, but of all the counties, I think my best shot would be around here. I think we all agree, though, the suburbs. Yes. The suburb counties are the place.

And eliminate all of the eastern Kentucky counties. In west. We don't spend as much time in west, but you get out there towards the river. I mean, again, we're talking about Union County. There's some hosses out there. Mines and farms. Yeah. We'll take a break.

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