KSR - KSR Postgame UK MBB at Alabama 02/22/25

Episode Date: February 23, 2025

Matt and Billy recap the Cats' 96-83 loss at Alabama.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We'll take your calls here on a Saturday night. You know, this game is both frustrating to me but also expected. I said on the pregame show that I thought Kentucky could get to 83 or 84 points, but I didn't think we would win because I didn't think we would be able to just score as many as Alabama, and in the end, that's exactly what happened. I mean, there are a lot of intricacies of the game, but ultimately, Alabama has too much offensive firepower for the version of Kentucky that we have right now. The version without Butler and Robinson, I just don't think they can score enough to beat an Alabama team

that because of our defensive inefficiencies is going to probably score, 90 every single time they play us. You know, a lot of people I saw online complaining about our defense, our defense is what it is. We can't guard really good offensive teams. We just can't. I mean, like, you just have to accept that. We cannot guard Florida.

We cannot guard Alabama. I think we're going to struggle to guard Auburn. That's just what it is. Like, we just can't guard those teams. So our chance to beat them is. we got to score a lot of points. And I think when we have a full roster, I think we can do that. But without two of our three best scores, maybe our two best scores, we just don't have enough to do it. And I think you saw it tonight. Honestly, if Kentucky was going to have a chance,

probably all five starters had to play well. And I think you could say that four did. You know, you had 17 points from Amari Williams, who I thought was great. Andrew Carr had 17. This is the best version of car we've seen since his injury. 20 from Kobe Brea, who even though he was only seven for 17, I thought actually played really well considering he was having to create a lot of his offense. And then I thought Travis Perry with 12 points gave a lot. Had some good minutes from Colin Chandler.

You know, it was a bad game for Otega Owey and Brandon Garrison. I thought both those guys really, really, really played poorly, and honestly, we probably needed them both to play well if we were going to have a chance to win the game, and it did not happen. So let's go through first the good. You know, the team started amazing, 20 points in the first five minutes. First half was bizarre. We scored 20 points in five minutes, and then we only scored 20 points in the next 15 minutes. They got to pass the ball around a lot when they got open looks, which Carr and Brea did. they hit threes.

I thought they played really, really, really, really well to start the game. Then we went to kind of, I don't want to say a line change, because they didn't exactly do that. But then we went to the bench, gave up a little bit of lead, but still had a decent cushion. It was the second time that we went to the bench that we went from, I think, up four to down 11 or whatever. our bench you know i mean when i say our bench i think a lot of it is there's just such a huge drop off right now between amari williams and brandon garrison and i part of that is that amari is playing really really really well but part of it is brandon garrison is not playing well and that drop off i mean because basically pope has now switched to it's a one versus one

meaning one of those two guys is in no matter what and 27 minutes for Williams 13 for Garrison I'm getting to the point that I think it's going to need to be like 34 minutes for Williams six minutes for Garrison I have to tell you you know in watching now 27 Mark Pope games the only thing I don't understand is his substitution pattern and specifically Amarie Williams only had one foul tonight. He had one foul. Why does he only play in 27 minutes? These other teams, you know, Mark Sears played 35 minutes tonight. Your best player has got to play. Like when you're trying to be great, your best player needs to play 35 minutes. But right now we had, you know, Brea played 35 for us. Braille, why can't Williams? I don't, I don't understand it. I really

no, I don't get it. I'd rather have eight more minutes of Amari, even if he's a little fatigue, because the Garrison minutes just, they crush us. And I'm surprised because I thought at the beginning of the year, that gap was not very far from those guys, but it has been so far. Like I said, I thought Kobe Brea did well. He was seven for 17, but he was, I mean, it was clear Alabama, especially after those first few minutes was going to be all over him. He still was able to create points. Great to see Carr play well. I mean, Carr, again, back to my minutes point, Carr plays 29 minutes.

I mean, how's Carr coming off a back injury getting two more minutes in a far? I just, I don't understand. But Carr, he hit corner threes. We got to see that part of his game. I really thought he played great. And then he kind of owned the Grant Nelson matchup. I mean, Nelson, who absolutely crushed us last time, was really not a factor tonight.

Give Carr a lot of credit for that. Some of it, though, was foul trouble for Nelson as well. good minutes by Perry. He went one for seven from three. Travis had about three of those were open. You got to hit those. But besides that, I saw a lot I liked. He wasn't scared.

He went to the basket. I thought he played well. You know, defensively, he just kind of is what he is. He's not able to stay in front of these guys, and that's going to be a problem. But if he could hit the shots and attack like he does, you can still make that work. I thought Colin Chandler gave some good minutes as well.

Trent Noah, it was not a great Trit Noah game. I think the athleticism was a little bit of an issue for him. I mean, this Auburn, or excuse me, Alabama team, is really athletic at each position. And are guys that are not really good athletes, I think it kind of exposed them. If Otega O'A has a normal Otega O'A game, then this is a really close game.

I don't know. He just looked way off to me. You know, he was one for nine from the field. I counted four missed layups, layups where I wouldn't say he was wide open, but layups where he could have finished and he missed all four of them. And then I think he really got rattled at the start of the second half

when he picked up those two quick fouls. I just thought for the first time all year, I thought in the second half he looked really just dishevelled. And I haven't felt like that all year. So, you know, if he has his normal 12 to 14 points, then this game is coming down to the wire. It just didn't happen. My other takeaway is, and this isn't why we lost, and you know if you listen to this show, I'm not a blame the refs guy, but I thought there was some really questionable officiating,

especially in the second half. I mean, I just didn't understand the calls, and then the refs got whistle happy at the end. You know, the refs do that thing where, you know, I feel like they got a call in on both. both ends. I get the sense that maybe Alabama is a hard team to officiate. Their last four games have had, like, obscene amounts of foul calls, which is weird because they're not a team that in the last couple of years has drawn a lot of contact, but I think they're playing more into doing that because you go, look, there have been huge amounts of file calls in their last four games, and the same was true tonight as well. So the cats lose. There are now four games left. They are seven and seven,

seven in conference, still as of this moment, will be tied for the eighth seed. We will get it right now because we have a tiebreaker. But Mississippi State's schedule opens up a little bit. So for me, it comes down to this. Kentucky's got to beat Oklahoma Wednesday night. It's not like you got a win to make the tournament. But if you want to not play on Wednesday, we got to go to Oklahoma and get a win. They won it home today to Mississippi State.

That's a big win for them. they probably see that game in Norman as their chance to make the NCAA tournament. So we got to win. I think that game Wednesday becomes very important. Have to beat LSU at home. And then, you know, if we could steal one of Missouri and Auburn, that'd be great. But the next big thing is to go win a road game. And we haven't looked great on the road.

I know we won in Knoxville, but we lost to, you know, an average Georgia team, an average Vandy team, an average to bad, an average to bad. Texas team. We're going to have to go get one of these on the road, and I think Wednesday night is the one that we've got to find a way to get. 859-280-2287. We're going to take your calls, a disappointing loss, not so much in the result. I thought we were going to lose, but it oddly was a frustrating game to me, probably because

of the start. When you get up 20 to 9, you think, hey, man, this may come down to the end. By the end of the first half, it just didn't feel like, we had what it takes to to compete to the end. 859-280-2287. One more thing, Billy, that ref that followed Mark Pope down the sideline?

Yeah. What was that. What a joke. What a joke. Riffs, there are very few people in this world that take themselves more seriously than college basketball officials. And he should be fine, that referee. Any referee that follows a coach

staring at him, you are at, to try to cause in confrontation, which is the exact opposite thing that a referee should do. And Mark Pope, of all coaches, is about the least yelling one I've seen. And when you're following him, kind of daring him to talk to you, you are on an ego trip. And that referee was completely on an ego trip. He ended up not giving Mark a technical, but he wanted to. And I hate when referees do that. College basketball referees, not all of them, but most of them, are the most.

egotistical power trip people in sports. I'm serious. Like, now you meet them off the court. Most of them are very nice, but they get on that court. And part of it is they take too much abuse from coaches. Coaches yell at them too much. But that doesn't give them, like they act like they're kings of the world sometimes. And you saw that with that guy tonight.

859-280-2287. We'll take a break and be right back. It's a local Toyota dealers, KSR, Post-Gam Show. Welcome back. It is the local toy dealers, KSR postgame show. 859-2-80-2287. The text machine is 7-7-7-4-5-25-4. One person writes, Matt, I'm tired of these refs. They cheat. Tonight we had the cheating-in-cheatenest ass refs we've ever had. I don't know if I'd say that.

But I don't think they cheat. I think they're human beings and their predispositions or their temperament. comes into play. You know, I didn't like the way the game was called in the second half. I thought we were at the bad end of the whistle in the second half. I didn't think, though, it would have changed the outcome. But, you know, I mean, Travis Perry got fouled on his three. They didn't call it.

Then I thought the Alabama guy did not get fouled. Sears. I think he did get fouled, but I don't know how you call one and not the other. I don't, to me, you either call them both or you. you call neither of them. Things like that, you know, that inconsistency is as a fan what drives me crazy. But I'm more concerned. I mean, people make mistakes.

My concern is about the ego of officials, and we saw that tonight. Was that Oglesby? Who followed Pope? I don't know. Was that Oglesby? Whoever it was, that dude, that's, he should be fine. I really believe that. That officials just should not do that.

One person writes, Matt, do you think at our best, we're just, not as good as Alabama. No, I think Alabama is a notch above us, even at our best. I do think we could beat them in an individual game. We almost beat them in Rupp. I think if we end up getting everybody back and we were to play them in the SEC tournament, I think we could win. I do think their best is better than our best, but that's okay.

I mean, I think there's an – I think Auburn and Duke are the best two teams. then I think you've got a group right behind that that is next, which is probably like Alabama, Florida, and Houston. And then I think there's probably a group of 12 right below that, and we're one of those. And we beat Florida, we beat Duke. We've lost Alabama twice. So in those games, I think we have a chance to beat any of them. But we also can be beaten by people that aren't very good.

And that's what's frustrating about this team. But remember, we said this before the season. This is how Mark was at, this is how Mark's teams were at BYU. They beat anybody. They can lose to anybody. That's just how they were. I don't know if he'll be like that his whole time here, but that's how he was there. So it may be kind of, there may be more inconsistency than maybe sometimes we're used to.

All right. Who's up first? Mark. Mark, go ahead, Mark. Hi, I've got something both positive and negative. What would you want first? Well, start with the positive. Positive.

This game was very encouraging to me because with the refereeing, if we get some honest, competent reps in any game in the tournaments, I think we got a great shot. But we weren't going to win tonight either way. Maybe. Maybe. Let's be real. We lost by 13.

All right. So we didn't lose because of a ref. I mean, let's just be real. We didn't lose because of a ref. Okay. I mean, do you disagree with that? Well, I know it affects momentum. And so you're lost by 13 and we were lost.

We were losing most of the game after the beginning. So I want to be able to be critical, but we also have to be fair. And we can't just act like, you know, it was a call here or a call there. We were down double digits almost all of the second half. I agree with you on that. I just see it as a factor, not a big one. But the bad is, and this is even in our big win over Vandy, there are so many lazy passes just drive me absolutely eight.

I agree with you. I mean, we do have some, we do make lazy passes. I think sometimes when the pressure comes, there comes a point where we, you know, I agree. I think that's the way you put it. We do have lazy passes. Appreciate the call. There you go. He makes his statement and then that's it.

What were we going to say? I was just going to say, I think O'Way had a couple of those lazy passes and the second half especially. Yeah, his mind was not in it in the second half. And I don't really know why. I think he got those two fouls back to back. I think he thought they were both bad calls. And I think it made him, I think it probably took him mentally out of the game, honestly. Who's next?

Mitch. Mitch. Go ahead, Mitch. Hi. The officiating was bad tonight, but the announcing was even worse. Jimmy Dykes and Carl Ravich are the worst announcing duo that ESPN has to offer. Carl Ravich thinks it is Sunday night baseball. He has no idea what's going on.

And Jimmy Dice can do nothing but stupid alliterations and gimmicks. That's all he is. Jimmy's jet. rim run, paint touch, that's all he's got. I am so sick of it. We have to find better announcers. We've gotten him a lot, so you're not a, you're not a, you're not a fan. No, the guy doing the Arkansas game, John Schifrin, he is fantastic.

He brings the juice. He understands the flow of the game. Carl Ravich at multiple points said the wrong thing on the broadcast. At one point, we were diving for a loose ball, and they called a timeout, and he said, Oh, possession arrow to Kentucky. Like, he's on the floor, supposed to be calling the game, and he has no idea what's going on. It's every single time.

They're the worst. All right. Anything else? Uh, or no, that's it. That's fine. I understand. Yeah. Okay.

I appreciate the call. We do get Jimmy Dykes a lot. I mean, you know, there have been years where it was Tom Hart and Jimmy Dykes. It's been Carl Ravich a lot this year. We do get him a lot. I don't mind him. I think what I do like about Jimmy Dykes is I think he knows Kentucky's team very well. It's frustrating when you get announcers that clearly don't know your team.

And I think he does. But, you know, there's a lot of gimmicky stuff with Jimmy. And I think some people don't enjoy that. He doesn't bother me. I think they're worse guys. I liked hearing Dick Vitow. Yeah, how is he? Yeah, I mean, I feel like to me his voice gave out a little bit as the game went on.

But just, you know, I like him. Dick's like he's been doing this for 40 some years and I think you know I think there's something to be sad for him still going out there and doing it and he still he knows the game and so I I think having him as a third person on one game a week I think that's a good role for him and I thought I was nice to get to hear him I listen he's the kind of the voice of my use so who's next Tyler Tyler go ahead Tyler What's going on, Matt? I tell you, man, every time right before a Kentucky game,

doesn't matter who is the opponent. I tell myself, I'm going to be calm, cool, and collected in the game start. I know what you mean. Exact opposite. So, first of all, going back to that last caller, you don't want to deal with the announcers. Think of Tom Leach and Goose Givens. Yeah, it's easier to do now if you, I mean, like,

now in the world of DVR and all that, like, you know, it's, well, Actually, wait a minute. You got to listen on stream. So you have to live, the way to do it is to listen on stream and then sync up your TVs if people haven't done it. But I agree with you. I mean, Tom and Jack, I think, are a great duo. Oh, it just, it makes the game better. It takes a little bit of an effort, but it's worth it.

And then the only other point I have is, man, I call me crazy, but we only shot 26-3 balls tonight. And I get that they were hounding our guys. But we don't shoot. to me we don't shoot the three ball enough and the only way we were going to win tonight is shooting the three ball and making it and I feel like I know Travis Perry was one for seven but like I don't think we shoot the three keep shooting Kobe Brea passed up open shots Perry passed that there was that one possession where Perry passed up one braya passed up two and we ended up with Amari Williams throwing one at the buzzer like shoot it like I've said

this over and over but if it is Brea Perry Perry all the car, you know, Robinson when he's healthy. Like, I don't care if you miss, shoot it. If you miss it, you miss it. Travis Perry was one for seven, but six of those shots were good. One of them was bad, but six of them were good. And I would say to you, keep shooting it, son, because there are a lot of shots we take that are not going to be better than Travis

Perry or someone else open for three. Shoot it. Oh, yeah. I don't know what play it was. It was in the second half, but I, I think Andrew Carr was open, but Brayle was even more open, and he had the ball, and he hesitated. I literally, I screamed to shoot the ball, and I was, my mouth, my jaw dropped.

I'm with you. And like, and some guys need to know, I mean, the two, the most frustrating play, I appreciate the call of the game for me. The most frustrating play is when Brandon Garrison got that rebound and tried to dribble Coast of Coast of Coast. What are you doing, kid? What are you doing? I love you, but what are you doing?

There is almost no player on the team that we have that's good enough to go Coast to maybe Lamont Butler, maybe O'Way. But Garrison, pass. Amari did the same thing. Pass. You guys, I mean, like, what, what are you thinking? That drives me crazy, especially that he had two guys ahead of him. It wasn't like he was at the front of the thing.

He had two guys in front of him. He did not pass it, and then he did him come close to making the layup. It's like, come on, guys. Like, just let's take good shots. And when the season's over, when I, interview Pope at some point during after the season's over which I'm sure I will probably my first question is going to be to him like you said in the preseason we need to shoot 35 threes a game we shoot like 25 to 27 every game why why don't we shoot more of them because I I don't really understand it

I don't understand why we don't shoot more threes because I just if we take 35 instead of 27 we're probably going to hit two or three more and all of a sudden it's a four point game five point game rather than a 13 point game take more threes this is that's what we're good at especially now that we have a depleted roster so i just don't get it who's next hunter hunter hunter go ahead hunter matt billy how did tonight doing good yeah i got three points for you the first one we like the reality is we weren't winning that game even if amari wasn't bouncing off his foot or doing soft passes, even if we were hitting our shots, even if we could guard Mark Sears.

The officiating was just terrible. You guys got to stop. I mean, you do have to stop. Do you really believe? I mean, I'm not trying. Look, I think the officiating was bad, too, and I'm going to say it. But you can't really believe we were going to win that game if it was called 100% down the middle.

We lost by 13. Oh, we had 13. Let me just say, we had 13 steals. That's the most steals we have all year. We have 13 steals. Kobe Bray had 20. Mari Williams had 17. Travis Perry had 10.

We had a lot of guys play kind of above their heads, and we still lost by 13. Do you really think we would have won if the officiating was better? No, and that's why I said that. Oh, I thought you- Even if we were able to hit a shot, even if we were able to guard marks here, even if MRI wasn't turning the ball over every three possessions,

the officiating just wasn't there for us. Like, that's reality. It's like they. No, but so you are saying. Wait a minute. You are saying that we lost because of the officiated. I'm saying it's a reason. It's not the reason.

We can shoot. We couldn't hit our shots. That's the reality. That's why we lost. And then the second point is the TV. I mean, I wasn't a big fan of the TV review. I'm going to have to listen to the radio the rest of the year. It wasn't the fact of how they were talking.

It's just they were so dominant on Alabama and like rarely talked about us. It was like 70% Alabama, I would almost want to say. Well, now you know what everybody, now you know what every other team in the SEC feels like when we play games because most of the time it's the other way around. I mean, listen, I love us, but like that's natural. You know why they did that? Alabama was winning and they're better than we are. That's why the announcers taught more about them.

They're winning and they're better than we are. And we're in there at that arena. I just want us to be fair. I'm not, I mean, just be fair. Like most games Kentucky plays. The announcers are talking about Kentucky the whole time. It's just in this one, we're playing a better team on the road, and they're beating us. That doesn't happen a lot, so that's why they talked about it.

Yeah, that's a good point. And I don't like to be in all negative, so I will leave a one positive note. Seeing how Colin Chandler and how Travis Perry played, I'm not worried about next season all for as far as guards. I think they're going to make a big step, and I think we're going to be just all right. Thanks, thanks guys. Have a great night. Appreciate it. I was very encouraged by how they both played.

I'm not ready to go that far. I still think we're going to need more guards. But the sort of development in the last three games of Colin Chandler is really positive. And then, like I said, I worry about how Travis is going to deal with the athleticism of SEC guards his whole career. But I love the way he's not scared. We had a couple of guys that looked scared tonight. He did not. And I give him a lot of credit for that.

He's going to, in order to be a big time contributor, he's going to have to make up for the fact that he's going to be limited on defense by being an offensive weapon. And you started to see a little bit of that tonight, even though he didn't shoot the ball great. He took it to the basket. He would drive and pass. So there were some good signs I thought from him as well. And Chandler's a good athlete. Chandler probably guarded Sears better than anyone else we had tonight. It's just, you know, he didn't end up playing huge minutes.

So what's next year? Jasper Johnson, Colin Chandler, Travis Perry, Kerr-Keresa? Well, first of all, you have to tell me whether Kerr's coming back. I kind of think he won't. But if he does, that's – I think it's O-Way first. Yeah. You know, O-Way, you know, I kind of wondered if Chandler would be back, but now maybe he is. Perry will be back.

they got to go get a couple guys in the portal. I mean, Jasper is going to be good, but I still think they got to get at least one or two guys in the portal. I mean, to me, Mark Stoops' offense should have three guards. And I think he agrees with that, which means you need to have a lot of guards on the roster. We don't have enough guards on the roster this year. Now, some of that's because three guys are hurt.

But, like, I don't think you'll see him go guard light going into next year. Who's next? Brad. And they got money, by the way, to go get. I mean, they're going to go get one or two big catches in the portal. I'm going to assume. Go ahead. Hey, Matt, Billy, what's up?

What's up? I got two things, first of which I totally disagree with the refs situation. I think if you go back and look at that game in the second half, there were some very crucial moment where we were only down. I mean, you really want to, okay, but do you hear what you're saying? We were only down six. we were still down. Yeah, but I mean, in a basketball game, six and four, I mean, what do you?

Did you, was there ever a point in this game? Let me ask you question. Was there ever really a point in this game you thought we could stop him? Yeah, we were getting steals. I mean, we were, we got. They scored 96 points. They scored 96 points. With 13.

And a lot of that came off, a lot of that, a lot of the end of that came off some, some sloppy last minute threes. They had 15 turnovers. We out, well, we basically tied them in rebounds. They had 15 turnovers and shot 35% from three

and still scored 96. I mean, look, I'll complain about the riffs. But we weren't by the wind. We have a guy run into the lane and falling down. I mean, there's, I mean, you can't overcome that. I mean, we're, we're, we're, We're essentially playing six on five. What's your other point?

My other point would be if Alabama had Sears and Nelson down to injury, what do you think it would look like for them to come into a rough? Well, they'd probably lose, but I'm not really sure what your point is, because we played each other full on and lost in Rupp to them. I mean, it was a bang, bang game. The point is. I know, and I agree. It is a bang, bang game.

Alabama is just not like head and shoulders above us is the point I'm trying to me. All right. Well, I appreciate the call. I mean, they did beat us at Rupp, which is very hard to do, at least, you know, normally. That was a great game. It was a bang, bang, bang, game. We could have won it.

And I do think we can beat them. I also don't think if we're, I feel like I'm having to be, I'm just trying to be realistic. We're 18 and 9. we're really good and we can beat anybody. But, you know, they've got basically the same team coming off of Final Four. They're good. They're good.

And they're better than us. But that doesn't mean we can't beat them in a given game. I think if we are healthy, we can beat anybody in the country. We also, to be fair, have lost at home to Arkansas, have lost to Georgia, Vandy, and a Texas team that's down 20 to. South Carolina right now who hasn't won a game in the SEC. So we do need to be balanced when we're saying what this team is. 859-28027.

What were you going to say? I was just going to say that the free throw numbers were pretty similar tonight, despite all the talk about officials. I mean, they shot 25, Kentucky shot 22. But I was as frustrated as the caller on that Sears one, the one where they didn't The Sears one frustrates me. The Sears and Perry one is frustrating. But I totally agree with that.

But I think we were down eight at that moment. Or maybe we were down, I don't know, we were down like eight to 11, something like that. I agree with you. There were bad calls, okay? There were. But I thought two of the worst calls were on O way, but he was playing terribly. So I'm not sure that having him in would have helped us a lot because he didn't play well tonight. This was the worst game he's had at Kentucky.

So, you know, my mom just texted me and said, I seem frustrated. I'm not frustrated. Are you sure? It's okay to... There have been games. There have been games where I think we lost because of officials. I think we lost to North Carolina in 2017, in part, because of what happened officiating in that game.

All right? I think there were calls in the 2015 Wisconsin game that were important. When you lose by 13, I'm just not going to say it's because of the officials. But maybe other people are. 859-280-20287. We'll take a break. Be right back.

It's the local toy dealers, KSR Post-Gam Show. Welcome back. It is the local toy dealers KSR Post-Game show, 859-28027. One person writes, Matt, Sears knows how to work the whistle. It's annoying, but it's also a fact. That's true. Now, that I agree with. Mark Sears, one of the best players in the country at getting a whistle.

He is, and there's a skill to that. There is. There is a skill to that. Deeran Fox is really good at that at Kentucky. There's a skill. Go back and watch some of that game when we beat UCLA in Memphis in the Sweet 16. He plays amazing. But he also draws a lot of fouls because he's good at it.

He knew how to make a move and get a call and then hang. He's good at it. And Sears is great at it. So Sears draws foul that makes. maybe another person wouldn't get. And he's just good at it. There's a talent to that. I don't think it's flopping exactly,

but it's like a first cousin of flopping, Millie. It's like draw contact. You've got contact, but then like make it really show up. Does Kentucky have one of those players? I don't think we got one this year. I don't. I think OA doesn't. This group does not like contact.

Trent Noah is the, and Colin Chandler, oddly seemed like the two guys that are okay with it. Our guys don't like, I mean, there was a play. We ended up stopping them on the second shot, so it didn't matter. But Billy, do you remember the play? We had like four guys reached down for the ball and we didn't get it. And Alabama dove and they got it. Yeah, nobody dove. Now they missed their second shot, so it didn't matter.

But once again, we bend down and they get on the floor. And like our guys just, Kobe Bray doesn't like contact. contact. Jackson doesn't like contact. O.A. doesn't like contact. These guys just don't like contact. Even our bigs don't like contact. You know, and so we don't draw as many files, even though, as you made the point, we did shoot a decent number of free throws. When person writes, Matt, what did you think about the USA chant at Amari Williams? Don't like it. Didn't like it. Everybody can say, oh, take a joke. There's a lot of things you could say to somebody that might even make you laugh that you. you shouldn't say. Like, why are you, I mean, I'm all for America, you know, I'm American as anybody, proud American, whatever, but like, you don't have to be, like, rude. First of all, Alabama, you have a player that's from Nigeria. Yeah, Nigeria. Like, you have a player from Nigeria. But the other thing is, like I, I'm okay with the idea, like I said the other night, I was okay with the booing with the Canadian thing and the, but this is like calling out an individual.

person. And I just don't love chanting USA at a kid from Britain who is in the USA playing basketball. I just don't like it. I mean, am I like angry about it? No, I'm not going to yell at them. But I just think it's unnecessary. I think this, you know, you got to be careful because in this, it starts to drift and people start talking about politics. I mean, I said I didn't like it, Billy and like there were 10 references to Joe Biden like that had anything to do with it. It's just like you don't have to do that. You can yell at it. You can yell at it. of Mari Williams for something without going USA, you're for Britain, yeah.

Like, you don't have to do that. And I think it would actually look much worse if he was from like Nigeria, like their player, or in today's world, Mexico. Like, I just don't like it. You don't need to do that. I mean, again, I'm not going to

like go yell at the people in the student section. I just think it's kind of like the most sort of behavior that yell something else. You know, Make a joke about being from Britain. Like, I don't know. Not a lot of creativity in these SEC C sections.

Yeah, yell about tea and crumpets or something. I don't know. Who's up next? Richard. Richard. Go ahead, Richard. Hey. So, like you said earlier, we want to be fair but responsible.

And I think the SEC gets hyped up as the best conference in college basketball. Maybe rightly so. but I think if they want to do that, they need to hold up on their examination, and that means commentators, refs. But what people aren't talking about is coaches. Natoz, I was at the Alabama game at Rupp, and Natoz was, he did not stop talking to the officials.

And then when we played A&M, Buzz Williams, the most childish thing I've ever seen, he gets up and yells at the ref, because Jackson Robbins smiled at him. And then he tried to do it again. And if he had gotten that again, he would have been ejected. So he's trying to get a player, his former player, ejected from the game. So I think that there is a lack of character in some of these SEC coaches that people don't talk about.

It affects the game. I don't think it's just – you're right. I think you're right. But it's also true of every – it's not just SEC. I mean, I for three years, went to Duke games. And I watched Mike Shoshesky, arguably the greatest coach of all time, treated referees like they were subhuman. people. And I'm like, why do you do that?

Why do you? Well, I mean, you can turn on any game. Like, I don't even know who's playing right now. I'm watching Cal is doing it. I'm sure Cal's doing it. Like, there's just an accepted level. There's an accepted level of treatment of referees by coaches that I don't understand. Well, I guess I would just say this.

When Coach Kay retired, we had a golden opportunity to hit a reset on slimyness. I think it's past. You've got great young coaches like Pope. You've got great old coaches like Petino, who, you know, Patino has his own thing. But I like the way his team plays. But he yells at refs too. He screams the whole time too.

He yells at refs, but I mean justifiably. So I'm not mad at Nato's for yelling at rest when they're wrong. I'm yelling at it's about, you know, him trying to get the rest to be wrong. You know, that's a completely different thing. And that's what he does. That's what he did when he was at Ruff. That's what he did tonight.

There was a video of, I think, the foul on Sears, where the ref looked at Natoz, Natoz gets up and waves his fist, and then the ref calls foul, like a second or two after the shot, and he's looking at a vote. I mean, even if that's not him looking for the approval to call a foul, it's a terrible look. You know, I feel really, really bad. I got you. I got your point that, you know, I mean, I got it. By the way, tomorrow, is tomorrow a senior day for UK women?

Do we not, do we play Tennessee on the road? It's LSU, I believe, tomorrow, but I'm not sure if it's senior night. Let me check. Because don't we still, we still play Tennessee at home, don't we? How's it senior night? Because I keep seeing it senior night. Are they, is it what? Well, anyway, that's going to be a great game tomorrow.

So they're doing senior night. So why are we doing senior night? So why are we doing senior night? Well, the game versus Tennessee is Fandemonium Night, while the game versus LSU is senior day. Have we ever done that before where we do senior day on the next to last game of the year? I'm not sure. I've never heard of that.

Isn't that odd? Well, it's going to be an awesome environment tomorrow. I'm definitely going to be watching. Malky coming in. I think we got, we can beat LSU. I don't know if we will, but we can. I think that's going to be a great atmosphere. Marie Williams, by the way, as somebody points out,

I have four second half turnovers. So even though he played really well, though that's a lot of turnovers in one half. Who's next? Michael. Michael, go ahead, Michael. Hey, Matt, first time along time. Who are? What's up?

I'm calling out of Monroe, North Carolina, from Berea. But real quick, when Pope makes his adjustments within 15, 16 minutes, first half, I feel like the whole team just collapsed. I feel like his starters need to play for, and when he puts Garrison in there, they just, it's, they fall apart. Well, I mean, you have to play some subs, right? But the thing that's bothered me are the, like, line changes. Now, he didn't do as much of that tonight, but you're right. I mean, we take a huge drop when we get to the subs.

We just do. And I, you know, I don't know what you do about that. I will say this. You're going to have to play subs. But I look and I see Amari Williams 27 minutes. And I think, why? Why is that not like 33? Right.

When they were up 30 to 12, I felt 38. They just, I feel like they just, I mean. Well, that's you're right. That's when we did the second. You're exactly right. So that was the second wave of subs. and you are right, the game changed during that one. I think you're exactly right about it.

And that was a really bad defensive lineup, too. It was like Almanor, Perry, Noah, Garrison in at the same time. And that's just that lineup can guard. I love Pope, but as far as him being an analytics guy, I feel like he should keep the starters out way more than he needs to be. Yeah, I think that's a good point. I appreciate the call. I had somebody who has been to some Pope practices.

tell me, or no, not have been to practice, excuse me, talk to him. They were in town a couple weeks ago. And he said to them, he's very big on hyper efficiency. Basically, how many minutes can I play my guy to get him at 100% capacity for the longest time? And that's all nice, and I'm sure he has many more numbers than I do about it. but I'd rather have 80% Amari Williams than 100% Brandon Garrison right now. And I don't say that to be mean to Brandon Garrison. It's just a fact.

I think 80% Brandon Garrison is going to give us more success. Or, excuse me, 80% of Mari Williams than 100% Brandon Garrison. But playing the bench has developed some guys. I mean, like Colin Chandler. It is. But like, all right, so look, let's look at the minutes here. So I would say you had Colin Chandler, 13 minutes. I'm fine with that.

Almanor, 10 minutes, fine with that. But maybe Garrison should be 8 instead of 13. Maybe Noah should be like 15 instead of 23, right? I'm not saying don't play them, but we didn't have one player play 30 minutes. They had two guys play 30 minutes. Oh, Braya played 35. Yeah. Well, I'm sorry, we had one.

One guy, yeah. the rest of them. I just, and if Brea can play 35, then why can't these other guys? Pope said fatigue is a factor. It's not like Braya's in the greatest shape. Yeah. You know, so, I mean, he's in good shape, but I mean, it's not like he's a crazy good athlete. Like, I feel like if Brea can play that many minutes, then so can Amari. O way, I think probably would have. He was just in power.

Well, like you said, Carr had back issues. He still played 29. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, if you play Carr 29, how's Amari only playing? and 27. I mean, Carr was only playing 14 a week ago, you know. Yeah. Who's next? Cathead. Cathead. Go ahead. Hey, guys, what's going on? I got a statement and a couple questions. Okay. First of all, let's get a little wrestling.

Woo! That's right. There you go. Woo. Our freshmen, they're not going to get the calls, right? I mean, I mean, it's not whether bad calls, this, that. They've not got that status yet. True. That's true. They're not going to get the calls. They're not going to get the calls, and they're going to get the cow calls on them.

You know, so that's my statement. My question is we're preparing to go to Nashville again for the SEC tournament. Are we going to win a game? Well. And. And, and, and, where is Alice Bluegam playing? I will get you the answer to the second question. I don't know it off the top of my head.

On the first question, yeah, I think we, first of all, if we play Wednesday, we would play South Carolina. I think we'll win that, although they're about to win their first game, as I predicted, Billy Friday on KSR. And I think we win on Thursday if we start then either. So, yes, I do think we win. win one. Now, do I think it looks like we may have to play Auburn on Friday at one? Do I think we win that? I don't know. I don't know about that. Yeah. I don't know about that. We'll see. Yeah. You know, we are in battles. Like, we got very few players now. Like, we fell out like we did

a night. We have no more bodies. Yeah, we don't. You're right. You're exactly right. I appreciate the call. I do think, though, you know, when we get into the NCAA tournament, I think it's going to be nice, Billy, to not play some of these teams anymore. Like, everybody's so good. Yeah, no doubt. It's going to be nice to play somebody else. I have to say, I don't know, very few people listen to this will care about this. But, Bill, you know the rest in OVW, the wrestlers.

I like the outrunners. Yeah. You know the two guys that spin around, right? Right. Omaha, the Omaha College basketball team brought them in to give the pregame pump-up speech to their team tonight. And I wish you could see the outfits they're wearing. Oh, they came in outfits.

Of course. They came, yes. And it included this line, which I love. First of all, the name of their speech, Billy, was called Nothing succeeds like success. Okay. That's the thing. They say things like that. And then it started with this slide.

If you're anything like me, and I know I am, you woke up this morning to being awake. Oh, wow. Talk about motivational before I go out there. How motivational is that? I'm awake. You need to look at that video. You need to look up there. Is that online?

Yeah, I'll send you the picture of them. It's great. All right. Let's do one more and we'll take a break. Who's next? Michael. Michael. Michael.

Go ahead, Michael. Hey, what's up, fellas. I've kind of building off of what the other gentleman, the other Michael said earlier when he mentioned the substitutions. I don't understand you can make it make sense for me, how it can be up 13 points. He makes these subs. And then I think Alabama went on a 27 to 2 run.

And I'm just trying to understand Pope's thoughts. Why don't you call a timeout, try to regroup, reput your starters back in? They're warmed up. You're up 13. I mean, build, you've got, you're playing Alabama, build a higher lead than that. I mean, can you? Yeah, I mean, I think that's going to be a question. Yeah, I don't know.

I mean, it's going to be a question I want to ask him when the year is over. I mean, there's clearly a philosophy behind it. I think the philosophy is what I just said a minute ago, which is he, kind of wants to play the players to get 100% efficiency as much as they can. But I don't know. I feel like when there's a big gap between your number one and your number two, maybe you can't do that quite as much. Yeah, but I mean, we could have be.

I do agree with you on the refs side based off of us losing. We can't just blame it all on the refs. I was getting really ticked off at how the rest were calling the game. but it's not just the refs. I mean, we were up. I think we got to a point where we were down three. We could have tied the game. And there was like four or five possessions.

We just went empty. Nothing, nothing, nothing. No, you're right. That was right. The start saying that happened. Yeah. Yeah. But I do the Wisconsin thing you mentioned earlier.

I was looking that stuff up today thinking about that. I don't even know why they came up into my head, but I was just like, man, that Wisconsin still just eats at me. me. But anyway, y'all have a good night. Appreciate the call. I've always believed that if we beat Wisconsin and we won the NCAA tournament that year, I think Cal probably retires a couple years before. And like Kentucky fans, I mean, it would have been the best year in 40 years. It would be a completely different, it would be interesting to see in an alternate universe

what the Kentucky world was like if we beat Wisconsin. like it would just be a different world. I mean, like we would have, Cal, I think nationally would be looked at differently. Like the whole thing would just be completely different. By the way, it looks like Arkansas won, didn't they against Missouri? Yeah, big win for Cal. Big win.

So that probably will get them in the tournament. So that is a big win for Cal. That's probably a makes the tournament victory for Arkansas. We'll take a break. 859-280-2287. Cats lose to Alabama. on the road. We'll do our final segment right after this. It's a local toy dealers, KSR postgame show. Welcome back. It is the local toy dealers, KSR post game show. Duke beat Illinois, Billy, by 45 points tonight.

Geez. Forty-three, 110 to 67 on a neutral court. That was the freest money of all. Duke does not lose. Duke just does not lose in Madison Square Garden. It's like a home game for them. Illinois is not bad. I mean, well, there are 43 points worse than Duke. Two other things, one of which people may or may not care about. The other one may make them mad, but I still have to say it because it's funny. First of all, Ellie De La Cruz, two at bats today, Billy in the spring training game, two home runs, one left-handed, one right-handed. Wow. Hot start.

That's a good thing you got that. That was the first game. First spring training game. Yes. Whoever got me that bobblehead. Yeah, whoever did that. That was very nice. You're a boy, your hero.

Elon Musk. Oh, that you're going to say Tom Brady. Is that your hero? Tom Brady? One of them. What about Elon Musk? No. Okay.

Well, he, I don't know if you saw this. He sent an email or his little people to every federal employee today that said by Monday night at midnight, you have to send what you did last week and the five things you accomplished. All right? Okay. every federal employee. I am friends of federal employees who got the email.

Here's the only problem. He sent it from an outside mail server, outside the government that's not secured. So now, the head of the FBI, the Secret Service, the DEA, and the CIA has sent out a memo tonight telling their workers, please do not respond to the email because you may end up with security and counterintelligence. Oh, my gosh. Nice job, Elon. Are you going to send me your five things you accomplished last week? He is the worst.

The worst. I mean, did nobody like, how does he send that to all the government workers from an outside email address? Well, he's still learning. He's still getting through it. But somebody shouldn't be learning. Okay, never mind. Shut up. Who's next?

Let's go to Jerry. Jerry. Go ahead, Jerry. Before I get a point about the game, I'm just curious to send those emails to the people that supervises SpaceX contracts. We'll see. I don't want to get into all that. I just made my point. And now it's Saturday night, and since we lost,

I just had to say that. Now, let's get it. What's the next? Go ahead. Well, you got to laugh this shit with this stuff. Anyway, you can't cuss. You can't cuss. It's not time. I know. I know. I'm sorry. I got it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So, but as far as the game goes, When have we ever gone to Alabama and, you could probably say Georgia and Auburn as well, and gotten a good whistle? We always get bad officiating at Alabama.

It's baked in the cake. I mean, the biggest reason they lost is they didn't make the place they needed to. But yeah, that officiating was terrible, but it's always terrible when they played out, Alabama. Yeah, and it's, I mean, look, I'm sure somebody should do a study. Maybe they have. I think the home team always gets a better whistle, especially when the crowd is loud. That's just my view. Because it's just, it's human nature.

Like, it's human nature that the crowd, like, the raft tends to go with the crowd. Well, somebody said that there was a USA Today article. I never saw it, but one of their sportswriters said he watched several SEC games this year, and that the officiating was so overwhelming to the home teams, was so overwhelmingly good favor that if you went at a row game in the SEC, there's something special going on. I think that does happen. I think any time a crowd is really into a game, the officials end up favoring the home team.

I think that's just almost natural. But, yeah, I mean, I think that sequence here with Perry and then Sears getting that call was terrible. And then the other thing was, I can't remember who it was, but the Alabama player put his arm up and actually shoved the UK player down. And they called the UK player for blocking instead of a charge. Vital picked that one up. Yeah, but like I said, that, that's just, it's what it is. But actually, the biggest reason they lost is that they, you know, they're short-handed, they didn't make the plays, and until we get those guys back,

it's just going to be, it's going to be a tough road to hoe. Totally agree. Appreciate the call. I mean, it is. I mean, this team, if this was the team going into the NCAA tournament, then I'd be like, hopefully we can win one, and if we win two, it's great. But this isn't going to be the team. I think we're going to have Butler.

I'm going to just make a guess we have Butler for the Auburn game. Might even have him Wednesday, but I think the Auburn game is more likely. Robinson, I hope we get him by the SEC term. That's the way I'm looking at it. And then it's a different team with those guys than it is with what it is right now. Let's do four more. Who's next? Joe is next.

Joe, go ahead. Quickly, Matt. On the ladies game tomorrow, I just assume, Georgia's Amor's parents are flying in from Australia. Maybe that's the reason why they were going to have senior day. Somebody sent me a message. The women always try to do their senior day on the last weekend home game. I didn't know that.

Okay. All right. I was just kind of curious myself. And quickly mad on the game, I really think the key to our whole team is Garrison. If I'm Mark Polpe, I'm giving him 10 minutes a game. And if he doesn't have four or five. and about three block shots when he comes out of the game. I'm looking at Garrison and saying that's just how you help us win the game

is by being physical and getting some block shots. And my gosh, Matt, I mean, it's just to the point. I think sometimes he just lets him lay it in and he just thinks he's doing his job. He's 6'11. I mean, give me some block shots. I understand why Mori might be hesitant because he knows he's so important to the team that maybe he don't want to get in foul trouble. but Garrison, you are expendable.

You can help this team by giving me 4,000, three-block shots at game. Thanks a lot, Matt. Goodbye. Appreciate the call. I mean, I don't, I think there's something to that. I, you know, I don't feel like the gap between those guys, Billy, was as big at the beginning of the year as it is now. You know, I don't, and I don't know if that's just that Amari's really, really improved

or things have gone differently for Brandon, but, you know, I think you look at the roster. You could say, like, it feels like everyone on the team has improved or had to deal with an injury, like cars had to deal with an injury. But I just don't feel that way about Garrison. And I'm not sure why, but it just doesn't seem to have happened for him. Who's next? Amari's improved a lot. Amari's improved a lot.

I mean, the freshmen have all improved. Yeah. You know, always been pretty consistent all year. But I think Almanor's improved, right? I think it's really been Ben Garrison that's kind of taking a step back. Who's next? Sherry. Sherry.

How are you, Sherry? Good, Matt. I just wanted to call. I don't really have nothing rude to say about the game. I feel just like you did. And I think you do an excellent job with all the people that call in our man. And I wanted to say whenever that guy called Wallygo and said that the announcers just kept talking about Alabama, Mama, you really explained that so well.

And I just wanted to brag on you. And I love me some Matt Jones. And I love me some Matt Jones. Oh. Thank you. You have a good mom. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Said it twice to make sure you heard it.

It said it twice. Well, good. That's very nice of her. Yeah, I mean, like, it's natural. Like, you're going to talk about the team that's winning. Like, that's just what's going to happen. And then you're going to talk about. about, you know, when you're in an environment and everybody in that environment is cheering for a team,

you're going to talk about the team that everybody's cheering for. And I would say to you, watch Kentucky play like South Carolina and ask yourself if you were a South Carolina fan, which team you think they're talking about more, you know? Yeah. By the way, the Texas head coach looks exactly like Gus Freen from better than Saul. Breaking bad. Breaking bad. He looks like just like him. All right, two more. Who's next? I said that to Shannon.

He had no idea what I was talking about. Is it Fring or Frigg? Fring. It's Gring. All right, go ahead. Heather is back. Heather, go ahead. Oh, crap.

Sorry. I was putting a piece of wood on the far, and it about fell out on me. Okay. First of all, I agree with you on the, Elon. He also. Okay, I don't bring this stuff. I don't bring this stuff up to then get everybody's opinions on.

I just say it and we move on. So go ahead. Okay. Well, all right, we'll go past that. I was also just wondering about this substitution thing. I don't want to complain. I love Pope. But it seems like it's just the timing of when he subs out, like,

within the first, you know, a few minutes. And I've been getting crap on Twitter about it, but, you know, talking about their age and they're older. But crap, LeBron's 40 and he plays, you know. But I don't understand the time for just a few minutes of taking them all out because that was a big, big difference in the plus minus, I'm sure. when we were at 20 to 9 and he took him out and put the others in and they scored 27 points on us. I just, I don't want to be frustrated, but I don't know why he does it. Well, I mean, I agree.

We've talked a lot about it. I appreciate to call. You know, these dudes can play 30 minutes, but he clearly has a philosophy because we have not, he's done this all year. And granted, we've won game. doing it, but I don't understand it, especially when there's a huge gap. I mean, I just think, you know, one thing about, you know, you go look at Cal's rotations in the tournament. He's playing guys 33 minutes again. I mean, he, he would get down to playing seven guys. When we won the

national championship, we only played six guys, you know, um, Deloy Vargas was the seventh and Kyle Wilcher was the eighth, but we basically went with six. You know, I feel like these guys can do it. Even the, even the platoon team by the time you got to the tournament they platoon for a half and then he played the best guys so i feel like we can play the best guys just play them you know play them no load management games for am already yeah and it may be different guys each game right like it might be you know tonight Travis perry was playing pretty well so maybe you give him more minutes um we've had games noa played well but like i just don't ever i'm never going to see a reason Why, until we get Robinson and Butler back,

I'm not going to understand why O.A. Brea and Garrison are not in every minute you can have them in. And then Carr, as many minutes as his back can take. Right? Like, those four dudes should be in every second that their bodies can go. Sounds a little bit like last year. What do you mean? Just like the right guys not playing at the same time. Yeah.

well yeah that was that was a little different but you're exactly right a little so similar all right who's next Jordan finish strong all right Matt so first I'm going to start with the ELOMA stuff I know you don't want to talk about it no you're not no you're not if you want me to okay go ahead if you're a federal employee I'll let you say I'm a federal employee I actually did get the email today um it's from HR of opm.gov so it's it's actually from a legitimate source so they are asking you to tell you to tell them what you did five things you did in the past week. So it's kind of weird, but oh. It's from a non-secure server.

I bet you get a message that tells you not to do it. But anyway, go ahead. Oh, we actually got a thing from our Washington, D.C. And again, you just wanted to make your comment, and now you're keeping going. I want you to get onto the sports, okay? All right, for the sports. So I will say this about Kentucky. So everybody complained about Mark Poe.

and the way he's doing stuff, his rotations and stuff. But honestly, we played Alabama really good tonight. And you had your three leading scores kind of down. You know, Butler, O.A. was, O.A. Fowed out. And then you had Jackson Robinson, not playing. We played that team good. I think Mark Pope has a perfect style offense going into the season. Everything we're doing right now is good.

We're going to be an NCAA tournament team. People do not know how to play us. That's the problem with the SEC right now. That's why we're doing so good in the SEC. People do not know how to play that offense with Amari, standing at the top of the key, passing the ball around, you know, just going around. Nobody knows that a play us right now.

We're going to be just fine. People need to be happy about what we're doing right now, what Mark Pope's doing right now. We're going to be fine. Everything with this team, with Mark Pope, leading this scene. Well, it's only got four games left. I mean, to be fair, sir, we only have four games left.

And we don't even know if our two best players are going to be back yet. I think it's reasonable for people to not just say, we're fine. I think it's reasonable for people to go, I don't know. I mean, we haven't, like, Jackson Robinson, if he plays, which I think he will, but if he does, like, he may just start back in the postseason. I don't know how you can know that's going to work out. I hope it works out. I think if we're 100% healthy, we can beat anybody,

but we don't know that's going to happen. Mark Pope has that offense that people do not know how to defend. These other coaches, they do not know how to defend it. People have admitted it before, and Kentucky is going to be fine. We are going to be fine. We're going to be great. All right. Well, I appreciate the call.

Nothing was going to deter that guy's point. Everything's going to be fine. I responded and he said the same thing again. You know, that's all right. Hey. Listen, man. Feisty show. Sometimes for me, sometimes from everybody else, but I liked it.

And congrats to South Carolina. It gets their first conference win. Beats Texas tonight. That Texas loss is a tough one. Just fell apart. That Texas loss may end up costing us. Like, if we had won against Texas, I think we'd have a chance of finishing, like,

as the six seed or five seed. and now we might be the nine and play on Wednesday. That was a big loss that Texas loss. Thank you all very much for listening. Support the women's team tomorrow. Big game against LSU. I'd tell you to go, but it's already sold out. You can't go unless you're going.

We'll have it on at the bar if you want to come by. Monday we're going to be in studio, but then we will be at the bar Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday for the shows. Play Oklahoma Wednesday night. Four games left. We're getting into the time of the year that we all love. This is why we love basketball, as we're heading in very close to March.

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