KSR - KSR Postgame UK MBB vs Colgate 12/12/24

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

Matt and Billy recap the Cats' 78-67 win vs Colgate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It is the local Toyota dealers KSR post game show. The Cats win a relatively sluggish effort tonight over Colgate 7867 in Rupp Arena. now get ready for the big robbery game next Saturday against Louisville. You can give a shout. Love to hear from you. It's one of these people sometimes say to me, Matt, what are the hardest shows to do? And there's like two different kinds. It's usually, you know, if they lose on a Tuesday night on the road at like Ole Miss, a late game, people go to bed.

We have a game like that this year at Oklahoma. and then December games against bad teams. So this is a good time to get in. 859-280-2287. So I said on the pregame show that I expected this game to be closer than the 30-point spread, that I expected Colgate to slow Kentucky down. And I thought they did a lot of things really well. I mean, Kentucky came out on a 17-0 run to start the game.

and I'm sure like most people, the players sort of thought, well, we're good, and then they played like it for about the next 20 minutes. Colgate even got the lead by one point, which is kind of amazing when you start 17-0. But to Kentucky's credit, in about a minute and a half a game action, they went from down one to up 11, Jackson Robinson, hitting two big threes that I thought were the most important shots of the game. then Trent Noah getting a big one. Trent played good minutes off the bench tonight,

getting real minutes and taking advantage. And then, of course, all game, Kobe Brea, who went five for eight from three. It really was the most important player in the win. For me, I mean, this game, we won't remember this game. I don't think it particularly matters. Your sandwiched between really three big games, at Clemson at Gonzaga, then Louisville Saturday.

This is an easy game to forget. Honestly, most of the year I forgot this game was even happening. I thought they were taking, doing finals this week, and there wasn't even a game. So I'm sure the players are like that, too. Look, I mean, you just won a massive game against one of the best teams in the country on their court, and then you got the biggest rival next week. It's easy to overlook this. But what's odd is that they actually started 17-0, so it wasn't like they overlooked

at the beginning, I just think they got complacent. I think you also see how this team really needs Lamont Butler. I mean, I know we won against Gonzaga, but I think for this team to be good, you really need Lamont Butler, in part because it frees up Jackson Robinson. He went two for 11 from three. Now the two he hit were big, but he needs to not have to create as much. I don't think that's really his role. Butler can do that.

you know what the bench with the bench really didn't have a great game i mean if you look at it right now kentucky's bench points total was nine that's probably the lowest that it will be all season nine points off the bench all the starters were in double figures but you know they need lamont butler back and with kirk kreisa gone i think it's going to be important for you know i don't think Travis perry looks comfortable yet i don't really think Colin chanler looks comfortable yet print Noah maybe he's the guy right maybe he's the guy to get some of those minutes um but whatever it is uh you know we've seen a pattern Kentucky by the way has won the second half in every game this year they played they are uh what 10 and oh in second halves but the first halves you know cats have got to be

a little more uh on it because i think obviously popes become a king of halftime adjustments but you know when you get an SEC play, there are going to be some games that they'll drop if they don't have better first halves. And hopefully tonight is a little bit of a wake-up call. Ultimately, two basketball takeaways I had while watching it. Number one, I wish that, well, three actually. Number one, I wish Kobe Brea would shoot more from three. I think I heard when they were doing the replays, Jack Givens, say this during the game. I'm all for a pump fake, but man, you're like the best shooter in the country.

Shoot. I wish he took eight threes watching the game. I thought he could have taken 14. And honestly, in part of the game, we need him to. So I kind of wish he would shoot more. It's almost too unselfish, which gets me to the second point, which is I do think this team overpasses a little bit, especially down low. I love the passes on the perimeter and the way they go.

They pass to get an open look. But I do think, especially with Oway, Brea, I don't think it happens so much with Robinson, but O'A and Brea especially, like they get in the paint on a drive, and then I appreciate the fact they're always looking for a lob, but sometimes I think they're giving up a good shot for a high-risk, better shot that might not go in. I'd rather have, if Kobe Brea has the lane for layup, I'd almost rather him take it than try to throw a contested lot. to one of the bigs.

It's a nitpicky thing, but I do think we overpass sometimes. And then third, I actually thought Amari Williams played pretty good tonight. Dunk! It reminds me of when I was a kid, Larry used to always sort of, when Jared Prickett played, he would say, why doesn't he dunk? Because he would always sort of try to bunny a layup and he would miss it. I feel that way about Amari and, to some extent, Garrison, but really Amari more like, dunk, you know, his touch is not as good as his power.

I hope, I wish he would do that a little bit more. But again, Saturday's what matters. Kentucky and Louisville, Louisville struggled tonight. They only won by three at home against Utep. They were down a lot of that game. But they'll give Kentucky a fight, and I think Kentucky's going to have to play better than they did today to win. Pope says he thinks he'll know if Lamont Butler is going to play Saturday

based on how he feels tomorrow, because I think they gave him, like, his first really major workout today. I hope he does. I think I feel really good about Kentucky's chances if he plays, but if he doesn't play, I think it could be a game. And, you know, Louisville's had actually kind of a brutal schedule. And they, you know, they play Kentucky. I think they still have to play North Carolina, maybe right after Kentucky.

When you consider Duke, Ole Miss, Tennessee, they've had a tough go of it. They need to win one of these if they're going to make the tournament. and I don't want us to be the one that they win. 859-2-80-2287. Cats, not much of a night of college basketball outside of Kentucky. The NBA Cup is going. Billy, do you like the NBA Cup? Have you followed it at all?

I'm watching it right now, but it's hard to watch. The courts are so bad. Do you hate the courts? I cannot stay. I don't know how the players play on. But it tells you something different going on, though, right? It does. It does give that effect.

But yeah, it is. tough. I think the Rockets Court, the ones that are really red or like bright yellow like Indiana's, those to me are the hardest ones to look at. Yeah, I'm looking at the red one now. I can't believe the players are able to. But I do like that it does feel like for these games, the guys are into it a little bit more. The crowd in Houston here I was watching during the postgame is much more into it than a regular NBA crowd would be. So I guess that's good. But yeah, do you Remember who won last year? The Lakers, right?

Okay, now here's the big question. Do you remember who they beat in the final game? No. Come on. Come on. You got to take a guess. First of all, you know, Western Conference versus Eastern Conference. So it's the Eastern Conference team.

Who did they play in the finals? Was it like Cleveland? Yeah. It's a shot in the dark. Who is it? Indiana. They beat Indiana in the finals. Oh, yeah, I remember that now.

Halliburton. Yeah. So now they've got, what, Milwaukee, Atlanta, and Oklahoma, the city. So those will be good games if they end up playing them. 859-280-2287. We'll take your calls. What do you think about the team? The game, they released the UK football schedule for next year. We'll spend a lot of time on that tomorrow on the show. But for my belief, it's about the hardest first seven games I remember Kentucky ever having in football. That's got to make puts Mark, stoop's and even more.

I guess what? More of a hot seat next year. Having to start with Old Miss, Georgia, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee. Those are the first five SEC games. That is going to be a difficult schedule. 859-28027.

We will take a break. Take your calls. Cats win by 11. This is the local toy dealers, KSR, post-game show. Waterback, it is the local toy dealers, KSR post-game show. 8-5-9, 289, 288. 827. Text machine is 772, 775254. One person writes, Matt, our family has decided to drop football season next year and do baseball instead. I think you're going to still want to go to the football.

I mean, that's a great home schedule next year, Billy, isn't it? You get Texas, Tennessee and Florida, all at home. I mean, that's all losses. Come on now. Well, I mean, it's the schedule you want if you want to make a run, right, because you get the good teams at home. But if you're a team that's struggling, it's the worst schedule you can get because you get the weaker teams on the road. So, like, it all depends on how you look at it. There have been years that I would love for Kentucky to have had a schedule like they have next year. But I'm not sure this year is the one.

One person writes, Matt, if we get Lamont Butler back, I think we're fighting. but you can tell how much we miss him. Exactly right. He is a huge loss, especially in initiating half-court offense. And in guarding the other team's point guard, I honestly think we have two good defenders, in my opinion, Butler and O-Way. And when you don't have Butler, you put O-Way on their number one guy, but then Jackson Robinson is having to guard their number two,

and then you end up with like Brea, who's not a very good defender. You know, you struggle against teams that can move on the perimeter without Butler. It will be very good to have him back. All right, who's up first? Chuck. Chuck. Chuck, go ahead, Chuck. You did Matt?

What's going on? I'm doing well. I went to the game today, a lifelong fan. I'm 19 years old. I'm a freshman in Alabama. And I get a lot of hate every day. I get a lot of hate for cheering for Kentucky every day. So you're a freshman at Alabama.

Are you already out of school? Yes, sir. All right, so you're out of school. You're freshman in Alabama. You cheer for Kentucky. You're not like one of these Kentucky basketball, Alabama football fans, right? That's like too easy of a lot. Oh, I know.

Well, I'm from Kentucky. My family's from Lowell County. my grandma's from Harlem, just like Trent Noah, and I bleed blue until I die, and I get a lot of hate for it. I went to the game today, and, you know, I know you talk a lot on the show about the difference between the football fans and the basketball fans, and I got yelled out, or sorry, I got yelled at by two different groups of people today

for standing up at the game and cheering on the team. All right, now, wait a minute, what was your first name again? it's Chuck okay so Chuck I got this text message from a friend of mine's son by the way Billy

my friends now have sons that are in college that's crazy to me his name's Lawson and he's actually in college like you are I think he goes to Miami and he wrote me and said

he went to the game and with me today oh he was with you okay well that makes it okay well that makes it will have a lot more sense so you went with Lawson okay so you all had this together

He wrote and said, my friend and I were at the game. I guess that's you. What a small world, Billy, right? Isn't that a small world? He said, my friend and I were at the game, we ended up getting an argument with some people for standing up during the game. I don't understand why people were telling us to sit down and stop cheering even though it's a one possession game. So you're big on. You should be able to stand and cheer.

And I'm with you. I'm all for the standing up crowd. I, the only thing I don't like about Kentucky basketball fans is the lower level at Rupp Arena telling people to sit down. This is a basketball game. It's not an opera. I'm on your side, Chuck, and I'm on Lawson's side. I agree. It was, they were so rude about it, too.

And you can tell they've probably done this before. I've never, I've never experienced something like this at a sporting event in my life. Well, tell them to shut up. Well, be nice. I mean, don't yell at them. But say you're going to say you're going to say. They were respectful the first time, and the second time, when they were really rude about it, I told them, I said, if you want to watch the game without people in front of you, you can watch it on TV or get better tickets.

Oh, wow. All right. Well, thank you, Chuck. I appreciate the call. Billy, where are you on that? Should you be able to stand up? Yes, absolutely. This is a sporting event.

The only thing I would say is be courteous. So, like, if you have somebody behind you who may be, for whatever reason, has a health issue or can. stand. I do try to consider that. But in general, especially in moments in the game where it's exciting, you should, I am forestanding. And I think the culture that's developed at Rupp over the years, where you only stand occasionally, and if people stand you're mad, I don't like it. Now, when I go to games and people stand in front, but I was at the Kentucky, like, Old Miss football game. And people stood the entire game. It's just what they did. and I'm not saying we have to stay in the entire game,

but you can't get mad at 19-year-old kids who are excited and are standing them. So what a coincidence that those, in that, do you not think that's weird that the guy, the kid who wrote me and went to the game with that kid that called? You don't think that's right? I'd say a lot of people that exit Rupp Arena after a game, listen to the post game, Matt. I know, but there's 20,000 people in there. You don't think it's random that the two people went together? No, no, you're right.

It's small world out there. You don't think that's nearly as cool as I do. All right, who's next? Tanner. They don't even go to the same school. I think one of them goes. Anyway, all right,

Tanner, go ahead. Hey, Matt, this is Tanner Dickerson from Sandy Hook, Kentucky. Sandy Hook, so I'm a question here.

That's that, is that, that's Rocky Adkins territory, right? That is. Everything in that town is named after Rocky Adkins. All right, go ahead.

You got it right there. Oh, yeah. Or Keith Williams. Before I get my question here, oh, yeah, Keith Whitley, too. Oh, yeah. So before I get my question here, I don't want to, I guess, kind of hit on a couple other things. So obviously with the point guard situation, as we all know right now,

as you Mitchell with Butler, being out with his injury. And kind of just a shape that the point guard situation is right now. And then it's also allowed Robertson to kind of playoff position from what I've seen. but he did have a good game against Gonzaga. I believe, you know, in my opinion here, I think we're leaning on people, maybe from the bench, particularly Travis Perry hasn't seen the night.

You can kind of see just kind of out of sort. He's more of a catch-and-shoot type of players, better coming off screens. Yeah, but they're not going to be running screens for Travis Perry. I mean, like, he's not. Oh, yeah. I mean, they're not going to be running offense for Travis Perry or those guys, they have to, I mean,

they have to do what they can do to contribute and it may mean that they can't look i don't if this were a game against a team that really had a shot to beat us the minutes would have been distributed very differently they'd have probably played those i mean that's what we did against gonzaga we played the five starters most of the second half and overtime i mean i so those guys were getting a chance with Travis and chandler and no one even almanor and those guys they were getting more run But if this were against, you know, Alabama in this game, you'd have seen five guys out there most of the time. Yeah, okay, absolutely, absolutely.

So now, okay, getting to my question here now, though. So I've kind of tweeted at you here probably the past couple weeks. I don't know if you've seen it or not, but it's in regards to Colin Porter at Liberty University. He's a point guard there. He's a junior this year. He's been there. He started all three years.

He actually played at Ashland Blazer Hospital. Yeah, I remember that kid. That's right. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. So what I've done, what I honestly think, you know, you got Trent, you got Noah and Perry, two Kentucky kids.

Why not maybe next season going in the next season? Well, they might. It depends on who they need. I mean, it depends on what their roster needs are. You know, I appreciate the call. You know, I don't, I think you can get another year out of a way. So I think you got to first determine, will you give a, another year out of him. You got Garrison. You got to see if all three of those guys that you just

mentioned end up coming back, then you've got four. You got three and we'll probably end up being four freshmen. So, I mean, let's assume all of those people come. Now you have nine guys. So you're going to go get three transfers, but like you got to be very careful who you get. You can't just get a kid, Kazi's from Kentucky. You got to get a kid that you think is going to contribute. And maybe he would. I don't know. But I think they would have to look at the roster. You know, my guess is next year in the portal.

They'll go get a point guard to pair with Jasper Johnson. But whether it's him or somebody else, I think will depend on how Pope sees his system being run. Who's next? Elliot. Elliot. Go ahead, Elliot. Hey, Matt. How's it going?

Doing good. Good. Hey, I like that. what I've seen from Trent Noah tonight, just his defense and hit that three, which seemed a lot to crowd up. Do you think that he could become more like a Derek Willis player? Well, I think before he's done, he's going to be really good. I don't think this year he's going going to play a lot. I just don't. I mean, he played tonight. I think he'll get another chance to play some minutes against Brown. And I think those are his.

I mean, he certainly helped his cause tonight. But, I mean, when Butler's back, you're going to have four or five guys ahead of him. And I think they've shown that this team does better when they go small rather than, excuse me, when, if he's going to play, I think it's with Carr at the five and him playing a small four. But I just don't think he'll, I don't think he'll play a lot. But before he's done, it can't. Kentucky. Yes, I do think he can have like a Derek Willis type role. But do I think it'll happen this year? No, I don't. Absolutely. Thank you.

Appreciate it. I mean, you know, and that's not a criticism. Look, I mean, you look at Chandler, Noah, and Perry. All those guys, I think have a chance to be contributors, significant contributors at this school before they're done. I think Chandler has a chance to be a star. But, you know, when I watch them, this. is what I was thinking looking at Perry and Noah and Chandler today. Billy, if you look at the rest of our players and you look at them, you see the difference in four years of college weight training. Yeah. No, I'm serious. No doubt. Yeah.

Just go look at those dudes because those other guys are 22, 23 years old. And Noah and Perry are like 18 and 19. That's a big difference. And sometimes we would see that at Kentucky. we'd play some of these guys when Cal was here, and we'd have these little freshmen, and we'd be playing against grown men. We're the grown men this year. And this, by the way, is the last year where you're going to have fifth year guys, a lot of them playing.

So I don't think the gap will be as large in the years to come. Who's next? Robbie. Robbie. Robbie. Go ahead, Robbie. Hey, first time, long time, Matt. Who are? What's up?

Well, it's William. I'll be honest with you. as I watch the game tonight, I think he's a little lazy. He doesn't block out. I saw a lot of times where you got other guys jumping on the ball and really going after it. I wouldn't say lazy, but I will say, I wouldn't say lazy, but I do know what you're talking about. I noticed this even in the Gonzaga game as well. Like, if there's a loose ball, he does something that.

I see coaches complain about a lot. He bends down to get it, whereas the other guy, like, falls on the floor and gets it. You know what I mean? And usually the guy who does that is going to have a better chance. I wouldn't say he's lazy. I don't think that's fair. But I would say that, you know,

maybe sometimes he's at 85, 90 percent effort. I do think in big place, he plays great defense, but he can get beaten sometimes with effort. Well, I think he gets caught ball watching. Like he's standing there watching the ball go up, but he doesn't go after it. You know what I'm saying? I mean, giving that 100% effort to go for the ball. Make sense?

No, I agree. I agree. And like I said, I appreciate the call. Sometimes I wish he went out would go up and dunk and not just try to finesse it around the rim. He is, however, when he's locked in, he's a good shot. blocker. He's pretty good at pick and roll defense. He got better, especially in that game the other night. He was bad at the first half. They were torturing them. But then in the second half, he started playing it better. I still think all these guys, you know, they did a pretty good job this

year until tonight. And when you play these teams that shoot threes, like get out on them, make them beat you off the dribble. We didn't do a great job of that tonight. And we have most of the year. They lay way too far off these guys, and I don't understand that because these dudes are not going to beat you at the rim. But who's next? Jaden. Jaden. What's up, Jaden? And I don't know how much you've been following the NBA this year, but I've been looking at, like,

and they're only charging for a game. Do you think he's like any concerns about the career? No, I don't. I mean, it is, I've been surprised. well, I've been surprised with both of them, Shepard and Dillingham, the minutes they've gotten. So there are two different situations. I think Reed's problem is he's on a team with five guards that are all pretty good. And because of that, he just can't get minutes.

I don't want anyone to get hurt. But I think if someone were to get hurt, you'd start to see more minutes, but the rockets have been healthy all year. I also think if I were, I'd like to see him playing instead of Van Fleet some, but but Van Fleet's getting the minutes. And look, the rockets are good. So that's why he's not playing. He's just, he's got the burden to be it on a good team. I think with Dillingham, his defense kills him.

Like, I mean, when they put him in, he gets torched. And that was his problem here too. He couldn't really guard anybody. He'll be fine, but he might not play a lot this year because he's just defensively. He's a liability. Yeah, for sure. So, yeah, I appreciate the call. But on Reed especially, he's not.

played as much as I thought he would, but the problem is he's on a team that's good and has five guards, a couple of whom are having like the best years of their career. So he just, he got some bad luck with where he ended up. All right, we'll take a break. 859-280, 2287. Cats with an 11-point win against the Colgate. What is Colgate's nickname? Raiders. The Raiders. I don't know that I ever knew that actually. Is Colgate named after the same Colgate that does the toothpaste? Don't know, but I'm going to assume

so. Why don't you look that up during the break so that you can give us the history of this fine university that we played for the time today? We'll take a break and be right back. This is the local Toyota Dealers, KSR, post game show. Welcome back. It is the local toy dealers, KSR

post game show. All right, so I've been having people, Billy, for the last week or so writing me about one of our commercials. And I not heard it until right then. Do you, do you, can you play the commercials? Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to hear it?

So this is the commercial for those of you that, you know, or maybe listen on podcast, you don't get all commercials. This is the commercial for Red State Barbecue. And I want you to just hear, I mean, you can hear me talking. But for those of you listening at home, I want you to listen into the background. because I believe that Ryan Lemon may have made an appearance in one of my commercials. Let me see. Red State barbecue products are now everywhere.

Let me give you the latest. Select Kroger locations across Kentucky, Southern Ohio, and Southern Indiana. Same thing at Liquor Bar and Lexington, Danville, and Eatown. There are jungle gym in Fairfields and Cincinnati. Do you hear that? Did he just decide to clear his throat? in the middle of my commercial? I had not heard that until a minute ago, Matt.

So for people who don't know, we tape these commercials a lot of them after the show, and often I'll do mine, and then if Ryan has one, he'll do his, and he will keep the headset on. And did he just decide to croak like a frog in the middle of my commercial? I mean, he was sitting right next to you. He had to know you were doing his spot. But did he not think that I was on, like, I mean, play that one more time. Listen, listen to his, his, his,

Slim. Red State barbecue products are now everywhere. Let me give you the latest. Select Kroger locations across Kentucky, Southern Ohio, and Southern Indiana. Same thing at Liquor Barron in Lexington, Danville, and Etown. There are jungle gym in Fairfields. I mean, listen, he sounds like March Simpson sisters there while I'm trying to do my ad. He needs to apologize to Red State barbecue for that. What a gross. It goes up there with the local tacos spot. It's my favorites of all time, I think. Nice job, right. Did you look up Colgate? I did. Let me give you a little history lesson. Colgate has actually had four different names throughout its time as a college. In 1819, it was founded as the Baptist Education Society of the

state of New York. That didn't sound like a college. That sounds like a club. In 1823, it was renamed to the Hamilton Theological and Literary Institution. Okay. And then it was changed to Madison in college, but the name was later changed to Colgate University due to a significant donation by James Colgate, the son of William Colgate, the founder of the company that made Colgate, too. See, I can't imagine doing that, right? Like, I can't imagine, just think about the ego you have to have. To give an amount of money and say, it's one thing, if you like, endow the college, right?

So if it was the blank school of whatever, anything. But if you went to a college and then you go, I'm going to give you money, but you have to change the name of the college to me. Can you imagine doing that? Do you think that donation? That would be like me going to Transylvania and saying, all right, Transylvania, I'm going to give you $500 million. But it's now going to be called Matt Jones College.

Like, can you imagine? I just feel like the ego has to be so huge to do that. Yeah, the ego is strong. So you think they come in with that stipulation that you get the money if you change the name? I can tell you for a fact that at a number, at least two schools I know of, in doubt like colleges or whatever were named only if the name got on. Wow. Now, sometimes they will force the name on it when the person doesn't want it. So I know UK, for instance, that's one of the things I really like about Joe and Kelly Craft is that actually they've given donations and things and have specifically said don't put our names on it.

And UK, I think on the Kraft Center specifically, like told them we're doing it, whether you want us to or not. but there are definitely people who do that. But the whole college is another level, right? Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, Transylvania, you're now Matt Jones. Well, 500 mill. Yeah, I don't. He went to worry.

That's not going to happen. But all right, who's up next? Bones is next. Bones, how are you, Bones? I'm good, man. I got a couple things, man. How good is it getting Kentucky win on my birthday, man, 41 today? That's what I was hoping for, Bones.

Happy birthday. you're 41 years old. Yes, sir. Thank you. And number two, is there any way we can get Seth Greenberg to stop doing anything to do with Kentucky? He is sewing cows pocket. He really is.

He called the Arkansas game about how good they were when it was really Michigan failing. I can't stand it. And then tonight it was all cold game and it wasn't Kentucky. And then number three, how great is it for us to get this experience now? It sucks not having Robinson and Kerr. But to be able to win in several different ways when most people thought it was only going to be the three that would carry us, we're getting better and better.

Come March, I'd be scared to play us again. Yeah, well, I appreciate the call. Yeah, on Seth, I mean, I've always gotten along with Seth. He's become, you know, not the nicest to me because of Cal, but I will say it is clear when you listen to him doing Kentucky stuff. like it is clear he wants to kind of make sure hey Kentucky fans cow still grow right like he it's very important to him to do that

I didn't I don't think it's so much like building up the time I think he likes Mark Pope but um you know I think he sent a tweet today didn't he Billy that was like you Kentucky fans need to stop worrying about care whatever you know let me tell you what never works ever is when announcers who are not part of Big Blue Nation

tell us what to do. Billy, do they ever think that's going to work? It never worked. It's never worked. I've been doing this for 20 years. I've watched everyone from Pat 40 to Jeff Goodman, to Jay Williams, to Michael Wilbon, to Seth Greenberg. We're not going to listen to any of you all. So I don't know why they feel the need to do that. Like our fans, our fans don't even, they barely listen to me, Billy. They're certainly not going to listen to Seth Greenberg, tell them how to feel.

I heard Tom Hart was on fire tonight. Tom Hart was great tonight, right? Mentioned the sage. You know, he mentioned inconsistencies and taking it to the next level. That was an old school. Tom's not done one of those in a while. I think he knew we were playing Colgate. He brought it tonight.

And if you're listening, Tom, salute. And you were in town. You didn't even call us. Come on. What's next? Thomas. Thomas. Go ahead, Thomas.

Hey, Colgate brought it tonight. How about this going to be our crappy. game of the year we're up by 17, we'll win by 11. I'm telling you, that's our going to be our crappiest game of the year. Yeah, that'll be our worst game. Well, I hope it's our worst game. Sir, it's our worst game so far, yeah. And we still won.

And I actually thought, besides the ones telling Lawson and Chuck to sit down, I actually thought the crowd got into it at the right moment, too. Since the props out, there's a Union County native, Larry Johnson, that played 73, 74, having a hard time right now health-wise. they lost the UCLA but need some prayers but Larry Johnson was an incredible guard for UK back in the day 76 77 and needs some prayers so all right I appreciate you saying that and prayers to to Larry yes former Kentucky player prayers to that the family thank you very much 859-280 2287 also I'm not sure I'm not sure this

specifics, but if you heard Tom at one point during the game also gave a shout out to Oscar Cohn saying to feel better, yeah, I don't know what the details are on that, but, you know, Oscar is a legend. I wouldn't have a career if it wasn't for Oscar. So prayers to him as well. I think hopefully he's doing, he's doing okay. Who's up next? Hunter's next. Hunter, go ahead, Hunter. Hey, Matt. Hey, Billy. How are you doing?

Doing good. Yeah. You stole one of my points. I was going to mention the Red State commercial because I heard it going into the post game, and I was so confused. I was like, what is that? I mean, you had to have guessed, though. You had to have guessed it was right, right?

Like, I mean, of all the P.A. It was fairly certain when you hear a sound like that, it probably is going to trace back to ride. Yeah, it's another one of those inconsistent behaviors. It's exactly. Exactly right. That's the inconsistency. Yeah. I just got a couple points. I just wanted to say I didn't really get the chance to. I was actually at the Salt Lake remote. I'm the one that you mentioned about the girlfriend.

Just want to say thank you guys to come into Salt Lake. It's awesome seeing you guys in person. Yes. Well, thank you. And thank you for bringing your girlfriend, taking your Preston'sburg charm to the Utah ladies. I appreciate it. And then the other two things I know. notice, especially listening to this game, I was listening to on the radio. I kept thinking back in my head, I hate talking about Cal, especially like, you know, he can go do his own thing. But I kept thinking in my head, this would have been his Evansville, U.N.C. Wilmington, the yearly loss.

Like, this would have been one of them, in my opinion. It could have been. I mean, you know, I actually think, you know, don't throw any tomatoes at me. But I actually think this is the kind of game that he usually did well against because this would have been a game where I do think like athleticism could have overwhelmed this team. And we are really good. What I think is interesting about Mark Pope teams, at least this team. We're going to have some great athletes next year.

But this team, because we don't have elite athletes, I think we actually are so different in these games than we used to be. Like, we're going to give teams problems that they have more talent than us. but there are also going to be games like this one where like we're better, but we can't just simply overpower them with athleticism because we just don't have those guys. And then if you're cold, you get a situation like we had tonight. If we shot well, I think we win this game by 25, but we didn't.

And, you know, the kind of teams that gave Cal a hard time are teams that ran very like complicated, systematic offense. and I just don't think Colgate would have been good enough to do that. So I actually disagree with you. I don't think he would have lost this game, but I also don't think he would have won the Gonzaga game. Yeah, that's a fair point. And then the last thing I'll leave with and I'll hang up. I called back in the Bucknell post game, and I told you about the BYU doing that cruise for NIL.

I wanted to hear who you would want on that cruise and why. And I'll hang up and listen. Thank you guys. Yeah, if you were to do a year. UK cruise for Nile. I mean, you could get, you know, I mean, it depends on who you can get. The problem is we have, like, such huge stars that are part of UK? Like, I mean, are you going to be able to get John Wall to get on a boat?

Billy, I don't know if he's going to do that, right? Get on a cruise. It's a commitment. It's like a week. There's a lot of people that would do it. I mean, you could get Mark. I'm sure Jack Wood and Kyle Mason. I'll do it.

Yeah, I don't think you're going to be a big draw for the United States. I mean, I think you're one of the people like on a concert flyer. Oh, okay. There'll be names that are smaller at the bottom. I'm the one of the opening acts. I think it would be one of those names. Yeah, they'll be, they'll have you. I don't have like, you know, I don't want to offend people by putting them on your level.

But I would be praising it really, not offend. Yeah, I mean, yeah, like John Wong, I think would go on that there, right? I'm on now. I'm kidding you, John. John was in Seattle, so I'm just going to give me more time. Who's next? Andrew. Andrew, go ahead, Andrew.

Hey, Matt. I just want to talk about Brandon Garrison and I. I really like Brennan Garrison, but I don't think it's their best interests offensively to play through him in the post for him to dribble 10 times and throw up a hook shot and back iron off the rim. I was glad to see Trent Nell do well. Steph Greenberg and Jay Williamson go kick rock.

Shout John Fanta. I love that guy. God bless America. Thank you, Matt. Go cats. Have a great night. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, you know my view.

The less Garrison and Williams dribble, the better for me. I mean, the, you know, the little hooks are okay, but I don't know. Those guys to me are like, they need to be one dribble, go to the back. The thing that bothers the frustration about Garrison is he fades away on every shot. Like you're seven foot tall, man. He's the best athlete on the team. go into the defender, draw a foul, use your strength. He's always fading away, and he ends up short-arming it a lot.

He'll get better at that, though. I think he's going to be a great player next year. I really do. I think he's got a chance to be really, really good next year. Who's next? Oh, sorry, we'll take a break. 859-280-2287. The Warriors lead the rocket 7877, 7.5 minutes to go.

The Emirates Cup is exciting. We'll be right back. It's the local toy dealers, KSR postgame show. Welcome back. It is the local toy dealers, KSR postgame show. A lot of good questions coming in on the text machine. One person writes, Dick, Dave, this guy says Dick Baker. I think he means Dave Baker, don't you think?

Yeah, probably. Combined Dick Gabriel and Dave Baker. Said Oscar fell around Thanksgiving and had shoulder surgery. So I didn't know that. but yeah prayers to pras to oscar hopefully he will he will recover well and we can see him in a game again soon one person writes matt i would go on a cruise to see billy um as a matter of fact

i think billy would be a huge draw on a cruise sure would be that's very nice get me on the dance floor a couple drinks that gets to this question uh one person writes matt of all the ksr guys who do you think would get the most matches on a dating Well, I mean, all the guys, they all have women now, right? Like all of you do. Is that right? We're all cuffed up. You, Shannon, Ryan, Drew, and Mario.

That's right. Like, you guys are all. You're the hopeless romantic. Yeah, I don't know the answer to that. I would say Ryan would certainly have a profile that scared everybody off. He'd be in his underwear or something. Yeah, he'd be, he'd do something stupid. And then I'm too picky.

So, I don't know. Maybe, maybe Mario. He's of that age, right? So, all right, who's up next? Casey is next. Casey, go ahead, Casey. Hey, Matt, how's it going? Doing good.

So I'm going to bring the chat down a little bit, but I feel like I need to do this. tonight UK lost a saint somebody's very close to me his name was Doug Hazelwood he passed away today

and he would always post his old Doug and he loved UK more than I love my next breath and I'm not trying to to bring it down. You're not bringing it down. Where was he from? Where is Doug from? He was from Perea, Kentucky. Berea, Kentucky. When you say he would post, what would he post on?

Well, I guess I misspoke when I said he post. He was an old-school guy. If you could imagine Joe B. Hall. Yeah. That's who he would put you in mind of. Okay. But he loved KSR. Oh. And he would, he would always go by Old Doug. Old Doug. Okay.

All right. I got you. So how old was he? I'm honestly not sure how old he was. But he loved. Did he just live in your town? How did you know, how did you know him? No, no.

He was, we were great friends. He was like your grandpa. father to me and my daughter who you have a lot of contact with my daughter is the one who trades T-shirts with Ryan

my my foster son is the one that goes to Westwood Kentucky so if that makes the connection yeah no I know I know you're talking about yeah so he love UK but unfortunately he passed

today and And the fact that he passed on the day that UK was playing a game is so funny and ironic. Well, I know he's watching. So go ahead. Go ahead. You there? I'm here. Okay.

Well, let me just say, first of all, that's very nice of you to honor your friend. That's very appropriate, and it sounds like he was a great guy. and I'll be praying for you and he and his family. But listen, I always love stories like that because to me, the names of the players, the names of the coaches, the names of the people that are on TV and on the radio, they change.

But the common thread is the fan base. And I appreciate you honoring Doug here tonight. God bless you, man. Yeah, thank you very much. Thank you. 859-280-2287 let's do four more billy we'll go home who's next ben is next ben go ahead ben um yeah i'm not really sure how to follow that caller that's okay Doug would just want you to talk about the game go ahead um well me and my girlfriend were there

and the crowd was electric that's one of the best best atmospheres i've been at for a non-conference game anyway. That was just, that was amazing. Yeah, Pope said that. Pope actually gave the crowd a lot of credit for, for the, for the comeback. Yeah, and Mark Pope has done a amazing job with the, the university's basketball team, especially.

I mean, staying back and signing the autographs and things like that, I could tell it just made everybody's night, and I just wanted to get on here and give him a specialist and praise. And also both of y'all, for making a lot of effort to make the university better. I appreciate it. Well, thank you, and you're exactly right about Mark. Mark's brought the pride back,

and he's given the program in some ways back to the people, and I think that's why everybody's so appreciative. Appreciate the call. What Billy is wrong with Draymond Green? Did you see that? Yeah, I did. I mean, that's, they got a, that's like, I don't know what they, it's flag group one, two, whatever,

but like he's tackled a guy. Come on, you can't do that. I thought we addressed this with him. I feel like, he does something like every day. Plus, his beard is gray now. Like, he's old now. I didn't realize that. I will say, I'm going to be talking a lot of trash about Louisville over the next few days,

but I got to give Pat Kelsey their coach some credit. Did you hear what he said tonight? No, what do you say? He was asked by a reporter if it was emotionally draining having to play Duke in Kentucky in the same week. while also playing a physical U-TEP team. And he said, quote, no, I live a great life. I mean, we get a bunch of free sneakers, I wear sweatsuits to work,

my kids are healthy, and my wife is hot. Wow, what an answer. That's a good answer. It is. Good perspective on life, too. Like, you got a good job, you know? So I like that. I wish I could dislike Pat Kelsey more.

He seems like he's not a bad. Oh, don't worry. It'll happen. Not a bad dude. They called that a common foul. That's not true. They didn't just call that a common foul, did they? I didn't see the result.

How could they call that a common foul? Come on. Wow. All right. Well, who's next? Butler is next. Butler, go ahead. Hi, Philers.

Billy, sorry if you heard what was going on in my phone in the background. My phone's more on. phone. I was listening to you all while I was calling, and for whatever reason, it didn't stop that while I was calling in. So if you heard that, I apologize. All good, brother. Matt, second ball.

Yeah, thank you. Second of all, Matt, I apologize to you. I didn't realize the other night when I called that I was the last caller for the Kinsaga post game show. Otherwise, I remember now that you said, Butler, last call, bring it. And I didn't It's okay Don't worry about it

You're fine No you don't need to apologize You're good Okay So here's what I got Thank you By the way So I work

I just got home from work I worked two jobs I went seven at one job Lockout 333 40-40-ish Go to the other job clock in at four Work till

well I just got home About 25 minutes ago I have not watched The game yet Should I watch the game watch the first I mean I already know what's the first

watch the first few minutes first eight minutes then skip ahead and watch the second half that's what I do you don't need to watch the end of the first if you've had a long day watch the first seven or eight minutes because it did look good and then watch when they make that little run in the second half and I think you got it

because a lot of the game was either them playing well and us playing bad or boring so yeah that's what I would do if I were you. Okay. Well, prayer's sending out to that guy and his family. My mother-in-law just passed away Thanksgiving week, so I know how that feels. But you know what?

All that aside, cats are on the rise. Let's go cats. Let's go be in. That's right. All right. Two more. Who's next? Vic.

Vic. Go ahead, Vic. Hey, Matt. I call also to apologize to you. Matt. I know. I do the radio station in Osborough. We did not do the tailgate there because we said it was a KSR curse.

He had won a game there and we still got beat. So what can KS Farr's fault? It was bad football. All right. Well, next time. We'll break it next year. We'll do it. We'll light a candle.

I will. I do have one question. I mean, it was a nice win by Kentucky, kind of what you expected. But this is kind of a football question. And is this about a schedule for Mark Stubbs coming off a four and eight year where you could play well and start the year two and five and really kind of lose the entire fan base? Yeah. I mean, it's about as bad a schedule for Mark. And I'll talk more about that tomorrow.

I appreciate the call. I mean, Mark may have known, but if he watched that reveal, I'm not sure they could have gotten a worse order of games. You know, it gives him an opportunity. if he can get a good win. That second game of the year against Old Miss is big, and then you've got Texas at home. I mean, there are chances to get a win that kind of wins the fan base back, but it would be very easy to go two and five to start the year

and still make a bowl game. I mean, that's plausible. You could go two and five and still finish six and six. If you start two and five, you know how the fan base will be. So the schedule is not what they would have wanted. All right, one more. Who's next? Joe.

Joe, go ahead, Joe. Hey, Matt. A couple of things right quick before you get out of here. The one thing that I see that we need to improve on is staying on our line. And what I mean by that is when we're dribbling the ball, we are getting physicaled off of our destination, and we cannot continue the path that we're trying to get through the basket or make a cut. So the blueprint looks to be the physical up on us and press us out on the three

point line away from that. And then when we try to drive, other than than Lamont Butler, we don't have a lot of guys that can get to the rim, as you say, but we're getting physically pushed off of our destination. Totally agree.

Totally agree with you. Tell some backdoor cuts. Shouldn't somebody's what they did against Gonzaga on that? That's what they did against Gonzaga in the second half. I mean, at half time, I will tell you, at half time in the Gonzaga game, I

was a little just kind of worried not so much about the game i thought we were going to lose at that point but more just about the season because i think everything you just said i felt like oh no gonzagas showed how to beat us and yeah then they adjusted and the back door cuts worked uh they started posting car up robinson kind of hit another level and it looked good but no that is going to be the blueprint we are going to get we're going to get roughed up all year there's only going to be a hand handful of teams. Alabama, you know, maybe just Alabama. There are going to be very few teams that don't play us like that. And so Tennessee will, Auburn will, Arkansas will, A&M, Ole Miss, like they're all going to do that. And we're going to have to rise to the occasion.

We did in the second half against Gonzaga. And now we're going to have to continue because that is that we are going to see that all year long. Yeah, and the other thing is, too, I appreciate the fact that everybody wants to see Travis Perry and Trent Noah come in. But just their physical appearance on the court, you can tell they're five years younger than our team. Totally agree. Just the way that they look like high school kids. Totally agree with it. Which is why I want everybody to like, just take a deep breath.

If you get a game like tonight where one of them gets in and it's, it's just why I want everybody to like, like, just take a deep breath. On down. Like if you get a game like tonight where one of them gets in, able to contribute, cheer him on. But it's, it's, it's really is. I think,

I think I, for whatever reason, noticed it tonight more than any other game. You just, all you got to do is go look at the build of even our guys like Robinson. Robinson just looks older, even though he's not necessarily big. He just looks like they are,

look at Andrew Carr and then look at Trent Noah. And that's five years difference of, of, of age. I think that makes a massive difference. Yeah. Hey, you guys did a great job last week on your trip. Always enjoy you.

I'm down here in Alabama. I was at the old Miss win. I called you during football season. And I think you got to do an awesome job. So thanks, Matt. Appreciate you. Appreciate it. Thank you.

Yeah, we're going to see that all year. And we got to get used to it. I think that's why I think Tennessee will be the hardest matchup for us all year. And by the way, that's how Louisville is going to play us to Saturday. Louisville has a hard time scoring, but they're pretty physical defensively. So I think you're going to see a very similar game style Saturday from Pat Kelsey's group. Thank you all very much. Appreciate you staying up with us.

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