KSR - KSR Postgame UK MBB vs WKU 11/26/24

Episode Date: November 27, 2024

Matt and Billy recap the Cats' 87-68 win vs Western Kentucky University.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I am Matt Jones here on the Tuesday night before Thanksgiving. Talking with you is the Cats beat Western 87 to 69. Kind of a disjointed, ugly game. in Rupp Arena. First game of the year, Kentucky hasn't covered or hit their over, but still gets a victory at home to go to 6 and 0 on the season. First time they've been 6 and 0 since 2017. So it's been a while since we've gotten this number,

but we have now, and you can give a shout. Listen, this is the last postgame show before Thanksgiving. So if you have things that you are thankful for, this is what we're going to do, Billy. Everyone that calls has to tell me something they're thankful for. and it can't be like your wife or your kids or your family or something like that. You know what I mean? It can't be like a member of your family or your girlfriend.

Does that make sense? It does. I think that's a good way to kick this week off. You have to be thankful of something that it can be like something serious or it can be something goofy, but it just can't be familiar. I don't want everybody calling go, I'm thankful for my loving kids and all that. Like we get it. You like your kids.

You like your wife. if you like your husband. I understand that. This is thankful for something else or someone else. All right. So that's what we'll do. 859-280-2287. So don't leave me hanging here with thankfulness right before Thanksgiving. I'm thankful Kentucky got the victory over Western Kentucky. I never really felt like the game was in danger, but I also do not think Kentucky played well. I mean, it's a testament to how good this team is offensively that I actually think they played pretty poorly offensively and scored 87 points. That's really impressive.

I thought defensively Kentucky was pretty good, really until the end, and then Western was so exhausted they couldn't hit shots. You know, I think our pace, and Western's a very fast-paced team themselves, but our pace of play and our pressure, I think wearing teams down is really going to be something we do really well this year, especially early in the year. You know, that might change a little bit as the year goes on, but as teams get more in shape, but early in the year, I think our pace has been a really important thing,

really all season long. And I felt like, I felt like tonight it was like that as well. You know, some thoughts are, some of our top guys really showed up when it mattered. Otega O'A. was excellent. I mean, he is making a case to say, you know what, maybe it's not Jackson Robinson. It's the best player. Maybe it's me. Six for 14 from the field.

Got some big buckets. Another big game for Andrew Carr, 18 points, 10 boards. I think now the two most physical games that Kentucky's played, which have been this game and the Duke game, have also been Andrew Carr's two best games. Maybe something to watch going forward. I think the scouting report on playing against Kentucky is going to be to go physical. I think that's going to be, to the extent there's a legacy of this game,

I think teams are going to look at this game and say, get physical with Kentucky, get in their face, make them out physical you, and make them beat you off the dribble. Because Western really played tight physical defense. It led to 49 fouls being called, which is too many. But I think you're going to see what Western did tonight is what I think some of the untalented teams in the SEC are how they're going to try to play Kentucky. So I think your South Carolina is your Mississippi states, your Missouri's. The way Western played, I think is how they're going to play. So I think this is how Clemson will play us next week. Yeah, I guess it is next week, a week from tonight. I think we'll see more of this because Western had some success doing that as well.

Kobe Brea started one for five from three, but hit two big ones. I thought in the second half, he had nine, and then Kirk Crease, I thought, with a really good game with eight. Some struggles. Jackson Robinson, two for nine, not one of his best games. I still don't think we've seen the best of him yet. It's shown up in a couple of instances, but probably our two most difficult games, Duke and Western,

have been his two worst games. So I'm hoping that we have during this Clemson-Gonzagga stretch, one of these tough games. I want to see him play. I want to see him play well in a tough game. It was not a good night for Amari Williams. He did end up with 10 rebounds, and he had eight points, but there was some ugly, ugly offense. He had six turnovers in the first half, and, you know, I heard Pope say in his comments after the game that Amario get better at initiating the offense.

That's my only, we were talking about how there's, like, nothing to complain about about the Pope era, and I really don't think there is. If I had to have one small complaint, I'm not a big fan of seeing our center when it is either Williams or Garrison dribbling and driving to the basket from the top of the key. I don't think that's their strength. And Amari's a good passer, but I think he's a – he also throws some bad passes. So I get that a big part of the way Mark does it is by having the five out there basically – you know, at the top of the key, you get four playmakers with opportunities to get the basket. I get the theory behind it, and you've seen in the NBA with Yokic and Anthony Davis and guys that can do that, how effective that could be.

You know, I just, I don't know if that's Amari Williams and Brandon Garrison or not. There have been some good moments, but tonight we see when they kind of get the idea, especially Amari, to take the basket. I don't know that that's our most effective thing in the world. But they did rebound the ball well. And, you know, this is nitpicking. We won by 19 points, right? I mean, Western Kentucky is a good, not a great team, but a good team.

And they won by 19 points. And honestly, I think they cut it to six at one point in the second half. But the game never really felt in danger to me at any point. Billy is here. Billy is a Western fan. Did you feel like that was a good performance from your Hilltoppers? Yes, yes, very satisfied with the fight and the effort those guys show tonight. I mean, I was feeling it when they were only six points down in the second half.

I know you didn't feel it, but I sure did. Well, I mean, I think they were one or two possessions away from it being a real game. I mean, I think if they could have gotten it, I think after it was six, we came down and I think we got two straight layups. Maybe on back-to-back plays, which got it to 10. But if it had gotten to three or four, Billy, I would have been a little concerned. You know, at one point, Western's big had some cramps and had to go out, and that allowed Mark Pope to go small. So we saw Kobe Brea, Jackson Robinson, and Otega O'Way on the

floor at the same time. Yeah, I don't think there's any doubt. I think the best version of Kentucky offensively is with Carr at the 5. But they really do suffer with that group in rebounding and defense. So, you know, it's a constant balance.

But I don't think there's any doubt. When they want to score, Carr at the 5, Robinson, or Brea at the 4, that's their best lineup to score. And so it's probably a constant balance for Pope is to, can you do that without sacrificing too much defensively? And the same thing happening against Duke. Remember, when their big went out, we were able to do that and had a lot of success.

So, you know, if you're kind of drawing up the recipe of a game of a team to give Kentucky a hard time, you've got to have a five that's like that dude was Malick or whatever on Duke. And what was the guy's name tonight? He was a decent player. Yeah, he was a good player. Yeah, he good free throw shooter. Those guys, I think, will give Kentucky problems because you've got to put a Mario or Garrison in to play against them. And then that does eliminate one possible shooter from the outside.

But nevertheless, I think a nice win for Kentucky. I liked what Mark said after the game about this is what a first round NCAA tournament game could be like. And I think that's right. I mean, you know, we won by 18. But there's a world that that could have been a three-point game with four minutes to go, right? And you, you know, we've lost games against like this in recent years. So it was nice to see us not particularly play well, not necessarily do what we wanted to do offensively, still score 87 points, and still win by 18.

That, I mean, I don't know how you can't be generally pleased about that. So 859-280-2-807. Love to hear what you think about the game. There's a lot of basketball going on right now. As we speak, Houston gets an and-one to tie the crimson tie. Alabama's been up most of the game. Houston just and one to tie against Alabama. That game is on T&T.

I think on T&T right. No, TBS. It's on TBS right now. It's TNT sports, but the game is on TBS. right now with five and a half minutes to go. Duke is playing Kansas. Kansas is up two at halftime Kansas got up 12, but it's a two-point game.

Iowa State is playing Dayton. You got a chance to have, in the Maui Invitational, most people thought the championship would be Yukon, Iowa State, and if Dayton can hold on, you might have Yukon, Iowa State, playing for the seventh seat,

which is for seventh place. Wow. Which is absolutely crazy. One of those two teams, Connor, Iowa State could go home with three losses in the invitational. And how about Danny Hurley? My goodness. Losing his mind out there.

You've got to wonder if he spontaneously combust during their game tomorrow. Who knows? So 859-280-2287. Gives a shout. Let us know what you're thankful for. Grant Nelson for Alabama stinks. We'll be right back. This is the local toy dealers, KSR post-game show.

Welcome back. It is the local toy dealers, KSR post-game show. Alabama hadn't scored in five minutes, and they're now down four to Houston. I'm reading a lot of messages that say we were not on for the first three minutes of the postgame show. Why did you do that, Billy? Why did you not have a show? I don't know what happened, but we quickly got the problem fixed, and if that ever happens again, you can listen on 840 WHAS.

But you're the producer. Like, why didn't you have it all? I mean, who can, your only person sitting there? I'm not blaming anybody else. I'm not blaming anybody else. I'll take the blame. Are you going to take the blame? Yeah.

Okay. I mean, I'm told people had to listen to Glenn Beck, Billy. It is Thanksgiving. People want to be thankful to not have to listen to Glenn Beck. And you made them listen to Glenn Beck. I feel like you owe all of these listeners driving home an apology. They had to listen. I didn't even know Glenn Beck was still existed.

And you made them listen to him. Why did you do that? Well, again, I'll take the blame, but I'm not apologizing for anything. So we'll keep it. I don't understand. You're going to take the blame, but not apologize. Yeah, that's correct. How do you make, what's that distinction?

I mean, it's my fault, but I'm not apologizing. So that's what kind of what's happening. I don't know what that means. It was your fault, but you're not apologizing. So it's like, it's my fault, but I wanted to do it. I'll take the blame, but I'm not apologizing. Is that like a thing you just don't like apologizing? No, I'm just got a lot of.

Irons in the fire, Matt, so we're just trying to keep everything on the air, you know? All right. Keep doing your thing. All right. Who's up first? Doug. Doug. First of all, Doug, what are you thankful for?

I'm thankful that Billy messed up, so I actually got onto the radio show for the first time. Okay, there you know. That's a good thing to be thankful for. Nobody knew who to call. All right. So that said, thank you, Billy. You're amazing. That said, I don't know what you talked about.

or not, Matt, I'm first time in a very long time. You don't get a who on it? It was refreshed. That's fine. I mean, it's been like a decade, but fair enough. All right. Love you, man. We're both from Millsboro.

You know my sister. But anyway, it's, it was really refreshing tonight to watch a game where we were sloppy and struggled to shoot and generally didn't play well. And you look down and we still scored. you know, 90, whatever, and beat a team by over 20. Like, this game last year is a loss, if not a nail biter. Or maybe not last year, but it's a nail bider. It's a nail bider.

I agree with you. First of all, who was your sister? You said, just first name. Um, Amy K, Amy K. Okay. I know your sister. Yes. Tell her I said hello.

Yeah. Yeah. The, uh, um, yeah, you're right. I mean, this is a game where, it is a 7368 game in years past because we just couldn't put up, we couldn't score enough, I think, to get the separation. Exactly. Or worst case scenario, U.S.

Wilmington, Evansville, we actually lose. Yeah. No, I mean, it's plausible. I think those would have been plausible results. Now, I mean, to be fair, and I appreciate the call, to Cal, he won games like this as well. I mean, they would win them, but I agree with you. I don't think the cushion would have been the same, in part because Mark Pope continues to push the pace even when things aren't going well.

Cows' inclination when things weren't going well was to slow it down. That's always his inclination. Sometimes that worked a lot of times it didn't. Mark's Pope's view is, all right, we haven't scored, we're going to keep going, keep going, keep going. Keep going, keep going. And that might result in the game sometime this year where, a two-point deficit becomes 12 or 14 because we didn't slow it down. But I also think it leads to you're up six and you quickly get it out to 14.

And so I think that is what happened tonight. So I agree with you. I think that this would have been, I'm not going to say it certainly would have been a loss. But I do think it's a game that would have been potentially a lot closer in a different style. And like you said, the score 87, what was it, 87, 89. 87. To score 87 in a game where you don't particularly play well is really, actually really, really good. Who's next?

Josh. Josh, what are you thankful for? Oh, gosh, I haven't really thought about what I'm thankful for. I mean, I'm going to put you on hold until you haven't. That was the prerequisite for the call. I got it. I got it. Okay.

My wife, who I've been married to for 30 years. I'm thankful for that. Put him back on hold. Put him back on hold. Remember, I said you can't say your family members because that's too easy. Now, do these people not know the rules because you put on Glenn Beck? Is that what happened, Billy, is that they didn't hear the rules? I mean, that's very, very possible.

Okay, so I'm going to say, I'll put that guy back on in a minute. You have to come in with something you're thankful for that is not your wife, your kids, your mother. Like, it can't be a family member. It can be something else or somebody else, but it's got to be like, that's the rule. All right, so let's try the next person. Next person, okay. Tori. Tori, go ahead.

What are you thankful for? Well, since I had to listen to the Glenn Beck show, they said that Walmart wasn't making DEI hires anymore, which I don't even know what that means, but I guess that's good. So you're thankful for that. Okay, there you go. That's different. All right, good. No more.

No more. I didn't know Walmart was doing that, but unless you're thankful they're not. All right. So what are you got? I got a couple things. One, you said that, you know, it got down to six in the second half. It didn't ever feel like WKU would ever actually go and like make a run just because I just didn't think they could hit enough shots. Just because every time they threw up a three, it felt like a brick every single time.

Yeah, they did not shoot the ball, though. But then I have a fair, I have a fair or foul question for you. Okay. So you like to read it at like Reds baseball games and stuff. Like you bring a magazine or a book. And that's fine. That's great. Tonight, there were about three rows in front of us.

There was a couple ladies, and they were watching Dancing with the Stars during the game. And it, not only were they doing that, they were blaring. Like on their phones, you mean on their phones? Yeah. And they were blaring the sound. Like I said, they were three rows in front of us, and it was so loud. Like, I was so distracted from the game because, like, it was just blaring whatever. Okay, so great question.

I wonder if that's fair foul. I'm going to say, fair to watch it, I will sometimes put on another game or something during a game on my phone. Fowl to have the sound going. So I think it is fair if they want to do basketball slash dancing with the stars, fair. Fowl to make other people have to listen to it. And the chances are whoever did that is either listening to this show or someone is listening who knows them. You need to tell them that they can't be playing Dancing with the Stars sound during the Kentucky game. All right.

Thanks, Matt. Appreciate the call. I think that's a fair thing. You know, I didn't Ross Dancing with the Stars, Billy was still a thing. It not only is, we had a woman at the bar last week when Kentucky played Duke asked me if we could put one of the televisions on dancing with the stars. Oh. And I had to say no. I'm sorry. It's the UK Duke game tonight.

Oh, wow, you denied her. Well, I mean, it was UK Duke. I had a full bar. I didn't think I could justify a television on Dancing with the Stars. Well, not only did that person watch Dancing with the Stars. Tonight was the Season 33 finale. So, I mean, how can you watch Dancing with the Stars without audio, Matt? So, I mean...

Well, I guess that is true. Come on. You can't hear the music. You're going to just watch them dancing, too? Then I think you just have to record it. or watch it on streaming later. Okay. It's not like it's not like it's going to be on the news.

Who won? Like just, you know, just like, just wait and you'll find out. Mute the group chat. Aren't they all dating each other? I feel like that's all I ever see is that they're all dating. I didn't know that. I didn't know they were, you know, mixing business with pleasure. Ed is next.

Ed, all right, is this the original? No, you want to go back to the guy that. Well, you can go to him next. Okay. Ed, what are you thankful for? Our honey-baked hand we got today. Oh, good. That's a good one. Is that ham store still in Lexington, the place where everybody would get their hams?

I think my parents would get their hams there. Is that still open the honey-baked ham place? Well, I don't know since I've lived in Houston. Okay, well, never mind. Go ahead. What do you got? Oh, and, hey, another one bites the dust, and we're on our way. Go big glue. There you go.

All right, another one bites the dust. That's right. Next one is Georgia State. Billy's Georgia State, any good? Who we play Friday? I haven't done any research on them. I haven't either, but. Look it up for me while we go to the next one.

Let's see what their record is. Let's go back to Josh, if you want. Alabama's down two with the ball. Sears drives in. He's blocked and Houston will have the ball. They got fouled. So that was not a good position there by Sears with Alabama. All right, Josh.

Now you've had time to think. What are you thankful for? I am absolutely thankful for the opportunity to see back-to-back shows. I saw Ricky Skaggs in Cincinnati, and the very next night I saw Trampled by Turtles with an opening act of Elizabeth Cook. And that was the both of them great shows. The only thing is I don't recommend that a bar band play in a venue

that's made for symphony orchestras. Had a couple of people who were a little rowdy, but still very, very good shows. So I was very thankful for that. Well, what about the game tonight? Oh, I enjoyed the game very, very much. But I'm kind of like the other guy. For whatever reason, it just seemed like the fans,

I don't know, it was just like everything was off. I mean, there wasn't even a whole lot of electricity in Rupp Arena to get, you know, to get behind these guys. There was like a, you know, there were a couple of times where it felt like they were getting into it. And I don't know if it was just the fouls that were called. And I thought there was a lot. I think there was a bit too many fouls that were called.

Yeah, I think it's a hard game. You're exactly right. You're exactly right. And I appreciate the call. It was a hard game for, I think, a crowd to get into it because it started and stopped so much. I mean, there were so many foul that it was hard to get a flow, which makes it hard to get the crowd into it.

And just the way the game went, where Kentucky would be up four, then up 10, then it's back to six, up 12, then it's eight. There just weren't runs, and I don't think the crowd was ever really into it. And I, it was, from what I understand, a huge

crowd. But, you know, there just wasn't, I think, a chance for it to get energetic. You know, I always see online, people will say, when we're not playing well. Come on, crowd. Why aren't you into, well, I mean, it's a two, it's a, the, the team has to play their part in it as well.

It's hard to get really excited when you're losing or not playing well. So, you know, I just think this was one of those games. It was so, I think, the word that you said was disjointed. And I think that's, that's right. I've seen Trampled by Turtles, Billy, by the way. I love that name. They were at a festival I went to with that Tyler Childers played at once. in what was the name of that place, in Maryland.

Cumberland, Maryland. I saw a trappled by turtles. There you go. Just a little fact for you. Who's next? Combined 71 Frithos in this game as well. Did you get the Georgia State thing real quick? Yeah, I got Georgia State acts if you want them.

They're three and three overall. Okay. They lost to Austin P. Okay. Today. And they've beaten North Carolina Central. Tocoa Falls. And ball state.

So we should be able to beat them. Yeah, it seems like a win. All right, Alabama's foul. They'll have two free throws to tie the game coming up. Who's next? Big W. Big W. What are you thankful for?

Well, three things. I'm thankful for both Marks, Mark Pope, Mark Stoops. Okay. I'm also thankful for that lady that went buck naked in the valley. She says she sent me the video. I never got it, by the way. So I never got it. I'll just have to trust her that it happened.

Okay. Well, that was one reason I was calling. And then the second reason was it's UvL week for the football team. Stubes have been going under fire a bunch. I know it's a basketball after game show. But I think we got to get behind our boy Stub's a little bit. He's been under the gun a little bit. And I think the whole fan base needs to rally around him this weekend.

We got a great football team. They haven't proved it this season, but I think would you give them another chance, man? I think we're, that's our guy. Yeah, I think you're going to see a guy. I think you'll see an excited crowd Saturday. You know, it's last game of the year. It's Louisville. I think the fans will be into it.

And then I think how that game goes Saturday is going to go a long way into determining how people are into it and what happens in the offseason. I think when we do this post game show Saturday afternoon at 4.15, 4.30. A lot of how everyone's going to feel is going to be determined at that point. Couldn't agree more. Hey, go big blue by 90, baby. All right, there you go. 859-280-2287.

Houston will have the ball. 20 seconds left. Tye game. We'll see if they're able to score. Let's do one more before we take the break. Mike. Mike, what do you thankful for? I'm thankful that tonight I was with about 20,000 people just as crazy about Kentucky

basketball as I am. Good one. Good answer. Three quick takeaways from Ruff as we're driving home. One, we are a way longer team than I thought. Number two, I saw legit bench coaching and adjustments being made. And number three, leaving the arena, people were happy for a win, not that we didn't lose. Well, I agree with all those. Those are, I think, really three very good points.

Appreciate the call. We've talked a lot about the bench coaching. Appreciate the call. The third one, I totally agree with you. And I think the length is an underrated part of this team. We are long. And I think our guards are longer than I thought they were. O'Way and Jackson Robinson and Lamont Butler.

Their sort of wingspan, I don't know what it is officially, but it's longer than I realize. They're able to get hands on shots and on passes. Obviously Amari Williams and Brandon Garrison are long. But those guards have a lot longer wingspans than I think I knew before the season started. 859-280-2287. By the way, Grant Nelson on Alabama literally looks like he could be like a country act playing with that mustache. He kind of looks like that singer I like, that Zach Top guy, Billy. You know what I'm talking about on Alabama?

You used to play for North Carolina. No, I know you're big Zach Bryan fan, but it's not Zach Bryan, Zach Top. I don't like who's, wouldn't you say I was a Zach Bryan fan? I don't like Zach Brian. I always thought he's kind of overrated. Well, here, let me call. Oh, yeah, I see this Zach top guy. Look at him.

Okay. All right. So here we go. Houston's got the ball. They're on the top of the key here, Billy. They're looking at Alabama's laying back. Man, they're waiting for one shot. Kelvin Sampson, maybe the most underrated coach in America.

Right now, I don't know what this play is they're running, but it's just circling around the top of the key. He gets a baseline jumper. no good. We're going overtime. So Houston and Alabama will head off to overtime. We will take a break. 859-280-2287. This is the local toilet dealers, KSR postgame show. Welcome back. It is the local toy dealers, KSR postgame show. All right. So the text machine is full of comments. I'm going to go to a few of them. First of all, honey-baked ham is still here in Lexington. So I'm Nicholsville Road. I've thought it was. we used to always get hams there, Billy, for Thanksgiving. I recommend them.

They're good. Probably going to be very busy tomorrow. Tomorrow's probably their busy day. So tomorrow might not be the day to go. But it is good. Another person says, Matt, how are you being negative about dancing with the stars? Weren't you on Lexington's dancing with the stars? That's right.

I was. I was an excellent adventure. I was worried about doing the fast dance. I thought I could handle the slow dance. Then when it came time for performance, I actually did a pretty good job with the fast dance and kind of blew the slow dance. Oh. I was a little too cocky about the slow dance.

Now, where's the footage? I kind of killed the fast dance. I need some video evidence. I don't know if there is footage. I know that Lee Cruz was one of the judges, and he was, this was kind of before I knew him, and he was very rude,

and I didn't like him at the time. We ended up becoming friends through the television show, but at the time I thought he was kind of being a jerk. But I do now like him. a lot. Another person writes, Matt, I need an apology from Billy. Not for making me listen to Glenn Beck, although that was awful, but for not apologizing. I have my child in the car, and one of the things we're trying to teach her is that apologizing is good. And now she's hearing someone on the radio saying he will not apologize. Will Billy apologize about not apologizing?

I will not apologize for not apologizing. And if you're coming to this show, for life lessons for your children, you've come to the wrong place. No, this is the right place. Speak for yourself. Are you like, are you just like you won't apologize? You're like Trump and Shannon. You just won't apologize? I refuse to throw anybody underneath the bus, Matt, is what I am doing here.

So I'm going to take responsibility. Well, that's why you apologize. I will apologize all. Sounds like you're a little bit like Trump and Shannon. That's what I'm going to call you. Donald J. Rutledge, Jr. All right, who's up next? Speaking of children, I think we have one on the line. Hudson.

All right, good. Hudson, what are you thankful for? My name is Hudson, and we're coming back from the game. Okay, but what are you thankful for? Are you thankful for something, Hudson? Like, what do you appreciate? Appreciate that I got an autograph. Perfect. That's something to be thankful for, an autograph.

Who did you get an autograph of? Through four. Andrew Carr, that was good. Was he nice? Yeah. Good. I'm glad. All right, what else you got, Hudson?

He also autographed a shoe. He autographed a shoe. Was it his shoe, your shoe, a random shoe? Yeah. Okay, a random shoe. Like just one on the ground? No, in somebody's hand. Oh, it was in somebody's hand?

So it wasn't for you. It was for somebody else. Yeah. Okay, gotcha. All right. Well, Hudson, I hope you have a great Thanksgiving, okay? What? I said, I hope you have a great Thanksgiving.

Okay. All right, there you go, Hudson. Okay. There it is. See? Hudson's a nice kid. 859-2-80-22. Apparently because Billy played Glenn Beck,

people did not hear me say you had to say something you were thankful for. So I do apologize. I will apologize, unlike Billy, for the fact that you all didn't hear the rules. You do have to say you're thankful for something that's not your wife, your kids, or like someone in your family. All right. Who's next? Bill. Bill.

What are you thankful for, Bill? Well, I'm thankful for the fact that I found out that my favorite pizza place in Louisville is going to be open after I get out of my Trump-loving family's house. What pizza place? What is your place? favorite what is your favorite pizza place uh wicks oh you like wicks okay well wicks is very good so oh yeah enjoy that is that on thanksgiving night or friday uh thanksgiving night oh wicks is open on thanksgiving night wow see not many places open on thanksgiving night yeah well that's good all right what else you got uh i'm thankful that i don't have to turn on the radio anymore and listen to kentucky

by 10 or 15. Yeah, that can be interesting. Yeah, it's very refreshing to be able to say, oh, we're up by only 15, but we're still, we're not even playing that great, but we're still up 15. Otherwise, you know, if there was some other coach, we might be down, I don't know, maybe 20. Well, I do think that the way, this is part of the way Mark, you know, the way he approaches these games is they continually go. I think there's going to be a game this year,

and I'm going to be fair when it happens because I expect it, that his philosophy of just continue going and up-tempo don't stop is going to cause us to lose a game by a substantial margin sometimes. But I think it's worth it for games like tonight, where if he had slowed down the pace, this could have been a five-point game, and it's 18 because he continued the philosophy he has. I definitely think it's more data that he's collecting.

So it's all good. I think he's going to have us ready for the next game. And we'll just learn from each game. Totally agree. Appreciate the call. There'll be one good team, Billy. We will play a good team. Might be Gonzaga.

Could be a team in SEC play. Where we're just not playing well. And we play somebody good. And our style of pushing the ball and shooting threes will be off. And it'll cause a game that Cal probably could have kept within six or seven, but we'd have still lost. We'll lose by 18 or 20. You know how Alabama lost us last year?

You remember in Rupp? They lost us by like 30. Part of that was because Nate Oats never stops being Natoats, right? And so it caused them to get the brakes beat off of them last year. Whereas he could have maybe slowed tempo down and kept that closer. He kept playing his tempo and he lost by 30. We're going to have a game like that, I bet you. But I think you have one of those.

But the counter to that is games like tonight are not close, whereas if you got off your normal style, they might be. Yeah, I also heard Pope say something to the fact of the first half is entirely just for collecting data. So, I mean, this team is going to adjust when they probably have a night like that, right? I'm sure that's true. I don't know if it'll be that if he believes that in the elite eight of the tournament. But I mean, I'm sure against Western in November, that is probably true.

You know, I'm sure he does look at it like that. Alabama now up four on Houston with a minute and a half to go to overtime. I do not know. Why did Mario put Houston in the KSR parley? I picked Alabama on the show. Did the other guys all pick Houston? Maybe he just wanted to be a part of it. Because I have an Alabama Duke, Iowa State Parlay, for a significant son.

Is Iowa State winning? Alabama is now up four. Iowa State is up one. Uh-oh. Dayton's come back and Duke's down two. So there's still a chance this can hit. All right, who's next? I'm on Dancing with the Stars, so you'll have to keep me updated.

Good, I thank you. Kyle is up. Kyle, what's up, Kyle? Matt, I am thankful for my therapist. Okay, there he go. That's helpful. That's a good thing to be thankful for. Yeah.

All right. So I'm sitting here cheering for Duke, and I hate it. But, man, I want them to win. It helps our resume. I mean, they won at Arizona by double digits. If they were to beat Kansas, the number one team in America, and we have the win against them. One of the things you have to remember about Duke this year, the ACC stinks.

Okay, so the ACC is awful. So they're not going to get a whole lot of chances to get good. good wins just because they play Kansas tonight, and I think they play Auburn next week. And that's kind of the last really good games they're going to play. So I do think if you want our resume to look good, you kind of would like to see them win, at least the game tonight. Auburn, we're going to play them both anyway, so it won't really matter. Yeah, I completely agree.

It just hurts, Matt. It hurts. It's Duke. I don't, oh. Yeah, I know what you mean. Well, I appreciate to all. Oh, no, go ahead. How about Kerr?

I cut him off. You caught him off. I'm sorry. You can't pause too long, or I think you're done. Kerr, since you brought up Kerr, I thought he played great. Those two threes were big, Billy. Those were at times we needed them, both of them. And he has the gumption to take him.

I thought he, you know, got his hands on a couple steals. I thought this was, Kerr played really well against Duke. It's interesting. We were talking about how Jackson and Robinson's two worst games have been our two toughest games. I think Kerr's two best games have been our two toughest games. Kerr had an offensive foul. He kind of put an elbow to a guy's face and then hit like a three right after. So that was a good response.

He did kind of throw that guy on the floor. But that's what you get with him, man. He's going to bring it. And you need a dude like that. I think every team needs a guy like that. And he's a good one to have. I like his role. I think he plays the right amount of minutes.

I think he's exactly what you're looking for. And Alabama Houston has turned into an absolute wrestling match. guys flying on the floor everywhere. Who's next? Chad. And they are not going to call a file. Chad, go ahead. Hey, how you doing?

What are you thankful for, Chad? What I'm thankful for you guys. Well, thank you. Thank you, Chad. No, seriously. I mean, seriously, I listen to you. I try to listen to you every day. And I appreciate you and lay off, Billy.

Billy, Billy's a good guy. Chad, thank you. That's very nice of you, and he's all right. Hey, I know I love Billy. I love that boy, it's death. And he don't even know me, but I called in the other night. I remember you, Chad. We appreciate you, buddy.

Hey, y'all have a good evening. Let's go Big Blue Nation. Look at that. Billy getting a call of thankfulness. Good for you, Billy. Everybody deserves, even when they've messed up and won't apologize. Everybody deserves something nice.

It looks like Alabama's going to win this game against Houston. Should have listened to me this morning on the pick. That's a big win for the SEC, too. Houston's good, and that's, I think, what? Auburn beat them too. So the SEC now has two wins over Houston in the regular season. That will help our conference resume quite a bit. SEC's had, for the most part, a really good non-conference.

I think I saw Billy. The SEC is 7-0 against the. the ACC so far this year in basketball. Good. I think that's kind of an underrated. I don't know if people realize it. I think they are 7 and 0 as of the last stat I saw. Clems and coming up.

ACC is awful in basketball. And the SEC-ACC challenge is coming up. A lot of that's matchup dependent. But the ACC as a conference is, I mean, Duke's good. North Carolina is probably all right. But then I'm not sure anyone else in the conference is any good. Let's do one more and we'll take a break. Who's next?

Jay Witt. Jay Witt, what are you thankful for? I'm thankful for Mark Pope and for what we have now because as a fan base, we didn't realize what we didn't have in the last few years with the previous coach. That's what I'm thankful for. And then my question is to you, Matt, and I know you feel the same, as Amari Williams, as a five running the point or not the point, but running at the top, Is that getting to be too much or we're not converting?

I don't love it. I just don't think it's, to use Pope and other people's terminology, I just don't think it's very efficient. I mean, I love the idea of having a big at the top of the key. To like have him with the ball, he can see the court, you can get guys cutting. I like that. I think what happens is when guys don't get open and then he feels like he needs to generate offense, I don't think that's good.

I don't think that helps. I don't think that's really a good scenario at all. So, yeah, I'd like to see less of that. But that's really my only complaint, though. You know what I mean? I mean, I've watched six games. I tend to be kind of a tough critic, and I have one complaint.

Don't have Amari take it to the basket as much. That's pretty good, sir. Don't you agree if that's my only complaint? Yeah, and it's not even a complaint. It's just a, as Mark Pope would call it, just a minor fix in the system. Yeah, it's just data. You're exactly right. I appreciate the call.

Duke ties it up now with Kansas, 59-59, with 9.5 minutes to go. Billy, did Iowa State come through for me? Iowa State is tied with two and a half minutes to go. So the parlay is on edge here, and we will take a break and come back for our final segment. This is the local toy dealers, KSR postgame show. There's so much going on right now in sports and life. First of all, Alabama just beat Houston. Hunter Dickinson got ejected from the Kansas Duke game.

Kicked a guy in the face, Billy. I saw it. Kick the guy in the face. He deserved to be ejected. He deserved it. And then in Iowa State Dayton, the Iowa State player took one of the hardest fouls I've ever seen from a guy wearing. a mask like Bain, like hit him, like knocked him out, flagrant one with 45 seconds to go.

So the game is tied and he has two free throws and the ball with a flagrant one. And then Billy is watching Dancing with the Stars where they're announcing the winner. Spoiler alert. Are you going to tell us who it is? Well, they were just about to announce it, but ABC News just cut in and they just threw it to commercial. So I don't know. I mean, I guess I figured out in five minutes. They just cut it in. on the live announcement. They just threw it to break. The guy came in and they threw it to break.

So I don't know. Maybe we'll get the announcement here in five minutes, but it is live and it's about to happen right now. What was the ABC News break? And it was like a little like, you know, it was like the- Do we need to be telling people about something happening? You know, I'm not sure, but I'm sure people are going to be upset breaking into the finale like this. So much going on. Cooper Flagg also just had a pretty amazing dunk. Boy, college, basketball is good tonight. Good night.

Look at this Cooper flag dunk right here. Oh, my goodness. That was a nasty dunk. Cooper flag's good. Hunter Dickinson ejected. Cooper flag dunking on people. It's exciting times. We didn't have to worry about that because we is Kentucky and we beat Western Western.

I want you to look at one more thing, Billy. Go look at the Man City coach. Did you see that this day? Oh, Pep and his forehead. Yeah. What did he do to himself? Well, they blew it. They were up three, and they conceded in, like, the last 20 minutes.

Did he just dig his fingers into his head like a madman? He must have. It looked like it hurt. That looked awful. Pep. I did see that. He did not look very peppy today after his game against Fianord. Who's up next?

Heather. You remember Fianord, by the way, Billy is the team I have the sweatshirt. Remember we talked about on Fave this? Yeah, where they divided the fans with the fans. Actually, I want to try to wear my Fianord hoodie tomorrow. actually. Go ahead. Heather. Heather. Howdy guys.

Heather, what are you thankful for? I'm thankful for my mountain dew. I mean, is that not the, I mean, I can't hear that. It's my favorite. That's the most Kentucky thing I've ever heard. You have won the most Kentucky call in the history of post-games. I ask you what you're thankful for, and you said I'm thankful for my Mountain Dew. That is the best, Heather.

You win. I'm done. I can't beat that. I could go without food before you could take my Mountain Dew. So, I mean, that's dedication. And Billy, please do not spoil the dancing with the star finale and announce it. Oh, here it is. They're doing it right now.

Don't do you. I don't. She's recording it. Don't tell. Oh, there it is. Do not spoil her dancing with the stars finale, Billy. I don't know how to spoil it. I don't know their names, but the couple in black one, Heather.

Okay. Well, I was going to ask you who your favorite was. I thought you must be invested in it. Probably the host, Carlton, from Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Yes. Okay. Yeah, he's good. He was on there.

back about 10 years ago he danced on there so anyway okay I'm also thankful that Cal is gone and Pope is here because like a lot of the other callers have said it is it's so refreshing I know everybody used that word but it is to feel like there's a happiness throughout, you know, big blue nation. There really is. The coach, the players, the staff. There's just this happiness. And it's contagious.

Like, it's so stress-free watching a ball game and not being a nail-biter to one of these Division II schools. So I'm really thankful Pope's here. And I have one more thing. All right. Y'all been talking about him. you need to think that there's any ham that will beat whore mail cure 81 it has to be cure 81 has to be cure 81 all right once you eat that ham you won't eat none others that you guys

thank you Heather that's my I'm thankful for that call thank you Heather I appreciate it there you go wow I'm not going to be able to top that one you got four more callers for we in this show but I mean you're not going to be able to do better than Heather and Dynston with the stars Mountain Dew she is Pacville all the way Patville Dynston all right four more who's next Ian Ian what are you thankful for Matt I'm thankful for this post game call show community because I love Heather's calls

Thank you I agree Yeah, I'm thankful for Drew Franklin's razor wit on the rapid reactions after the games and all the other, he just makes me laugh every time. I'm thankful for Ryan Lemon being who himself every day. I'm thankful for the fact that Shannon can't pronounce the vowels E&A back next to each other correctly. You're right about that, actually. he can't. A deal is a deal every day. A deal. That's all right. And if I was a hack, I would say that I was thankful for a certain kind of whistle, but I'm not.

I'm thankful for the text machine because it's really cool to be part of a group that has an actual line of communication with you that I know I'm not the only one that thinks a certain thing at a time. but there's times where I know that I'm one of a dozen or so people that sends you the same thought at the same time, and then you send it out the airways, and it makes me so, it's like so cool, and I love that. And the last thing is, I'm really thankful for this team that we have because it's, I didn't get to watch the game today. I had to listen on the radio because I was driving. And just, Jack, Jack and Tom, the, The joy that Goose gives when he's calling this team, he is so happy calling this team. And let's be honest, I love Cal, but the last couple years, the word is tedious.

That it was, it was just like, gosh, I don't know what's going to happen. And it was, you were just, like, worried all the time. And the joy in Jack's voice is glory enough alone for, I am so thankful for what that is. I totally agree. That's all, I agree with everything you. just said. I appreciate the call. I mean, Jack is clearly, for Jack has joy watching Kentucky. He's, he is a former player, but he's also a Lexingtonian. He's a, he's a fan, and it comes through. That's awesome. Tom's always been like that. I agree with you. The last few years were that tedious, I think, is an excellent word.

Watching the games were tedious. I'm not going to speak for Jack, Tom or the JMI people. or I can only speak for myself. But if I was going to speak for them, you know, it wasn't easy for them either. I've spoken a lot about what I had to deal with, but they, you know, it wasn't easy for them either. They just can't say it. They have so much joy. Go back and watch if you get a chance. Go back and watch the video of Tom Leach and Mark Pope last night in the calling show.

Look at how much fun Tom's happened. Like Tom's able to actually have conversations and do interviews and not just say something and then listen to 15 minutes of rambling. Like the word is joy. There's a joy around the basketball program, and I just want it to continue as long as it can. Three more. Who's next? Vicki. The only joy I don't have is this.

Do you like this court at the Maui invitation? I hate it. Do you like those words? Hello? Vicki, go ahead. What are you thankful for? Well, honey, I'm first thankful for a husband that'll go out with me because we both love the cats and he'll film me wearing them with that flag. But I'm also thankful because when I get ready to hit sin to you, he goes, hold on now. Wait a minute.

Are you on that? He said, I can't. Oh, so Vicki, you're the one that got naked. Yeah, honey. Yeah. Well, I didn't see, but you didn't send the video. I know because my husband, he went out and filmed the whole thing for me, but when I got ready to hit sin, he was like, oh, honey, Jimmy the Cricket.

Are you getting ready to do that, really? And so, you know, we had to think on it a day or two. So you decided you didn't want, you didn't. Yeah, you decided you didn't want that, that out in the, in the ether. Maybe not, but you don't want, we win that SEC tournament. No, no, no, I'm not following for that again. Vicki, here's what I'll say. You know, we'll probably do a remote at sometime close to Cynthia.

So I'm going to be skeptical until I see it. But if you don't want to send it, I understand. I get it. Like, you got to be careful. You never know what happens. Y'all got to ask the celebrities. No, no, I'm not going to put it out. I'm not going to put it out.

Listen, you don't have to, you don't have to send anything. I love that. If you say you did it, Vicki, I believe you. I'll let that. be between you and your husband those regions that's fine okay and then you could send it out i think you might need three so i'm just going to leave it right at the all right thank you vicki i'll meet you down to buy ankees any day thank you vicki i like buy hankies they have a nice fun go get there you go billy what a final segment wow like just keeps coming like just to

Heather, you got Vicki? Love the energy. When this is over, you got to text Mario. He's got to make Heather and Vicki's calls into a TikTok or something. Will you tell him to do that for me? All right, all right. I appreciate it. I'll forget. Let's do two more.

Who's next? Well, I will apologize about this. Bob and Jamestown is up now. Oh, no! No! You don't care about my Thanksgiving, do you, Billy? All right, Bob. What are you thankful for?

I'm thankful. I'm on top of the ground map. You know, every day's a gift. I'm talking about it on the pregame show. We should have beat Western by 50. Playing these cupcakes is not, you play against your competition. Now, Bill Self's got it going on that with Duke right now.

And that's the kind of marquee game. Let me ask you a question. Let me, I'm going to do something, all right? I'm going to read you our non-conference schedule. And then I'm going to read you Kansas's non-conference schedule, all right? Because you, because we still have games left to play, right? And I don't know what Kansas is. I'm going to read it just out of nowhere.

All right. So Kansas is non-conference schedule. I'm going to read you the good teams they play. North Carolina, Michigan State, Duke, Good, Creighton, and Missouri. Here's our non-conference schedule. Duke, Gonzaga, at Clemson, Ohio State, Louisville.

Sounds pretty similar to me, Bob. Well, yeah, yeah. But then you get, like I said, these lipskins and Jackson State. Okay, but let me show you who else they play since you think Bill Self's got it going on. They also play Howard, Oakland, UNC Wilmington, Furman, and Brown. Guess who else plays Brown? We do. Guess who played UNC Wilmington last year?

We did. Guess who played Oakland in the tournament? We did. So, again, I would argue that our schedules are pretty similar. yeah but like i say we play against your competition level and and like i say i i just hope we got it going on by uh march i want to see the catch bangs and banners that's what it's about you very much bob see you go the way to ruin the vibe yeah i'm sorry about that was you you did that you have to look in the mirror and ask yourself why you're that kind of person you know 25

hours before thanks yeah I'm that guy one more because we're not ending on that who's next Adam Adam what are you thankful for I'm thankful that I get to follow Bob from Jamestown and not Vicki there you go that's a good answer what do you got and I

and I'm also thankful that Danny Hurley said no I mean what a complete clown that is costing his team a win yeah I'm going to talk more about Danny Hurley tomorrow I think I want to save that for a segment tomorrow but I some strong Danny Hurley thoughts after watching that game. I actually watched both meltdowns live.

So, yeah, but go ahead. The one thing I wanted to kind of mention, I think, you know, one thing you've talked about on your show during the weeks is, you know, needing a dude that can go get a basket. I think, you know, Jackson Robinson is kind of the guy that we had pegged for that. I'm really starting to see some of that come out of O.A. And I'm seeing some of that come out of Butler. And then Andrew Carr can go get a bucket when we need them too.

And I just kind of wanted your thoughts and what that might be. Yeah, I think it might be the case that that's a by committee, right? I mean, I think if you were to ask me why this team is maybe a little better than I thought it would be, I think the answer, Adam, would be, I think, always better than I thought we'd be, right? So I went into the – Pleasant, pleasant surprise. He really has. I mean, I went into the season thinking, okay, Robinson's our best player, who's our second best player?

I just don't know who it is. I feel good about Carr and Butler is kind of a really good third and fourth, but I need to know who the second one is. Well, O'A's that guy, right? And O'A might even be the first guy. Yeah, no, you're exactly right. O'A may be the first in Jackson the second, at which point, if that's what it is, now of a sudden that's a team I think you can ball with. I think if you were to ask me why Kentucky beat Duke and why Kentucky is better than a maybe I thought,

I think the answer is ultimately probably Otega O'Way. I agree. Listen, man, that's all I got. Thanks so much for you. I'm thankful for you guys. And y'all have a happy Thanksgiving. You as well. And thank you all listening.

Like, this was an awesome show. This was a very, you know, this is what a good November, December pregame should be like. And I really, or post game, I really enjoyed it. And Duke, Kansas is 71, 73, 71 Kansas with two minutes to go. a great game at the Terry's Chocolate Vegas Showdown. Get on the get and watch it. I don't know what the color of the paint is there. It looks like a hyperglow.

But 73, 71, Cooper Flagg. He spins this time they don't steal it from him. See, Bill Self didn't have it scouted like Mark Pope did. They didn't steal on the spin instead they fouled and the flag will have two free throws. Billy, enjoy your Thanksgiving. I guess I'll see you tomorrow. Yeah, I'll see tomorrow. But same to you.

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