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Ryan Lemond
Thank you. Shannon T. Dude, Drew Franklin here. We're joined now by KSR Zone. Steven Peak before we get to his best friend, Will Stein, we do want to go to your take on the basketball game. You were there last night at Rupp Arena. You've covered the catch now for several years.
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Drew Franklin
He slept less than us somehow.
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Ryan Lemond
What? You said you got four hours sleep last night.
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Steven Peak
I got about four hours, yeah. I stayed up a little bit going through some film. You know, I don't know why.
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Ryan Lemond
Why would you want to rehash that last night?
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Steven Peak
Oh, because I was coming on here. I wanted to be able to see some parts of the game, but. Yeah, it was not a good night. Ryan, I'm not feeling too good today. Not too. Feeling too good about the rest of the season. But you know, am I crazy for thinking maybe, maybe they can win the next three non conference games? I'm crazy, right?
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Drew Franklin
No, they can't.
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Steven Peak
Okay.
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Drew Franklin
That's the optimism we need. I was being too negative. You, you stick with that, all right? You're going to Nashville. Yeah, we'll be down there together.
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Steven Peak
They've done well when I go to Nashville, usually.
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Drew Franklin
How's that? Not want to answer that.
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Steven Peak
What was the question? Sorry.
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Drew Franklin
How do they do in Nashville when you're there?
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Steven Peak
I don't know, man.
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Ryan Lemond
We haven't been to the weekend of the SEC tournament.
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Drew Franklin
It's true.
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Ryan Lemond
Five years, so it can't be doing that well.
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Steven Peak
No, they lost to Vanderbilt last time I was there in football and in basketball, so.
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Ryan Lemond
Well, obviously the big talking point Today is the 10 minute drought where they could not get a field goal. They finished the game 2 of 16 from the field. What went wrong?
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Steven Peak
Well, I'll just say this. We are shooting 27% from three against teams with the polls. It was our fears going into the season. Right. We were, we didn't sign the shooters that we went after.
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Colin Chandler's your best three point shooter right now. He's your best shooter. How many threes he take last night?
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Ryan Lemond
Two.
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Steven Peak
Over threes?
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, over two.
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Steven Peak
That's. I mean it's all of our fears coming to fruition. This team, to me right now it feels like 20, 22, 23 again. It feels like, you know, you got, you got one of the stars back, a potential player of the year and it'll take it away, much like with Oscar and then.
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I don't know, man, like I think the biggest non conference when they got there was Michigan and it feels like you're kind of. I'm reliving that one. I feel like I'm reliving a lot of UK seasons here lately. I mean, just injuries piling up. When will Kentucky be dominant again? Like that's what I'm waiting for. I'm not asking for it every single season, but. But I need it. I need Kentucky to be one of the top four or five teams again. Like that's Kentucky basketball. And I'm feeling like right now the standard over the last 11 years is that we could be really good, but we're not really ever great. And I'm getting kind of tired of that.
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Drew Franklin
You're not wrong. You mentioned how they had Oscar that year. And I'm not trying to say this is Oscar, but one more bright spot is thank God Malachi Marino has turned into something. His freshman year. I did not expect him to play that much. Honestly. I watched him at a high school, high school game and he looked good. He was still very thin and I just wondered how that would translate to college. But my God, what would they look like if he wasn't playing the way he's been playing? Because he's been pretty steady, especially since taking over in the starting five. He was the only one that wanted to rebound last night. Then as we mentioned, the first hour made those two big free throws. That's hoping would be a little more meaningful than they ended up being. But thank God he's playing well. I mean, they at least have a post presence in there. One of them while waiting for quiteence to get healthy.
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Ryan Lemond
And we mentioned this, you know, Pope ran with him, those five guys most of the second half, yellow. Vich Marino, Chandler, Ortega and Aberdeen. He ran with those guys. Trent Cam, Brandon Garrison did not play second half or played very little.
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Drew Franklin
We need more yellow bitch. I know in practice he keeps messing up and Pope makes him run stairs. Okay, that's fine.
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Ryan Lemond
Whatever.
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Drew Franklin
Put him in the damn game. Like we saw last night how he could guard Caleb Wilson.
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Ryan Lemond
That was one of the highlights of the game.
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Drew Franklin
That's one of the toughest matchups we'll see this year. I mean that, that kids legit. We saw that fancy turnaround he had late. I mean, do some special things. And for the most part, yellow bits guarded him really well. He'll rebound. Still didn't hit the outside shot, but I think it's in him. Maybe if he gets out there and gets comfortable, gets more minutes. So I know everybody wants diabate back and that's a weird situation itself, but I'm like, just put yellow bitch in more of him, please.
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Ryan Lemond
So another analogy I came up with, I felt like when they, during that stretch, they started playing like they were Behind. They actually had the lead, but they were playing like they were behind, coming down, rushing shots early in the shot clock, taking it, taking a bad shot. Do you agree with that or not?
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Steven Peak
Yeah, I mean, this looks like. Like I said, that 20, 22, 23 team, where it's just kind of like five guys playing pickleball out there. I went back last night and watched that video, the video that kind of sold me on. On mark Pope, that YouTube video from Hoops Vision where it shows that Kentucky or it shows BYU flying down the court with one two pass and pulling from three.
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Ryan Lemond
This.
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Steven Peak
This is not the offense that I was sold. Like, the offense I've been seeing in some of these games is not. And I will grant you, like, it will look different when Jalen Lowe's out there. But I was told after the Michigan State game that you can't build this around one player. So if. And it feels like we kind of did, you're right. And that's kind of. That's frustrating.
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Drew Franklin
And after last year, when you saw what happens when your guard gets hurt, I mean, you never should have just had one ball handler to begin with. We don't want the injury to happen. But after you just saw it last year, you should be. The team should be built better to handle it, especially with the investment made and all the advantages. Kentucky has to just be like, well, our guards hurt. I guess that's it. I mean, that shouldn't be how it goes.
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Ryan Lemond
Shannon, is it as simple as that? They built this team around Jalen Lowe. He was going to be your leader, your point guard. And now with him out, they've just been in a spiral that it can't recover from.
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Shannon the Dude
I think that's a lot of it. But at the same time, we also heard about how deep this team is, and we're not seeing it right now. You know, like the lineup last night that they put out there, I don't have any confidence that if that's the lot we have to stick with for the rest of the season, I do not have very much optimism at all moving forward. So they've got to get healthy.
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Ryan Lemond
The other big stat last night, Stephen, 20 offensive rebounds for North Carolina, 22 second chance points.
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Steven Peak
Yeah. And that's where Modi Abate helps. Right. I mean, that's where you'd like to. You'd like to have had him, but, you know, and JQ obviously. But those two guys don't really fix for me what is my biggest concern. Because I thought, like, defensively, I mean, Kentucky played all Right. They held him to 67 points. I think that if you hold him to 67, regardless of how many offensive rebounds now, I mean, you only get 13 threes off. I guess you could contribute some of that to. They stole 20 possessions from Kentucky or just, you know, from getting offensive offensive boards. But I've been concerned about the shooting since the summer, and I don't know, I just feel like. I know you guys have talked about it, but it felt like maybe an overcorrection happened in the roster construction or you just missed on the guys. So it kind of just ended up being this way. But I felt like last year's team, you take out the injuries, they're a top five to 18. Am I wrong?
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Drew Franklin
No, not at all. Thinking back at last year's team, I miss Amari just passing it to cutters and how much motion was in the. Even when they were hurt, they would still move on offense. And looked like the way Pope wants to play, this team just gets stuck and the ball gets stuck, and they just start looking at each other. And that is not at all what Mark Pope is, why he's here. That's supposed to be the advantage, not a disadvantage on offense.
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Ryan Lemond
You know, you're as big as football fan as any of us, but we brought you here for one reason. William Stein's like your best friend, your childhood best friend. You guys still sleep in bunk beds? No. We told the story in the pregame show. You and Will William Stein played on a baseball team when you were 16 years old together. The Louisville Lumbers.
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Steven Peak
Louisville Lumber, yeah.
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Ryan Lemond
And you wore the jersey last night to the game?
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Steven Peak
Yes.
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Ryan Lemond
Did you show it to Will Stein?
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Steven Peak
Yeah. I was actually walking over the student section and looked in front of me. I heard somebody say, hey, Steve. And so my dad's name is Steve Peak, so he's. Will's gonna call me Steve, but I. But when I had to apply for jobs later on, it got real confusing. Apparently I was trying to get money out of the bank or something like that, so they had to put. So now I'll go by Steven. But I was doing my Steve in high school, so I hear that. And he showed him the jersey, and I got that on video, put it on my Twitter. It was pretty cool.
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Drew Franklin
Did you ever think you would. Your childhood friend and teammate?
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Steven Peak
No.
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Drew Franklin
Like, it's already weird that He's. What, he's 36 years old to me. Me, I've never felt older than being older than the coach that I cheer for, of the team that I cheer for. But what's your brain like? You go to these press conferences, you've been going to Stoops and Cal and Pope, and you name it for years, and now you're gonna be setting up the tripod, waiting for your Louisville Lumber shortstop to come out and do an interview.
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Steven Peak
That's. It's so weird. I've had so many people text me and ask me like, the same thing. How strange is it that it's not even just somebody who's our age. It's somebody I grew up playing sports against and was on his team for, you know, a couple. Couple years. So, yeah, it's gonna be really, really weird. But I'm so excited. I'm excited for today. I need to hear Will say some inspiring stuff to pick me up. So hopefully he's going to. He's going to deliver it for you all.
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Drew Franklin
Obviously went your separate ways. He went and did all the football. You went to Murray out of high school. Probably hadn't stayed in touch a lot, but I mean, you know him and what he's like, what kind of guy are we getting with Will Stein?
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Steven Peak
Dude, he's like such a good guy. Like, he's, he is a really good person, but he's. He's a competitor and a winner. Like, wherever that dude goes, he wins. Like, you know, he was at Trinity, played quarterback for his senior season, led him to a state championship. Had one of the biggest drives in Trinity football history. Little play action, bootleg to tie the game since it's overtime. Got the win there. So Kentucky's getting a really good guy and somebody who I fully believe in that he's going to take Kentucky football to a good place.
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Drew Franklin
That, that, that emotion he showed last night when he was pumping him up. Is that his personality or is that him just getting kind of caught up in Rupp Arena? Because that was, that was troops that he brought to the Lex.
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Steven Peak
No, that's. That's Will. That's. Well, that's. That's. That's the kind of guy you're going to get. I, I am interested. You all have seen the YouTube videos. Him. But breaking.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, that's. That's the nerdy side of him. I love the side we saw last night.
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Steven Peak
Yes. I think that's what I love. You're going to get both. You're going to get that, that, that excitement and you're going to get. You're getting somebody very intelligent that's going to be able to break down stuff for us in post game. So maybe we'll learn. I think we're going to learn some stuff.
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Drew Franklin
Love it that you are your best friend as the head coach.
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Ryan Lemond
Best friend, childhood best friend you had. You guys shared a crib together, I think. Yeah. Louisville Lumber, Louisville Lumber. All right, we're gonna take our break. We'll go back to the phone line. If you have a call, we talk basketball or football. Steven Peake joins us from ksr. Drew Franklin, Shannon T. Dude, Ryan Lemon. We're right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
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Drew Franklin
You're so joyous in saying joy. Joy.
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Ryan Lemond
I need some joy in my life. After last night with the postgame show got over at 2 in the morning. You had to blog till 4 in the morning, Stephen, when did you get to bed?
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Drew Franklin
My last text from Stephen was at like 3:45am Now I'm not going to read it on there because we're both a little upset, but we were, we were firing off text pretty late.
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Ryan Lemond
Well, I do want to read a tweet from one of our co workers, Mr. Jack Pilgrim. He did the pregame show with us yesterday. He's as in tune with UK basketball as anybody. Got his finger on the pulse of what's going on. UK basketball? This was his tweet after the game last night. This is a season from hell for Mark Pope and the Kentucky Wildcats. Just an inexcusable product no matter the injury situation. Bad basketball team.
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Drew Franklin
We did our rapid reaction pretty late in Rupp arena and yeah, Jack was pretty down down then too. Was that tweet this morning or last night?
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Ryan Lemond
That was last night.
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Drew Franklin
Okay. I didn't know if he had slept it off, but yeah, he had a.
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Steven Peak
New one this morning.
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Ryan Lemond
Okay, was this one this morning here, then the one this morning where he's got feeding the duds. Yeah. Kentucky's got an identity crisis with no immediate answers in sight. Is it time to shift expectations?
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Drew Franklin
I don't.
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Ryan Lemond
How do you answer that question?
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Drew Franklin
I mean, I feel the same way. We were all pretty down last night. Thought about kicking a Christmas tree at one point. I don't. I'm excited for Nashville. I've been looking forward to this Nashville trip since it was announced. I bought tickets the moment you could buy tickets. Taking vacation time. I'm not gonna be yapping with you all. I'm not gonna be writing. Not gonna be rapid reacting. I'm going as a fan and I'm so Excited, but on the inside, I'm dead. I'm like, please, I would love to be surprised, but like, I'm still excited to go and get down there, but I just thought we would be looking much better than we are right now heading into that matchup.
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Ryan Lemond
So, Shannon, is it time to alter our expectations?
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Shannon the Dude
Maybe a little bit. Because what do we all have? What were your expectations going into the season? How many losses did you think we would have? Six. What did most of us pick?
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah. Five, six or seven. I think they're right in there.
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Shannon the Dude
Because I think if that's the case, there's a good chance you got that going into the sec.
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Drew Franklin
I got tricked a little bit. Steven recorded my preseason predictions video, the whole thing. YouTube. He had a light and a microphone.
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Ryan Lemond
Oh, wow. Professional.
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Drew Franklin
But he asked me after the Purdue exhibition, so I was in a great place. I don't remember what I said, but it was pretty. No, I don't think I did 40. No. But I'm pretty sure it was one non conference loss with absolute whiff on that prediction. But that's what mine was. I had high expectations just like everyone else. If you open my DraftKings account and go to open bets, there's Kentucky to win the national championship sitting right there. I got to look at it every day that I go to gamble. I know many people, people are saying, final Four, bust.
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Ryan Lemond
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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Drew Franklin
Now I'm like, can we just. Can we beat a team? And then we'll. We'll go from there. We'll figure it out. Let's get one and then stack a couple and then set the expectations, which is just crazy to say in December with the opportunities they've already had.
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Ryan Lemond
So, Stephen, how do you answer Jack's question? Is it time to alter our expectations? Yeah.
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Steven Peak
Yeah. I did that after the Michigan State game. I think when Mark Pope came out and did that press conference, to me, as upset as he was, I think that for me that was kind of telling, that he may see some of the writing on the wall with this team and the limitations that it might have. Bartovic currently has us. He's pretty good at predicting stuff. He has. I mean, he's perfect. But Bartowic has Kentucky at 19 and 12 to finish the season. That's a six seed. That would be. That would be kind of a nightmare scenario considering what the expect. I mean, what are. Well, what are the expectations for Kentucky basketball?
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Ryan Lemond
Always.
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Steven Peak
I know we moved. We slightly moved the goalpost a little bit last year to give, you know, it's a It's a kind of a grace period. But.
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I don't want to keep saying this, but I kind of miss last year's team a little bit. I miss a lot of the guys on the team. You brought up Amari. I kind of miss having a Jackson Robinson, obviously a Kobe Braya. So, yeah, my expectations have changed. I still think now, what if we can get to SEC play January 1st to get Jalen Lowe and JQ back. We just reset things. We're 0 and 0. Let's try to win the SEC. We haven't done that since the world shut down. Maybe we can do that again. We haven't won the sec tournament since 2018.
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Drew Franklin
Can we just get to Saturday?
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Ryan Lemond
That'd be great, babe.
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Drew Franklin
We're doing baby steps.
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Steven Peak
Yeah, let's try to get.
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Ryan Lemond
We got the Friday last year at least Saturday this year.
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Drew Franklin
Such a sad conversation as a my flaw Kentucky fan, but, you know, going.
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Ryan Lemond
Into the season, we all thought looking at this was the perfect roster. We were too deep at every position. We were over. We had loaded in the backcourt. What's happened?
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Drew Franklin
Well, we assume some guys crazy for us to think that they would improve. I mean, whoops, that's my bad for expecting a returning player to get a little bit better and not go the other way.
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Ryan Lemond
Because that was Pope's mantra. Second players take a big jump in the second year. That's not happened for a couple guys.
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Steven Peak
Yeah. Colin Chandler is the only one that I feel like has really taken that. That big step. Is there anybody else? I mean, I feel like Collins is really the only one and thank goodness he did. What would this team be if Colin Chandler didn't take that massive step? If he was still the guy averaging 2.7 points per game last year or whatever it was.
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Drew Franklin
And Steven mentioned how Pope kind of talks like the writings on the wall. I do feel like. Like he's our leader and sometimes I think he's more scared than I am.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
Like it's like we're in Braveheart and he's in the the back of the line. Like, wait, you're the co. You get up here and lead us, please. And stick your chest out and have some confidence. Sometimes I'm looking at him like, oh no, what do you know? Because you're not exactly making me feel any better and how you're explaining this either.
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Ryan Lemond
I want to ask you guys, you were there last night. How was the crowd for his post game crowd conference?
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Drew Franklin
Worst that ever. I mean, part of it. It's almost one in the morning. On a weeknight. So I don't blame him.
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Ryan Lemond
And you just lost.
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Drew Franklin
Losing didn't help. That was the lowest we'll probably ever see. Yeah, a lot of that was. It was very late at night.
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Steven Peak
I was surprised when we walked out from the player interviews and there was nobody there. I mean, it was almost one in the morning, so I kind of get it. But I think all the people in the media were like, never seen it like this.
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Drew Franklin
If he were to win, I think maybe some people would tough it out just to show him some support. Like, all right, let's figure this out. But being a loss, no. Everybody was quick to get on home.
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Ryan Lemond
Shannon on the aviation glass text machine. Overwhelming disdain for Kentucky Joe's new song.
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Shannon the Dude
I know, I've been reading the comments too. Maybe we shouldn't have doubled down and let them do both.
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Ryan Lemond
Amen. Yeah. Yeah. All right, 859-280-2287. Who's our next caller?
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Shannon the Dude
Mike.
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Ryan Lemond
Mike. Go ahead, Mike.
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Steven Peak
Hey, guys, I think I picked a.
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Caller
Bad time to stop drinking between last night.
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Drew Franklin
But. But anyway, I was just gonna say.
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Caller
You know, sometimes I just don't understand.
- [24:12]
Drew Franklin
Pope, because last night I thought everything.
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Ryan Lemond
Went wrong on offense.
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Drew Franklin
But they had an obvious advantage with yellow bitch down low. And you go 10 minutes without a bucket. Why not put him and Chandler on.
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Caller
The same side and just let them.
- [24:24]
Drew Franklin
Play some two man and get him a bucket, man. I mean, all we need is a bucket or two in that 10 minute stretch and we win that game. And I know it was ugly, but.
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Caller
It'S better than a loss.
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Ryan Lemond
Appreciate it, man. You know, and like Drew said earlier, a lot of those misses, we had good looks. They just couldn't knock them down. There was a three pointer one time, Yellow Vic shot from the wing. It was dead on. But it came up short, I think because his legs, he was tired. He'd been playing so many minutes.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, can't be playing all those minutes now.
- [24:51]
Steven Peak
That, that, that talk is actually kind of annoying. Most teams play seven or eight guys, right. And that. How many guys North Carolina played last night, like with a lot of minutes because I felt like they. How come they had three guys that.
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Drew Franklin
Played 35 or more?
- [25:05]
Steven Peak
So, okay, so where. Why weren't their legs given out?
- [25:10]
Ryan Lemond
I don't know. Can't have an answer. I don't know.
- [25:12]
Steven Peak
You know, Calipari, we had a quote a couple years ago where he said that doing the platoon system made it to where he couldn't recruit for a couple years. Cal, not known for hyperbole. Obviously, but, you know, you look at some of the guys you missed. Donovan Dent, I don't know how good he's actually. He actually is, but somebody Kentucky wanted, I guess that was the first pick plays over 30 minutes. You had Lamar Wilkerson. How many minutes is he averaging, drew?
- [25:36]
Drew Franklin
30 over 30. Also, don't look up his three point shooting.
- [25:38]
Ryan Lemond
He's shooting lights out.
- [25:40]
Steven Peak
Yeah.
- [25:40]
Drew Franklin
It's best for our mental if we.
- [25:42]
Ryan Lemond
Just don't look that up and he's coming to Rupbrine in a week or so.
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Steven Peak
Yeah, I mean, so you look at the guys you're missing out on, and those are the guys that are playing. Caleb Wilson, I think playing over 30 minutes a game. Now, Kentucky did have four guys that played over 30 minutes, but that's because you have three starters hurt. How do. How is this happening? How am I still reliving Kentucky basketball seasons with all these injuries? I'll say it again. 13 injuries in 13 months of the Mark Pope era. I'm losing my mind over.
- [26:06]
Drew Franklin
Do you include quaintance on that? Because I don't give him quaintance. Quaint was already hurt.
- [26:09]
Steven Peak
No, I didn't.
- [26:11]
Drew Franklin
I don't think we can throw that one low. And whatever going on with the.
- [26:14]
Steven Peak
No, we've had experienced 13 injuries. Yeah, 13 months.
- [26:18]
Drew Franklin
Okay. Because I mean, he built the roster with a guy with the torn acl. I'm still for it, and I think it'll work out. I think it'll be good. But I don't count that one as much as holding this team back because you knew when you first called the guy how that would play out.
- [26:28]
Ryan Lemond
Let's get another call. Shannon, who we got?
- [26:29]
Shannon the Dude
Chris.
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Ryan Lemond
Chris. Go ahead, Chris.
- [26:34]
Caller
Hey, guys. I really am just disgusted with the.
- [26:36]
Caller 2
State of the program and I really just think Pope's in over his head with this job.
- [26:40]
Caller
And I know we're probably stuck with him next year.
- [26:42]
Drew Franklin
The guy can't recruit.
- [26:44]
Caller
And we're quickly slipping into any Indiana territory, in my opinion, as a program. And it's just disgusting.
- [26:50]
Ryan Lemond
Appreciate it, Chris. I mean, there started some rumblings. They're seeing it on social media. People, you know, questioning now, can Pope. Is Pope the guy? The honeymoon, I think, is definitely over because some of the fans are already starting to sour a little bit.
- [27:03]
Steven Peak
How.
- [27:03]
Ryan Lemond
How much credit do you give him and how much credit do you not give him at this point?
- [27:08]
Drew Franklin
I also keep thinking, he came here, he's the one. Like, I'm here to win championships. Criticize me. Like, I know the standard. We're not moving the standard and now it's like we are way off course here. If that's the game plan, it will.
- [27:20]
Ryan Lemond
Help him if he's able to land one of the top recruits. That's still a big knock on him yet. He hasn't checked that box. Can you get a top recruit that's not a Kentucky kid?
- [27:28]
Drew Franklin
And Steven's right about reset in January, go win the SEC and all that, that can happen when they get healthy. But I'm worried about you're going to have so many losses in the non conferen when we want to get to our real goal. What kind of seed and what kind of path are you going to have in front of you? Because you can't just keep taking losses this early in the season and expect to be in a good spot at the end of the year.
- [27:44]
Ryan Lemond
Well, thankfully the SEC is not as strong as it was last year. Or maybe you can make up some ground in the SEC season this year. All right, we'll take our break. We'll come back. Go back to phone lines 859-280-2287. Ryan, Drew, Shannon and Steven Peak. We'll be right back. This is ksr.
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He'll make him pay.
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Ryan Lemond
This from the aviation glass text machine. This Is from Joe Dick. Vital talk so much about Jay Williams that Diego Pavia's mom wants to come to the Gonzaga game.
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859-280-2287. That's our Clark's Puppet Shop phone number. So who we got? Shannon.
- [29:20]
Shannon the Dude
Let's go to Mitch.
- [29:21]
Ryan Lemond
Mitch. Go ahead, Mitch.
- [29:24]
Hey, guys.
- [29:25]
Caller
Hey guys.
- [29:25]
Drew Franklin
How we doing? Something I feel like we haven't talked.
- [29:27]
Caller
About yet is coaches challenges.
- [29:30]
Steven Peak
There was a clear play in the.
- [29:32]
Caller
First half that the ball looked like it went off. UNC, they called it UNC's ball.
- [29:38]
Drew Franklin
They immediately scored.
- [29:39]
Steven Peak
Meanwhile, you know, you watched the Duke.
- [29:42]
Caller
And Florida game last night. Golden and Shire both used challenges fairly early in the first half. So I mean, why are we.
- [29:50]
Drew Franklin
Why are we holding on to those?
- [29:53]
Ryan Lemond
Appreciate the phone call. I don't know. I mean, whatever analytics tells you that's what they're going to go with.
- [29:58]
Drew Franklin
Collection data.
- [29:59]
Steven Peak
Well, they use one in the Michigan State game pretty early on. A call that really might have actually wanted to hold on to.
- [30:05]
Ryan Lemond
You're right about that.
- [30:06]
Steven Peak
Was there a play last night? Was.
- [30:09]
Drew Franklin
I need to. I need to do my rewatch. We sit up there on the moon, so a lot of time we don't get replays. So a lot of times those close calls, I mean, you'd have just as much luck going asking someone sitting outside. So I don't know, particular like close things like that until I go watch the bright. What are you laughing at? I didn't mean that. It's like a complaint. I'm just saying there are things that happen in the game where, you know, I truly don't know what's going on.
- [30:29]
Ryan Lemond
Steven, you said you've already watched it, especially the second half. Why would you want to go back and watch that disaster?
- [30:33]
Steven Peak
Because I was coming on here. I wanted to.
- [30:34]
Ryan Lemond
Because we don't know what we're talking about.
- [30:36]
Steven Peak
No. Well, yeah, I mean, I just. You're at the game. When I'm at the game, I'm roaming around. I'm also nervous and pacing. So I don't feel like when I'm at the games that I'm actually seeing the game. So usually when I go back and watch it, I actually try to figure out what happened.
- [30:51]
Drew Franklin
We're working here, so half the time my nose is in my computer and I look up and I'm like, well, hope they show a replay. I've missed whatever that was. Why Steven is all over the place.
- [30:59]
Ryan Lemond
I recommend everybody go and watch your rapid reaction. That's. That's worth a watch.
- [31:03]
Drew Franklin
We appreciate the views but it's not. It won't be the most joyous conversation you'll watch today.
- [31:09]
Ryan Lemond
Rather than re. Watch the game, go watch the rapid reaction. Who's next?
- [31:12]
Drew Franklin
Watch Steven's video. You tweeted it. What's your spk?
- [31:16]
Steven Peak
What is Stephen P. Ksr. Where.
- [31:18]
Drew Franklin
Because Will really does walk by, he's like, Steve, and he pulls up the Lumber jersey. It is a cool video.
- [31:22]
Ryan Lemond
Yeah, we gotta watch that one. All right, who's next? Shannon?
- [31:24]
Shannon the Dude
Randall.
- [31:25]
Ryan Lemond
Randall. Go ahead, Randall.
- [31:29]
Caller 2
I. I believe that Will Stein's tenure at Kentucky, we're really going to see some good quarterbacks come through his program or develop. You know, that seems like a real positive as far as his, you know, tenure as OC At Oregon.
- [31:47]
Steven Peak
And.
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Caller 2
And another thing about the basketball, you know, Jack Givens was saying on the post game show that. That, you know, they need one of these guys to come into the huddle, and I think it's gonna take it all away that, like, hey, feed me the rock. You know, I mean, like, kind of be like that guy that. Because he's supposed to be, I believe, the preseason best player on the team. And I mean, you know, you need that strong leadership. You need that guy to just be like, hey, I'm the guy that you need to try to get the ball to in this moment. I mean, and I mean, I'm not saying ball hog, but I mean, like, when you. When you zero in on that one guy and you open up the floor for these other guys, like at the wing or something, you dish it out to, like, Conlan Chandler over there with open three hours. A lot of times I've seen Aberdeen go down and Chandler's over there wide open, and. But Aberdeen didn't dish it out. He just go straight to the goal. I mean, you know, it seems like something that Pope would definitely be expressing, and maybe that's what he means in the. In his post game conference where he's talking about, you know, play for each other.
- [32:58]
Ryan Lemond
Yeah. Okay. All right, man. Appreciate it. Yeah. You know, Otega is a guy that we saw signed to the old Ortega, and I heard Jack say that one time he's got to go and tell these guys, get me the ball.
- [33:09]
Drew Franklin
Steven, I saw you perk up on this. I think you might have even counted how many times that happened, the not.
- [33:14]
Steven Peak
Kicking the ball out to your open teammates. Yeah, yeah, it was like four times. Instead, we were just taking contested during.
- [33:19]
Ryan Lemond
That stretch of 10 minutes without scoring.
- [33:21]
Steven Peak
Yeah, there's guys open. And what we saw, even in the Purdue game Guy drives baseline, he kicks it out to the corner. That guy doesn't shoot. He gives up a shot, a good shot for somebody who's got a better shot. Better shot, yeah. And in the Purdue game one time, it was Jasper Johnson, who then got to catch, shoot wide open, and he buried the three. That's Mark. Mark Pope's offense. That's the ball movement that I want to see. That's what we've seen. I mean, what we saw last night and what we've kind of seen outside of the Louisville game and against these big teams is the kind of offense we saw under John Calipari.
- [33:54]
Ryan Lemond
Am I wrong?
- [33:55]
Drew Franklin
Without the creators, without the.
- [33:58]
Steven Peak
Without the lottery picks we've brought up.
- [34:01]
Drew Franklin
Travis Ford has said a few times with our boy Cutler unfiltered about the team chemistry. I think some people interpreted it as like locker room. And that might exist, but what Travis Ford was saying is the not passing to your teammate, like they don't have on court chemistry.
- [34:14]
Ryan Lemond
Correct.
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Drew Franklin
Like they're not making that extra pass for the easy shot. And I think that's really showing now. I've heard him say that a couple times.
- [34:20]
Ryan Lemond
So as I go back to Jalen Lowe, they need that guy, that strong point guard leading the team out there. I think it all goes back to when they lost him. They just went to a tailspin that they haven't recovered from.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, I mean, that is definitely a big part of it, getting him back, but, I mean, he wouldn't have helped with 20 offensive rebounds and effort. And just the three times we've played a team that has any kind of physicality, the moment we turn the lights up and get excited about a game, it's like they just. They completely fold, or they have at least in the three trials so far.
- [34:48]
Ryan Lemond
I tell you, he would have helped with eight assists, nine turnovers last night.
- [34:50]
Drew Franklin
Definitely there.
- [34:51]
Steven Peak
Yeah. Yeah, for sure. For sure. And, you know, I was looking at. Otega always numbers. He's got to get to the free throw line more. Last year, he was getting to the free throw line. I think he had 5.3 attempts last season. He's 3.3 so far this year. Some of that is just having guys be able to make shots to spread the floor so that he can get downhill.
- [35:11]
Ryan Lemond
I think Ortega was listening to Drew where Drew said, want to go back to the old Will take it, Just get the ball and immediately go. Because he did that. He did that last night better than he's done all season.
- [35:21]
Drew Franklin
Now, he does need the spacing and that, you know, Got to hit the threes. All that, but he's still. It was better last night, but he hadn't had that aggression and that attitude that he had a year ago. But maybe a light turned on last night even though it didn't result in a win because he, he seemed to have taken a step forward even though it didn't help in the outcome.
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Ryan Lemond
Who's next? Shannon.
- [35:38]
Shannon the Dude
Let's go to Joe.
- [35:39]
Ryan Lemond
Joe, go ahead. Joe, you're on with Steven Peak, Drew Franklin and Shannon the Dude.
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Caller
Okay. This is Joe Taylor Maxwell gang.
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Ryan Lemond
Is she cutting out on a Shannon?
- [35:54]
Caller
Okay.
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Shannon the Dude
I don't know. Can't tell.
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Ryan Lemond
Go ahead. Okay. All right. Okay, okay. Okay. All right.
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Caller
Basketball game. UK game.
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Ryan Lemond
The basketball game.
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Caller
Yes.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, it didn't go very well. We, we appreciate the phone call. Yeah, I think we're all upset. Having a hard time.
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Drew Franklin
You get all you needed out of that run?
- [36:23]
Steven Peak
Yeah, I think so.
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Ryan Lemond
That's a quick.
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Drew Franklin
Appreciate the call.
- [36:26]
Ryan Lemond
Well, I don't know where it was going, so I apologize.
- [36:31]
Drew Franklin
Shannon's just doing his job over there.
- [36:32]
Steven Peak
Good job, Shannon.
- [36:33]
Drew Franklin
You heard the queue.
- [36:34]
Ryan Lemond
Let's, let's try another one.
- [36:35]
Drew Franklin
Shannon.
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Shannon the Dude
Dwayne.
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Drew Franklin
Dwayne.
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Ryan Lemond
Go ahead, Dwayne. I'm sorry.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, just close the door.
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Caller
I think it's going to have to come. I think this, a lot of it's going to have to come from the players themselves. Like for instance, somebody like Ortega away, You know, they used to, back in the day, 30 years ago, they would, they would start the black watch like early in the morning and go in and shoot and they spend that extra time. And you know, Coach Patino would always encourage him, get in there, get your extra shooting in. If you're not, shoot. If you're not shooting at least 40% from the field, you need to be shooting. And he'd say look up and he'd see who was in there. And there was a direct correlation between the extra shooting and their, their shooting percentage.
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Steven Peak
And.
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Caller
But some, some of these guys can't even. I mean, they were missing layups from right in. You know, it wasn't just three pointers. They were shooting it completely over the goal from two feet away. I mean, it was set back. Threes are awful too.
- [37:40]
Ryan Lemond
Okay. All right. I appreciate the call. I don't doubt that they're working and working hard and going in, getting extra shots up. Yeah, I mean, I remember I was in. We went. Learned this summer. We went through the Craft Center. We were giving somebody a tour and it's 10 o' clock at night and Colin Chandler's in there shooting, you know, and this was in the summer. So I think those guys still get in there early on their own time and do get their shots up.
- [38:01]
Steven Peak
We saw from looking in that Joe Craft center, the. The NOAA ARC system. What's our ROI on that this year? But guys were putting in thousands of shots. So, I mean, I don't think that.
- [38:12]
Ryan Lemond
I don't think that's the issue.
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Steven Peak
No, no, no.
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Drew Franklin
I don't either. I mean, sure, we don't have. It's not branded as the Breakfast Club. And some of the things we've had in the past where they've just openly bragged about, wow, these guys are just always here. We're not hearing that that much. But I'm not going to criticize their work ethic. I'm not over there. I assume they're in the gym.
- [38:28]
Steven Peak
I do think they're trying really hard. I really do.
- [38:31]
Ryan Lemond
Let's talk about something positive. The UK volleyball team hosting first round of the NCAA tournament tomorrow night over at historic Memorial Coliseum. It's the second game of the night, so it could start anywhere between 7, 7:30. Somewhere in that ballpark.
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Drew Franklin
First one's at 4:30.
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Ryan Lemond
So if you're not going, if you can't get tickets, come here. We'll have it on here. KS Bar and Grill. Kind of like a volleyball watch party. We had a great watch party the other night when they won the SEC tournament. That was a lot of fun. They started winning when Drew walked out of the building.
- [38:58]
Steven Peak
Told you.
- [38:58]
Ryan Lemond
Yeah, just trust me.
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Drew Franklin
I won't be here for the next one.
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Ryan Lemond
Drew, stay away. We want to win. So it's tomorrow night. Now tonight the UK women basketball team plays on espn. They play Miami right down in Miami.
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Drew Franklin
Five o' clock game. A little earlier than we typically get. So maybe they'll cheer us up tonight. They're on ESPN2.
- [39:14]
Ryan Lemond
ESPN2. Okay, Miami.
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Drew Franklin
But you know, big night for women's basketball and volleyball tomorrow. I saw Craig Skinner was on top of the fifth, third building promoting it. He just keeps getting higher and higher. That's the tallest building in the world. So if they win tonight, I don't know what he's doing next. Maybe we'll get him on the moon. Maybe Jeff Bezos can shoot Craig Skinner into space to promote the second round. But they're. I guess we have Will Stein now. But the volleyball team has been the only reason to smile a few weeks. Excited for them to start their NCAA run.
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Ryan Lemond
We'll take our final break, come back. Our final segment 859-280-2287. This is Kentucky Sports Radio.
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Ryan Lemond
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Ryan Lemond
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Drew Franklin
How about that? Yeah, I'm in my. My dad's car today. I had to borrow it to get here. Right there on his. On his dash, he had some shady rain. Look at you, dad. Proud of you.
- [43:01]
Ryan Lemond
I want to read tweet from our big toe, Matt Jones. So in case you missed it, you know why he's not here. Just so folks know, I am at the hospital with my dad who had an unexpected heart surgery yesterday. He is doing a little better, which I care about more than the game last night because people were getting some pushback. You know, why he's not here or why he wasn't on the show. Come on, man, read the room.
- [43:23]
Drew Franklin
We, we're pretty committed to the grind and we're. We know this is busy times, but family comes first, especially Larry having a procedure. Glad it went well. And if Matt needs to take however long he needs to be.
- [43:34]
Ryan Lemond
That's right. Family's more important, so.
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Drew Franklin
And it's Larry. Everybody loves Larry.
- [43:37]
Ryan Lemond
Larry is one tough dude. If they make a knockoff heart surgery, it's Larry Blondell.
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Drew Franklin
That's right.
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Steven Peak
I think people just, you know, whenever there was tough losses before I was working at ksr, I wanted to hear what Matt had to say about it. Yeah, it kind of made me feel. Feel a little bit better or validated how I was feeling. So I know we're missing Matt today.
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Ryan Lemond
He'll be back.
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Drew Franklin
Yeah, he'll be back.
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Ryan Lemond
Well, so far, maybe even tomorrow, we'll hear his take on the game and stuff. So back off, people. 859-280-2287.
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Steven Peak
Defensive Ryan, you can come at me.
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Ryan Lemond
But don't come at my boys.
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Drew Franklin
Don't Come at Larry.
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Ryan Lemond
Don't come at Larry. Crying out loud.
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Drew Franklin
People have told me, Frank, it's getting a little stale over here. And then I'm being too negative. Can we end with some positivity?
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Ryan Lemond
Let's do it.
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Drew Franklin
I don't have any, but okay, before we get people complaining about me complaining, I don't want to be that guy. I don't want to be the complaint. Nobody likes that person.
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Ryan Lemond
We'll take a couple calls. But before we hang up tonight, today, each of us has to give us something positive.
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Drew Franklin
All right, I love that. All right, I'm smiling now. Look, I'm getting ready.
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Ryan Lemond
Shannon, who's next?
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Shannon the Dude
Cole.
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Ryan Lemond
Cole. Go ahead, Cole.
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Caller
Hey, guys. First time, long time. Listen every day.
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Ryan Lemond
Appreciate you calling, Cole.
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Caller
I had two quick questions here. One football, one basketball. I'll start with the football. I think for first, I think Wilstein is a phenomenal hire. Arguably could be potentially the best hire so far in college football. Maybe second behind Lane Kiffin if you count that. But I will say for a long time now, I've been, I've been saying even before Stoopz was fired, I said we really need an offensive minded coach. We need somebody like Stein or Heartline. And I'd always kind of given Brian Hartline the edge just because he's kind of known for his recruiting and sending these guys to the NFL. Not that Will Stein hasn't. I just don't know as much about his recruiting. I was going to say, if you guys do, do we know what happened with Heartline or if he was even interviewed? And it just made me think of it because I saw that he's going to be hired at, at South Florida today. And then I had a basketball question, but.
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Ryan Lemond
Okay, what, and what's your basketball question? We'll do both of them then.
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Caller
Okay. Yeah. So I was going to say, so not to be negative, I know you're just talking about positivity, but this question here, I hadn't even thought about this till this morning. I saw some people saying, you know, mentioning it on Twitter, just, you know, negative fans. But should we be slightly concerned that quaintance may not ever end up playing for us? I know we need him pretty bad, but, you know, with his injury and everything, I thought maybe if the season's kind of going downhill, I kind of feel like this has happened to us before. So what do you guys think?
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Ryan Lemond
Okay.
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Steven Peak
All right.
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Ryan Lemond
I appreciate the phone call. You take the Jaden Quaden's question first.
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Drew Franklin
I don't expect that at all. I know I've heard people saying he could shade and sharpest. Those are completely different situations. Sharp actually had the benefit of being a mystery having never played. Like, he had amazing high school highlights. He set out in the NBA, rolled the dice, top five pick, and it worked. Queens kind of needs to show them that he didn't lose a step in his rehab because he had good tape at Arizona State and he blows out his knee and he. I mean, he would still be a high pick. Somebody would take that chance. But he also can do make himself a lot of money if he plays and shows that he didn't lose a step with that injury. And his attitude's been right from the beginning. I would be surprised if he doesn't play. I think they're completely different scenarios.
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Ryan Lemond
Steven, since you're Will Stein's twin brother, you take the Will Stein heartline question about whether they.
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Steven Peak
Which. Which one they reached out to.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, it's.
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Drew Franklin
I'll answer for Steven.
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Steven Peak
Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
Well, Stephen was also. He was one of the first to put it out there about Stein and the job. But you, all, you Trinity people, I don't know what's going on there. Y' all just have these, like, these underground tunnels in Louisville.
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Steven Peak
They do talk to each other. Yeah.
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Drew Franklin
Regardless, it seemed Stein was high on Kentucky's list early in the process. And Kentucky was high on Stein's list. Nailed the interview. They might have had a few conversations with others, but it looks like they got their number one guy. And Stein was a quick yes because he wanted to be here.
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Ryan Lemond
I feel like they had to make contact with Stein's people weeks ago.
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Drew Franklin
That happens.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah, that happens all the time. I think Heartline was a good fallback plan, but obviously he took the job today at South Florida, so it all worked out the way it was supposed to.
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Drew Franklin
We can all live in a fantasy land where people wait till the portal to make calls. No, they're coaches talking to players and coaches talking to school all season long. We don't act like that doesn't happen, but that happens.
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Steven Peak
Yeah, absolutely. You know what I thought was weird is how they've talked about, you know, how young Will Stein is, and he's. Can he handle this, being 36 years old in the SEC? I mean, I was looking up Jim Boeheim. I know this is basketball. He was hired at 31 years old. This used to not be so crazy. How old was Rick Pitino when he was at Kentucky? 37.
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Ryan Lemond
Yeah.
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Steven Peak
Mike Shasheski. These are basketball guys. I know. These are just the easy ones for me to look up. He was 33 when he took over at Duke, so it used to not be that weird. But it felt like hiring somebody who was in their 30s felt like. Like, oh, we're just hiring somebody straight out of high school now. Like it's what it felt like. So, you know, I'm excited. Is this the only millennial coach in the athletic department?
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Drew Franklin
I guess so.
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Steven Peak
Interesting.
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Ryan Lemond
I had to think about that. It might be, but we need that.
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Drew Franklin
We needed the youth. I think it'll be good for him. As you saw last night, just that energy. Stoops had a style was more go to work, keep your head down. Looks like we're have a little more fire with stun.
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Ryan Lemond
All right, 30 seconds. Rapid reaction positive. Before we get out of here, Drew.
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Drew Franklin
We'Re going to Nashville. Western Kentucky is going to show up. Good crowd. We'll be Gonzaga. We're beating Gonzaga.
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Ryan Lemond
Steven.
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Steven Peak
Yeah, we're going to win one of these next three games in the non con and then we're going to have a good SEC run. I think so.
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Ryan Lemond
Shannon.
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Shannon the Dude
They didn't score a point in 10 minutes and still only lost by three. Defense was decent volleyball going to win the title. There you go.
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