2025-12-15- KSR - Hour 1

Summary

KSR (Kentucky Sports Radio) - Hour 1

Podcast: KSR
Host: Matt Jones, with Drew and Shannon
Date: December 15, 2025
Episode Theme: Breaking Down Kentucky’s Victory Over Indiana, New Team Identity, and Memorable TV Moments

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Episode Overview

This episode of Kentucky Sports Radio dives deep into Kentucky’s pivotal 72-60 win over Indiana—their first meeting in a decade. Matt Jones and the crew analyze the Cats’ tale-of-two-halves performance, the transformative impact of returning players, the emerging identity under Coach Mark Pope, and cultural highlights from the game broadcast. The show also features lively banter, listener calls, and an exploration of team dynamics and fan expectations as conference play approaches.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Kentucky’s Win Over Indiana: A Game of Two Halves

• First Half Struggles (04:11–06:59):
  • The team “had a miserable first half,” with both squads looking out of sorts.
  • “Ugly first half. You went into halftime down, didn’t want that at all.” — Drew (05:19)
• Second Half Turnaround (06:59–09:40):
  • The return and health of Jalen Lowe and Diabate were crucial. “Low played about every minute after halftime and Diabate too... they were the difference makers.” — Drew (05:19)
  • The offense finally found flow: “It’s just a different team. With Jalen Lowe, it just is.” — Matt Jones (06:59)

The Jalen Lowe Effect

• Offensive Catalyst:
  • Lowe is the only player on the roster who can reliably get to the rim, break a defender down, and initiate offense.
    • “We have no one else who could do that shot... no one else who can break a guy down like that, step back and hit a floater.” — Matt Jones (07:43)
    • “He’s just a different dude. And it felt like you were watching him in that second half find his confidence again.” — Matt Jones (07:50)
• Acknowledgement of Flaws:
  • Lowe missed two layups but remains invaluable: “He’s going to drive some fans crazy because he misses layups and he takes some shots where you go 'eh', but the rest of it’s way too positive.” — Matt Jones (08:24)

Roster and Lineup Insights

• Shortening the Rotation (08:43–10:10):

  • Pope “went with Lowe, Oweh, Williams, Garrison, and Diabate” for most of the second half, rarely subbing, which is “more like the lineup we thought we were going to see this year.”
  • “I think that team you saw in the second half is the best chance for this team to be successful.” — Matt Jones (12:59)

• Shifting Player Roles and Tough Decisions:

  • Expect less of Trent Noah, Chandler, and Jasper Johnson unless their play improves: “That might be the last we see of [Noah] in a starting [role]… Jasper Johnson just may not play this year.” — Matt Jones (12:53, 12:59)

The New Kentucky Identity: From "Pope Ball" to "Dirty Dog" Basketball

• Adapting to Reality (11:24–14:25):

  • Analyst Terrence Oglesby suggested:
    “This should be a defensive dirty dog. Rebounding, fouling, like that's what it's got to be. Mark Pope needs to understand the way he wants to play basketball, he can't play it with these guys. They're just going to have to be what they are.” — relayed by Matt Jones (11:24)
  • The team is “winning with defense,” not offense—reminiscent of earlier Calipari teams but without elite athletes.

• Fan Expectations (13:25–14:25):

  • “We’re going to have to win 67-63 and it’s going to be ugly... SEC is different this year. None of these teams are really good offensively.” — Matt Jones (13:27, 13:44)
  • “Somehow our basketball team has turned into our football team.” — Shannon (14:46)

Listener Interactions & Notable Quotes

• Low’s Unique Skill Set:

  • “He’s the only player we have who plays point guard who doesn’t look like he just discovered basketball…” — Matt Jones (24:07)

• Matt’s “Jon Snow” Analogy:

  • “I’m going to be out there with that sword, that meme fighting the British.” — Matt Jones (25:04)
  • “So I’m going to be Jon Snow... for Lowe. Because he’s my guy.” — Matt Jones (25:21)

• Offense Struggles Explained (35:18–37:06):

  • Caller: “I do think we can shoot better once we have effective point guard play… But we’re not getting set up for three-point shots. We don’t have players that can shoot off the dribble like Reed Sheppard.”
  • Matt: “You’re exactly right... We need guys who can go in, draw a double team, kick it out... we haven’t had guys who can finish at the rim, they never draw a double team.” (35:18–35:39)

Barkley, Vitale, and the Broadcast Banter (26:36–31:05)

• Barkley & Vitale’s On-Air Antics:

  • The panel enjoyed Barkley’s unfiltered, openly pro-Kentucky stance and his wisecracks.
  • “He literally was wishing the ball to go in for us [on the broadcast]... He had to have money on Kentucky.” — Matt Jones (28:24)
  • “He said that American [restaurant] chicken was the best chicken he’s ever had. He said they must have a little bitty black lady in the back cooking it. Which you could tell Vitale got a look on his face... Charles [Barkley] is the only person who can get away with just saying that.” — Matt Jones (28:50)

• Lexington's "American" Chicken Restaurant Goes Viral:

  • “American [restaurant's] website now crashed.” — Matt Jones (29:08)
  • Old Lexington institutions revisited, thanks to national TV exposure.

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Memorable Moments & Quotes

• On Jalen Lowe’s physical limitations:
  “When he dove for the ball, I screamed, ‘No!’ Everybody else is like, ‘Wow.’ I was like, ‘No, don’t do that.’ Because if we lose him, forget it.” — Matt Jones (17:55)
• On Cam Williams’ Impact:
  “He just doesn’t have that gear that Cam Williams, those guys have.” — Drew (12:53)
• On Kentucky’s Team Being 'Ugly' But Effective:
  “If it's ugly and if it's not how you want to play basketball, it doesn't really matter. We gotta win.” — Matt Jones (53:39)
• On Team Shooters Not Making Shots:
  “I don’t need you to make them all; you just can’t miss them all.” — Drew (32:54)

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Timestamps for Notable Segments

• Kentucky's Win & Analysis: 04:11 – 16:50
• Jalen Lowe's Impact: 06:59 – 08:43, 23:35 – 26:24
• Dirty Dog Identity & Adjusted Expectations: 10:10 – 15:35
• Barkley & Vitale Broadcast Discussion: 26:36 – 31:05
• Fan/Caller Interaction on Shooting and Recruiting: 33:12 – 36:37
• Lexington Restaurant Banter: 28:50 – 31:05

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Conclusion

Matt Jones and the KSR crew deliver a spirited, thorough breakdown of Kentucky’s evolving season. They celebrate the hard-fought Indiana win while accepting the team’s necessity to embrace a grind-it-out, defense-first approach. The conversation is peppered with inside jokes, pointed fan commentary, and colorful anecdotes about game day culture and TV cameos—making this episode both informative and quintessentially KSR.

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Transcript

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[Shannon]

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Monday, December 15th. I am Matt Jones. Here on a cold but sunny day in Lexington, Kentucky. You can give a shout Clark's Puppet Shop phone line 859-280-2287. A Vision Autoglass text machine is 772-77-45254. This edition sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. If you call TJ, you'll make them pay. Ten days before Christmas and finally a game after we beat somebody good in basketball. All right, Kentucky beats Indiana on Saturday night. 72 60. You can give us a shout. Love to hear from you. 859-280-2287. Ryan is out today, so it is me and Drew and Shannon and the cats had a miserable first half on Saturday night. But then maybe they're the best they've played this season in the second half to beat the Hoosiers in the first time they've played each other in 10 years. Drew, I don't know how you can't be pleased with the result. What looked like it might be another night towards misery ends up very positive.

[Drew]

Yeah, ugly first half. You went into halftime down, didn't want that at all. But then you get that big run right out of halftime, take a way, hit a three and then they're off. And you know, the big story is just we saw. Been waiting for these guys have been injured to come play. We saw what happens when Low and Diabate are healthy and making a difference. Because Low played about every minute after halftime and Diabate too. And they were, they were the difference makers that helped wheeled them to that 12 point win.

[Matt Jones]

Never sold my Low stock held on. I held on. I was. What, what did they say during the, during all the, the. The tech thing? It was diamond hands. I was diamond hands on Low and I think you saw why. And then we said I was obviously a great game from Diabate too. I mean, you know, the optimist view, and there were getting to be fewer and fewer of these people, but the optimist view was, look, two, three of the five guys that people thought would be the best on the team are not playing. And that's part of it. But you really saw it Saturday night. I mean, you saw it when we started the game and we were bad. And then we even started the second half and we were bad. And then all of a sudden they were like, why don't we put the good players in? And then all of a sudden it's a different team.

[Drew]

And they fixed two of the things that really been haunting them. They haven't been rebounding well. And the abate goes in there and we saw what he does. That clip where there's five, that's an amazing play.

[Matt Jones]

If I was an Indiana fan. That clip, because that was the basket where we took the lead that we never gave back was on that play, just that screenshot.

[Drew]

It's five Indiana players and Mo by himself and he comes up with that rebound twice. And then, you know, the offense even in the first half has not been good. It's been very stagnant. It was hard to watch. But then when Low checks in, he just gets the ball moving and gets the flow going unlike anyone else on.

[Matt Jones]

The first half, was kind of unwatchable across the board. I mean, both, both teams looked miserable and yet they led by seven, which at the time felt like 25 points. And then, you know, people are going to get tired of me saying this, but it's true. It's just a different team. With Jalen Lowe it just is. I mean, I don't. I want to give Diabate a ton of credit. I want to give Garrison a ton of credit. Thought he played really well. Came Williams. Played well away, I thought. Played well. But it's the difference on offense between low and not low. It's there. It's a different team. Just a completely different team.

[Drew]

Yeah. He not only gets a moving and in the offense that Pope once, but even little things like that step back, he hit, you know, not.

[Matt Jones]

We don't have anyone else. We have no one else who could do that shot. We have no one else who can break a guy down like that, step back and hit a floater.

[Drew]

We have guys that'll try it.

[Matt Jones]

We have guys that'll try it a lot, unfortunately. But we don't have anyone who can consistently do that. He missed two layups, but no one else gets to the basket like that. I know we missed the layups, but like he's just a different dude. And it felt like you were watching him in that second half find his confidence again. Now he's going to drive us crazy. He won't drive me crazy because I'm going to accept it, but he's going to drive some of our fans because he misses layups and he takes some shots. Where you go E. But the rest of it's way too positive to get to get past it.

[Drew]

Yeah. Here lately the offense has been so bad. Sure. Have a few missed layups and plays if you want. I think the whole team was like 14 of 28 on layups.

[Matt Jones]

We missed a lot.

[Drew]

The layups were terrible. It should have been a lot better for Kentucky, but yeah, having those guys back. And then as you mentioned, Garrison, my MVP pick off the bench playing real well.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. A couple things. Second half, almost no substitutions. I mean basically occasionally would put in, would let somebody get a breather to put in Aberdeen for a minute. But basically he was like, I'm going with low away Williams, Garrison and Diabate, which is a weird lineup. Very big lineup. I don't know if you can do that against a lot of teams, but Indiana was small, so I think it worked. And they weren't hitting three.

[Drew]

Yeah. With the way Garrison and Diabate were playing, me and yellow bitch didn't get a single minute. I think that was just because there was guys playing.

[Matt Jones]

So well said it was a matchup issue.

[Drew]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

It's interesting because you would think on paper, Yellow Vich looks like he could play for Indiana, at least give him.

[Drew]

A little bit of run.

[Matt Jones]

I'm fine with nothing though. We won but it.

[Drew]

No, it shows you how well the other guys are playing. And Chandler didn't really play. Yeah. And I mean Jasper got in early. He only played a couple minutes. Never went back to that. When he got to the second half, he just kind of stuck with his guys.

[Matt Jones]

Moreno didn't really play in the second half much. I mean but if you think about it, that lineup we saw on the floor in the second half is more like the lineup we thought we were going to see this year. Right. If you had asked me at the beginning of the year who's going to start you probably. Well, we did start the year with low was not playing but we knew he'd play Low away Garrison Diabate. Now you probably would have thought maybe Aberdeen instead of Williams but otherwise that's who you thought was going to start. It's funny, we've now circled back full to kind of where we were to begin with.

[Drew]

And it is weird too. They. They're kind of winning with defense like good.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Drew]

It's throwing me off though because of Pope offense, high scoring, make threes. When that lineup's out there. They don't have a lot of shooters but they've been locking teams down.

[Matt Jones]

I am now all in on this on Terrence Ogles. I'm going to do something rare, Shannon. I'm going to have a guest on the show sometime that this week. Oh really?

[Drew]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

And I don't like guest. Well, I mean I like the idea.

[Shannon]

Of guest Ut big head is usually the only one that ever comes on here.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. YouTube, big UT, big hair. But like I don't like basketball analyst guests cuz there are cuz like it's, you know, whatever, it's boring. But I'm going to probably have Terence Ogles be this a man crush brewing. I think I have a little bit of a Terence Oglesby man crush because when he talks about Kentucky I feel like like he gets it. And Oglesby said, look you at this point, you know that this roster was not worth $22 million. He was like it's clear they need a GM and they screwed up the roster. He said this last night on field of 68 but he said at this point your team is your team. Right? So you screwed that up. You fixed that in the off season. You hired gm. I think he said whoever decided who to pay these people, they don't have that job anymore.

[Shannon]

That's fair.

[Matt Jones]

That's fair. Yeah. But he said now that this is your team. He was like, now you got to just do what you got. And he was like, this should be a defensive dirty dog. Rebounding, fouling, like that's what he's got to be. And he's like, Mark needs to understand the way he wants to play basketball. He can't play it with these guys. They're just going to have to be what they are. And he said the second half of Indiana seemed like that could be the start of that. I like that analogy.

[Drew]

Yeah. It's not what anyone expected. It's probably not what even what Pope wants to do, but we saw that's just how Diabate plays and he has to be on the court when quaintance come comes back. He's a little bit more of defense than offense. Ortega when he wants to, has that toughness in him. They're really built for Aberdeen.

[Matt Jones]

So we should just be a dirty dog team.

[Drew]

We should be. We're going to end up being a cow team.

[Matt Jones]

No, that's all players without the athletes and we're having to wait until March for them to put it together. But I think that's what we have to be.

[Drew]

It's exactly what we want.

[Matt Jones]

We have to be a dirty dog team that plays low and away the whole game. That three spot probably alternates between, you know, Aberdeen, Chandler, if he's hot, Williams plays the three, sometimes plays the four. If Garrison's hustling, you put him in. If he's not, you don't. If like that's going to be the team. I think our guy Trent Noah, that that might be the last we see of him in a starting right. That's probably it for him. Unless something Would you agree with that?

[Drew]

Agree. And it needs to happen. I mean the guy, he just doesn't have that gear that Cam Williams. Those guys have.

[Matt Jones]

Jasper Johnson just may not play this year and I that can't be what he thought was going to happen. But I think that team you saw in the second half is the best chance for this team to be successful. These other guys have had a chance. I mean Chandler's had a chance. Like I think he's going to play this year. But him being the big time scorer, he's going cold. We're just not going to be good if he's our. We're going to have to be winning 67, 60.

[Drew]

Maybe we could yell go as they go down.

[Matt Jones]

We're going to have to win 67, 63 and it's going to be ugly and we're going to shoot every time we make a three. We're going to thank the Lord on our knees like a shot went in. Shannon? Yes.

[Shannon]

You're not going to win too many games that way, though, I don't think in the 60s.

[Matt Jones]

Yes, but the SEC is different this year. None of these teams are really good offensively. I mean, Alabama only scored what, 60 some against Arizona. Arizona, this is a different year. Tennessee kind of isn't the same.

[Shannon]

Well, if you told me that Kentucky was going to shoot 3 of 15 from threes and win by 12, I would say there's no way.

[Matt Jones]

But.

[Shannon]

But they did.

[Matt Jones]

I agree with you, but I think that's what. I think that's what we're going to have to do. We're going to have to win games in the 70s, right? We're going to have like our point total. We're probably going to say if we score 75, you know, because that team can play good defense, it's like the.

[Drew]

Only thing they can. Looks like they can consistently do well at this point.

[Matt Jones]

I agree. And Indiana, remember, they had scored 117 their last game against Penn State, against a Big Ten team.

[Drew]

And even in the loss to North Carolina, you played good defense in that game. You just couldn't score.

[Matt Jones]

So that is. I think that's the method to win. And I don't know if people want that, but I think it has to be. And then sometimes you just kind of have to let Jalen Lowe cook. Right? He's just going to have to let him cook.

[Shannon]

Somehow our basketball team has turned into our football team, but it's the only.

[Matt Jones]

Chance for us to be good.

[Shannon]

We can't.

[Matt Jones]

The only chance, like, we can't zooms and we can't, you know, we can't do any. We just going to have to, like, you know, Barkley and I want to talk about Barkley, but Barkley said that at the start of the game, at the start of the game, Barkley was like, they just need to throw the ball against the rim and go get rebounds. I mean, maybe he's right. I mean, you're right. This is a Cal team without the elite athletes. This is like a Cal team. I don't know. This is like a Cal team and everyone's Davion myth.

[Drew]

It's a Cal team without NBA players.

[Matt Jones]

I think it is. But you can win a bunch of games like that. I don't know if you. You can't win a title like that, but you can win a bunch of games. And I think, Drew, that's just what we're going to have to be.

[Drew]

I think so, too. I, you know, I don't see them getting in the 90s, even like last year. You just. They could hang with some teams. Even when you played Alabama loss, you're still putting up points. I just don't see this team being able to score like that.

[Matt Jones]

Well, let's say. Let's say you played like you did against the second half against every team. Okay. How would our record be different? All right. I think we beat North Carolina if we play like that. Fair.

[Drew]

Yeah. Because they were scoring.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Drew]

Defense was about same.

[Matt Jones]

We lose against aga, even. We probably lose to Gonzaga either way. Yeah, probably lose to Louisville either way. I think the Michigan State's a game if you play like that. That's how I would look at and say if we'd been playing like that all year. We're not going to beat Louisville when they scored 95, and we're not going to beat Gonzaga when they scored 95. But we could have beat. We should. We would have beaten North Carolina and we'd had a shot against Michigan State. That's kind of how I look at it. And I think that's how this year is going to have to play out. I think that at the end of that game, Mark Pope had to probably just had to go back in the locker and go, I guess this is who we are. I guess I recruited a team because I think Ogle Bees, right, You learn from this and say this, I'll never do this again in terms of how I build a team. But now that I have them, I got to find the best way to win.

[Drew]

Yeah, we keep. We've been asking, what do they do? Well, what is their identity? You finally found something you can hang on to, especially if you're getting minutes like that from Brandon Garrison. Diabate. You're going to get that consistently. But if. If they're playing as tough in his physical as they finally were Saturday night, then they have something.

[Matt Jones]

And I'm all in on Jalen, though. He's out there playing with one arm and he's still cooking people.

[Drew]

I liked what he said after the game about how bad he wanted to come back for his teammates. Because I wondered, you know, does this guy, does he need to come back for them?

[Matt Jones]

He's got a. He's got a bow in his hair, right?

[Shannon]

You should put one in your hair. He's got a little bow symbolically together.

[Matt Jones]

Or what would you call it? The little bunny.

[Drew]

Okay.

[Matt Jones]

Sorry. I said bow. It's not like a Little pink bow. It's not like. I guess it's not a bow. It's more of a bun. That's a different. I don't know why I said bow like tough. Dove on the floor. Dove on the floor. If you notice, when he runs, he is trying not to get hit on that other arm. He almost runs sideways, but I don't. When he dove for the ball, I screamed, no. Everybody else is like, wow. I was like, no, don't do that. Because if we lose him, forget it. Right? Forget it.

[Drew]

Kind of remind me of Lamont Butler when he would kind of just do it.

[Matt Jones]

He would dip that shoulder a little bit crooked. He should walk Shannon like. Like the humpback and Notre Dame. He should walk with one arm. Like, don't get hit in that arm again.

[Shannon]

Yeah, don't drive either. Like, just stay back there or only drive left.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Shannon]

I don't want him driving at all. Just stay out of the lane. Like, we don't need that.

[Drew]

We need some of that driving.

[Matt Jones]

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[Shannon]

Oh, let him do that.

[Matt Jones]

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[Drew]

Crazy. I haven't done that in a while.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

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[Matt Jones]

That's right. We do need to be nasty dogs. 859-280-22871 Person on text machine writes matt, you're all's and now I love you all but you're all's. Analysis in this game's awful. Well, I think you're awful.

[Shannon]

You got them.

[Drew]

Tell him I said that too. Yeah, I think they're awful.

[Matt Jones]

I the analysis is dead on. Andy said you you say let low cook. Who's he going to cook? The fact that you think he's fox or wall is delusion. I don't think he's fox or wall. He's not even close to fox or wall. But he's the only player we have who can beat his man off the dribble. The only one. He's the only player we have who can initiated offense. He's the only player we have who plays point guard. Who doesn't look like he just discovered basketball when he's the point guard. Right?

[Drew]

There were some ugly shots in that first half. Aberdeen he wasn't in.

[Matt Jones]

I love Aberdeen because I think he's going to do big things for us. But Aberdeen literally just waves everybody off and he's like, okay, it's Devin Booker time. And then shoots an airball. Low is our only point guard and we've played really well this year against good teams. Twice drew about an eight to ten minute stretch against Louisville when we came back from 22 down to get it to one possession who cooked low and then the second half, that's it. So the common denominator is him. Now I'm making it a given that diabate plays like that and the owe hustles and. Because if that doesn't happen, forget it. But the one thing that we have that no one else can do is run the point, like, low. So I'm going to be out there with that sword, that meme fighting the British.

[Drew]

You mean Jon Snow on Game of Thrones where they're all running at him and he pulls the sword out.

[Matt Jones]

Is that John?

[Drew]

I mean, some of the people run out could have been British, but I think they're white walkers.

[Matt Jones]

So it's not from Braveheart?

[Drew]

No, no, no. The one I'm thinking of is Jon Snow and game.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so I'm. So I'm going to be Jon Snow.

[Drew]

Jon Snow.

[Matt Jones]

For. For and low. Because he's my guy. He's my guy, and I don't know why people would be negative to. Towards him.

[Shannon]

Have you ever even held a sword before in real life?

[Matt Jones]

No.

[Shannon]

Let's start there.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, let's get this a good chance. I would hurt myself.

[Drew]

That shows how excited you are that you're willing to wield a sword for the first time.

[Matt Jones]

I'll tell you, the last person I was like this with was Antonio Reeves. I was like, come on, play the dude. Let him cook. And then everybody. And then all of a sudden, dude was great. I'm not. I don't think he's as good as Antonio Reeves. He's shooting like 16% from 3. So I'm not saying shoot all the time. I'm just saying have him in the game.

[Drew]

I'll agree with you. Because in that first half, there's even some text messages that I should probably delete. I was so angry with that offense. I mean, they were just. It wasn't just Aberdeen. I mean, Chandler would turn down an open three and just go run into the trees and throw it up and miss the layup. I mean, no one was taking.

[Matt Jones]

I like Aberdeen's rev reverse layup. That went just straight up in the air. Shannon, that was the worst shot I've ever seen.

[Shannon]

At least it went up. I mean, that's a start. Straight into the ground.

[Matt Jones]

So when Jayla Love flexes, I would. I would say, though, don't flex. You don't have any muscles.

[Drew]

That. And it's unnecessary shoulder movement.

[Matt Jones]

It's true. Be careful with your shoulder. Did you. So you. Did you ever listen to Barclay by town?

[Drew]

I wanted to go back.

[Matt Jones]

I love Jack.

[Caller]

It.

[Matt Jones]

Did you. You liked it?

[Shannon]

Yes, but I thought there was too much split screen. Like, I can hear. I don't need to see you. I don't need to see Dick Vital kissing Charles Barkley on the cheek.

[Matt Jones]

That I like the kiss because I thought it was a sweet moment. I agree with you, though. When the game is going on, I.

[Shannon]

Don'T need to watch the game.

[Matt Jones]

I. Yeah, I didn't need to see them, but in terms of. I didn't care that they talked about other stuff.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

You know what I mean? Yeah. What else? That. Who we. Who cares what they say?

[Shannon]

What's happening on the screen?

[Matt Jones]

Yes, I did like that. He called Shaq a fat ass. $100,000 y. That was kind of a nice moment, right?

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

I like that you could tell that those two guys have that friendship where you could say that and not get mad at each other.

[Matt Jones]

It's clear Barkley never seen either team play.

[Shannon]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Ever. Had no idea who was on our team. Like, when Low came in, he was like, who's this kid? You know, this is the greatest kid I've ever seen.

[Drew]

Couldn't be bothered to do his research.

[Matt Jones]

Had no idea. But I'm fine with that. Because you know what? His analysis on our team, Shannon, I think was better than anyone else's I've heard.

[Shannon]

Maybe only you will get this reference, but it's like when the WWF put Art Donovan on commentary. How much does this guy weigh? That was basically Charles Barkley.

[Matt Jones]

That is a crazy reference. And then I think it's good. Like, it was clear he invite had affection for each other, and that was nice. He was rooting for us openly. Like, don't you agree, Shannon?

[Drew]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, if I was an Indiana fan, I'd be living. He literally, at one point said, get in.

[Drew]

It's sec.

[Matt Jones]

This means more. At one point, there was a shot, and he goes, get in.

[Drew]

I didn't hear it, but I had multiple friends text me. Barkley must have money on this game.

[Matt Jones]

He had to have been on Kentucky. He had to have. He literally was wishing the ball to go in for us. So I. I enjoyed it. He clearly loves rup. He said it was a religious experience when he came in for the first time.

[Shannon]

Do we get these guys one more game?

[Matt Jones]

No, they're. Well, they're doing like, an NCAA tournament game, like a first four get. So this is their only regular season game.

[Shannon]

I liked it overall, though. I thought it.

[Matt Jones]

And he said that American chicken was the best chicken he's ever had. He said they must have a little bitty black lady in the back cooking it. Which you could tell. Vital got a look on his face. It was like, can I say anything? I Don't know if I can say anything. What can I say?

[Shannon]

Let that one go.

[Matt Jones]

Just let it go. And Charles was like, charles, the only person who can get away with just saying that. Right.

[Drew]

But it's obvious he knows his Lexington chicken.

[Matt Jones]

So American websites now crashed. I don't think anyone in the city has thought about eating at the American in a long time, except Billy. Once Billy Clyde jumped in the pool.

[Drew]

Still holding up well over there. I've been this calendar year.

[Matt Jones]

You have? Yeah.

[Drew]

Has it been. Got to go check in on that chicken every once in a while. Of course.

[Matt Jones]

Is that what they're known for?

[Drew]

Yeah, I mean, you can get other things, but I've. I've never been. And I got in the chicken, so.

[Matt Jones]

Now I think I'm going to have to go, and I haven't been in years. That used to be the place when my. When I always thought of it as like an old person place. Right. You went because, you know, my. My. My dad's brother, it was the old minister at Crestwood Church. And I always knew if we're eating with them big Sunday, we're going to the American. Like, I just always knew, like, okay, we're eating with Dave and Julia. This is American. But now I feel like it's revitalized because Charles gave it the. The bump.

[Drew]

Yeah, it's. It's definitely kind of an older Lexington tradition, you know, after church especially.

[Matt Jones]

But still, they're still doing well.

[Drew]

Yeah. Yeah. Got a great patio out there.

[Matt Jones]

Okay.

[Drew]

I'll throw in on the free pub for.

[Matt Jones]

And the Billy Gillespie thing. That was always the most legendary Billy Gillespie story.

[Drew]

Well, that's what I knew it for for many years. When I finally went and actually tried.

[Matt Jones]

The show, because I was like, man, things have changed since I used to go to Mary Kid with Dave and Julie. You. Billy's got his shirt off at the American Pool. We never heard, though. Is that story true or not?

[Drew]

No, but that one stands out. American.

[Matt Jones]

So you don't think it was true?

[Drew]

I have.

[Matt Jones]

I know it's true. I was there.

[Drew]

But those. Those two, like, stick out as Billy Gillespie hotspots from the rumors back in the day.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, what we say about rubies now, that was the American Pool and Chin Away Pub.

[Drew]

It was just like a nod to anyone that goes out. Lexington knows. You'll see them there all the time.

[Matt Jones]

All right, I will take your calls. 859-280-2287. Right after this. I do love the Dick Vital. Those are two of my favorite people. And then being On a Kentucky game was very cool. We'll be right back. Ksr, TJ Smith, personal injury attorney.

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[Shannon]

Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio, presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

[Matt Jones]

Buns. Not.

[Caller]

Not both.

[Shannon]

Yeah, yeah, man bun.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. Somebody tweeted a picture of what I. They said. I thought Jaylen Lowe looked like with a bow. I meant bunny grouper fingers. People say also.

[Drew]

There you go. Yep.

[Matt Jones]

At American.

[Drew]

Had those before.

[Matt Jones]

I feel like they also. It's always hard to park there because.

[Drew]

They have a lot. But it can get pretty full. You know, it's a having place still.

[Matt Jones]

Well, it certainly is now. Can't even get on the website. 859-280-2287. I want to give Shannon a real quick, quick shout out of something I didn't catch. What's that? You did last week?

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[Matt Jones]

Your music is always brilliant. I did not catch how brilliant it was, though, last week when we were talking about Philip Rivers and you played Old Man River.

[Shannon]

How did you not get that? I thought that was obvious.

[Matt Jones]

I thought. I don't know. I thought I sang the song like Antonio Hill, but Antonio hall, but I didn't make the connection. Philip Rivers, old man. That was. That was brilliant. How did I not catch that in the moment?

[Caller]

That's all right.

[Matt Jones]

So I wanted to make sure I gave you a salute from afar about that.

[Shannon]

Unfortunately, he didn't get the win, but he, you know, he played decent, I guess for a man who hasn't been in the NFL in four years.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I want to talk about him a little bit later. One person, right? Matt, we have plenty of shooters. Noah, Chandler, Cam. They all can shoot. I don't know why people think we don't have shooters. Because they haven't made them. I mean, again, cow line got a lot of shooters who have a lot of makers. You can tell me all day those guys can shoot. Until they start making them in games, it doesn't really matter, Right?

[Drew]

Yeah. What do you say? I don't need you to. To make them all. You just can't miss them all.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. I mean, Chandler was making them earlier in the year, but he started this game not good.

[Drew]

Yeah. And they kind of padded the stats a little against Those teams ranked 300th in the big games, though. And the lights are on. They have been hitting them like they need to. That's North Carolina especially.

[Caller]

Al.

[Matt Jones]

Go ahead, Al.

[Caller]

Hey, good morning.

[Matt Jones]

Good morning.

[Caller]

Quick question, quick question. Before I get to my point. What is the Text number. You say it so fast I could never write it down.

[Matt Jones]

772-774. 5254.

[Caller]

Gotcha. Okay. I was talking to a buddy of mine a couple times last few days about this JMI situation and the fact that we haven't signed a high level basketball recruit. He says if there's a problem with the JMI thing, why are we signing recruits in every other sport that we have?

[Matt Jones]

Yeah. All right. So, so, so Mitch spoke about the JMI thing on Saturday. I listened to his comments. I am, I didn't. I don't feel like I learned a lot. But I also want to, I'm hoping to this week have some conversations to ask some of my questions. So I'm going to hold off on commenting on what he said. But to, as to your overall point, I would answer it like this. I do think that there's a difference in signing run of the mill players and elite players. Those guys are looking for different things. So I think we've seen that the JMI deal with UK can do some positive things for your average guy like on the football team. Remains to be seen what can happen with the elite basketball players. But I think like when you're talking about an offensive lineman for football, what those guys are looking for and what the number three player in America in basketball is looking for in their deal are two different things. Does that make sense?

[Caller]

Okay, yeah, I got you. Now I'm gonna make one last point too. I like the way you talk about Jalen Lowe and I do think we can shoot better once we have effective point guard play, which is just the old school taken in the lane and then kick it out. But we're not getting set up for three point shots. We don't have players that can shoot off the dribble like Reed shepherd and guys like that.

[Matt Jones]

You're exactly right.

[Caller]

We do have guys.

[Matt Jones]

Exactly.

[Caller]

Okay, thank you.

[Matt Jones]

Appreciate it. He's exactly right about that. We, we, we need guys who can go in, draw a double team, kick it out. And because we haven't got had guys who can finish at the rim, they never draw a double team. So when they, they, they never get somebody open to, to kick it out.

[Drew]

And that's Pope's whole offense. Like, I mean they can't get in and do any of the things that he wants to do. And the way he coaches without someone that can penetrate. And Lowe's the only one on the team that has shown he can do it consistently.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah, away. And teams are just saying, Pete, beat our man one on one. Hey, Chandler, can you take your man one on one? Hey, Aberdeen, we are waving everybody off, but can you take him one on one? And they really have not been able to. Jasper Johnson can take a guy off the dribble, but he hasn't shown the ability necessarily to find the open man. And then now Jalen Lowe is the.

[Drew]

One who seems to.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, that play on back to back plays, he drove the lane or three straight plays. One of them he got the layup. He missed it, but it was an open layup. The next one he came and he kicked it out for a three. I believe Cam Williams made it. I could be wrong. And then the third one, he stopped on a dime and hit the mid range. And you saw right there why he's so valuable in that little set of plays.

[Drew]

And getting in the lane and kicking it back out from threes really might be what he does best. There's a quote from Pat Kelsey last year when he played against McPitter and he's like, that's just what he's raving about. He's like, right when you think you have low, he kicks it back out to a wide open shooter. It's like he has eyes on the back of his head or can make that wraparound pass to the corner he's.

[Matt Jones]

Done a few times. That's, that's one of his interior pass as well where he kind of. That was it when he kind of went. That was a great pass.

[Drew]

And that's what he does well. But he also needs those guys to catch and shoot and be ready and knock it down around him.

[Matt Jones]

Will. Go ahead, Will.

[Caller]

Hey, good morning, fellas. Hope you all did good as weekend as I did. Cash win definitely helps, but I was gonna say I had to. Had to call in and just say I'm really glad I was wrong. I was the guy that called in and said we need to spread it out like Mike Leach. I think we need to bang it in. Be like the Grizzlies of the old days with Zach Randolph. Screw it. Everything that was. That was beautiful basketball, but also the ugliest game I've watched in a while.

[Matt Jones]

First half's the worst half of basketball I've watched in a long time. Yeah, I mean, it was awful and, and you know, but our defense, part of why it was so good is Indiana. Most their points came at the free throw line. They shot free throws really well, but we did not give. We did not give them open looks. And that was a team that makes appreciate the call A ton of threes, and we kept them from doing that.

[Drew]

Yeah, I mean, they were ice cold early. That was one of the reasons Kentucky's able to stay in the game. And Wilkerson still had 15 points, but, I mean, he averages 19. They held him below his average. And foul trouble really helped with him.

[Matt Jones]

Wilkerson's fourth foul play in the game. 18 minutes in the second half. That was a massive play in the game, by the way. Back to field of 68. I think Doug Gottlieb came on there Saturday night. He might have been drunk.

[Drew]

Someone sent that to me and said something like, doug's feeling good. I turned it on.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, I'm not saying he wasn't sloppy, Shannon, but there was a little bit. At one point he said he was gonna kiss Jeff Goodman on the mouth.

[Drew]

And he was very chatty. He kept interrupting the other guys.

[Matt Jones]

First. Has he have time to do.

[Shannon]

Is he still coaching that team that.

[Matt Jones]

Still does a daily radio show?

[Drew]

And he checked into this from like his living room.

[Matt Jones]

It was midnight on a Saturday. And he's like, jeff Goodman, I will kiss you on the mouth. I was like, whoa, Doug, don't you have a game? Like, what a bizarre thing. Steve, go ahead. After dark, they warn you they were after dark. Yeah.

[Shannon]

Well, you know.

[Caller]

Yes, Jalen Lowe is.

[Matt Jones]

Our phone's not working, Steve. I'm sorry. You're going in, Trevor. Go ahead, Trevor.

[Caller]

Hey, Matt, this is Trevor out of London. Before I get to my question, it sounds like the American Inn might be a great place for Ryan to do one of his solo dinners. Get some of that chicken while he's.

[Matt Jones]

There you go. That is a good call. I like that, actually.

[Caller]

Yeah. So my question. I'm actually getting married Saturday to a. A somewhat Kentucky fan, and she doesn't go as deep rooted as what I do. And she couldn't understand why I was so excited about this Indiana game. She actually got up and left at halftime just because she wasn't interested. Are there a few games that I could go back and show her in the archives to get her more excited about Kentucky basketball and just Kentucky as a whole?

[Drew]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I mean, you don't even have to go back that far. Go to the Duke game last year or the Florida game last year, or, you know, you can go back in time. I mean, there's almost no season where we didn't have at least one good game. Except for. But I would say the Duke game in the Florida game last year are good examples of how. Or the Gonzaga comeback on the road last year are all good and even the second half of the Indiana game. Right. I mean but you did if she doesn't watch a lot of Kentucky, you did give her the worst half of basketball. Because. Because through the first half was a brutal half to watch.

[Drew]

Yeah. The second half is actually a great example and I you mentioned this on post game but that crowd is about as good as Kentucky gets to and.

[Matt Jones]

I was that like it's, you know.

[Drew]

Sometimes rub just when RUP is at its best. There's nothing like it. It happens a couple times a year. These marquee games, we knew this would be one of them. They didn't let us down.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Drew]

I mean they first half they weren't, they weren't happy there for a little bit.

[Matt Jones]

You know there's any booing. Did I. There wasn't a little bit.

[Drew]

It wasn't anything like Nashville is. You know there was kind of a boozed up crowd but there was some. But then when Kentucky went on that second half run we saw the best.

[Matt Jones]

Of our was really good before the whole yeah.

[Drew]

There was just an energy everywhere. Like even I noticed like people trying to get into Rupp arena at like 430.

[Matt Jones]

I'm like the game's three hours volleyball happening too I think helped a lot. We'll talk more about the volleyball in a little bit. Kentucky families are struggling to access what should be basic essentials like housing and childcare care. Those aren't luxuries, they're essentials. And the Kentucky chambers focused on improving access to housing and child care for all ages and stages of life. They've been here doing this for over a year and now they're asking us to help. Opportunity starts here dot com. Just go put your name on it. Opportunity starts here dot com if you want to tell the legislature, hey, focus on housing and child care. Opportunitiestartshere.com I really think it's good that they're doing that. So if you get a chance, go add your name. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio.

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[Matt Jones]

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[Shannon]

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[Matt Jones]

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[Matt Jones]

Welcome back, techie. Sports radio. Sad news, Shannon. Today about the Rob Reiner and his wife. Yeah, I saw that, like murdered in their. In their home. And their son I think has just been arrested.

[Shannon]

Oh, wow. Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah.

[Shannon]

That is sad.

[Matt Jones]

That is sad. You know, he was great. Director was in all in the Family, which Ryan is one of his favorite shows, I think so that's very, very sad. In their home. What an awful story. I mean. Well, I'm sure we'll learn more about it coming up over the next few days. One person writes, Matt, I'm glad Lamar Wilkerson did not play well against us. That would have been too much for this fan base. I agree. He started playing well at the beginning. I was like, oh no. But then the foul trouble really got him.

[Drew]

Foul trouble shook him up. But it was obvious early he had the greenest green light. He Took one from deep, quick trigger when he'd get the ball that he looked like a guy that was trying to show Kentucky up in that game. It just didn't get the chance.

[Matt Jones]

I know we haven't looked good, but, like, I mean, they had a guy with, like, a mullet.

[Shannon]

Oh, that was my favorite guy off the mustache straight out of the 80s.

[Matt Jones]

Who are these guys? Like. Like, they. You talk about a team that look like, where did you get these dudes? You know, like, devries is pretty good, but even he's. But he doesn't look like a basketball player on him. Yeah, I mean, it's a coach's son. He was. Well, when Wilkerson was out, he was our best player, but he's good. But it does look like. Like they just kind of look like they just, hey, you will play.

[Drew]

It helped. They shot like 16% from 3. I know a lot of that was the defense, but they.

[Matt Jones]

If you just look at the two teams, you would think we were a lot better than them just on an eye test, but.

[Drew]

And I want to be careful not to downplay the win because I'm very excited they won, but part of me is, like, is Indiana. Because there was times their offense, especially some of us, Kentucky's defense, but sometimes.

[Matt Jones]

Their office, that would have made a loss even worse.

[Drew]

Oh, definitely.

[Matt Jones]

If we had lost to that. That group. Yeah. 859-280-22-87. Mike. Go ahead, Mike.

[Caller]

First off, first, Larry.

[Matt Jones]

Thank you.

[Caller]

I hope everything goes well, but just hear me out on this. I. Signal don't drop, but I think Oglesby's about half right because I think Pope's in a strange place this year because I think he's teaching a lot more defense than he's used to doing. And I really think they'll get better offensively. You know, that clip you posted last night was Patrick Smith. It shows they haven't been working on offense. I think they'll get better offense, and I think they'll shoot a little better. I mean, if they can get it up. 32, 33% from 30, a top 20 offense. And I think they've got potential to be a top defense before this is all said.

[Matt Jones]

Well, I mean, that's a fair point. They have a lot of. They have a lot of room to improve, and I appreciate the call. There's a. There's a clip I retweeted a guy named Spencer Smith. He breaks down the offensive videos, and he has this video of some of the. Of one of our plays, but he does it for a lot of me. Just shows how, like we just run dumb offense. He shows us clip. Malachi Moreno is supposed to set a pick. He doesn't even touch the guy. He's pick picking. He then runs over and is supposed to cut, but then he cuts to the wrong place. And then Colin Chandler's in the wrong place. Denzel Aberdeen doesn't move to where he's supposed to. And he's basically like, no one on the court is where they're supposed to be. So no wonder it doesn't work. None of these people are doing what they're supposed to do except oa. And when you watch that clip, you go, well, maybe if they cleaned all that up because there were multiple in the play. He shows there were multiple parts where if somebody does something different, we'd had a wide open layup and nobody did what they were supposed to do.

[Drew]

Yeah, it's been very just like discombobulated all year. That's why you have guys trying to go one on one and then throw up a layup over three dudes. It also, it's been killing them, the three point shooting lately. Always actually been pretty good at catching shooting. But I want to say Chandler's like 2 for or 3 for 15 the last couple weeks.

[Matt Jones]

Yes.

[Drew]

When those guys aren't hitting the open shots, it just brings everything down.

[Matt Jones]

859280, 2287. One person writes, Matt, I have some guaranteed scoop. As Charles Barkley would say, I guarantee it. All right, ready for this, Shane?

[Shannon]

I don't trust this person already.

[Matt Jones]

Why not? 859319.

[Shannon]

It's got to be true. Go ahead.

[Matt Jones]

What is it you don't trust? 859319?

[Shannon]

No. No. Or 419-OR-619?

[Matt Jones]

Let's first go back. Can I read you the last three tweets from 85931?

[Shannon]

Let's hear them.

[Matt Jones]

How many cities in the US have over 100,000 people? They thought that was the topic. Second tweet today was for Doug the Blue Coat.

[Shannon]

Okay, I like Doug.

[Matt Jones]

Third tweet, Strauss is an ad on all major league baseball helmets. So you can see this person's provided good information.

[Drew]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

All right.

[Drew]

Wide range too.

[Matt Jones]

He writes, jaden Quaint's will play against St. John's 10 to 12 minutes. I guarantee it.

[Shannon]

All right, I'm writing it down.

[Matt Jones]

10 to 12 minutes.

[Shannon]

That's not true. We never trust this person ever again. You delete their number, you block them.

[Matt Jones]

All right, so you're writing down 10 to 12 minutes for Jaden Quaint. And Saturday, get St. John's or you get blocked. Five, nine, three, one nine is done.

[Shannon]

Done with the show. You don't ever get to communicate with us again.

[Matt Jones]

You don't even get to communicate. You don't get to act like you know us.

[Drew]

Yeah.

[Matt Jones]

All right.

[Drew]

Yeah. How much are you holding them to the 10 to 12 minutes? I mean, if that's a very.

[Matt Jones]

Okay, so here's the thing. That's a very narrow amount of money time. Shannon. I think that is so specific that if he plays between 10 and 12, you've got to give him a round applause.

[Shannon]

Oh, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I'll even give him a minute each direction.

[Drew]

Okay. 9 to 13.

[Matt Jones]

9 to 13.

[Shannon]

I would say if he even plays at all, I would give him credit.

[Matt Jones]

Okay. But there have been other people. To say he was going to play 10 to 12 is so hyper specific that I think he deserves Credit. If it's 9 to 13, I'm with you.

[Drew]

And it sounds like there's been a conversation of like, all right, we're just.

[Matt Jones]

Going to get you out of the minute count.

[Drew]

Play 10 to 12. Don't tell your friends. That might possibly.

[Matt Jones]

Don't tell. 3, 1, 9.

[Drew]

But he told him.

[Matt Jones]

But he. But we. But he told us. So you're writing it down now?

[Shannon]

I got it written down, yeah.

[Matt Jones]

All right, Dan, Go ahead. Dan.

[Caller]

Yeah. Hey, Matt. It's Dan from Rocking. Now, this team reminds me of the movie back in 71, the gang that couldn't shoot straight. But don't you think. What I don't understand is that, you know, this team is supposed to have some good shooters. Is it the defensive schemes, offensive schemes, or just lack of confidence?

[Matt Jones]

I think it's probably a little bit all of them, but who knows? But I think I'm going to. We can't keep playing. A way to think, well, eventually they're going to go in. If they do, that's fine, but right now they're not. And so I think in that second half, and I appreciate the call, Pope was like, all right, we have to win this game. What can I do to make us win this game tonight? Forget about everything else. And they did. And I think that's just going to be half how we have to do for the rest of the year. You know, we got to stop playing 10 guys, 11 guys. A lot of minutes, like, they're not. It's not working. Play the dudes that are playing well. And if it's ugly and if it's not how you Want to play basketball, it doesn't really matter. We got to win.

[Drew]

And we. You can tell us they're hitting them in practice, but, you know, three for 15 against Indiana, three from whatever is North Carolina. We can't look up. And it's February and you've lost some bad games and you're still saying, well, they're supposed to be able to shoot.

[Matt Jones]

Well, if we. If they're not doing it, they're not doing it, then we'll change it. But right now, Diabate getting in fights. I do think Garrison playing well is a big thing because he just adds.

[Drew]

Something and it's not just a defenses. He made some flashy passes. He did.

[Matt Jones]

And he finishes at the rim. And he's got some athleticism. You know, Cam Williams block on that three was awesome. Yep.

[Drew]

Garrison's dunk might have been the loudest rub got all night on the alley oop.

[Matt Jones]

That was a great he. That should have been an and one too. I think he got fouled. So that's just what we do and I think it can work. All right, we're going to talk about the volleyball. We hired some football coaches. We're going young. This is like the youngest staff, maybe in college football. We got 26 year olds on staff. We'll take a break. Be right back. It's Kentucky sports Radio. We use sunscreen, so why not be proactive? The reformulated toothpaste, innovative toothbrush and refreshing antibacterial mouthwash were designed to work together to be quince vesas mas effectivos reduciendo bacterial buildup. La casa principal de los polemas orales and solos seis de manas starting in week one. Compared to a non antibacterial fluoride toothpaste and a flat trimmed toothbrush. SOS Prevention power baby. Compre sistema de prevenciona activa. Colgate Total visitando shop Punto Colgate punto con diagonal. Protect your oral health and be dentist breast with Venmo Stash A taco in one hand and ordering a ride in the other means you're stacking cash back.

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