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Here it is Ash Wednesday and the official first day of Ramadan. I said it was yesterday. I looked later. My book was a day ahead. It said the. It was. It started at sundown. Now this is the actual day. So you got a couple holidays. You give shout puppet shop, phone line 859-280-2287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254. In this dish and sponsored by the TJ Smith Law Office. If you call TJ, he'll make them pay. We are here at the KS Bar and Grill. It is wings day and you got burgers and you got wings and you got dollar wings. But you also got a little bit of sadness because the cats lose last night. 86, 78. This couple came in here from Marshall County. They drove all the way to the game. This is the one game they were going to this year, and they picked it because they thought, well, there's a good chance we're going to win this. That's right. And that didn't happen. Instead, we lose. And what I think is a big loss for Kentucky. Big picture. You know, I talked a lot of details of the game yesterday, but I think big picture, big loss. Because if they had won last night, I think they were basically in the tournament, probably needed to win one more game, but probably in either way. Now you've got five games left. You're gonna be an underdog and four of them and you can't afford to slip. And you might even need to steal one to not be in Dayton. The SEC tournament, your double buys probably gone. Your single buy is not certain. I mean, there are nine teams for eight spots and you've got the hardest schedule of the group. So that's not certain. And you know, if at best, even if you kind of get hot here and win some games at the end, you've probably cost yourself a seed line losing at home. Ryan, it did not go well. It's crazy. One week ago we're sitting here talking about playing for first place in the sec. Now a week later we're talking about we got to go in a couple of these just to get in the tournament. It's crazy how things have turned just to get a not. I mean even just like we could not, we could be playing on Wednesday. Yeah. Not only can we play on Wednesday, the SEC tournament, we can play on Wednesday, the first game. Because if we're the non seed, just for people to realize if we're the non seed, we play at one o' clock on Wednesday. And I don't think there's really a way for us to drop below the nine seed, but there is a way to be the non seed. And so you could end up being playing one o' clock on Wednesday. So like it's not. Not great. No. The double buy was still a little unlikely, but I think we closed the door on that last night. Unless you just get some crazy hot to end the year and you know we're going to be in that bubble conversation. And this is why I hated losing early. Like, even if your team turns the corner, if you get to the tournament and you're such a high seed that your path is improbable. I mean these, the Georgia games matter, the Missouri games matter, the games in November matter. Because to achieve the goals we want to achieve, you need to be one of those top seeds. And there's no way they're going to be. Have a path. They're going to like when the bracket comes out. No, no. It's going to be, yeah, you. I've won it all year. Avoid the eight or nine seed because I think the ones are so much better than the twos and threes in the tournament this year. And we may end up avoiding the 8 or 9 because we're a 10 or 11, I think if we're not careful. So I look, I went over why I thought we lost the game last night. I want to get your all's take here in just a second. But I will say to you, I'm. I'm really, I was really disappointed last night with two things in particular. One of which is the. Well, they both kind of go to the same thing. I'm just really disappointed the way we played in the first half. I gave this stat last night and in case you all went to bed and I would forgive you if I did. I just want people to just digest because I want this stat to take root in people's minds. We've played 19 games against power conference teams this year. 19. We've played 7 games against bad teams. 19 games against power Conference teams at halftime. Do you know what our record is if the game ended at halftime? I heard you say this last night. 4 and 15. We've been losing at halftime in 15 of these 19 games. In 13 of the games, we've been down at least a dozen points at some point. So we. I mean, we're 4 and 15 at halftime now, by the way. We're only 10 and 9 for the games. We're. We've barely won more games against major conference teams than we've lost, but we're 4 and 15 at halftime. And that is awful. Like, that is awful. And yesterday is an example of a game where it costs you because you. You. You could have won that game, should have won that game in 4 and 15 at halftime. To me, as a coach, should be like, well, whatever we're doing in the first half is not working. But Mark Pope will not alter. He was asked a couple times after the game about, well, why do you do the substitution patterns? You do, and you go. And he was like, well, we've done research that says that if you don't do that, your play will suffer down the stretch. I mean, I guess, but we know it's suffering, as Steve Spurrier would say, in the first half. And then. So that's first thing, then second thing. And I listen, we had this conversation yesterday on the show, so it makes me hesitate to bring it up today because it's gonna sound like I'm picking on the kid. And I do not want to pick on the kid because I don't just blame him, all right? It's not his fault. But if you look at the plus minus from the game last night, most of our guys were all either plus one or minus five. So they were all, like, bunched together. Chandler was the best. I think, actually Moreno was the worst. But they're all close to each other. But Trent Noah was minus 13, and Jasper Johnson was minus 16 in four. So Trent, no was minus 13 in nine minutes, and Jasper Johnson was minus 16 and 14 minutes. Jasper Johnson was 2 for 8 from the field. And I watched him personally give up four baskets on his own. Now, he wasn't the only one. Yellow bitch probably gave up five. But I watched it, and to me, I thought, well, after that conversation yesterday, that's an unfortunate performance. After the game, Mark Pope, unprompted, brought up Jasper as having played well, looked at the stat sheet. So he goes, Jasper, I thought he did some really good things for us. And then you could almost see him looking at the stat sheet. And then he went, well, you know, the stat sheet doesn't really show it, but I thought he played well. And then he had said earlier, I think he Needs to play more minutes. I mean, there's a part of me goes, what game is Mark Pope watching? Like, what game is he watching where we don't change the first half even though we're 4 and 15 at halftime? And where the player who had, I think objectively the worst statistical game, you come out of it and say he needs to play more. That's what kind of makes me go, what, what am I watching? Is that unreasonable? No, it's not. It definitely was not one of Jasper's better games last night. So I had a friend of mine text me is the positive. He's doing a great job coaching at halftime, making, making adjustments for the second half. These are 40 minute games. Would you get half your paycheck? I mean, we need, we need a full game. Yeah, I agree. I mean, okay, I'll give him the halftime adjustments. Okay. But it's a full game. It makes no sense how they have started slow like this every single game they actually started. Well, it was, it was like the last eight minutes of the first. You're right. Yeah. That's what stuck so bad last night. It wasn't what's been getting them all year. And you're like, well, that's just what are. And they couldn't come back. They're up 27 to 19 with seven minutes left in the first half. That should be foot on the gas. We're running you out of Lexington tonight. You're not going to be in this. But you know what? Georgia goes up there up and. All right, but I, I had somebody, a little birdie, send me the advanced stats. What happened with each lineup? Okay. All right. I can look at the lineups and see exactly who was it? The same two players were in playing together during George's run in the first half and the second half. He had Jasper and yellow bitch in together for only five minutes in the entire game. And we were -14 in those five minutes. Now why they can't guard and you cannot play those guys together if you're gonna play them. You can't. And, and he had Jasper Jelovich and Noah in at the same time for three minutes and we were minus seven in those three minutes. How does he think you can play objectively your three worst defenders on the floor at the same time? And in one of those, there were two possessions where we had Jasper, Jovic, Noah and Garrison in, which is objectively our four worst defenders. Yellow, bad turnover. Guess what? Georgia scored on both those possessions. So he is not. He is smart, but you cannot have Stretches. I said last night, see if you agree with this. Aberdeen way. Chandler, Moreno, three of those four have to be on the floor at all times. Agreed. Would you agree? Have to have three of those floor. You cannot have it. We had scenarios last night where only one was in. Can't play like that. This team's not good enough to play like that. And that shouldn't be that hard to do most nights. That's the thing that drives me the craziest is he keeps saying, I'm trying to find these ways to get these guys rest. I'm not trying to be the old guy. Like, these are college kids. But surely they're capable of playing 36 minutes a game with the season. Surely they're. Surely they can do it. There are people all over the country that have figured out how to play 36 minutes in a game and they're doing okay. I mean, I would say, look, last night you completely screwed up the rotations and away played 34. You think if he plays 36, he's just going to fall down and go, that was it. But it's not that he's. Those last two minutes that just did me and take me home. Lordy, I have to like. He doesn't say they get tired. He says we just start playing worse. Almost like he's saying they lose focus. Well, he said this. Yeah. In the post game show with Tom last night, he said the reason the ball went off always leg was for. Oh, come on, come on, come on. He did. He said. Yes, he did. I didn't hear that. He did not. He said he dribbled it off his foot. I think he didn't say that. Ryan, don't you be misquoting. I Mark Pope. Yes, it was when he was talking to the crowd. He said fatigue set in. I had to turn over, drove it in. So he thinks he drove it off his foot because he was tired. It's the 26th game of the season. There should not be a fatigue problem. Like Drew said, other teams have figured it out. Why is Kentucky not figured out? It's not lost on me. Pope was on the team that is historically known for conditioning and vomiting. Like he of all people should think the guys could handle it. We know all those stories from Patino's practices. I'm gonna act like you're making that up because he did not dribble off his foot because he was t. The exact word Mark Pope used to Tom Leach was fatigue. Yeah, I just don't mind. Here's what I know. Whatever fatigue Set in the full spirit of that lineup he was playing in. The first half was worse. I'll take a fatigued Aberdeen. Chandler in o way. I mean, I understand you're going to have to play yellow bitch. You're going to have to play Jasper and you might have to play Noah. I get that. But you can't play them all together. You can't put all those guys in. You're actually not even giving them a chance to succeed. Like if they have. Like if you're going to play Noah, put him with four starters in. Noah. Right. But you cannot have. At one point Aberdeen, oa, Chandler and Moreno were all out. And you can make an argument those are our three best scores and they were all out. You just this team, you can't do that. Well, so let's try to figure it out. For most of the game last night, you had two offensive threats. Chandler and away. Until Aberdeen got hot late. Which is late. She was Chandler and all that was your only offensive threats. Is he trying to find who could be another offensive threat now? This is nitpicking, but at the end of the game when we went from nine to three, who had the ball in their hands every play and made decisions? Aberdeen. Why did we then not do that on the last play? Yeah, right. Well, he gave it to OA who then drove and I understand, listen, always great. But how about having Aberdeen make a drive then get it to. Okay. Oh. Aberdeen had the ball in his hands the last four minutes of the game and he was getting to the rim and either finishing or kicking it out. Those two Chandler threes were off kicks from Aberdeen. He missed them, but they were open. Why did we then go all right, this has worked for last four minutes, I think. Cringe Dame Bradshaw says in the broadcast they need to get to Aberdeen, let him create something. And then we didn't do that. So with all this said, you're right. At the end of the game, we had the ball in the hands of Chandler and away the two guys that should have had the ball. That's true. Chandler just three opportunities with all for three and three empty possessions. And that's tough, but it's hard for me to get mad at those guys because we weren't in the game. We were already done at that point. Yeah. We blow an eight point lead to Georgia at home and you're Kentucky. That's already a loss for me in itself. Yeah. So very frustrating. Very frustrating. And I am more. I hate to miss free throws. Aberdeen away and Noah combined to shoot 7 of 14 from the free throw line. Those are your best free throw shooters? Along with Chandler, and Chandler got no free throws. So are your four best free throw shooters combined to go 7 for 14? Can't happen. Trent's like an 85% shooter. Diabate and Garrison and Moreno were 5 for 6. It was your guards who missed the free throw at the end of the game. You talk about Aberdeen. Aberdeen was getting in the lane, getting fouled. He stepped the free throw. Two of them couldn't hit the free throw. One of it was good. He missed because we got the rebound and score. Big rebound. Yeah, that was a big. Had nine boards in 17 minutes. You got to give him that credit, you know. Georgia set the tone early, tried to get physical with us. We didn't respond. But Diabate, the physicality of the game did not bother him at all. Yeah, 859-280-22-287. Text machine. 772-774-5254. We will take him. We'll take a break and take your calls. Tough loss, but you know what? We do. At least we're. We're not Mick Cronin because we got to play that tip or clip, not tip. We'll be right back. It's kind of Sad. This month, iHeartRadio is celebrating the stars of the 2026 Winter Games. Alta Wyoming Rays Jaylen Koff, widely considered the fastest mogul skier in the world. With an aggressive style that attacks the fall line, she charges through the bumps at breakneck speeds while throwing massive airs. Already an Olympic silver medalist, Kauf returns to the mountain with her eyes fixed on the top spot. In a sport judged on turns, air and speed, she plans to leave no doubt that she owns the mountain. For more Winter Games gold search olympics on the iHeartRadio app. Oh, Jake, did you post your pics yet? Yeah, I'm trying to. Phone's being slow again. 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Every guy on that team, I guarantee you back then could play for 40 minutes and if it went to overtime, they play 45 minutes and and not have to sit out. And it's like now it's. Well, you know, he can't go another two or three minutes. Why? Oh, we played 16 minutes in the second half, so he has a halftime break, four minutes somewhere in there. You're telling me that's why he dribbled off his foot? He was so tired from that. Yeah. And again, if you're going to give away and Chandler rest, just don't do it at the same time. Right. I mean, there's NBA teams that take the view. Well, the Lakers do this with LeBron and Luca. They're like, one of them is always on the court. So why don't we do that? I don't know. Substitution patterns have puzzled me ever since Pope got here. One person writes, please ask Ryan to defend his position. He made a pronouncement yesterday about Jasper. He's now minus 34 in his last two games. Yeah, we talked about during the break, not Jasper's best performance. What are you gonna do, Mr. Stand on a soapbox? I still think he's an NBA player waiting to explode. It just. He's not. Not figured it out right now. Would you. What would you do if you were. If you were the coach, would you play him? I think you got to play him a little bit, but when he's. When he's hurting you like he has the last couple games, it's tough to get him on the floor. Yeah. You know, when he's knocking down shots and he made a couple good passes, you know, I think that's what Pope was talking about. I think he provided a spark offensively, but he's such a liability defensively, it's hard to leave him out there. You know that. Those guys just need to get in with four good players around them and just survive a few minutes to give the guys the break. I agree. They don't need 40 minutes. Guys do need to sit for a minute. So just get Johnson in there with away and Chandler. And Chandler, give Aberdeen a little break. Johnson just don't be the main character. I actually think that's exactly right. I think Johnson should play when Aberdeen is out. I think what happened last night is they were taking Johnson in for OA and then. I don't think you got enough. Well, either way, just as you said, having all the bench guys in together doesn't do them any favors. Just try to slot them in one at a time for a guy and get a few minutes to spell Aberdeen away. Chandler, whoever it is. But when you're putting them in and having put John, he had eight shots, I mean, I don't know if we need eight shots when he's having an off night like that. Yeah, I agree with you. 859-128-022871 One person wraps Matt. Our players don't pass the ball. 13 assists and 13 turnovers is ridiculous. That that's the stat if the game that's the most important. Georgia at 20 assists and seven turnovers and we had 13 and 13 that you're going to lose. I'm surprised you look at that surprise the score is not bigger. You know, if it wasn't always driving to the basket or Chandler hitting the three. Our offense did not look good last night. Like they put all they were so being so physical just kind of rattled us on the offensive end. But my question defensively, it's a second game in a row we've given up many wide open looks at the three point line. Our perimeter defense last two games has been. This is just a guess. This is just a guess because I'm not in the, you know, I'm not in the walkthrough or the game prep. Florida was ranked 350th in the country in three pointers. Georgia was ranked 291st. So my guess is the game plan is let him shoot that. That's my guess. And I don't think that's irrational. What I wonder is, do we just stay with it no matter what's happening on the court? Like once you see three or four go in, then don't you have to say, okay, maybe we got, yeah, maybe we got to change up. And it doesn't feel like they change up. Really. I'll give it to them early in both games because Georgia especially, they do everything in the room. They don't shoot threes. Yeah, but you can't just leave them wide open. Yeah, like Lee, early in the Florida game, you're going under screens. Maybe that was the game plan. But you don't leave them 10ft to shoot. I mean it was just, you know, open gym for those guys. So I think even this was talking about on the, on the pre show, these teams have bad percentages because people are guarding them. And then Kentucky's just letting them shoot wide open threes. All right, so I'm going to act this out with Mario even though the only people that will see it are these four people. You want me to film with my phone? No, no, no, we don't need to film this. This is going to be one of the reasons why you need to come. You know, you don't need to film. Oh, we have a basketball involved. Let's make this. Let's make. This is just for y', all, okay? The people at home are just going to have to visualize it. All right, Morrow, you're going to be a guard for Georgia, and I'm going to play defense for Kentucky, and I'm going to show you what drives me crazy. Okay? All right, so you're going to be a guard. I'm going to be. Let's say I'm Brandon Garrison. Okay? Now you're a guard. You're faster than me in real life. This is actually true. You are a little faster than me, I will grant you. So I've gotten switched on you. So I know I might have to give you a little specific, but here's my argument. Now make a move towards. You need to get your arms up, Matt. So let's go up here. Now make a move towards me. Brandon Garrison goes like all the way back here. And Malachi Moreno, like. Like I'm. And then you've given me one step, right? And you start to shoot and I come flying, but the ball's already off. We give. So I want these guys make Mario beat me off the dribble, okay? If he does, I got big dudes that can collapse. If he can hit that little floater, that's fine. Well done. Okay? If you can Tyrese maxi it and hit that little eight footer. But a wide open three, that. You know how much the white. The two is worth? Two. Two. You know how much that three is worth? Three. Three. How much do you think he practiced the eight foot runner off one foot? Probably not a lot. How many open threes does a player shoot? A lot. A bajillion. And I get so frustrated. Our players, we play so far off of these guys so far with trying to stop them from the drive that we can't get back out and they end up with a complete open three. That happened with Malachi at the end of the game. Millender, that guy. Huge shot on Millender. Malachi was so far back that then. And he got. And they made the. Millender made one step. Malachi went farther back and he came flying at him and it was too late. Too late. Hit the shot too late. That's your. That's your basketball acting. I hope you all enjoy. Are you out of breath? Do we need to sub in? We need to get Noah in there and give you a few minutes. A little fatigued. Well, just. I wanted to. I just wanted to show for the, you know, basketball bennies. I like the lateral quickness, especially around the tables. Well, there were tables that made. You did a good job navigating them without the table. That those are like screens that we don't fight through and that lead to open shots. Your water. I'm good. We'll take a break. We will take your calls. No more acting for me. We'll be right back. It's Kentucky Sports Radio. TJ Smith, personal injury attorney. Call tj. He'll make him pay. Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones. Welcome back. It is Kentucky Sports Radio. 859-280-2287. One person writes. Matt, you say Mario's quicker than you. Is that regularly or what about when you're on ambient? Just for the record, all of you, all on Ambien, ma'. Am, I got you. Just so you know, you're not gonna be. You're not gonna beat me on Ambian, that show. Still, I can't listen to it. It makes me embarrassed me. Is that a UK Beanbag? Yes. She's bringing it and getting moving us to the restaurant here. Oh, wow. About that. That's a nice UK Bean. We'll set that right here. That way when somebody like Larry can lay on that when he comes in. Nice. That's very nice. I like the UK Beanbag. That'll be a good. That's a good. Speaking of, someone stole our hat. I think, unless one of y' all took it home. Have we had a theft. Mario's got it. Okay. Mario has it. Because Monique and I were ready to go to the cameras yesterday. The big, the big fat UK hat that, that hangs up there. Oh, okay. All right, good. I was ready to get the law involved. Yeah. Don't be. Don't be. Don't come here and say steal stuff. Your visit. That's not very nice. You know, we did have eight draft king little football helmets. Whatever happened to those? They get. They get stolen. And by the way, I've turned you all into the police. It's just a matter. It's just a matter of when they get around to. We're going to release the list. Yes. 85928, 02287. One person writes, Matt, these players have money, cars, girls and phones. Do you think they care about Kentucky basketball? The phones? Yes. First of all, they've always had at least the. The money, cars, girls. But I, I say this every time. People are like, in today's era, the players don't care. These other Teams are doing fine, and they've got. I mean, think about Duke. They've got all of that. Maybe not. I went there. Maybe not the girls, but the money and the cars and the basketball. Like. Like we're not the only school playing nowadays. So these other schools are finding a way to win. Michigan winning one on the road at Purdue last night by 10. They're good, and they're a big nil team. If there was a team that was gonna have money problems, Michigan would be in there. They're making the most money of anybody. Michigan's probably the only team that outspin us. And guess what? It's working. So I. I just. I don't buy that. Now, are there guys that maybe aren't giving full effort? Maybe, but it's not. But just because they're making. Making money, it's because it's them or the motivation, etc. So I just. I don't buy that. These other team works for the other teams. And really, if we just hit some free throws last night, we might be sitting here having a different show today. You know, they didn't play their best, but yet they had a chance to win it. The ball was in Chandler's hands at the end of the game. The balls and Otaga's hands in the game. And they missed some free throws. Or they might have. They might have won that game last night, coming behind for another win. We lost three of the last four to Georgia. The last time that happened was the 20 20s. I don't remember those games since 1923. The 19. Last time we lost them at RUP was Billy Gillespie. Every time any stat goes since Billy Gillespie, everybody goes. Pope's got a lot of sensibility Gillespies. All right, who's up first? Shane. Roger. Roger. Go ahead, Roger. Thanks for taking my call, Matt. And I agree with whatever y' all was talking about a while ago for sure. On defense, I don't know if they don't know how to play defense, but anyway, what I really wanted to say, talked about is the first half away was hot as I'll get out. Yes. I mean, he was putting us up eight points. And what's he do? Pope takes him out, puts Johnson in, and he's in. The commentator said, what's he doing? Taking me out, Putting him in. Always said that. And then he went down 11 and they was up 3. Then he decides to call time out after down 30. Yeah, that was that. That was too late on a timeout. By the way, you're exactly right. They. They went on a 70 run to cut an eight point lead to one. And Pope let him keep playing. And then they scored four more and next thing you know, it's, it's it, we're down three. You're right. That was that, in my opinion. Well, he took him, he would say took him out because. Yeah, the numbers say get rest. And you and I agree. That's not what you do. If he leaves him in, we're up 16. Another 10 minutes or five minutes and then we're gonna, we gotta, we could blow him out maybe. But no, he, he's done this like four times. We lost every game. Yeah, I appreciate the call. I, I, I, I, I'm with you. I'm with you. And then at the end of the game, Aberdeen's hot and you take the ball out of his hands. I mean, I, you know, numbers people will tell you the idea of people getting quote unquote hot isn't true. But when you watch games, that's, I don't, I don't agree with that. Chandler was hot from three. Getting more shots. Like when he's hot. Go. I mean, I would say a Chandler 3 is about the shot. A Chandler Open 3 might be my favorite shot this team can take. Oh, the run he's on since the Vandy game, that's five games now. It's like 20 for 33 or something from three. It's insane. But to the point, sticking on, taking out away. You're up 8 as the caller just said. Push that thing up and I don't know, maybe give away a rest in the second half when you're up by 15 and the game's out of reach. Let him sit the last few minutes. Like when you have that momentum and you're up 8 early in the half. Keep pushing it and see how big that lead can get and worry about the rest when you're up. Even bigger colors right to the camera did catch away when they took him out. He could read his lips, like really like he was cooking. So clearly he didn't need a rest if he's like, really? Yeah. You know, what is it John Bon Jovi said? Shannon, I'll sleep when I'm dead right now. Yeah, he said that. Was that Bon Jovi that said that he might not have been first a bad name. Yeah, Yeah, I don't think that was, I wasn't thinking of you'll give love a bad. She's a little runaway. Yeah, Yeah. I was thinking more of those Want it dead or alive. Okay. But again, that Those are not the slogans. He also said, I'll lay you down in bed of roses. That doesn't have anything to do with this game. This game I'm talking about when he said, I'll sleep when I'm dead. Well, like we just said, he always was cooking at that point. And you only had two offensive threats the first half. Away drive Colin 3. That was it. There was no other offense to generate. Got to leave him out there, man. You got to win the game. It's by the way, the same two guys kill us every year. Somto and Blue Cane. I can't stand Blue. Blue Cane sounds like a knockoff of like a independent wrestler. It does. The Blue Cane sounds like the Kentucky version of the wrestler Kane. He comes out and he has blue fireball. Softo's a monster, though. That dude's a freak inside. I would have loved watching him at Kentucky. I mean, he, his rebounding numbers weren't huge, but he's just so physical in there. When he got the biggest rebound and won at the end of the game, I mean, that was, that was a huge. That was the, that put the game away. Who's next? Jake in Florida. Jake, Go ahead, Jake. What? I'm Matt. Pretty indicative, Pretty crazy how indicative our, our exhibition games were as far as the high at Purdue and then the low edge town. Yeah, that's true. Good point. Some of our games this season, I, I went back and listened to the, to the Purdue show, the post game show, and it's pretty funny what you were saying on there. Yeah, don't, don't bring it up now. I'm sure I was way too happy after that Purdue game and I learned my lesson. Next year if we win an exhibition game, I'll go. Well, you know, we'll see. That's all I got, baby. Appreciate it. You know, when Mark Pope was hired, I said this on this show very. A few times because I watched Pope a lot at byu. Why? He had weird. He would be really good teams. Yeah. Including on the road. And then he would lose to people he had no business losing to, often at home. So I remember he beat Kansas in Lawrence on a Monday. I told you they don't lose on Monday. I think Mark beat him on a Monday once and then he went home and lost at home to Central Florida. And that has played itself out. Drew here as well. Yeah, we were kind of warned that that's what he could do and I guess we all just got excited. Well, it won't happen at Kentucky. This is Kentucky but that's what we're looking at right now through almost two full seasons. See, I wonder if I'm him. Don't you sit and want, like, look at. Well, why does that happen? You think for God? So into the data and studying everything. Why is it that I have. Because he has a. This is a pattern over both of his coaches. Why. Why does. Why. Why is this. What plate. You know, Kyle Tucker had a really good article yesterday. He's back on college basketball. He's writing for 24. 7 sports. And he basically looked at Mark Pope, what the people, his friends said about him this year, and they all said the same thing. They were worried about him early this year in terms of what he was saying. Apparently, Rick Patino not only called him Rick, Tino called him and said, what the hell is wrong with you? Even. He even called him a name. He even called him a name. He was like, stop being a blah, blah, blah. And he was like, stop getting in front of the media and whining. And like, I give Rick credit. He was like, stop acting like. You know. He reminds me of the scene in Godfather when. When Marlon Brando snaps him and go. Or hit smacks, even go, Snap out of it. I have. You remember that? Yeah, I saw the guy saw the Godfather. Who did he smack? His son? No. His cowork? Co worker? No. I don't remember. Keep guessing. His dog. That would be bad. He didn't smack his dog. No, he smacked his. What was it? His godson or whatever. The lounge singer from Vegas. Remember? He was. He needed a part in the movie. He was like, godfather, my career. But he went. He said, snap out of it. Be a man. Patino did that to Pope. Pope kind of. I think, got a smack from Pitino. He was the vet. Pope was being the Vegas lounge singer. We can't talk like that about Pope as Patino can. But during that time, we were saying, it feels like he's hiding under the table. Table. He's the one that should be sticking his chest out. And he's behind a couple of post games that made me uncomfortable. I thought we were gonna get that last night, Michigan State game. And then I think it was the Missouri game. There were a couple of those where I was like, man, are you good? I really was. Yeah. What's wrong with you, man? Yeah. So, like, we're scared. We need you to tell us not to be scared. You're in the back of the line hiding behind us, and you're the coach. Where's the confidence? 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He, he looked me directly in the eyes and said, when we lose, you should blast me. That's what he said. Yep. And I appreciate it because he's right. Now, I don't, I don't think I blast him, but, like, that's this job. And if it means that a coach doesn't come on here, so be it. Like, you can't. You can't. You want me to come on here and say, yesterday was good? Hey, we losing to George at home, that's no big deal. You know, one of our players was minus 16. And after the game, you said, you need to play more. Makes sense to me, Coach. Like, I mean, what do you want me, what do you want me to do? You want me to have, like, be real or not? You know, I mean, the easiest analogy for me is politics. There are accounts you can follow that. Anything your guy says, boy, he's brilliant. It. But, like, that's not the real world. So, I mean, that's just how I am. But I, I, I think Mark Pope will come on here at the end of the year. I don't think he has any grudge, but if he does, if he were not going to, then you still have to be honest with people, right? We're fans. That was not good. Georgia has two wins in a month. It's Kentucky, lsu. I mean, what do you want us to say? Basketball grew up watching. They lost at home, at home to Oklahoma by 16 last week. Week. And then they came in here and beat us. They have four wins in Lexington since 1923. We're going to be a little shocked and disappointed when it happens again. Now, the one thing we don't have is a jerk for a head coach. Did you hear Mick Cronin last night? I haven't heard it yet, but I heard you teasing it. So here's the backdrop of this. Xavier Booker played at Michigan State last year, took a bigger nil to go to UCLA this year. This was his return to Michigan State. Okay, okay, so he's playing, he's playing for ucla. Michigan State just runs UCLA out of the gym during the game. The student sex and section. Every time he does something bad and apparently he played poorly, they just start chanting, Booker, Booker. Not the most creative chant, but, you know, trying to, like, get at the kid. So a student reporter for Michigan State ask a what you think of the student section chanting. Now, I'm not saying that's Woodward and Bernstein Journalism. But it's a reasonable question, right? Especially if he thinks it caused a difference to any performance. Especially if he didn't play well because of it. He had two points. He had two points. So Cronin is doing his press conference. If you haven't seen the video, he's not even looking at the guy who asked the question. He has, like, his shoulder to him. And then. This is one of the jerkier things I've ever seen someone do to a reporter, especially when it sounds like it's a student report. Order. Go ahead. What was your thoughts in the student section? Chanting Booker's name. I could give a rat's ass about the other team student section. I just met the. Overall. The way that you. I would like to give you a kudos for the worst question I've ever been asked. Did you, like, you should take it. The preparation. You really think I care about the other two? No, I don't. I don't think you care about the other. Are you raising your voice at me? No, I'm. Yeah, you are. Yeah, you are. Come on, dude. No reason. Come on. Yes, you were. Everybody's standing here listening to you. Everybody. This is on camera. They can hear you. I answered the question. I could give a rat's ass about the other team student section. I coach ucla. I don't care about Michigan State students. Who cares? What a jerk. Wow. Okay, so it's one thing to say, I don't care about the student section. Fine. If that's your answer, fine. But then he comes back and says, that's the worst question I've ever heard. And the kid apparently says, I'll take it. And then he goes, yeah, you'll take it. Still not really looking at him, by the way. That's a big part of this. He comes back and he goes, you know, you're. And then the kid responds. He goes, you raised your voice at me. That's where he crossed the line right there. I felt like. And he didn't raise his voice. He didn't raise his voice. And he. And then he goes, I answered your question. I don't care about the student section. No, you answered it. And then you kept yapping at him. I was saying last night, if I was a student when this happened, I would have sat there and probably. I probably wouldn't have been as confident as that kid was. But if he did that to me now, I'd be like, you lit. You know, you little. And if he did it to one of our KSR college Kids, Like, I'd be. I'd be even mad or. Who do you think you are? Just, these college coaches are such jerks. They think they run the planet and that everybody should bat. You are Mick Cronin. You've never won anything. Yeah. What have you done? You've never done anything. And it was a reasonable question. You're just embarrassing this. You raised your voice to me, like. And you're right. He didn't even raise his head. Like, looks at everybody else, like, Right. Some video. Look at him kind of like, it's like, hey, yeah, it is on video, Mick. We can see it. You're gonna be the one that looks like a jerk. The video does exist, and you're the one that looked like a jerk. Video's gonna show you tried to bully a college kid. A college reporter asking, I know you are, but what am I? That's what he should have said. You're raising your voice to me. I would. I understand. As a student, I would. Had a hard time not being an ass back because I was just way over the line. I agree. Well, the strong stance, one word bully said, mick, if you can put your little man syndrome aside for one minute and answer my question. Yeah. And he doesn't even look at him. Shannon doesn't. You saw the video. Don't you think he looks like a jerk? Oh, he is a jerk. He's the angriest little man in college basketball. He is just the angriest little elf. Yeah. Hello, angry elf. All right, who's next? Sean. Sean. Go ahead, Sean, quick question. Two little nuggets, if I can, at 17 and 9 and 8 and 5. Do we back off of they're a second half team or are they a second half team and they're just not that good? Well, I don't. And I appreciate the call. We're not that good. We're. I mean, we're not. We're not bad, but we're not good. We're kind of in the. You know, I don't know. What's a team that's perpetually just over the bubble? What's a team that's, like, always a 7 to 10 seed? Feels like for the last decade, Michigan State has been that a lot. I would take. I would take their scenario, but you know what I mean? Like, it feels like they've been that quite. I mean, they used to be better than that, but it feels like they've been that a lot over the last few years. I even told Ryan last night. I got my guard up big time with this game because I just felt like we won some, we weren't supposed to, and eventually that average was. You know, it gets back to the mean. But, I mean, this is the kind of team that could go to Auburn and win Saturday easily, you know, I mean, this is the kind of team that could go win at A and M. And you're like, what? I think Kentucky's backcourt really turned a corner. Chandler, Aberdeen, and away getting back to form. And Moreno is better. But outside of those four, I mean, guys have good games. They come and go. Diabate is diabate. But it's kind of like if any of those guys don't have a good night, you're in trouble. You're kind of relying all four of those to play well. Yes. We have four guys with diabate going and getting every rebound. We have four guys that you can count on. And then we have a diabate who I think you can count on, but is an offensive dud. Yeah. He goes and gets that free throw rebound that saves you a game. 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