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Matt Jones (0:28)
For the ones who get it done. Welcome everyone. It is the local Toyota dealers KSR Post Game show it is late at night and we are here in Windsor, Colorado after the Kentucky Wildcats lose 70 to 66 at Clemson in a disappointing performance. 859-280-2287 we got our full house here. We got Drew, we got Ryan, we got Shannon, we got Max. I'll give you a quick two or three minute rundown and let these guys talk. 859-280-2287 we watched the game in Fort Collins, had a big crowd of Kentucky fans come. So thank you to the folks who came. Probably 40 some people come to a town in the middle of Colorado to watch a game with us. So that was a lot of fun. The game itself. Kentucky I think, you know I said before the game that I thought if Kentucky won tonight, the difference between being a great team and a very good team is winning games like this. And I think, you know, after beating Duke and after having kind of rolled through the bad teams and then losing this game, I think Kentucky is more in the line of very good than great. Now you could still do really good things with a very good team but probably more like a ranked 8th to 12th, 13th ranked team. A couple of things that stood out one for the first game really that we've seen this year, big gap between the starters, the reserves. Butler was in foul trouble in the first half. Mark Pope says maybe he, he thinks he might have messed up and coached him into foul trouble basically meaning maybe should have played him more in the first half and then he got hurt in the second half and there was just a huge drop off between Butler and Kerr. Creese Butler was plus 17 on the game. Kirkcreesa was minus 21 on plus minus.
Ryan Lemond (2:19)
Ouch.
Matt Jones (2:19)
That is a huge difference. Now that doesn't mean if Butler plays you win but I think you have a much better shot. Kerr was, was really bad tonight on, on both ends got just worked on defense and on offense didn't really add much. So I think there was a big drop off there. There was also a big drop off between Amare Williams and I, who I don't think played particularly well, but did add some points at the end. But then Garrison was actually minus 20 tonight. So you had one guy minus 21, one guy minus 20. That's not good. So. And those were the only two players, by the way, on the Kentucky roster. Away and Jackson, who played essentially the whole game, were like minus one. So really that was that. If you look at the plus minus, Mari was plus 16, Butler was plus 17, Garrison was minus 20, Carisa was minus 21. I mean, if you just look at the plus minus, and there's more to it than that, that's the difference in the game is when you had to go to those other two guys, it made a big difference. Kentucky still had their chances, though. Away had three open threes in the last two minutes. If he hits one of them, it's a different game, but he misses all three. He was the leading scorer, but still missed those shots that hurt. You got crushed on the glass in the first half. Better in the second half, but was minus 10 on the glass in the first half, plus 10 in the second half. I think Kentucky lost the game in the first half. They were kind of digging out of a hole the entirety of the second half and just couldn't quite get out of it. Led a couple times by one, but just, you know, if the game's tied at halftime, they probably win. So I think the first half, the foul trouble, the getting out, rebounded, it killed them. And then the last thing I would say is my worry on the entire season has always been the same thing. Do you have a guy that can go get a bucket when you need one? When you really need a basket, do you have it? And I don't think Kentucky as of yet has shown that they do. Against Duke, Andrew Carr made a couple big plays. But even tonight, I mean, we, we hung in there. But I want you to think three of our last five baskets were back to the basket. Little hook shots by Mari Williams. They went in. So I'm not, I'm glad, I'm happy. But that, like, that can't be your offense to win games at the end. So some concerning things. With that said, it's one loss, it's on the road, Clemson's probably a tournament team. It's not the biggest deal in the world. And if you beat Gonzaga Saturday, it's not a deal at all, to be honest. Honest with you. That's my take. Let's go around the room. Drew, what do you think?