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Billy Rutledge (0:27)
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Matt Jones (0:30)
Welcome everyone. It is the local toy dealers KSR Postgame show Kentucky takes a disappointing loss on the road at Georgia 82 69A not the not the kind of game you want in in Athens. Ugly game, took two and a half hours and unfortunately gets the loss. It is light, probably later than I thought we'd end up on this game. So I hope we can hear from you. 859-280-2287 like to hear what you thought about the game. I mean I think there's probably three things you can, you can focus on. I think the one that seems to be getting the most attention online is the one I'll do second. But for me the, the main part of this, of this game was Kentucky just out physical again. And you know, I think this has been a recurring issue for Kentucky since the Western Kentucky game. And the good thing is they're such a good shooting team and they play together so well that sometimes they can overcome this. But they've been out physicaled really in the Ohio State game, even in the Louisville game, even in the Florida game, even games we've won, they just are continued at physical play. They don't like it, they run away from it and they've given up. They've had 15 offensive rebounds given up in the last two games back to back at least 15 offensive rebounds and it crushed them. I mean I heard Mark Pope, I listened to his comments to the press, not on the radio and he said and I think this is right. I actually think Kentucky played some of its best defense of the year in guarding the first shot or the initial movement of, of of Georgia. They I think Georgia took a lot of bad shots. I think some of the shots they took are shots that Kentucky would have wanted them to. But the offensive rebounds crushed them. The loose balls I thought 50, 50 balls I heard the announcer say at one point were an issue and I thought that too they just were a step quicker and tougher to, to all loose balls and, you know, and then in the second half, as things got difficult, I thought we got way out of rhythm. I mean, just Lamont Butler, who I thought played great. I can't criticize Lamont Butler. I thought he probably had the best game of, of any of our guys. But there were three straight possessions where he basically tried to take it one on one. He wasn't able to finish in any of them. And that's really not. Kentucky's game is, is taking people off the dribble. That's not what this team is good at. And it's just, it was a bad performance. And you know, the biggest disappointment to me is I think Kentucky could have won this game, you know, if they, if they shot a little bit better, if they were able to be a little bit more physical. This was a game that was there for the taking because I don't think Georgia played particularly great. But it didn't happen. And, you know, we're going to have to see toughness from this team on the road. I, I, if you, if you look at the games that have been the most disappointing from a toughness situation, it's been the three losses. And then I, you know, maybe, maybe the Louisville game as well, even though we won that game, but they just, this team does not like contact. And you know, which gets me the second point, the officiating. I know people are frustrated and I'm. It was not well officiated. Matter of fact, it was officiated really poorly in two ways. One, they call way too many fouls. And they also went. How many times did they go to the review? Like nine times. There's got to be some kind of thing that makes it every single time a person might have gotten hit in the face. I don't think we have to go look at it. But they did tonight. But, and it was inconsistent. I mean, I do think that, you know, Georgia, Georgia got more free throws. I think a couple of the calls were particularly egregious. But at the same time, I also agree with Jack Givens, which is if you want to draw fouls, you have to play aggressive. You have to get into guys. And we just don't really, we. When you watch these players, our guys go to the basket, they avoid contact and Georgia initiates contact. And when you have a game like today where the referees are whistle happy, you want to initiate contact so that they call fouls. And our guys. I noticed this with Jackson Robinson especially, but owe does It, Butler does it, Carr does it. They try to pull back and almost shoot over the foul instead of going into it. And it causes us to have very few and ones because we rarely draw the foul and we miss a lot of layups. And I think that in a game like this where the referees are whistle happy, it hurts you. And then, you know. Third, there's an athleticism issue with this team that is not going to go away. I mean we just aren't that athletic. We watch us when we go up for dunks, we either don't dunk or I think Butler had one the first half where he was barely able to dunk. And because of that, in order for us to win, our offensive flow has to be good. And it just wasn't for 30 minutes of the game. There was a little period where we started doing the backdoor cuts. We cut the game to five at one point and I really thought we were starting to get a rhythm. And then there was a sequence that I think was ultimately kind of the defining sequence of the game where we came down and it was, it was a five point game and they came down and they, we had the, the Andrew Carr where they called it a flagrant. You know, I don't know if it was a flagrant or not. It probably was by the rule. But Carr gave him that rebound. I mean Carr did not box out. He gets the rebound, then he grabs him. Now Santo missed those free throws. So while it was a big call, they actually only got the original two points. So it went from a five point game to a seven point game. Then we come down, owe gets a wide open three. I mean he had two back to back wide open looks. He misses it. They call the foul on Robinson on the rebound. That was a flop by Blue Kane or whatever his name was. That was a flop. But they call it and it goes to a nine point game. And I really thought that if, if either we could have gotten that stop, if Carr could have gotten that rebound before he flagrant foul, which he should have, he got out toughed and we had the ball down five or even if away hits that three down seven, I think we had a shot to win the game and neither of those things happened. And you know, I, it's, it's just tough. This was, this was an ugly game. It was a game that, that, you know, the reality is in the SEC this year it's not going to be easy to win on the road in any of these games. I mean Tennessee lost by 30 tonight at Florida Auburn's going to win at Texas. Auburn's probably the best team in the league. Auburn might be the best team in the country, but in general for Kentucky, winning on the road is going to be very tough. And we're not going to do it unless we're either hitting shots or playing tough or both. And if you look at Kentucky's losses this year, take the three losses. We have been out physical in every game by a lot. Clemson, Ohio State and Georgia. And we've also shot 18 of 72 from three in those games, which is 25% that combination. This team's just not good enough. We're gonna lose. If those two things happen. If we give up offensive rebounds and we shoot 25% from three, we're not gonna win. So I understand the frustration about the officiating. I don't think it was good. But to be honest with you, I don't think we were winning that game. Either way, they got rattled. On the road. Pope talked about focus and toughness. He used a bunch of words. I thought his comments were actually really, really intelligent. But it just, we're gonna have to be better on the road or we're gonna have a lot of nights like this. You know, Saturday at Mississippi State, you're gonna play a team that is just as tough and probably a little bit more talented. I think they're winning at Vanderbilt right now. It's a big game. This kind of reminds me of the Clemson, Gonzaga 12 where we said let's get one of these two and the Clemson one was easier and then we lost but then we went and beat Gonzaga. It's kind of how I felt about this. I thought Georgia would be the easier one, but now you got Mississippi State. I think you got to win one of these two. So I think Saturday night at 8:30 becomes pretty important. 859-280-2287. All across college basketball been a weird night. Feel like there's a lot of these. Tennessee, Florida score was bizarre. But I think you're starting to see tears in the sec, which is that Auburn's the best and everybody else is gonna have a hard, hard time winning on the road. And I think we're in that group as well. 859-280-2287 we will take your calls and hopefully get through this together. Cats lose at Georgia 8269 we'll be right back. It's a local Toilet Dealers KS game show. Welcome back. It is the Local Toy Dealers KSR Postgame Show. 859-280-2287. One person writes on the text machine. Matt, I don't understand how we beat good teams but lose handily to three bad teams. I mean, it's a fair question. I think it's a style of plaything, right? I mean, I think Duke, Gonzaga, and Florida are all offensively skilled, decent defensively, pretty good, actually, but they don't play that physicality defense. They just try to pressure you a little more. And. And Georgia, Clemson, and Ohio State try to muck it up. And that is working against us right now. And I think if we were hitting shots, I don't think it would work as well. And I think these guys. I think these teams are saying, beat us at the rim. All right? Beat us at the rim. We're not giving you threes. Beat us at the rim. And we are soft at the rim. We miss layups. We don't. Our big guys don't take it up and dunk. I mean, we had four dunks tonight, by my cat, by my count, where we got either blocked or on Butler's. It barely went in. Like, you know, we're just not strong, taking it to rim. And these teams are saying, beat us at the rim, and we're just not able to do it. Another person writes. Matt, is it time to talk about Robinson? Only three points? Yeah. I mean, he was bad tonight, and he looks scared, especially in the first half. He. He looks scared. And. And, you know, that's another thing everybody's got to have. Every team's got to have, like, a star, and he needs to be our star. And too often, he's just not. And again, I think if you go look at the games that we've lost, he has not played well in any of them. And that's. That's. That's definitely going to be a problem now, Billy, this one. Okay, this was an actual comment I got.