Billy Reed (1:59)
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If you take the first 11 minutes. I thought Kentucky looked excellent offensively crisp getting to the basket, probably more dunks than they've had all year. I think they had like five early on, open looks from three, sharing the ball, beating the press. I thought they were, they were excellent and then just completely collapsed in the last nine minutes. And Texas A and M, the. You've heard the notion, we've heard the phrase Buckyball. If you were to look up what buckyball is at its, at its most successful moment, you would see those last nine minutes of the first half. Kentucky let themselves get rattled and Mark Pope with an inexplicable set of substitutions that I still don't know what, what, what, what he was thinking. Basically did the one thing that has consist. If there's one thing that is consistently not worked all season, it's putting in four subs at at once. And for a stretch of about 73 seconds I counted Billy, he had away and Aberdeen both on the bench and he had the lineup of, of Johnson, Chandler, Noah, yellow, Vich and Garrison in and it was an 80 run and Kentucky went from up five to down three and then. Excuse me, up. Yeah, up five to down three and then they just took off and even when starters were brought back in, didn't really step up and you got the result you had. It was funny. Kentucky had a shot, it was 30 to 18 and Tucky got a steal and had a wide open Noah 3 that if he hits would have put it us up 15. He misses, they get the rebound, come down, hit an open three and it just, the game got out of control and we only scored three more points the rest of the half and ended up taking the loss. So, you know, I mean a couple of bright spots, I guess. Diabate played pretty well. What 18 points? Ramadan 19. Ramadan MO is a thing, right? It's crazy. You know, he, he ate on the bench for the first time. That was interesting how they pointed that out. Be something to watch in the SEC tournament, etc. Like when you can't drink water if Kentucky plays during the day. But he played well and you know, it was good to see I guess in the second half, Trent Noah hit a couple shots since he hadn't in a long time, but otherwise, you know, you look. Colin Chandler only has five attempts. You're not going to win if Colin Chandler only has five attempts. I think the part of that is on him for aggressive play, 34 minutes. If you're Colin Chandler, you only take five shots. It's got to be better than that. They were five threes, he only made one. Not go in like that. You're just not. And got completely obliterated by their bench. Their bench had, it looks to me, Billy, 57 points and our bench had 39, which is actually quite a bit for us. But 57, yeah, that's a lot. That's a lot. And we shot 48. We both teams shot 48% but the difference is they hit 13 threes and we hit eight. And so on the one hand you could look at it and just say, well, they hit five more threes. They hit shots we didn't. And I guess there's something to that. But I also think the reality is in that nine minute stretch we were outplayed. And I'm, I was frustrated during that stretch about the effort, I was frustrated about the substitution pattern and I just. This team makes no sense to me. You don't know when they're going to be good, you don't know when they're going to be bad. And then you have games like today, first half like today where they're both. For 11 minutes you see Kentucky at their best and for nine minutes you see them at their absolute worst. And I think ultimately what's going to hold Kentucky back if they're not able to make a March run is this Kentucky at its best is a pretty good team. But unfortunately what we've seen this year is can this Kentucky team at its worst is abysmal. Our best might be like when we're playing our best, we might be like 8th to 10th best team in the country. But when we're at our worst, we're not even like a tournament team. And I'm not sure I've ever seen a Kentucky team who's high and low. The variance is greater than this one. I can't think of one. The Reed and Rob team was kind of like that, but this one is even more so. And I'll just give you a stat. Kentucky has now lost to Georgia. Who are the team. What were the games we lost where everybody had lost all those games coming in Georgia. Well, I should. Auburn, Georgia, Auburn. And now tonight against A and M. And if you look at those three games going into the game. Those three teams, Billy, were 3 and 16 coming into our games. In their last, in their last six to seven games, three and 16 coming into the Kentucky games and all of them beat us. And yet we wanted Arkansas beat Tennessee twice and be Vandy, you know, how do you explain that? Our good is very good, but it's not great. But our bad is awful. And the problem is at least tonight the bad was so much worse than the good was good. Then we take the loss. 859-280-2287. There's actually been a ton of news today. Obviously Mitch Barnhart announced his resignation and there's a lot that has even happened since our show about that. I'm gonna say let's put Mitch Barnhart and all that on hold until tomorrow as much as possible and let's talk about this game and all the stuff with Mitchell we'll, we'll deal with in more detail tomorrow. But well, by the way, also SEC tournament, Missouri lost tonight. Had Kentucky won. They had a legitimate shot at the three seed in the SEC term. But now that they've lost, there's a chance. Billy, they're playing on Wednesday.
