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Billy (0:00)
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Matt Jones (0:30)
Welcome everyone. It is the local toy dealers KSR Postgame Show It's a late night again, but this time not as much fun as the last one. The cats go down 99 to 70 in the quarterfinals of the SEC Tournament, A fairly terrible performance by the Cats that leads to a disappointing 29 point defeat, the largest defeat for Kentucky in their SEC Tournament history. You can give us a shout. Look, it's late at night. I'm gonna go ahead and tell you. Anybody that calls tonight, I'm gonna go ahead and say you're my friend. Because even I, when I was listening to postgame shows before I did them, I would stay up pretty late. This would be the kind of game that you probably wouldn't often. So if you do, I'm gonna be happy with you. 859-280-2287 and because I'm going to air a grievance at the end of this segment. If you call, I'll let you air a grievance. It's late at night. If you got something that annoys you, now's the time to say it. The performance tonight by Kentucky was, was, you know, first half. Okay, Especially when you consider that you didn't have Lamont Butler and away was out for most of the first half because of the shot he took to the face and basically missed nearly all the first half after the first few minutes. It was a great start for Kentucky. Scored 14 points in in six minutes, but then the last 34 only get 56 and defensively, you know, the Cats just could not. They haven't been able to stop Alabama all year, even, even when they had their closest to a full team. And then tonight it got really out of hand. I was very disappointed with the play in the second half. Not because we lost. I thought we were down seven at halftime, but had actually played pretty, pretty admirably for a lot of it. The second half just really, really terrible I mean, not able to handle the pressure, poor decision making and bad shots, wrong people taking shots. You know, it was just, it was a bad performance and it's tough because you'd like to just throw it out. I think we will collectively, as a fan base, kind of throw it out. We're not going to. I don't think Kentucky fans are going to rewatch this game, but the tournament is next week and you only get one shot and you can't have a game like this then. Now, we did get some good news tonight. It looks like Lamont Butler will play in the NCAA tournament. So that's good. I think you can't help but have more confidence there. Can't gives Kentucky a lot more options. He's obviously our best defender. So all that's good news. But, you know, we'll probably just put this to the side. But that was a really disappointing second half and I think you could hear it, Mark Pope's voice in the post game show. I'm not sure I've ever heard him sound that. I don't know what you would call it. Defeated in some ways. I mean, I don't think he was. It was very short, sort of terse answers to Tom Leach. I don't think he was rude to him, but he was. It wasn't the Mark Pope that we're used to hearing. And he said, I think Leech asked him some kind of question about not having Butler, not having Away. And he said we got to play better with the guys that are in regardless. And it didn't happen in the second half. You know, there they had a lot of moments where they were playing all three freshmen. That's something I bet you he did not think was going to happen at any time this year. And it was happening in the SEC tournament, we had no one, including away, who could stop Sears off the dribble. Who could stop the other card file on. We just had no chance, none. And in the second half they started hitting threes, which they didn't hit in the first half, which made it really ugly. So rather than sit and dwell on it, where do we go from here? You get Lamont Butler back, you still have away. You have Brea, Carr and Williams. I still think that is an elite eight level starting five, maybe even, you know, I don't know if we can beat these four or five best teams in the country, but I think that is an elite eight level starting five. I think our bench is, is not elite eight level. So those top five guys are going to have to play great. None of them can have bad games and they're probably going to have to play a lot of minutes. The young guys can maybe have spot moments, but they are not ready for this level. And so you're going to have five guys against the world. The brackets going to come out. I think there's a good chance we're a three seed. Wouldn't shock me if we dropped to a four, but I think we'll probably be a three, especially now that the tournament committee will know that that Butler is going to be playing and we'll open with a 14. It'll be somebody like Montana or Utah Valley or someone like that. And then we'll get a six seed. That will be probably a difficult game and we've got to come out and we're going to have to play in that second game, assuming we win the first one. And then if we get to sweet 16, I don't know about you all, but I will take it as all gravy after that. But we've played well enough this year and in the tournament that we're going to play two teams that are seated below us to get to the sweet 16, that is makes it a doable proposition. And now I hope they can go and do it. I think with the roster they have with Butler healthy, it can be done, but they can't have performances like tonight and they honestly can't have players who don't play well. I didn't think this was the greatest tournament for, you know, Amari Williams made a lot of free throws, but I was a little disappointed with his effort tonight. I was, you know, away, didn't play well. He did have the, the injury. You know, the freshman just aren't good enough at this point. But all that puts the side. You got five guys. You go play in the NCAA tournament and we'll see what happens. 859-280-2287 Billy I'm going to allow people since this is a frustrating night and we don't want to just say over and over how bad we played, I'm going to allow people to. They can make their comment on the game and then they can talk about something that they really don't like. That's what I'm like. Like my a pet peeve. Not something serious. Like I don't want to hear what you think about like the economy or I'm talking about like, you know, not serious things you don't like. And here's mine.