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Billy
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Matt Jones
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.
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Billy
Okay.
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Matt Jones
Do you have YouTube TV ability?
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Billy
I do, yeah.
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Matt Jones
I don't like. I've decided I don't like the moments of Zen. Or at least I don't like the. Some of the moments of Zen.
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Billy
Oh, really? Yeah, I kind of like it.
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Matt Jones
I don't. Because I find the moments of Zen a. I don't know. If this happens to you, they're louder than the rest of the show.
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Billy
True. That's true.
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Matt Jones
That's not very Zen. Like the fact that it's louder than the actual broadcast.
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Billy
The boat one with the water in the back.
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Matt Jones
The water is so loud. Yeah, the water is so loud when I'm going through Venice there on my little gondola. Right. Again, for people who don't have YouTube TV, they don't know what we're talking about. That's okay. I don't like the otter that looks like it's dead floating in the water. Now people are telling me that that's like an otter and it's baby and they're, like, nursing. First of all, that's more intimate than I need on my YouTube TV, but I can't tell one otter from the other on my screen. And it looks like a dead floating otter in the water.
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Billy
It doesn't soothe and relax you when you see it.
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Matt Jones
And then last night, they just kept showing a view. View from the top of Paris, right? Like, how many times can I look at that Eiffel Tower? You know, I get it. That's Paris. I get it. I'm on a gondola with really loud water, and I get that this beaver otter is sitting there dead in the water, but I don't find it very Zen. Like. Billy, I'm gonna be honest with you.
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Billy
Would you rather watch a commercial? Because that's what it's replacing, right?
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Matt Jones
If it'll at least be the same volume as the broadcast, that would be better. So I like the idea of moments of Zen. Like, they used to show, like. Like a jungle, right? And it was like you'd hear birds, but I don't. You know, watching a dead beaver float in the water just to me is not very Zen.
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Billy
Like, we'll get him to turn it down a little bit and maybe you'll get.
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Matt Jones
At least work on the volume. Okay.
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Billy
If nothing else, can I air grievance while we're.
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Matt Jones
Sure. Why not? While we. Why not?
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Billy
Okay. I hate auto flush toilets. Do you know what I'm talking about?
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Matt Jones
Oh, really? Like, where you just get up and then it.
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Billy
Yeah, because I'm. I'm doing my business and then I get up.
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Matt Jones
I don't need to know that to.
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Billy
You know, get some toilet paper and to wipe and it starts flushing the toilet and all those germs go right up my butt.
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Matt Jones
All right, that's too graphic. We. You didn't need to give me that level.
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Billy
I mean, they gotta fix it so it goes off when I'm done using the bathroom.
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Matt Jones
859-280-2287 I thought, I thought you were going to be a little better than that if you didn't see the games tonight besides ours. The lane violation in the North Carolina game, should they have called that, you think? Would you have called that? Billy, they were going to. They may miss the NCAA tournament because of an unimp, you know, a non important lane violation. Would you have called it?
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Billy
Yeah, yeah. It's in the rule book. You can't dictate the last minute of the game different than the other part.
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Matt Jones
I don't know if I would have let that be the call that separated the game, but they did. And I feel bad for that kid. That's going to be really hard for him. Also, Creighton beats Yukon. So it'll be Creighton and St. John's in the Big east final. There was also nearly a fight at the end of it as well. You'll have Louisville gets a win, unfortunately. So it is Duke and Louisville. Louisville's never made the ACC championship game and they make it this year. And they'll play a Duke team without Cooper flag. So they have a real decent chance of winning that game. And in the Big 12, it's what Arizona and Texas Tech. Is that who I think it is in the final? So there you go as far as the sec. Two great games tomorrow with with Tennessee and Auburn and Alabama and Florida. Unfortunately, none of them involve us. 859-280-2287. We'll take your calls and get through this night together and then go to bed and get ready for the bracket show. This is the the Local Toyota Dealers KSR Postgame Show. This is the Local Toy Dealers KSR Post Postgame Show. 859-280-2287 Text Machine is 772-774-5254. One person writes. Matt, how could you go through the first segment and not even mention the officiating? It was some of the worst that I've seen. I mean, it was bad. But you know, we lost by 30 and as I said after the Ole Miss game, I'm not going to, when you lose by 30, say that any of it has to do with Officiating, I mean, the non call on the away shot to the face didn't make any sense. The continuation thing that they didn't give Amari didn't make sense. I mean, you know, there's a lot of things that didn't make sense, but we lost by 30 and a lot of the times even in the first half when it was a seven point game at halftime, I felt like we were kind of hanging on the whole time. So yeah, the officiating was bad. I think I even tweeted during the game that the officiating was bad, but that's not why we lost. And even though it is bad, and I thought tonight was maybe even particularly bad, we just got our, our tails kicked and that's what happened. So. All right, who's up first?
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Billy
Josh.
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Matt Jones
Josh. Go ahead, Josh.
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C
Hey, Matt. What's up, man? No, I think the fishing had nothing to do with it. We were just. Alabama's got, you know, five, six NBA players. We have none. But it's, it's crazy. We have, you know, Butler and Jackson out and then we got OA going to the locker room with his lip in half and then we got Carr on the bike with his brace on. But I'm just going to be happy when we get to the NCAA tournament and we don't have to play in the SEC team, maybe when we get the first and second round without having to play a football game on the court. But that was crazy. We got blood on the court.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, it was crazy. No, you're right. I mean, it is. This has been as physical and I appreciate the call, as physical league as we' ever seen. It's been as talented a league as we've ever seen. It's a very athletic league and we also have had an insane amount of injuries. I mean, basically, you know, you lose Robinson for the year. We've had Butler taken out number of different times. Carr, you know, has the back issue throughout away gets, you know, knocked in the face. I mean, there's just, it's just one thing after another after another after another and it's been really, really, really, really bad luck for Kentucky. But when it comes time for the tournament, we will have the closest team we can have to a full roster. We're basically going to have everyone but Jackson, Robinson and so we'll see what happens. I mean, I'm not ready to give up on it. Even though today is disheartening, he didn't give us a grievance there, so you still can do that. By the Way I have on the CBS Sports Network because Colorado State's playing Utah State and they have a literal giant on the screen. Billy, I just went off. I think that's Roy Hibbert and he looks to be on that set nine.
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Billy
Feet tall, the former Indiana Pacer. Roy Hibbert.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, I think that's him. I don't know. But I can tell you, next to John Rothstein and Jerry Palm, he looks very, very tall. Who's next?
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Billy
Keith is next.
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Matt Jones
Keith. Go ahead, Keith.
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C
All right, well, first the important part. YouTube TV. Oh, my God. I have teenagers and my wife. We're watching the game and we have to put it on mute and, and I don't know what it is. Do they not have commercial advertisers?
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Matt Jones
I don't, I don't understand why, like, I don't get how that works either. Do they just, I mean, presumably people buy commercials during the games. Do they just not show them? Or is YouTube, which I would assume is a multinational billion plus dollar corporation, can they not sell ads? And can we at least rotate it to where I don't have to see that stupid koala look behind his back anymore? Like just get new ones. I don't know, It's. It does the opposite. As in, for me, I'm going to.
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C
Be honest with you, that is exactly what I'm telling my family. I thought the otter was dead. I thought, I don't believe I looked.
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Matt Jones
At multiple times because they said it was a nursing and a baby and I don't see two otters there. I see a dead floating otter. I don't care what they say.
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C
Cliche to the game. I actually thought, I thought, I thought Travis Perry was solid. He had a couple turnovers. Guess what? Lamont Butler has many turnovers away. Has many turnovers. We just, we couldn't hit anything. And then we were only close in the first half because they didn't hit anything. In the second half. They actually hit stuff. So that's, that was the difference. Let's rest and, and, and get Butler back and, and see what happens. That's all I gotta say.
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Matt Jones
I, I agree with you. I appreciate the call. I mean, I, we were in it the first game, first half because they didn't hit. And you know, we shot 23% again from three. I mean, we, this is, you know, we continue to not shoot well from three, which is so odd because they were so good early in the year, shooting from outside. You know, I hesitate to criticize, like the young guys because they shouldn't have to play as much as they're playing. But, you know, Travis Perry just, I mean, he, he's not going to be able to guard any of those dudes. And then when he is in a position where he has to create offense, which when you consider who we had on the floor, I guess he did. He's just not, he's not good enough right now for that. And so you. It's a man against boys thing. I mean, Colin Chandler, who's had some good games, this was not one of them. I thought Noah was okay, but like, again, I mean, there was a, there was a play where he had the guy boxed out completely and the other dude's just more athletic and just jumps over his head and gets it. I mean, I, you know, you can play one of those guys or maybe even two, but you can't play three because you just, it's, it's like you're, you know, they're just not good enough. I mean, at the end of the day, they're just not good enough. And when you're playing a team like Alabama, you can, you can't have that. So it is what it is. There's just a huge talent discrepancy and then I don't think we played well. So if there's a huge talent discrepancy and you don't play well, you get a result like this. This was just like the Ole Miss game. I mean, these were very similar results. It's just Ole Miss was a very good defensive team and this was a very good offensive team. So who's up next?
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Billy
Ethan.
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Matt Jones
Ethan, how are you? Ethan?
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C
Hey, man, how's it going?
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Matt Jones
So doing good.
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C
I have a statement and then something that's rant worthy. So my statement is, as hard as it is tonight, I'm going to stay pretty, pretty positive. Of all the teams in college, I think that's the number two team that we probably don't want to see this time of year. Auburn being first.
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Matt Jones
I think it might be number one. I think it might be number one. I think Auburn's better than they are, but I just think we just. I do not know how we could score enough points to beat these guys. I mean, they scored over 90 against us three times. Just so you know, that's the first time in the history of college basketball we've allowed any team to score over 90 against us three times in the year.
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C
Right. And then like I say, before the season even started, you know, we were saying Hope was going to have or consider a successful season if we even made it to the tournament and we're at, worst case scenario, four seed.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, I agree. I mean, listen, again, overall, and, and I'm with you. Overall, I'm happy with this year. Assuming we win a game in the ncaa, we can't lose to another right. Double digit seed in the first game. What was your rant?
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C
So, and this goes across every sport that's ever existed, but we've got to stop these in game coach interviews, whether it's half times or timeouts, because it's like stupid. Hey, what happened in the first half? Oh, they scored more points than us. Like.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, there's nobody. Especially the ones. Yeah, the ones in the half make no sense to me. I don't even know why they do those. The coaches clearly hate it. The reporter doesn't even really know what to ask. I agree with you. There's. Who's asking for that? There's no reason to do that.
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C
Right. All right, I appreciate it. Thanks.
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Matt Jones
Appreciate the call. 859-280-2287. I don't even know why did they start doing them, Billy, during the half? Like, the halftime ones sometimes aren't bad. But why? Why do they do them during the half?
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Billy
Yeah, I'm not sure. It just seems like the coaches hate doing it, though.
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Matt Jones
We're sitting there waiting. We're sitting there waiting on an update on oa and they interrupt the update to have her ask Pope, like, how's the game going? I just, it doesn't really seem. I don't really know what, what that accomplishes. Who's up next?
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Billy
You know, Myron does a lot of that, doesn't he? Sideline reporting at college.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, yeah, but I mean, he's not the one. I mean, they've clearly made a conscious decision to, to set up those interviews. And I don't really know why they do that, but.
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Billy
Go ahead, Lance.
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Matt Jones
Lance, go ahead, Lance.
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C
Yeah, I have a statement and then a pet peeve. The statement is I'm not disappointed in losing at all. I mean, going to the game without Butler, I didn't expect to win, but it just seemed like they quit early in the second half. And that was kind of disheartening to see, to be honest with you.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, I agree.
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C
And pet peeve is I cannot stand when people incorrectly use the forms of the word your into in sentences.
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Matt Jones
Oh, you mean when they spell it wrong, like why? Oh, you. Yeah, when they.
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C
When they spell it wrong in like a text or an email or anything.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, well, I mean, if there's one thing that is consistent, I would say 40% of all the tweets that tell me I am a, you know, stupid liberal or whatever, use your incorrectly, they will say, wow, you are a stupid liberal. That happens all the time. So you're exactly right to being T o or T O O. That one you don't see as much. But I agree with you. That's a pretty egregious error, too.
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C
Yeah, that's all I appreciate.
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Matt Jones
I agree. I like those. I think those are. Those are very good. You know how many times I've gotten the phrase in the last 20 years, Billy, you're stupid while you are stupid. I mean, literally, right. The amount of time. And it's from all different forms. It can be political. It can be Tennessee fans, it can be Arkansas fans, Louisville fans. But the. You're stupid while you are. Or you're an idiot or you're snowflake or whatever. And they. They. The amount of times that that is. Then why you are. Is pretty astounding. Who's next?
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Billy
Billy.
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Matt Jones
Billy, go ahead. Billy, I met. Oh, my goodness. Billy. Yes. Go ahead.
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C
What's that mean? Oh, I got a big voice and.
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Matt Jones
You know, I understand.
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C
But I'm just saying they act like they're beating the high school team. What I would do if I was Coach Pope, recognize that score that you just got tonight, got your, you know, beat up with and give it back to them.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, I don't think we have the ability to beat them by 30.
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C
I'm just saying this couple years from now. Right back to it.
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Matt Jones
All right. I appreciate the call. That's two cuss words in one call. You. You can't cuss twice in one. One call. I'm surprised, Billy, you even let him do it once. Is it just because it's late at night?
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Billy
Yeah, I got the first one. I think I got the second one. So whoever.
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Matt Jones
I hope you got the second one.
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Billy
Whoever is next, please don't cuss.
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Matt Jones
I. Yeah, no cussing. 859-280-2287. I mean, I didn't feel like they did anything wrong. I didn't feel like Alabama, you know, I didn't really. Maybe they left the starters in a minute longer than I would have, but, you know, I say this a lot. If you. If you don't want that to happen, stop them. But we just didn't have it. So, you know, they got a great team. When they lose Sears, they're going to be different. I mean, you know, we've been a little unfortunate in that our Rivals. Auburn with Broom, Alabama with Sears, and then Tennessee last year with Connect and. And Chaz Lanier, although we beat him both times. But both those teams have gotten kind of really unusually good transfers. And in the case of Broom and Sears, they've stayed multiple years. You know, that's, That's. That's hurt us because you get a good transfer and then have him a couple years, like we might. With a way. You really got something. Something special. Who's next?
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Billy
Skyler.
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Matt Jones
Skyler. Go ahead. Skyler.
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C
Skyler. Dean Davis. Hey, I want to shout out my Cal Poly Mustangs from San Luis Obispo, California. There they were. They made it to the Big west semifinal. Guys, I don't know.
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Matt Jones
I was actually watching. I was watching your Cal Poly Mustangs just a little while ago, and farthest they've ever.
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C
They've ever gotten, I think, in a long.
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Matt Jones
It was a good story. They were like. They came in the tournament like 11 and 18 and. And made it to the semifinals. They're going to end up losing, but you're going to get UC Irvin and UC San Diego playing for a tournament bid. And both those teams.
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C
It's Irvine. Matt, it's Irvine. Not Irvine.
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Matt Jones
Listen, you California people don't have to act like you know everything. But you see Irvine and UC San Diego, those are both very good teams. And the winner will probably be like a 13 seed. That is very dangerous in the tournament.
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C
Gonna be good. I got an unpopular opinion.
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Matt Jones
Okay. Yes.
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C
I actually. I actually appreciate the YouTube TV shorts. And you can come to San Luis Obispo and you can see those otters in Morro Bay. I invite you. Come on out.
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Matt Jones
Are they. Do they look dead?
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C
They do. No, they're. They're great. No, great. Hey, couple things. Yeah. But that I actually appreciate it more than the. The drug commercials and seal.
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Matt Jones
Well, there is. I will say I. I had a woman I know write me and say she. She doesn't watch a ton of UK games. And she wrote me and said, is it just me or is there an insane amount of ED commercials? And I agree with you, that does feel like we're on an insane run of Ed commercials during these games.
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C
You. Yeah, you watch the commercials and you're like, do I need this?
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Matt Jones
Convinces you. You do. Well, that's interesting. All right. I appreciate the call.
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C
Good.
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Matt Jones
Congrats to your Cal Poly slow performance this year. 859-280-2287. Let's take a break. It's late at night. We got our tails whipped, but the NCAA tournament Bracket comes out Sunday and I still feel hope. We'll be right back. It's a local toy dealers KSR postgame show. Welcome back. It is the local toy dealers KSR postgame show. I'm glad to see a lot of people seems to agree with me on the YouTube TV Zen commercials. They. It seems like I'm not the only one that's not a fan. Nathan says I hate the AI voices in commercials. Okay. So, Nathan, I want to say something to you I didn't expect. By the way, during the SEC tournament doing me an airing of grievances show, but we lost that bat. I do have to say to you, Nathan, here's what I don't understand about the AI voice.
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C
All right?
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Matt Jones
In theory, AI Billy. Right. Shouldn't it have, like, all information? Isn't that the whole point of it, all encompassing? Why is there only one voice? Why is every AI commercial the same voice? In theory, Shouldn't AI have access to, like, every voice? Why is it that same voice? All of you know it. You've heard it on a million commercials. Why is that the only AI voice? Why is there only one tone of voice? I can get on ways and get like nine different accents telling me what road to go to. And yet AI it's all that same voice.
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Billy
Yeah. I don't know. Maybe they want you to know it's AI and that's why they do it, that voice. But.
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Matt Jones
But why would you want. I mean, shouldn't you not want people to know it's AI like, the goal is people, I don't think, want to be read commercials by computers. Right. So in theory, shouldn't it not. Shouldn't the AI be so good? It doesn't sound like AI and why would you have the same voice? There's only one AI voice. And we all you, all of you listening can hear it in your head. I'm sure we'll play a commercial before this show ends with that voice. Why do they do that? Yeah.
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Billy
I don't know. It's a good question.
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Matt Jones
All right.
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Billy
I did find the YouTube TV Zen channel, though, which I have on now.
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Matt Jones
And I was watching a very. There's not a whole channel. It is.
- [28:55]
Billy
It's 24. 7 YouTube TV.
- [28:57]
Matt Jones
Does it flip back and forth from pace?
- [28:59]
Billy
I was on a delightful gondola ride and now I'm looking at a koala bear.
- [29:04]
Matt Jones
See, it's the same. Like, why don't they put that stupid koala on the gondola, then run into the otter in the water? That would be Much easier. And do it in Paris. All right, I'll shut up. Who's next?
- [29:18]
Billy
Eric.
- [29:19]
Matt Jones
Eric. Go ahead, Eric.
- [29:24]
C
Hey, Matt, Unpopular opinion? How do you get the, the, the pregame show to, to host that? I know you do the, the before, but is there anyone more unsufferable to listen to that Cameron 2 shot? Oh, yeah, Mills.
- [29:43]
Matt Jones
No, I mean, I listen those guys, you know, Cameron's a legend at UK and Dave's been doing a long time. I, I do think they fight too much, if I'm gonna be honest with you. I, I feel like I'm listening to two old women bicker at the grocery sometimes. But, you know, I, I, I like those guys.
- [30:02]
C
I love me some Buzz Baker. I mean, literally, from the time I was a kid, I just, for some reason I just thought he was super cool. But Lord Cameron, he, he thinks he's Chapman reincarnate Goose Givens. But I wish that you or Ryan or anybody.
- [30:19]
Matt Jones
Well, I used to do it. They got that. They got rid of me. If you remember, when I, when I did hey Kentucky, they wouldn't let me be on it anymore, so, so it's okay. I do it. I do it.
- [30:30]
C
Are you able to do that, though, beforehand? And I got one. One quick question too. This is, this is totally off subject. When you do, like you. I'm a big fan. When you take a hard break. What. Who dictates that? Like in the morning shows, like, what does that mean?
- [30:48]
Matt Jones
So there are. Because we're on network, right? Because we have. Because we're on the network. That there are breaks that are local breaks and there are breaks that are network breaks. And in order so that all 40 stations don't have to have a person there hitting the button for every break, you take a hard one at the 30 and at the end so that the networks can go to their break at the same time. So that's why. And you can't. There's nothing you can do about it. It fires automatically and Billy or Shannon or whoever's in the studio will tell me 30 seconds, 10 seconds, and then that's what happens.
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C
Okay. Now, I was always, I mean, it's, I can only ask you this at 2 in the morning, but if there.
- [31:28]
Matt Jones
Was ever going to be a night to ask it, it's when we lose by 30 in the SEC tournament. So I'm fine with it.
- [31:34]
C
All right, buddy. Thanks.
- [31:35]
Matt Jones
Appreciate the call. By the way, the. If you listen to last night's postgame show, there were two of my friends who were, who were up with me they are both. Billy passed out asleep on the couch. Neither one of them made it to the. Neither one of them made it the next night. Now I have all of my friends walking in this room, including Tall, who has on a shirt that says, ladies and gentlemen, it's Mr. Conway Twitty with a picture of him. Him in his hair. Who's up next?
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Billy
Spencer.
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Matt Jones
Spencer. Go ahead, Spencer. Hello there, Mario. How are you doing? Go ahead, Spencer.
- [32:10]
C
Hey, Matt. First time, long time. So my only really call for tonight is I think the freshmen are kind of just a step behind, but I really have confidence in what they're going to do in the future. That goes to all three of them, especially the Kentucky boys.
- [32:31]
Matt Jones
Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I. I have some confidence. I think they all have abilities. Here's what I think about when I watch. When I was watching this tonight with all three of them in at the same time. You. We've got to have better athletes. We can't have all three of those guys. We a. If we're gonna be in here, you gotta bring it down. Not. We can't have all three of those guys in at the same time. There's just not athletic enough. Oh, my goodness. Billy, they just broke the couch.
- [32:59]
Billy
They broke the couch.
- [33:00]
Matt Jones
I appreciate the car. I appreciate the call. They literally four of them sat on a couch together and they just broke this Airbnb.
- [33:09]
Billy
Oh, my gosh.
- [33:11]
Matt Jones
And I don't. They didn't do anything. They just. They are too big for the couch. Mario fell off the couch.
- [33:19]
Billy
I can hear them back, and you.
- [33:20]
Matt Jones
Can hear them like children cackling. This is not going to go in the best of our caps. You all broke that couch. You have ruined hubby's Airbnb rating. My goodness. All right, well, I guess we'll deal with that in the morning. Who's next? Like, what's up? How did you do that? Go ahead. What's going on?
- [33:42]
C
Can you hear me?
- [33:43]
Matt Jones
Yes, Hello? Yeah, go ahead.
- [33:45]
C
All right. So, big fan, man. I just started listening, you know, about three years ago and big fan.
- [33:54]
Matt Jones
Thank you very much.
- [33:54]
C
Got a bunch of people that are, you know, listeners.
- [33:59]
Matt Jones
Thank you.
- [34:00]
C
I'm not too. I'm not too mad about this season, considering with what's happened last few years, what I expected was 1sec tournament win. And I will be completely happy if we get a NCAA tournament win.
- [34:18]
Matt Jones
Yeah, I mean, I think you gotta win one. I think you gotta win one. But I'm with you. If you. If you. As long as you win one, I'm okay with it. Just when you consider what. When you consider what's happened with injuries and all that.
- [34:37]
C
Absolutely, man. You know, I was born in 92, about two weeks before the Chris Lang shot. My, you know, my birthday was the day of Mark Pope was hired, so.
- [34:52]
Matt Jones
Oh, that's good. Well, listen, it's been a weird year, right? Appreciate. Appreciate the call. We've gotten some great, great. You know, we've gotten some great wins and we've also had a ton of injuries, and we'll just see what happens next week. I'm still very excited about the tournament. I think positive things can happen. And I think you four look ridiculous. Ridiculous sitting on that broken couch right now. Like, you look ridiculous. Mario, What. What did you do? I mean, they. Billy, they said it. Have you ever seen a couch collapse? No.
- [35:22]
Billy
Especially.
- [35:22]
Matt Jones
Wait, get that. They're not even that big a guy.
- [35:26]
Billy
Yeah, I was going to say, Mario.
- [35:28]
Matt Jones
Four people on a three person couch just completely collapsed it in the middle of this Airbnb in Nashville. So, by the way, if you rented an Airbnb, you might need a new couch, thanks to my group. Who's next?
- [35:44]
Billy
David.
- [35:45]
Matt Jones
David. Go ahead, David.
- [35:48]
C
Matt, there's troubling and unmistakable evidence that Mark Pope has no idea how to coach defense in this league.
- [35:57]
Matt Jones
Well, who do we have that. But who's. Who do we. Who do we have that's a good defender? Like, who do we have that's a good. Who's a good defender?
- [36:07]
C
That's exactly my. That's exactly my point, Matt. He built this roster with a bunch of guys that had no idea how to play defense.
- [36:13]
Matt Jones
But that wasn't smart. That. That was a smart. Okay, who would you like? Hang on. All right. Hey, unless you want me to hang up with you, I'm gonna give you a chance. Turn him down for a second. I will give you a chance to have a conversation, but if you just try to talk over me, I have a dump button and you'll go away. So my question. If you want to answer the question, how did. Who did he go after getting that? He didn't get that. You think he should have. That would have been a really good defensive player.
- [36:41]
C
Okay, Matt, that's one question. Another question is.
- [36:48]
Matt Jones
I asked you a question. You can. It's easy to complain about something, but then you have to offer a solution. All right, Mark Pope made a decision that he thought the best way to build this team was to get a bunch of guys who could score. And he got two defensive players of the year in Butler and Williams, Williams. To me, I don't totally understand how he was defensive player of the year but is a pretty good defender. Butler is hurt, so I don't know really what you're supposed to do. As far as the other guys. They're not good defenders. I don't care what he coaches. Kobe Bray is not going to be able to guard guys on the perimeter. Neither is Travis Perry, neither is Ansley Almanor. Now you could say, well, he could have go and got gone and gotten other guys, but we needed points. We had no players and he had four weeks. Now if you want to make that decision next year, if he brings a team here next year and no one can guard, then, then I think it's a legitimate criticism. But he's got big time athletes coming in here next year. I don't know how good. Jasper Johnson, Malachi Moreno and, and those guys will be Kaden, Kaden Lewis will be next year, but they're all good athletes and they'll be able to defend. I don't know what else he was supposed to do this year. He. If you go look in the portal, you don't get a lot of great defenders. You get a lot of scores and he's got scores. They just can't guard people. And one of the two dudes that we had that was a good defender is hurt. What are you supposed to do? Probably our third best defender, which is Jackson Robinson is also hurt. 859-280-2287. Going to take a break. I'm going to look and see what they can do about this couch. And it is the local Toyota dealers.
- [38:29]
Billy
Get ready to pay for that.
- [38:31]
Matt Jones
Welcome back. It is the local toy dealers KSR postgame show. Matt Jones here in his Airbnb in windy Nashville. Everybody be careful in Nashville. And four of my friends sitting on one broken couch. I noted Billy. One side of the couch has my friend tall who weighs about 280. The other side of the couch has Mario that weighs 140. And it is Mario's side of the couch that broke, which I'm fascinated as to how that worked just from a weight perspective. But it was Mario's side of the couch that broke.
- [39:04]
Billy
Not about the number, it's about how you use it.
- [39:07]
Matt Jones
It's. Well, that's apparently what it is. One person writes. Matt, I am concerned about Pope's defense as well, but I think it's hard to judge him on this year because of the players that they have. I agree with that. I mean if you look historically with Pope they haven't been great defensively. I think long term, that's not a ridiculous thing to worry about. I just think it's hard to do it with this team. You have three or four weeks. I do wonder sometimes if the fact that I think we overachieved part of the year. First of all, this year we overachieved in some ways. We also underachieved. In some ways, we overachieved. We overachieved in beating Duke and Florida and those teams. We also underachieved in losing to Vandy and Texas and that kind of thing. So it's hard to know. And that's what. Pope was at byu. At byu. Pope could beat anybody and they would lose to anybody. And we've had a little bit of that with Kentucky this year. Who's next? Go ahead, Sean.
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C
Hey, man. I was just wanting to say, first of all, we have YouTube TV. And I would say, like, the worst commercial or the worst is in moment is like the. Actually, I would say the koala.
- [40:22]
Matt Jones
You really don't like the koala? Because the. The. The quality, I will note. Can I say something about the quality since we have it on? The koala gets a little too intimate with itself during that thing, too. I just want. I just. I want you to. For those of you that have it, the koala gets a little intimate and then stares into your eye while he does it. Just when you're watching it. Billy, I'm just. The next time you're watching it, just note that that happens. All right, go ahead.
- [40:53]
C
And then I was gonna say second of all, since the game ended, I've met people have been blowing me up with like, the. Not sure Mark Pope was the right. And I keep saying, like, just wait till we get the recruits next year and. Because this team has done great with his.
- [41:08]
Matt Jones
Well, I don't understand why people. I don't understand why people would say that. I mean, again, I would ask you name the NBA player on this team. Like, who is the NBA player on this team? We don't have one.
- [41:22]
C
Maybe. Yeah. And that's what I keep. Like, wait till we get Johnson, Moreno, everybody else, plus away Perry. Next year's team's going to be, like, solid.
- [41:35]
Matt Jones
I hope so. I think I. I think a lot of it's going to be about what transfers he's able to get in the portal this year. And we'll. We'll see what happens.
- [41:43]
C
Yeah, that's. But I'm keeping high hopes up. It was a little down. It was a. It was A let down tonight. But I mean, that's going to happen with this team, like with all the injuries and everything. It's going to have it.
- [41:56]
Matt Jones
I agree. Appreciate the call, man. And by the way, just watch when. Watch when. When he in. You know, when that koala looks at you, just look where his hands are when he does it. It's not good. They'll do four more. Who's next?
- [42:10]
Billy
He's just trying to have his own moment.
- [42:12]
Matt Jones
As in, no, it's not. But it's weird because the guy's right. He stick the koala stares in your eye while he's doing it to. Who's that?
- [42:18]
Billy
Michael.
- [42:19]
Matt Jones
Michael. Go ahead, Michael.
- [42:22]
C
Hey, Matt, how are you doing calling from Little Rock, Arkansas while we're dodging tornadoes? I think I'd rather have a tornado than watch the Zen.
- [42:30]
Matt Jones
By the way, everybody should be safe, especially where you are. But even here in Nashville, they're actually telling people that are going to games tomorrow to plan on getting there early. I think they want to get people in the arena because they're expecting the storm to hit right during that time. But go ahead.
- [42:45]
C
Yeah, my pet peeve. Can we just stop the. The 10 minute reviews on the. On something that they end up saying is a common foul? I mean, that just. It's a big pet peeve of mine. I know they made a couple comments, but one of them was the sideline reporter talked about how Pope was just really mad in the huddle, telling his team that they had just completely just quit on defense.
- [43:12]
Matt Jones
I think. I think he should be mad. He should be mad. They did quit in that second half and I thought they quit against Ole Miss too. And that. And that is a little disheartening. You know, hopefully we, you know, they didn't quit last night, but I do think they quit a little bit tonight. Right.
- [43:28]
C
And the last thing I want to say is I'd really like for one time that if anybody goes off of a pick that they don't get held or they don't get like a hip check, like, like they're in hockey or whatever. Because I mean, coming off a pick that's like just barely. It's like fighting through a war zone. And I mean, it's in the whole sec, but I mean that happened a lot tonight.
- [43:51]
Matt Jones
So Jay Williams had an interesting point tonight and I appreciate the call. Jay Williams said he thinks this league has been as physical as any league in the last 25 years. And he said, I wonder if it'll hurt the team in the SEC in The NCAA tournament, when they start calling that stuff fouls, it'd be interesting to see. It might help us because we may be the least physical team of the physical teams, but they do allow especially off motion. But, like, you know, this would this. What I would say to Mark Pope is we got to match it. If they're going to be allowed to hold, then we need to hold because we lay off on those picks and we end up giving up threes. And so, I don't know, you know, I'll be interested to see what happens in the tournament because I do think they. The league has gotten insanely physical this year, and the refs have kind of let it happen. Who's next?
- [44:38]
Billy
Todd is next.
- [44:40]
Matt Jones
Todd, Go ahead, Todd.
- [44:42]
C
Little Matt. We got taken out behind the woodshed tonight, didn't we?
- [44:47]
Matt Jones
Yes, we did. That second half was embarrassing. It was weird. It didn't feel like a March game. You know, in March games, I'm usually up, like, pacing, and it just felt like I was watching like a scrimmage because it was almost like I didn't care because I thought, we're about to get destroyed. And then we did.
- [45:02]
C
Yes. And I agree with you and what other people have said, too, that, you know, Pope had very little time to get this team together, and for what he was able to do has been. Has been pretty doggone good. But, you know, we are bad on defense, and hopefully that can be fixed because Pope, when he played, you know, they were a tenacious defense.
- [45:34]
Matt Jones
Yes, they were. But they were also insanely athletic. And this team, yeah, at its core, this team is not athletic. Like, this team is probably the least athletic Kentucky team since, like, Patino's first team. You know, I mean, really, we. A lot of our guys can barely dunk. I mean, let's be real. They can't. A lot of them can barely dunk. Always pretty good athlete. Amari and Garrison for bigs are decent athletes, but like Kobe, I mean, a lot of our guys are not good athletes. And so to be. You know, I think a big part of being good defensively is being athletic. And we. And we just. And we're used to under Cal having crazy good athletes, and that's just not what this team is.
- [46:18]
C
Also, I wanted to speak on the Moreno guy coming in. You know, he's a big guy and everything, and. But you got to look at it, you know, he's. He's a freshman. He's playing against high school teams.
- [46:36]
Matt Jones
He's.
- [46:36]
C
If he comes in and he's able to do that against experienced SEC players, then say, we got something. But, you know, he. We're going to.
- [46:46]
Matt Jones
He's going to be back. He's going to be a backup next year. I mean, I think Moreno has a huge upside for the future, but he's not your starting five next year. We'll have to see whether they think Garrison is. I think they got to get another big in the portal. Jasper Johnson is a. Is a starter next year. The other two guys are not, in my opinion. I don't think they're starters. I think Jasper Johnson's. I think we come into next season with two starters. I feel really good, good about away and Jasper. Maybe Garrison gets there, but they're gonna have to go get two or three starters in the portal. They need to get a shooter. And then either Chandler, Noah, or Perry, they're going to step up and play a lot better. But, I mean, this is a big portal for Pope. He's going to have to go get, like, three really good guys. I was talking to a guy at the game tonight who's a reporter who said he wouldn't tell me who it is, but he was like, I think they're going to get. There's one stud they already have. And that's good. I was glad to hear it, but I don't know who it is.
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C
And Chandler, you got to remember, too, you know, he had.
- [47:51]
Matt Jones
He's athletic. That's true, but he's athletic. We're talking about athletes. I forgot about him. He is athletic, even though he's, you know, he's still a freshman and, you know, get.
- [48:02]
C
Get the rust out of him and, you know, he may be an entirely different player next year, you know.
- [48:09]
Matt Jones
Yeah, I think you're right. I appreciate the call. We'll do two more and we'll call it a night and a weekend. Who's next?
- [48:15]
Billy
Chris?
- [48:16]
Matt Jones
Chris. Go ahead, Chris. Hey, Matt.
- [48:20]
C
Couple quick questions and then a pet peeve. First question is, do you think a coach's job is to put his players.
- [48:28]
Matt Jones
In the best position to succeed? I do. Yes. So if we don't have the athletes.
- [48:35]
C
On defense, why are we not switching up our defense, keep the other team's offense?
- [48:42]
Matt Jones
I think that's a. I think that's a fair question. I think what you. What. What my answer would be is, you know, you play these teams that shoot threes well and you play zone, they're going to kill you is probably what he would say. Like, you play zone against Alabama, Florida, teams like that, they're going to score 130 points is probably what he would say. They played zone a couple of plays tonight and it seemed to help a little bit. And then they hit a couple threes and they got out of it. And so, you know, I know what you're saying, but you still, to be a good zone team, you still need to be athletic. And we're just not athletic. I agree. I just, I'm not saying to do it one time or going one way or all the other.
- [49:26]
C
Just mix it up, right? Keep them on their toes. And my pet peeve is stupid people don't know they're stupid. Ignorance is bliss.
- [49:34]
Matt Jones
Go, cat. Well, that's the truth. I appreciate the call. I mean, that's a whole nother thing. The most confident people are usually the dumbest. But. But, you know, think about it himself. Think about when Cal, we had good teams under Cal and we might draw like Davidson in the first round of tournament or Wofford and we go, oh, what's going to happen this week? And that team would be full of unathletic guys who could execute. And then what happened when athletic dudes who were playing well played against them? We'd beat them by 25 points because they just couldn't guard us. Right. It's not that extreme, but our athletes aren't nearly as good athletes as these teams were playing right now. And I think that'll be better starting next year. Like, let me just use example of Ansley Almanor. I love Ansley Almanor. I love that he hits corner threes. I love. I think he's. He seems like a great kid and he's made some big shots for us. If Ansley Almanor had not come here, do you know where he was going to play basketball next year?
- [50:34]
Billy
Nowhere.
- [50:35]
Matt Jones
This year it was going to be at Sienna. Okay. He was going to be at Siena if he didn't come here. So, you know, you got to put perspective on this was a guy who played at Fairleigh Dickinson, who's going to go to Siena, who now because of the injuries, has to be like our seventh mate. That's the way it goes. One more. Who's next?
- [50:55]
Billy
Greg.
- [50:56]
Matt Jones
Greg. Go ahead, Greg. Hey, Matt, how are you? What's going on?
- [51:03]
C
Well, I've got a fear and, and a grievance. I'll start with a fear. Have you watched any High Point University basketball this year?
- [51:12]
Matt Jones
I have not. Although I've seen that they can be very dangerous and they are projected kind of in that 13, 14 range. Yep.
- [51:20]
C
Yeah, I've got that fear. And actually a couple Weeks ago, in one of Leonardi's bracket versions, he had us matched up with them. And they just remind me of kind of a Mississippi Light with a lot of flashers, a lot of assets, not a lot of size.
- [51:37]
Matt Jones
They do have some water.
- [51:39]
C
You know, they're gonna want to keep that in there.
- [51:40]
Matt Jones
But the key is the, the, is the size part. If we, if we, we have, we do have size on them, and so that would be our advantage in that game. Plus, I think, you know, they slash a lot, but we, we do, we do shoot. I think they'd have a hard time scoring with us if we play like we should in a game like that.
- [51:59]
C
I definitely, I definitely think. I agree with you. I think we'd be the favorite. But I do see it as a, the type of style that could give us some fits if.
- [52:08]
Matt Jones
Yeah.
- [52:08]
C
If we're off.
- [52:09]
Matt Jones
Yeah.
- [52:10]
C
My grievance. All right, My grievance. Potholes. And here's my thought. In the year of our Lord 2025, how is it that as you're rolling from winter into spring, you have a crew come out and fix potholes on a Monday and they're all broken up by Wednesday or Thursday?
- [52:33]
Matt Jones
I don't know. You know, I did hear when we talked about potholes a couple years ago. I appreciate the call. Somebody told us that we have more potholes in Kentucky than anywhere else. Because the weather stuff, I might as well believe him on that. I don't know. But it's a good way to end it because who knows what the, what the answer is. Hey, Billy, thank you very much for being around this weekend. I know you've been up as much as I have. Thank you all for listening, especially if you're listening now. If anybody know if anyone can get my friend the turkey hunter to keep his volume down or to come fix this couch, that would be nice. You all enjoy the rest of your night. Stay safe in the. In the wind. We will see you on Monday if you're around. I'm doing the ESPN bracket show 5 to 8 o'clock Sunday for ESPN Radio with Meyer Metcalf. It's one of the coolest things I get to do. Would love you to have you turn in, find out the brackets from me. Mark Pope is scheduled to be on the show with us and maybe Billy, Rick Patino as well. Working on that right now. And I'll have to interview the NCAA selection committee chair, so maybe I'll just. Yeah, we will see you all later. This has been the local toilet dealers KSR post game show. Geico's motorcycle expertise means I'm covered by people who know bikes like I do. I'm happy as a clam. No conclusive scientific research has shown clams can experience happiness. It just meant that I feel really good about my coverage. I mean, even if you took the clam out for the best day ever, visiting the zoo, taking a scenic ride, knowing you're insured by specialists, and sharing a strawberry ice cream cone together, the clam would not feel happy and your strawberry cone would taste sort of clammy. Geico's motorcycle specialists who know bikes like you do, assume no liability for clammy ice cream cones. Geico expertise for your motorcycle.