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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 that's about as good a game as you will see in college basketball. 106 to 100 both teams in triple digits as the Cats get early morning home victory against Florida. It's only like 2:45 and we're done for the day except for this postgame show. I'll open up the phone lines here in just a few minutes after we finish this first segment. Awesome college basketball game. I mean really as it's. That's one of those, that's one of those high, high level games where both teams played excellent and luckily Kentucky was the team to win and just an awesome environment in Rupp Arena. I mean the as loud as it's been consistently for a game in a long time and a fan base really eager to get a big time victory in the arena and they got it. Kentucky's third top 10 win of the year, which is in and of itself a pretty astounding, astounding sort of stat. And they'll probably get three more chances at it as the years goes on as Tennessee, Alabama and Auburn will all come in at some point this year. First of all, let's just go over kind of big picture the game. I thought after the first 10 minutes of the game that is the best offense that I think I've seen Kentucky play in a long, long time in 30 minutes of action. They scored 82 points in the last, in the last 30 minutes. That's or actually, excuse me, that's not even right. They scored 88 points in the last 30 minutes of action. I mean there are very few games where Kentucky scores 88 points. They did that in 30 minutes. Just an absolute clinic on offense with six different guys in double figures I think. And we'll go over them in a minute. I think the six main players all had massive stretches in the game that if you didn't have any of them. If one of them was not there, Kentucky would have lost. And that is just a credit to how this team is a. Is greater than the sum of its parts. Defensively, I don't think Kentucky played particularly wonderful, but I also don't think it was all on Kentucky. I think Florida was offensively themselves pretty amazing. Those two guards, Walter Clayton Jr. Then Martin, were both terrific and we really didn't have an answer for him. And then you throw in the fact that offensive rebounding, you know, we just got destroyed. They ended up with 17 missed shots where they either got the rebound or got the ball out of bounds. So 17 second chances, which led to 31 points. And to beat them with that stat that just, that's not going to happen very often. So in Kentucky got out, toughed a little bit on the defensive end, but made up for it with excellent offense and creating turnovers. I think Kentucky made up for a lot of their problems rebounding by their turnovers. Florida ended up with nine turnovers, but I think Kentucky converted eight of those nine into buckets. That's. That's how you make it up. And then free throws. Florida got so many calls. I mean, I'm not, you know, I'm not a referee complainer. I don't think it was like unfair, but the referees just decided if you threw yourself into the defender, you were getting the call. And Florida just did that more often than Kentucky. And so they got a lot of free throws. But what I loved about the game is how each of these dudes were individually excellent, except excellent. We'll start with Kobe Bray, obviously, seven threes, you know, we've waited, you know, you knew this game was there. He's still in a. He's been an amazing shooter all year, but to make seven, all of them huge, including a couple where the game had gotten down to three or four points. He hits a three, extends the lead, never gives him a chance to tie the game or take the lead. And man, every time he shoots, it feels like it's in. He doesn't force it. He took one heat check three, and I thought it was in. It kind of went in and out, but it's just an amazing shooting performance by Kobe Braya Lamont Butler had, let's see, he finished with 19 points, but I thought just his defense, even though his man scored a lot, he got a couple of steals. He let got fast breaks out. He made free throws down the stretch. He's kind of sneakily not been a great free throw shooter this year. He Ended up hitting six of seven towards the end of the game when they mattered. He was massive, you know, Jackson Robinson, 14 points. You may have forgotten he was out there, but there were two different stretches where he had five point flurries when they needed baskets. Once in the first half when they were down 11 and then once in the second half he got these little flurries which kept them at one point in the game and and the other point ahead. Then you had Andrew Carr. You know, Andrew obviously hit the three. That pretty much sealed the game. I thought he played pretty poorly a lot of the game. He got switched a lot on those guards. He couldn't guard them. I thought he was getting out muscle down low. But he also then hit the two most important shots. He got the back to the basket layup, he got the three in the corner. That dude. End of games. He has been money this year at the end of games. He has been absolutely excellent. Did it again today. Oh way Kentucky went on three runs. I'd never heard the the phrase. Billy, had you ever heard the phrase kill runs? Have you ever heard.