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Matt Jones (0:00)
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Billy Rutledge (0:30)
Welcome everyone. It is the Local Toy Dealers KSR Post Game show why don't you tell me this before I start Billy it's the KSR Local Toy Dealers KSR Postgame Show. We are here after a 9564 Kentucky absolute beatdown of the Vanderbilt Commodores in Rupp arena on Senior Night. A feel good game where Kentucky basically did everything they wanted to do against an LSU team that was not up to the task of playing in the game. We're going to talk about the game, but there's a lot going on that affects Kentucky right now, including a Texas Mississippi State game that it looked like Texas was going to win and they absolutely blew in a way that was amazing to watch and and they're going to overtime now and if Texas had won it would have guaranteed Kentucky a buy in the SEC tournament and now I don't know if that's going to happen, but Arkansas is playing Vandy. If Arkansas were to win, I think we're close to guarantee. There's a lot of different ramifications, but there are games that put Kentucky with a chance to have a buy in the first round of the SEC tournament. But none of it would have mattered if Kentucky lost and they did not. 9564 win in which they dominated. I thought it was a feel good game. Obviously away had 24 but no other starter had double digits. So after the last game when it felt like no one except the starters played well, this was a game where three guys off the bench had double digits. Ansley Almondor 15, Brandon Garrison 15, Colin Chandler 11. And you go from five points off the bench to just those guys with 41 points off the bench. That's a pretty good change. And it was Senior night for six guys that as we talked about multiple times today, both on the regular show and the pregame show. You know, these are guys who basically I think brought back the fan excitement that had been missing the last few years around the Program still remains to be seen what they'll do in March still remains to be seen how the season will be remembered. But regardless, this was a program that needed an injection of life and this group of transfers did it. And I thought it was great to have them go out with a victory like this. Some thoughts just on the game going forward. I thought the key was Kentucky getting the pace where they wanted to. They were able to get out in transition. It did not look to me like lsu, especially in the first half had the energy Kentucky did. And Kentucky was able to take it advantage of that and get up and down the floor, play with pace, get an extra step. They made threes, obviously it was the 17th game. They hit double digit threes May, but they, they made 12 and they took 32 and you know, we've talked a lot about getting that 30 to 35, three point mark. When you do and then you make 12, this team can be pretty tough to beat. So I like that. I, I loved a couple things I really loved. I loved how Brandon Garrison played. I did not think he played well against Auburn, but now he's two out of the last three games played well. If you consider Oklahoma, that's good going in the postseason. You know, I'm not going to get too frisky about Colin Chandler because I don't want to, you know, I mean, he hasn't played a lot of the year. But I tell you what, the Colin Chandler you saw tonight is a guy who could, he's not going to substitute. He's not going to like, you know, change, not going to substitute for Jackson, Robinson, but man, if he could give you games like that on a regular basis in March even I'd have to score 11 points. If he can just hit knock down open threes and if he can play defense, he can be a key contributor. I've kind of felt like without when they had Robinson, I felt like they had really eight guys that they could rely on. And I've kind of felt like we were a guy short. And I'm not saying Colin Chandler can be that guy every game, but if he can be it in some games, his athleticism allows him not to kind of get taken on defense like some of the other guys and you'd have a lot more freedom for Mark Pope to do stuff. So I was very excited that to me he's the biggest takeaway of the game because if he can play anywhere close to that the rest of this year. Okay, now, now, now you're talking about something they hit the Boards well, shot well. Crab was into it. It was. It was a great night. And I love the story Mark Pope told at the end, which maybe you heard during his comments about the. The young man, Zach Tao, who is from. I mean, it's a great story from Madisonville. Mark Pope had open tryouts for a walk on this year. Zach got picked. They intentionally. I wondered because even though he was at everything, they never listed him as exactly on the team. And so I didn't know was he on the team. He didn't dress out for games. It was. It was hard to really know what was going on. Well, I guess they made the decision to let him dress out on senior night. Lamont Butler presented him the jersey right before the game. And as I was lit and you know, that's a kid from Kentucky who now, because not only he got to wear the jersey, because he got to check in with 0.2 seconds left, he will now go down as a Kentucky basketball player officially. I don't know if he would have done that unless he had gotten in the game. That's what this whole thing is about. And you go and look at this year again, we'll see what happens in March. We'll see what happens in the SEC tournament, we'll see what happens in the NCAA tournament. But what has become clear is something that I think had been lost a little bit in recent years. This name on the front over name on the back, right. That really kind of came back in this. In this season. And you had a lot of players who were very appreciative to be on this roster. A lot of players who were very excited to get a chance to be at Kentucky. And this group did that. And then they also won a lot against really good teams. And now we go into March, who knows, with a chance to make a run. I thought it was interesting. Mark Pope said, you know, we're going to miss Jackson Robinson, but now we at least know who our team is. And that's right. This is our team. We're not fully healthy. We don't have Creeso or Robinson, but we are fully healthy with the guys that are on the team. And now we see what we have. You got five starters that can all play. I think you got five starters that can compete with anybody in the country. Can we get three bench guys to play with them? Think if we can, this team can really make a little bit of noise. 859-280-2287 Texas has not given up yet. They're up three with a minute and A half to go. Although they once again turned the ball over and ends up in a dunk on the other side. I don't know. They don't want to win this game, but hopefully they do because if they do, I'm looking at this. If they can, if, if they lose and then Arkansas beats Vandy. Billy, I think we're guaranteed to buy in the SEC term.