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Welcome in to the Central Kentucky Select Toyota Dealers Post game show. Drew Franklin here filling in for Matt Jones on night one of Kentucky basketball's 2526 season. I'm in the downtown Lexington studio with our dear friend Billy R. Sports who just loves sitting in the studio during games. Billy, you've been here all day and it's so good to see you looking well rested, energized over there.
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It's just nice to see another human being, Drew. So I appreciate you and whoever's hosting the post game actually coming in to do it with me today.
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It's good to be here. I was at the game, did the rapid reaction on the sidewalk. White walked right down to the studio after Kentucky handled its business against Nichols. The Colonels, not Nichols State. We're just going with Nichols. Billy77:51 not only the first game of the season, but the first game of the BBN United tip off Classic presented by Kentucky Tourism. If I'm the only person that's going to get excited about that, that's fine. But I'm going to keep pushing that message because it's a big four team, three game, multi team event to start the season and Kentucky got it started by beating Nichols 70. It was a tale of two halves and that's, that's putting it lightly. First half, a brutal run for the Wildcats. Second half they got it going and pulled away late. We're going to be here for the next hour breaking down that game, the highs, the lows. We want to hear from you. 859-280-2287. Call us throughout the night. Want to hear your favorite moments of the game? Not favorite moments of the game, concerns moving forward, predictions for the season. Maybe you were there, you can talk about the crowd wasn't the crowd's best effort but it was a good start to the season. Kentucky Kentucky getting the win. I will say before we go on and get into the basketball, I have to mention the tragic accident that happened in Louisville shortly before the game tipped off a UPS cargo plane crashed. Just a horrific scene with videos and photos going around. I think, Bill, and you can correct me, you've been here getting the news. I've been at Rupp, but at least four people were killed, 11 injured.
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Three, actually.
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Three people. Excuse me.
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What I've seen, so.
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Oh, three. Three. Okay. But three. 11 injured. It was an MD11 aircraft heading for Honolul. It was packed with ton of fuel. Just an unbelievable scene there. So we're thinking about everyone, praying for everyone involved with this tragedy. News is still coming. Did you say that they didn't carry the game? They're basically just doing news.
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Wha. Yes, we were doing a lot of news updates, keeping people abreast. So, you know, thinking about everybody involved and, you know, the images are striking out of that. So. Wishing the best.
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Yes. And I just. I had to mention that before we get into a fun night of basketball as Kentucky got that win because just a tragic situation in Louisville and more will be coming out on that throughout the night as they continue the investigation going, but that's what we know for now. I want to acknowledge it and send our thoughts and prayers out to everyone there. There's not a good way to transition into basketball, so I'll just do it again. Kentucky got the win, beating Nichols 7751 in Rupp Arena. Billy, I would. I would love to skip the first half and just get into when it really got fun, but we should acknowledge that the first 20 minutes was not the best basketball we've ever seen played from either side. We had a 28 to 15 halftime score. There were people online who had struggle, struggle to find espn. We all know that situation tonight. And at halftime, they're wishing they had never found it. It was so ugly. Kentucky shot 2 of 16 from 3 and 32% from the field. Felt like it was 00 for several minutes early in the game. You get to that 28:15 score at halftime, but the. It just looked brutal offensively to start. Aberdeen played but did not start out, start out. They went with Chandler away. Trent, Noah, Modia Bate and Brandon Garrison, the same five that started against Georgetown and lost. We saw pretty quickly what it's like not having Aberdeen in the low. There's just no flow in the offense. Colin Chandler, who had a great night and I can't wait to get to that later on. Early on, the ball just kept getting stuck. Pope kind of doesn't kind of. He loves the space and pace offense, a lot of reading and reacting. And in that first half, at least, what I saw just a lot of dudes looking at each other and chucking up threes. And as I mentioned, the threes weren't going in two for 16. Billy.
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Yeah, and according to Goose on the radio broadcast, a lot of dribbling, no communication on defense, even though they held him to what only was it 15 points in the first half, which the low ever was 11. And Mark Pope was gunning for that one. But I mean, what were your thoughts after that first half? Drew?
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We. I guess it wasn't all bad because defensively, even though I don't think Nichols is very good, they shot 1 for 14 from 3 and some of those were open. But you have to give Kentucky credit for holding them. They shot 12% from the field. Nichols did.
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Wow.
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And a lot of that was Kentucky forcing into bad shots. Again, they missed some open looks, but overall Kentucky did play well defensively. A huge step forward from the Georgetown game where those guards were getting whatever they wanted on Chandler especially, especially my guy. You take a step down in competition tonight and Nichols just couldn't get anything on that defense. But it wasn't. I can't compliment the defense when the offense was as poor as it looked in that first half.
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Yeah, it was bad. It was really bad. I mean, a little concerning, especially for the first game, but you mentioned it. It shows you how valuable a good point guard is. And when Aberdeen was at the one in the second half and Colin moved to the two. I mean, Drew, it's a good night for the Colin Chandler fan club to be hosting the post game show tonight.
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Yeah, I didn't want to jump straight into that dunk. I'm still going to wait a couple minutes before I pop the champagne in here on that. But you mentioned Aberdeen in the second half. He got a lot more minutes played with Otega o way in the second half, which I thought was important. He was limited in the first half as Pope eased him in, but you didn't see him get a lot of run with that first group. I thought when Chandler played a little more off the ball and Aberdeen got some run at point guard in the second half, the offense looked much better. Pope even said that he acknowledged that Chandler, his natural position is the two plays much better that way and he's having to go above and beyond. But Aberdeen, he had six assists, zero turnovers. Pope said that's his great, his best assist to turnover ratio of his career. It helped Chandler get going because Chandler did not have a great first half, but he turned it on with 4 for 4 in the second half, three of those were three pointers. And then of course an early nominee for dunk of the year came late in the game. Chandler drives the lane. Billy. He cocked that back. I knew he had some hops, I knew he had some bunnies. But the cock it back like that, that's an NBA dunk. And he caught a body from the Nichols player. And just as the dunk was the team reactions were even better. Otega away is standing in the corner and he covers his eyes. When Chandler plants his feet to jump on the sideline. I believe it was Cam Williams who ends up just completely flat on the ground laying down. Rubberine exploded. Without question, the highlight of the night is Colin Chandler punches in his 14 and 15th point there point which led the team high score.
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That's got to be the best part of those posterizing dunks. Not only the reaction of the teammates but the other team when, when they're reacting like that. You know it was a great dunk and, and man, Colin was just building that confidence. He finally hit a couple shots and then from him to get that dunk. I mean it really could be the catalyst of a, for a good year for Colin.
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I was worried about the fan club in the first half other than playing some decent defense, he was not looking good. As I said, no one was looking good. Chandler in the first half went 1 for 4 from 3 mention went 3 for 3 in the second half. But I was, I was worried about the fan club there a little bit. I, I had a flash sale going on after the Georgetown game. I mentioned on the pregame show you can bundle your Colin Chandler fan club subscription with ESPN Unlimited. At halftime people in Rupp arena were patting me on the back saying it's going to get better. And you know what Billy? It sure did get better.
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It sure did get better. But you're right, it felt like he take the, he took the first couple shots of the game and then they weren't getting close. So happy for him building that confidence. Happy for the young guys still playing well. Jasper Johnson had some moments when they were trying to find a bucket. You know overall they were able to get to that victory. They didn't cover the spread though.
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Drew not a cover. I thought that that number was way too big anyway. Also Kentucky's team total the over under was 95. Goodness. Not even close to that now I didn't bet it but I wouldn't have thought on a good night they'd get to 95 with the limited roster but still big second half. First half, as I mentioned, not good. The starters, Ortega Oway was 1 for 5, Trent Noah over Modi Abate, I believe. 1 for 3, Trent Noah, big piece of news there. He rolled an ankle in the first half, looked pretty bad, stayed down for a couple of minutes. Billy, I was there. You could have heard a pin drop in Rupp arena while he was over there on the baseline. He's kind of in a crowd by the camera crew. You don't get a good look, look, he hobbles off the court. But at halftime, I don't know what they've said on the broadcast or what Pope said specifically, but he was a full participant and shoot around at halftime. They just didn't end up playing in the second half. So it doesn't seem like that'll be a lingering issue, even though that was a scare there early on.
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Well, you may have been walking to the studio here, but you may have missed Pope saying that Trent Noah's a liar. Called him a liar several times in the locker room because Trent was like, yeah, I'm ready to go. Do I don't feel any pain. Put me back in, coach. And he knew that was Trent just trying to get back in there, you know, high expectations for him this year. He struggled in the last exhibition game. You'd hope he'd get a couple, see a couple fall. It was good that it happened to Colin Chandler, but Trent's next and hopefully Kentucky can avoid that injury bug.
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Yeah, there was a moment where we just thought, no, not another one. Because we all know how last year went. Completely ran out of point guards. You've got low sitting, you got quite sitting there. Aberdeen ended up playing but didn't start. Missed the Georgetown game. So I thought surely not one more, especially in the first game of the year. And a fan favorite in Trent Noah, but it looks like he'll be okay. Still. When he was in over two from three, he and Cam Williams, they're supposed to be the shooters. Billy, how, how much do we need to worry about the shooting on this team? Second half, evened out the percentage 7 for 27 in the game, which still isn't good. But Trent Noah not hitting his and Cam Williams had an ugly night. From three. Cam Williams did get a nice two handed dunk in traffic, but other than that I'd be really worried and worried about him moving forward 20 minutes and didn't offer a lot outside of that dunk. Those guys have got to get going because when this team's not hitting threes, that's why everything Clogs up as we saw in that first half.
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And Goose was begging for one of those guys, one of their shots to fall because as soon as you see one it's going to be like Chandler. You're going to get that confidence and you'll, you'll be a different player. But Mark Pope after the game said that he doesn't even worry about guys missing shots. He's worried about the amount of shots they're getting up. He's still not satisfied as they didn't get over the 30 mark when it comes to three pointers. So I don't know, maybe it's early but I, I'm a little concerned early on.
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Yeah. And I know Pope wants them to get to 30, but when they were 2 for 16 at halftime I wanted them to take zero threes at that point I did not want to. That evened out. But I'm still worried about the free throw shooting. Yeah, didn't even out that well. This has now been both preseason games and the first game of the season where Kentucky has not shot well. What they finished tonight, it looks like 12 of 22.
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My goodness, 12 of 22 is not going to cut it.
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That's even worse than I remembered. Away and Jasper Johnson went 4 for 5. So that says a lot about the rest of the group.
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And you miss one or two, that just kills a lot of momentum. I mean and it gets in the guys head especially you saw that in the first half. I could not believe the first half score was 28 to 15. But Drew, we made it out on the other side.
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Pope was proud of the 15. I didn't know but that was pushing a record for the lowest halftime score by an opponent. So they flirted with that on the free throws. Malachi Moreno, pretty big culprit there, one for six. But otherwise I thought Malachi had a pretty good game. Got close to double digit rebounding, had some nice passes, finished a couple of dunks in there. So the Kentucky boys not a perfect night but he and Jasper did some good things. Noah was limited but I liked what we're seeing from Malachi Marino, Brandon Garrison still Brandon Garrison had a decent night, took a three, didn't need to take contested three with like three seconds into the shot clock. But I like until we get quaintance. I like what we're seeing as Marino pushing Garrison for those minutes because he's right on his heels.
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Yeah, I'm worried about Brandon Garrison and his playing time. I mean he was playing point guard. It felt like for the first 10 minutes of the game, dribbling up and doing some passing. And you know, that's a guy that if he doesn't start playing well quickly, he's going to see a lot of minutes lost to Moreno and then JQ when he gets back. But we'll see. I mean he's somebody that was in Pope system last year. So you expect some improvement, but definitely a concern early on.
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And I mentioned Aberdeen. 6, 0 turnover assist, turnover, turnover ratio, which is great. Kentucky as a team improved. Georgetown, they had more turnovers than assists and that was one of the biggest things I was looking for in this game. I had two, five notes of things to watch for. Maybe I'll go over those as the show goes on, but one of them was the assists and turnovers. 21 assists tonight, 13 turnovers, much better improvement from the Georgetown game last week. Offense still has plenty of room to grow and that will happen when Low gets back. But they cleaned that up a little bit, led by Aberdeen getting in there and running the show. He had a great no look pass for one of those Marino dunks in the second half.
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Yep, that ball movement got a lot better. And I mean we've seen this story before. When Pope doesn't have a point guard, it can be a real struggle. And after that second half with Aberdeen, it just shows you even more.
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So there's a brief rundown of the game here. We have plenty more to say, including some of my takeaways from the crowd and just being there. Lots more from the actual basketball too. And we want to hear from you as always here on the Kentucky Select Toyota Dealers post game show. Right?
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That's right.
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I nailed it.
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That's right. It's a little confusing, but give that number one more time. We'll open up the phones.
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Right?
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859-280-2287. I want hear what you thought about the game, if you're even, even able to watch the game. Did you get logged in or did you have to listen to a little Tom and Jack? We want your thoughts here. We're here for the next 45 minutes or an hour. So in Lexington, a late night after Kentucky got a win in Game 1, beating Nichols 77 to 51. Drew Franklin with Billy Rutledge here on the Kentucky Select Toyota Dealers postgame show. We'll be right back. Jogs it up the right side now. Picks up the pace, puts two defenders, gets into the lane, loses the handle. But Garrison there to find it, fires a diagonal pass to Chandler, turns down the three. He'll Drive the lane. A one handed slam right into the face of Sanders. Oh my. Welcome back in to the Central Kentucky Select Toyota Dealers postgame show. After Kentucky beat Nichols 77, 51 in the first game of Mark Pope's second season in Lexington. Billy, I have to ask, was that some fancy producing there? Do you always play sound clips coming back from breaks or was that just because I'm so excited?
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Was for you, Drew. That was for you in the fan club. Probably one of the better reactions I've heard from Tom and Jack. And how was Rupp Arena? Did it go crazy too?
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It exploded. And I feel like on the way out, everyone felt like they needed to come up and give me a high five because I've been so adamant about Colin Chandler. And even though it was a slow start to the season and he still has a lot of growing to do, we're not perfect, I acknowledge that. But that dunk right there, that's what I'm talking about. Vindication. Not a lot of people can do that, Billy. That is what I see in Colin Chandler, that we just got to get dialed in in the right position, get that roster back and let him focus on doing things like that.
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And instantly became the favorite player of some children out there, right? I mean, some kids in BBN just had Colin Schiller become their favorite player. I mean, it was, it was a great play. No doubt.
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Well, kids get in line because he's my favorite player and I had him first. But there's plenty of room on the the bandwagon. One other note before we get to these calls. I mentioned how poorly Kentucky shot in the first half and Nichols the combined, 1 for 14 and 2 for 16. What is that? 3 for 30 combined in the first half. I thought something might be wrong with the rims because there's no reason two college teams should shoot three for 30. But there wasn't some. Something, something wrong with the rims because during a timeout a guy named Jared walked onto the court and hit the $10,000 half court shot. So as I'm watching Chandler and away Williams, Noah and the boys not hit shots. Random student, I think from the crowd just walks in in the first central bank 10k shot of the year. He busted.
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Yeah, that was in the first half. So everybody's still missing at that point. Jack said he was over the line, so.
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Oh, okay. I didn't know that. I sit, I sit about as high up in the corner as you can sit. So he looked like an ant to me. But I know where Jack sits And he's got the best view. Is. Are you telling me, is this. Is this a thing?
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See, I don't know. I mean, they didn't break it down on air after when they came back for break. But, you know, a lot of these companies, sometimes they like, void it when like the one little things off.
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I'm not going to name the company, but many years ago, and longtime KSR listeners and readers will remember this because we. We covered it extensively. But someone had a half court shot and the company would not pay them. And we did some zoom in and it was right on the line and it was a whole thing. And I think the lesson there is if it's close companies, take care of them.
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Just do it.
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Yeah. Kid hit a half court shot when nobody was making shots. Yeah.
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Come on.
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Congratulations, Jared. Billy, let's get through some of these calls. Let's hear their favorite moments. Maybe Jared will call in and tell us what it's like to win. 10k shooting, half court shot, not who's up first.
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Let's talk to Angus.
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Angus. Nice name. What's up?
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What's up, guys? How y' all doing tonight?
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Excellent.
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Good, good. I'm watching out of Knoxville. I was at a sports bar watching, so I didn't get to see a whole lot of the game is loud and crazy here. But I just thought the first half we looked like we were missing a facilitator, somebody to get other guys their shots. We looked like we were trying to find our own shots. And I think Jalen Lowe will fill that spot perfectly when we get him back. Just hope he's healthy. About next Tuesday. Colin Chandler. Dunk. Play of the night. That's all I got. Go Cats.
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It's a great point. I agree. Play of the night. And I agree. Jalen Lowe will change everything. That looks like it could be a problem right now. As frustrating as that first half was, I kept reminding myself, this is not the team that Pope built. This is not the team I will be watching here pretty soon. You know, we're a week from Louisville game. Billy. This is unique circumstances.
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I don't like it. I don't.
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Weak.
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I don't like the Louisville game being so soon. But that's why those exhibition games were so big. Just to try to learn something about yourself before that game. Because Friday, who do they play?
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Drew? Friday they play Valpo.
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Okay.
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In the second game of the BBN United Tip Off Classic presented by Kentucky Tourism. Then they will step away from the BBN United Tip Off Classic presented by Kentucky Tourism. To play Louisville and then end it with Eastern Illinois next week.
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Okay. Say, that's. That's just strange. But, you know, you got to get ready quick to be able to beat.
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Your rival and you got to have low back. Look, I'm a Louisville hater and I will forever pick Kentucky to beat Louisville in anything. If we're playing checkers, pick in Kentucky. But I'll feel much better if Lowe's back next week. I have some concerns if that offense, even though it got better in the second half, if that's what Mark Pope takes to Louisville next Tuesday, I'm a little worried. Let's get low back. But it sounds like he's been fully practicing and this might have been a precautionary sit out with that big game coming up around the corner.
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Yep.
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Who's up next?
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Mandy is next.
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Mandy, thanks for calling in.
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Hey, no problem. A question. Was that the greatest dunk in Rupp arena history? By the air. Mormon himself, Colin Chandler.
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The greatest ever. I think Dirk Minnfield would still have something to say about that. I remember a Michael Kid Gilchrist dunk against Portland. Darius Miller against Ole Miss. Those come to mind. But it is in the conversation behind.
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Minnesota Field at least top five. Top five.
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I'm with you. Top five.
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Yeah.
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Certainly top one of the 2025, 2026 season.
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Yes.
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Did you have any other favorite Cats.
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Other favorite moments? I'm just ready to light it up against Louisville. Louisville next week. I'm just. I think that's. We're going to. The shots are just going to start falling.
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All right. I like it. Can't stay cold forever. Thank you for calling in. Who's up next?
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Billy.
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Let's go to Chase.
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Chase, what's up?
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Hey, guys. I mean, come on now. That calling channel Doug better be on Sports Center. Top 10 tomorrow.
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I agree. Should be number one.
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Should be number one. Now it'll be a question of if people get to watch it on YouTube TV or not, but we'll see if they get that fixed.
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Did you have any trouble finding the game?
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No. We have the ESPN select stuff, so we're. We're lucky. But I'm still mad at YouTube TV.
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Me too, Chase. I coughed up the money to Mickey Mouse myself. I caved and I had to watch the Cats. But Billy, still.
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Yeah, it was awful on YouTube, not YouTube TV. If you just tried to find it somewhere, it, you know, buffering, just random commercials in the middle of it. It was torture over here. So that's why you just listen to Tom and Jack do you have one.
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More thing there, Chase?
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One more thing. We're going to be Florida this Saturday and we're going to be Louisville next week and we're going to have some big week here. Go Cat. I love it.
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That's the spirit. Go Cats. Indeed. Who's up next, Billy?
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Let's go to Brett.
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Brett, what's up?
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Yeah, I just wanted to call. I got two tickets for the Florida game and yeah, that was error. Jordan dunk there. That was something. But when's that that low gonna play?
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We don't have an official word from Mark Pope yet, but the way it sounds like he's ramped up practicing. At our practice we attended last week, he wasn't a participant, but he was in uniform and doing a lot of drills. It sounds like he's pretty close spin ready to go. And just speculating. Pope will have him ready by next Tuesday because he knows how important that is.
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Well, I know this is basketball night, but I've been going to them football games. I was in junior high when I want. My uncle was in medical school and we got two tickets to go and that's when Frank Kersey was coaching and both times they played Tennessee and they just got demolished. Yeah. So I'm, you know, I just hope he can pull it out. But yeah, I agree with you all. If he can't win six, they probably need to go in a different direction. But I just hate it because of Cutler Bowley. I live in E town, so my cousin lived over there in Hodgesville and she had him in school when he was little, so.
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All right, Appreciate the call. Yeah, I like the enthusiasm for Saturday. I don't want to confuse people that might have just gotten in the car. And we're talking about Cutter Bowley and beating Florida, so we'll keep it on basketball. But thank you for calling in. I agree with everything you said about the importance of Saturday's game and wanting Bowley to do well. Can't be. Can't be talking football, Billy.
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No, no, this. Wrong posting. I'm sure you want to take one more before we take a break here.
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I'll do whatever you want to do. This is my, like, this is my first basketball post game show and I don't know how long you're in charge.
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You're in charge. Well, and we did one last year, I believe, right?
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Yeah, I think that might have been my first basketball. When. And before that, you all locked me out of the building one time when I was supposed to be getting in here. Yeah, well, but you butt in any time. I don't get to hear these because I'm always in the press box. So there's formats and callers and apparently you hate kids. There's things, you know, I don't know. So feel free to chime in and coach me if you need to.
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Don't worry, we'll hit all the bases. It's just unfortunate we don't have a world series game or something to react to here. We're watching. Well, we got magic now in the studio.
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Yeah, that's exciting. Well, let's get this other call in, then we'll go to our break. Who's up next?
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Yeah, let's go to bluegrass.
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Bluegrass. What's up?
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Hey, what's going on, fellas? I'm trying to keep it down here. I'm in bed. Don't want to wake up everybody. I tell you what, we're pretty excited. I liked what I've seen tonight. You know, not the first half, but you know what this only have BBN does. I was going back, watching some two lane games, trying to see what's going on with Cam, and I think, do you remember when Pope said he was making his shot a little quicker and they were working on that?
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Yes.
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If you. If you go back and watch Tulane, like he does take a little bit more time and like he was making them. I don't know if he's rushing them. Don't you all think he's trying to get him up a little too quick? Maybe right now?
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Maybe tonight. But I noticed in the Georgetown game, he was a little slow. He had some open shots and he actually pump faked into a contestant shot. But it could be the case that he's trying.
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I'm talking about. So he just gets in, fires it. Man, it just seems like. And to your guy, like, it's so nice to see him at his true position at the two right. Chandler looks so much better. He guards the two much better. Like, he's like, that's what we're missing at point guard, the shiftiness. Like Chandler's one speed and low, like he's stop, start, stop, start. And that's what we're missing, that shiftiness in the point guard. And I think when he gets back, fellas, I think. I think we're all right. How about yourself?
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A
I completely agree. I appreciate the call. And I agree about Chandler at the point guard. Chandler is doing a little too much dribbling. And that's one thing Pope has really been preaching, especially with low is, you know, we don't do too much dribbling. We're, we're reading react team and get that motion going. It just seemed like we when Chandler had the ball in his hands, he was a little indecisive and things just weren't moving as quick as they need to. They're a little stagnant in the first half. But then when he slid over the to to the two, his natural spot, I think that's where he's going to shine.
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C
Well, I think people have been worried who's going to be the odd man out with all these, all this talent on the roster. And I think Colin Chandler showed that is not going to be him at least at the two position.
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A
Oh, yeah. Big statement tonight, especially that second half, going three for three from three. Kentucky, really, the whole roster needs to see some shots going in and he especially seemed to turn it on in that second half. So big exciting night for Colin Chandler's biggest fan here and an exciting night for Kentucky fans after they won the first game of the BBN United Tip Off Classic presented by Kentucky Tourism. We'll talk more about that after this break. We got two more fun segments. It's Drew and Billy here on the Kentucky Select Toyota Dealers post game show. It's the Central Kentucky Select Toyota Dealers post game show after Kentucky beats Nichols in game one of the 2025 Toyota 2026 season 7751. Billy Rutledge. Before we go back to the phone lines here and we have a full bank with some people I'm excited to hear from, I want to address a couple of complaints.
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C
Oh, right.
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A
One, at halftime, we, as we've addressed, we weren't very happy with that first half performance. Ugly shooting. I saw a lot of the $22 million complaints. I can't do a whole year of this.
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C
Is that going to be.
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A
I can't. I can't.
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C
Every time they play bad, if they.
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A
Shoot poorly for 20 minutes, I can't go to Twitter and see $22 million complaints or hear someone yell at Rep Arena. Is that going to be the whole season?
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B
It is.
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C
It's almost worse that we know the dollar amount because not only will we say it, but every opposing fan base after Kentucky loses a game, too. But you just got to let that roll off the back, Drew.
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A
I do, but I had to bring it up because I'm already annoyed by it. And if we want to get technical, that wasn't 22 million out there. That was like 15 million out there. We have a lot of injured millions Right now. So easy on the 22 million million. The other complaining. Yeah, the CSP. And things got to get figured out. You were telling me during the break that you, you took some of Shannon the dude's advice.
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C
I did and it was terrible. I mean, unwatchable. It was like four minutes behind what I was hearing on the radio call. It's already a tough way to digest a game, hearing the play before seeing it, but it was a disaster. I don't know how people did it out there if they had the same issues I did, but, but is it.
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A
Like a, was this like a bootleg stream? You have to tell yourself we're just talking in general, you're not involved. Yeah, this was some piracy going on the Internet.
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C
Well, I mean, if I don't have any bundle to be able to play it. So we, we try to find means to watch it and you could tell a lot of people were as well as. I think it slowed down a couple times and whatnot. But I don't know, Drew, even if it does get worked out, these games are still on the computer, right?
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A
The entire BBN United Tip Off Classic presented by Kentucky Tourism is a streaming computer only game, as Matt would say. So we gotta get it figured out.
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C
So, yeah, maybe I just need to get with the T times then.
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A
Yeah. It is expensive though. And ESPN is at fault here. They're, they're, they're stealing from us. It's way overpriced. And people, good, hardworking people like yourself shouldn't have to rely on pirated Internet streams to watch your favorite basketball.
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C
Now I'm paying only 90amonth to watch Orlando and Atlanta battle it out in this NBA game.
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A
This is exciting. Valpo beat Eastern Illinois, by the way. So, okay. Valpo and Kentucky control their own destiny in the BB and United Tip Off Classic presented by Kentucky. Let's get to the phone lines and I want to put in a request. I hear our guy Jared is on the line. I love everyone else on the line, but I want to go straight to Jared. This is Jared, who hit the half court shot in Rupp Arena. Jared, how does it feel to be the best shooter in tonight's game?
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B
It feels amazing. I'm still in shock. It was awesome. I heard. So the reason why I'm calling, I mean, I'm glad to call in. I love ksr, but I heard that there is some, some controversy. Controversy about my foot?
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C
Yeah. So, I mean, here on the, you know, radio broadcast we got people courtside and they were saying that your foot might have been over the line. Jared, do you remember where your feet were during the shot?
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B
So I actually a couple of my friends, like, when I found out, I texted them and told them that I was going to be doing it. And they took videos that I have where you can see because I was worried about that. You can see before I take the first shot. I actually walked off the steps that I was going to take before I shot. And I made sure the steps I walked off, I was a foot behind the line because I was so scared of doing it. And I know for a fact I didn't cross the line.
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A
Perfect.
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C
Good.
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A
No controversy then. Jack Givens might have just seen it wrong. You know, he had a big night, he was busy, so no controversy there. How did you get picked? Do they just walk up to you in the. During the game and say, hey, you. You come shoot for 10k?
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B
Yeah. So there was a lady that was walking up the rows and I guess some people even said no. So I don't even think I was the first one they asked. And they got to my row and my buddy and I who were at the game, she said, does anybody want to do a half court shot? And both of us were like, we're like, yeah, like we want to do it. And she was like, just one. Just one. So we played rock, paper, scissors for it, and that's how I ended up down there.
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A
Oh, so you had to win that just to go out and win your 10,000.
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B
So the story about that is I actually lost the game of rock, paper, scissors. And my. And my buddy was like, he kind of saw how devastated I was and I had the tickets for the game and I let him come with me, so he let me shoot it.
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A
Well, that worked out perfectly. Maybe take him out to a nice dinner.
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C
Yeah.
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A
Celebrate a little bit.
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B
I'm going to hook him up.
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A
Before I let you go, what's your basketball background? That doesn't look like the first time you've. You've hit a half court shot.
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B
No basketball background at all. I was the leader of the student section my senior year of high school. I did not play. I don't think I've shot a basketball in three years.
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A
Well, let me give you a piece of advice, Jared. Never shoot a basketball again. Yeah, you. I want you to tell people you got two tries and missed the first one. But now that you put it out there, you're one for two in your last shot in Rupp Arena. Went in from half court. So I would never touch basketball again.
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B
Never going to 50% at Rup Arena. I'm keeping that percentage for the rest of my life.
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A
All right, well, congratulations and thanks for calling in. It was good to hear from you.
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B
Thanks, I appreciate it. Go, cat.
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A
Billy, before I get to the other calls I had, I had another note from the environment. I don't know if this made it to television.
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C
Okay, what do you got?
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A
Do you know where they put the media? Where we sit? This is. This isn't a complaint. I don't complain about media corner.
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C
Like top corner now, right?
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B
Yeah.
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A
If I was going to complain, I would mention that. It's my 16th season in my first season, was under the basket, then they moved me a little farther back, then a little farther back, and now I'm literally to where I can't go back any farther. But I'm not going to bring that up. Yeah, I do have to bring up that I sit there because that's the point of the story. We're very, very, very high up in the top corner. And we look to our left. Me, Jack Pilgrim, Zach Gagan, Jake Polachek, the whole KSR crew, Steven Peak, and there's Dennis Johnson, Jasper Johnson's dad, in the very top row of RUP arena, in the end zone that they don't even bother seating for games like this. I mean, there are barely any people in that entire area. We're talking two or three full sections. It's pretty empty. And Jasper Johnson's dad has his back against the wall in front of him. You'd have to go down 10 or 15 rows to find another human. And that is how he watched Jasper play his first game. Dennis couldn't be at the two preseason games because he's Woodford's high school coach, that games couldn't be there in person. He finally gets to go see Jasper playing rup and he chose to sit in the absolute worst. But I gotta admit, kind of like a guy who knows a situation. There are parents, you know, I have family. I know people. Dad, mom, can't sit together. Just gets a little too intense, so they space out. But I've never seen a parent actually choose the worst seat in the building. But it looks like that's what Dennis Johnson's going to do this season.
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C
Hey, look, he's used to the limelight, right? He gets it all the time being the head coach already. So when he goes to see his son play, he doesn't want the attention. He's going to the very top, and I absolutely love that. A man of the people. One of us going out there and watching it from the same height that the media is. Is watching it at. They do have you up there, though.
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A
They do. Not a complaint.
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C
Like your ears popping up there.
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A
It's pretty hot. Not a complaint, though. Just doing. I'm just bringing up that Dennis sits there because I found that fascinating. And Jasper, who had some huge moments in this game, anytime he'd get a bucket, you know, he hit a couple threes. I will look over and just doesn't move, doesn't flinch. Just locked on. The game makes me wonder because this one was pretty empty. Not Big Blue nation's best effort as a crowd. When we get to these big games like North Carolina, Florida, and it's sold out, does Dennis, does he like request that seat or does he walk up there and ask someone to scoot over? Because tonight I assume he just walked up from the normal parent section because it was empty and sat there. But if that's truly going to be his seat. Do we have our first parent that requests section 241 row ZZ?
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C
That would become a thing, wouldn't it? Like when the students go up there and sit with them. And that could be a whole other student section. But I gotta think he just scoped it out after he got there, right? I mean, when it's packed, he ain't gonna be up there with the college kids and amongst them up there. But when it's. When there's nobody there, it probably looked pretty appealing.
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A
Yeah, well, it's something to watch because most parents demand. I want to be as close as possible. But Jasper's dad, he's locked in up at the top and I thought that was neat. Wanted to share that with the. With the show listeners because I didn't know if the TV broadcast caught it. Let's get another call in before we go to a break.
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C
Wilson.
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A
Wilson, what's up?
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B
Hey, Drew, thanks for taking my call. I was at the game tonight. It was a. I mean a wins and win. So I'm not going to complain. I'm really glad we had the Chandler done because I feel like the game was pretty forgettable besides that. But my question is, after the dunk, he did a little. Stared out and said something. I kind of wonder what his Mormon trash talk was. Was it a G Willikers or like, take that, buddy. What do you think he said?
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A
Appreciate the call. Thank you for bringing that up. I too noticed that and wondered what Colin Chandler would say because that was a pretty filthy stare down. And he mouths something. I might have to go back to the tape. Are you. Are you a lip reader, Billy?
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C
No, but I need this breakdown. Like if you can only do one more story on ksr, the website this week, I need a breakdown of what he said afterwards.
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A
I'm going to need the. To go back to the TV broadcast. Hope it was zoomed in, but that was some.
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C
I don't know.
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A
I don't know what the latter day. What they're allowed to do when it comes to dunking on someone in a game like that. But I have a feeling Colin said some things that might have been frowned upon and he deserved it in that moment. But maybe not. Maybe. Maybe he's perfect and didn't. But there was a nice stare down as the rest of the team reacted to that big dunk. Who's up next? Billy?
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C
Let's go to Ben.
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A
Ben, what's up?
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B
Hello.
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A
Hello.
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B
Hello.
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A
Hey.
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B
I was at the game tonight and that Colin Chandler dunk was amazing.
- [36:18]
A
It sure was. Is he your favorite player on the team?
- [36:22]
B
Yes, that was my friend. We're in the car. Maybe. But also another thing. That foul or the charge call himself. That was such a bad call.
- [36:37]
A
You're right. Thank you for bringing that up. I didn't mention that yet. And it was right in front of the Kentucky bench. And that. Thank you. I appreciate the call that got Mark Pope fired up. We don't see Mark Pope get fired up very often. I've seen it twice in the last week. He yelled at Mo Diabatte for not paying attention in practice. Startled everyone. Billy. It's really crazy. Pope's got. Pope can get angry when he's. Get angry. Was it. And that charge call. He was all over the ref right when it happened. It was right in of front.
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C
Well, I missed it. It was on the baseline and lagging the entire time. Made one of those players touch the roof of historic Memorial Coliseum. Was that Yellowch?
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A
Yeah, Yellowch has been doing a lot of roof touching. He's up there. He's been up there saying hi to Dennis Johnson at the top.
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C
Yeah, he's talking back a little too much. I think when you're a pro, it's kind of hard to come back to college ball.
- [37:21]
A
I liked what I saw out of yellow tonight. You know, not a huge game. He had six points. Took a lot of shots. I think he took. Was he over three from three? My box score?
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C
Let's see.
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A
Yeah, maybe don't. We don't need O from 3 every night, but big rebounding game. Had 5 rebounds, 6 points. Only played 18 minutes so he's coming around. I don't know where he'll fit in the equation when Quaint gets back, but that's one of those things that I'm not paid to figure out. Mark Pope's got that problem on his hands and that will get figured out as time goes on.
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C
Yeah, no disrespect, but a better player than Big Z and somebody that it's gonna, it's gonna click at some point, don't you think? Whether it be somebody in foul trouble and he's thrusted into the situation or just, you know, a couple threes in one game. There. There'll be some yellow bitch moments, no doubt.
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A
Yeah, there's more to him for sure. I don't know what it looks like when he clicks, like if he can be a star or anything, but he's just going to get better with time. He had a late start this summer and we're seeing with each game just a little bit more here and there.
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C
Drew, we do have a sponsored element of the post game show, if you don't mind me taking over, please.
- [38:18]
A
How about it?
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C
It's actually got a new name change now. The Johnny Rocker, personal injury attorney, moneymaker of the game, used to be the role player. It's now the moneymaker of the game. Injured get small town compassion with big city results. When you call The Rocker at 270-321-4429. And we don't usually like to pick the player of the game in the Johnny Rocker money maker of the game segment, but it was all about Colin Chandler tonight after a bad first half, he really turned it on, played in that two spot and is, you know, somebody that Kentucky could count on to make a little money when they needed it. So call Johnny Rocker, the personal injury attorney, the Johnny Rocker, moneymaker of the game.
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A
Beautiful. Beautiful. So we don't do those on pregame. You do those here?
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C
Yes.
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A
So Ryan got fired and you get to do the.
- [39:03]
C
It shifted hands. Yes.
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A
Well, I like that. They're a two seven zero number. It's a shout out.
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C
2-70-270-321-4429.
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A
Beautiful. I'm a two seven zero. I won't do the other seven digits but shout out Western.
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C
Yeah, Western Kentucky. I know it very well. Being up on the hill.
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A
Yeah. Former Hilltopper. Let's take a quick break. Do we have more calls? Run through those. Got a few more nuggets from the game. Big night. We're excited. We're moving on in the BBN United Tip Off Classic Presented by Kentucky Tourism, Drew Franklin and Billy Rutledge here on the Kentucky Select Toyota Dealers Post Game show live from downtown Lexington. We'll be right back. We're back for one last segment of the Central Kentucky Select Toyota Dealers Post Game show after Kentucky beach. Pete Nichols, 7751. Drew Franklin here. Billy Relig, who I think lives in the studio. I had a long day, but I feel like you had a longer day pre show. What time you get here?
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C
8:30.
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A
Did you get a little break in the afternoon?
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C
I did. I went and got lunch. Went, Got lunch.
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A
Okay, so you ate. That's a big day.
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C
I ate and sent some emails outside of the studio. But you know what? It's a grind, man. This month, crossover season, you know, you're no stranger to it with all the articles you're pumping out.
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A
So sometimes we sleep and see our families. But it's fun.
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C
The one time I saw you at 2:30 in the morning on Winchester Road.
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A
After a game was the only two cars at a light. Yeah, that happens. But not complaining there. Fun night. Love doing this. Love the opportunity to fill in on the post game show.
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C
And good to see you because you're going to give me some recipes. I try to. Later. Maybe later tonight. Do you have any that you can share?
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A
I mean, I will give you some recipes. I don't want to stay up any later to talk cooking unless you want some.
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C
We've been talking cooking a lot.
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A
Lot.
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C
Yeah, I digress. We can do that another time.
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A
I'm into soup season right now, Billy. In fact, when I get home, I have a nice bowl of corn and poblano chowder that I made yesterday waiting for me because I didn't get to go home today and eat it for lunch. So I'm very excited about this.
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C
I'm jealous of that.
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A
Let's save that for another time, though. I think people are excited about the cats.
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C
Let's do it.
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A
Unless you want to talk soup, then we can. Who's up?
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C
We got five left.
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A
Let's go to Trey Trey and talk soup or basketball. Whichever direction you want to go. It's all you.
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B
What's up, Drew? What's up, Billy? Hey, so, you know, last year I was talking to Matt about how good I think Colin Chandler could actually be. I, I, I actually could foresee this kid being a, a lottery pick. I mean, I, I really do. And let's not forget, I mean, he was, what was he ranked in the top 100 at one point before he did his mission trip at like 25th overall, if I. If I recall that. Right.
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A
Yeah, he was a. He was a four star recruit, was big on the AAU scene, but just had to those unique circumstances where he had to step away.
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B
Yeah. So outside of that, my takeaway from tonight, poor first half. Of course, we all saw that. But, you know, I. I think that. I think the shots will start falling. You know, Williams is too good of a shooter. Chandler's a good shooter. Doe was a good shooter. Obviously he got hurt. You know, that was unfortunate. But I think we'll be okay, especially when we get healthy. We'll really see what this team can end up. End up ultimately being. So that's. That's all I got, fellas.
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A
All right. Appreciate you calling in. I agree with him about Chandler. I don't want to sound like I keep making excuses for Chandler because he's had some bad games, but I feel like he keeps getting told, are you got to go play point guard now? When that's never been what he's here to do. He hadn't been practicing that way much. You know, you had Aberdeen in that spot, Jasper Johnson learning it. So sure, he's not the best point guard on the team, but when this team is at full strength, Billy, he's not going to have to play point guard. I hate to just dismiss what we've seen the last few weeks, but as soon as Lowe's back, this is all going to look completely different.
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C
Yeah, it's about playing your role, and he's just gotten shifted into a completely different role than what he's comfortable with. But what was it about Nick Richards that led to the same conclusion with Colin Chandler is just same, same system.
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A
It's a system play for me. Nick Richards, people forget this. He didn't play basketball for a long time. Like he picked it up as like a junior in high school or something. So of course, a guy who's only played a couple years will need a little longer than everyone else on the court with him who's grown up with the basketball.
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C
That's fair.
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A
So I just gave freshman Nick Richards more time. I thought it was unfair to throw him aside when he was out skateboarding and playing soccer when everyone else was playing basketball. And then what happened? Oh, just a little behind the normal schedule. He clicked and it was great. It's the same thing for Colin Chandler. He's been playing basketball forever, but that year away, I think took a lot of his growth away, and he just needs to be graded a little differently. And you don't have to throw them away as early as a lot of people wanted to last year. And some not the same circumstances, but similar in how they haven't had a basketball in their hands at every moment as most of the players we see come in.
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C
I like, I like this. This is your edge, is you find guys that either take a break from basketball, maybe they have a passion outside of the sport and really their second year of development, maybe then they start to make that jump and both of.
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A
Them for their respective positions. Very athletic. Nick Richards is a very athletic dude. And even when he couldn't hold on to the bar, catch a pass, I thought that guy's going to figure out how to catch a pass. You can't teach people that big to run a jump like that. So that's, that's kind of how I got there with Chandler. Chandler's got that NBA athleticism. I would love for him to be a lottery pick like our caller said. That's. That's a big stretch. We might put that up on a poster up in the fan club headquarters for a Dream. But I do think he has some, some unique athleticism for two guard.
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C
Well, that second half really helped the shit. I mean, it had been a much different fan club show if it was just the first half we had to go off of for Colin Chandler tonight.
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A
Fan club ain't dead yet. We're just getting started. Who's up next?
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C
Joel.
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A
Joel. What's up? That was almost my name, by the way.
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C
Joel.
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A
Random fact. There you go. That was almost a joke.
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C
They went with Andrew.
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A
Yep. What's up, Joel? Could have been you.
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B
Hey, can you all hear me?
- [44:58]
A
We can. What's up?
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B
I'm sorry. My dog, he thought he's something out the window there.
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A
Hate it when that happens.
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B
I. I got a couple things for you if you. If you got time. Do you know which SEC team is actually an acronym? And you call up Corey Price, maybe he can. He can help you. But the other thing was Matt was talking about the best shows that you guys ever done. And to me, the one that you guys did with who Brother were. We're out. You. Whatever that movie is.
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A
Brother.
- [45:58]
C
Where.
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A
Arthur. Yeah, okay. I'm with you.
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B
But I know that you like Forrest Gump.
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A
I do. I do like Forrest Gump.
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B
I would like to see if everybody that could call in and would do, you know, you know, the Forrest Gump thing. And, and my, my initial one is, you know.
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A
All right, we. You good over there? We need to check on that dog.
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B
I know he's Going crazy.
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A
All right. Why don't you go check on him and Billy and I will wrap up this show. In this game recap, is Colin Chandler. Is that the best dunk we've seen in many years?
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C
Yes, and that may have been one of the worst calls we've had.
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A
I was actually asking him that to get him on track.
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C
Oh, I hung up on him.
- [46:53]
A
No, that's all right. I appreciate. I enjoyed the call and we were gonna get there. I just think he's getting a little sleepy. We'll get that thought out next time. But thanks for calling in that damn.
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C
Squirrel outside the window.
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A
Damn dog. Mixing a few waters to. Who's up next?
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C
We got three more. Let's go to Josh.
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A
Josh, what's up?
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B
Hey, thanks for taking my call. I got a question. What? What's the status on race?
- [47:15]
A
Oh, Reese Potter. That's a good question. Tonight with a minute left, Zach Toe or tow and Walker Horn got in but Reese did not. So I'm not sure. I thought they'd be an opportunity to put him in there. And last week in the 5 on 5 scrimmage we saw at family day, he didn't participate. Kind of numbers game, odd man out. He was 11th, but I don't know why we haven't. We didn't see him tonight mop up duty.
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B
Okay. I just didn't know if he's injured or, you know, I haven't. Haven't read or seen. I thought maybe y' all might know something. That's the reason why I was asking. Go Cats.
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A
Go Cats. Thanks for calling and asking and you know, maybe I should know that since I'm hosting the postgame show, but I haven't heard anything to Pope. Did he say any Reese Potter stuff while I was walking through downtown?
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C
I'll be honest, wasn't listening for the Reese Potter news. Didn't know that he was injured, but that's a guy. I guess if push came to shove, he'd have to be thrusted in there at some point.
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A
But I don't know if he'll be a big part of this. He and Braden Hawthorne.
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C
Yeah, those are really the two odd men out.
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A
Nothing against them but enjoy the ride with this team and where you are. Can be a big piece next year. But I just think it's too loaded in front of those guys with at least on Hawthorne's in some growing to do. But I don't know if Potter's hurt or not. Would have been good to see him get in when the other guys got in There at the end.
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C
Two more left.
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A
Okay, who's up next? Let's go to Steph, the same Steph I just saw downtown a little bit ago. Is this our regular KSR caller, Steph?
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B
Yes, it is.
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A
Well, hello again, Steph.
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B
Hey. My two favorite people, Billy and Drew.
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C
Oh, how about that?
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A
I'll be sure to tell the others.
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B
As you know, Drew, Billy. This was my first basketball game. I enjoyed it.
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A
How about that, Billy? Steph's first game. She calls the shows, watches all of them, but tonight was her first time in Rupp Arena.
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C
That's amazing, Steph. And they got a win for you. That's. That must have been an awesome night.
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A
What was your favorite part, Steph?
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B
Shout out to Sharon on Ladies of ksr. She has season tickets and she was nice enough to give me her two tickets for the night so I could go.
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A
Oh, that is very nice of Sharon. You all have a great thing going with that Ladies of KSR group. I don't know what happens because it's private and it's. It's for the ladies. You could be talking about us, but it seems y' all have a good community over there. I'm glad you got tickets.
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B
That Colin Chandler dunk was amazing.
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A
It sure was. And thank you for coming to our rapid reaction outside the arena. It was good to talk to you.
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B
No problem. Hey, I want to. I wanted to tell you, I had my flag football state tournament last Sunday, and we won gold.
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A
Oh, that's awesome. Congrats. Yep. All right, well, thanks for calling in, letting us know. I appreciate it. You know, Billy, Steph's a big Titans fan, so it's nice of her. Nice that she gets to see a win on a Sunday.
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C
Yeah.
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A
As a Titans fan, we don't get to do a lot of celebrating on Sundays, but Steph sounds like she just won Golden Flag football.
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C
I'm so sorry, Steph. You can change your allegiance to a team if. If it gets this bad, like the Titans.
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A
I like how the night I get the post game show happens to be the night that every caller just wants to say, how awesome. Colin Chandler's. It was perfect. It was kind of like fate that I get this moment.
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C
It is.
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B
It is.
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C
Now. I think all of our expectations are as high as you had them for Colin Chandler this year.
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A
Mine are pretty dang high, though. But it's nice that people are catching up to me, starting to have those conversations. We got one more.
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C
Yeah, let's go to Brad.
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A
Is this the last one?
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C
It is.
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A
Brett, send us home With a good call, no pressure.
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B
Hey, just wanted to say I live here in Fort Worth, Texas, and I was watching the first half on my phone here in Chick Fil A Most time was playing, and pretty good thing that I was because I was trying to really contain myself from how frustrated I was. But it was definitely good to see them pulled away in the second half, but I had to really contain myself from not making a scene in front of my son.
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A
What? There's plenty of frustration, especially that first half. Do you have any lingering frustrations moving forward, like free throw, shooting, Anything in particular that worried you, or do they solve some of it in the second half?
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B
I just. I think they were just taking a lot of bad shots for, like, no other reason than just to just to kind of do it. And that was kind of frustrating, but hopefully Mark Pope was like, let's just take the easy stuff, you know, just get into the basket and just take. Take what the defense is giving you.
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A
Yeah, I don't know if we'll get a Journey video from this, and I appreciate the call. Sorry I had to go through that in a Chick Fil A being frustrated. I don't know if we'll get the behind the scenes, but I would love to know what Pope did at halftime, because they looked like a completely different team.
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C
They did. They came out quick. Aberdeen was at the point. Colin was at the 2. He was pretty optimistic going into halftime, too. I mean, you'd think after that type of shooting performance. But the first thing he said was they had seven kills in the first half, which is kills, I think three stops in a row. So, I mean, they were. It was a great night defensively. So he was keeping it in. Into perspective.
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A
Yeah, I mentioned the kills, but when in the first half when the other team is 1 for 14 from 3 12% from the field overall, pretty easy to get killed.
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C
Well, I mean, you got to credit the defense.
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A
Yeah, no, they were forced him into bad shots, but Nichols just couldn't get anything going, even their open corner threes. I feel like slipping my mind on the player, maybe number nine. I think he had like eight open and missed all of them.
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C
Well, I don't think he missed any in the secret scrimmage against the team that was picked to win their conference earlier this year.
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A
That's true. We didn't get to find out what happened there, but it doesn't matter anymore because we can now move on from Nichols 77, 51, onto dimes, onto times, on to Valpo Friday night. Valpo game two of the BBN United Tip Off Classic presented by Kentucky.
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C
And then it's Louisville Tuesday. Right?
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A
And then it's Louisville. The fact that that is now about to be less than a week away is outrageous.
- [53:01]
C
And how are you feeling?
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A
Low. Please come back asap. I love this team so far. Got a lot to work on, but I love him a lot more. Of Jalen Lowe is wearing a uniform and participating in the Yum center next Tuesday.
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C
Well, you got to have Aberdeen or Lowe.
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A
One of the two, definitely.
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C
I feel like this team's a lot different without one of those two at point.
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A
Got to get my king, Colin Chandler off the ball. He doesn't need those other responsibilities. He's got his own stuff he's got to do.
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C
Okay.
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A
How was our postgame show tonight, Billy? Give me a great.
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C
I enjoyed it.
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A
Be honest, like a C minus, you.
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C
Know, D plus, you know, is the first game of the year. And besides the Colin Chandler dunk, I think I agree with the caller. Maybe a forgettable game, but you brought the energy. We had the guy that hit the half court shot tell me I was wrong and he didn't step on the line. So it was, it was a great B plus A minus show for you, Drew.
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A
I think he said Jack was wrong because you were just quoting Jack Gibbons.
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C
Well, I'll fall on the sword. I mean Jack wasn't the one calling anybody out. It was me. So I'll fall on it. But, but God, I love this show where you can just say something like.
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A
That and then they call in and.
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C
Then they call in.
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A
Yeah, that was pretty cool. We just manifested that and it happened.
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C
The power of ksr. Just like the non injury collision next to the Jingle Bell Road or whatever it was that you guys talked about today.
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A
That was a nice KSR curse yesterday. You know, I don't want to pick on Jack. We've called him out for this toe thing that I don't even know that he said. I'm just trusting you have made it a bit. But I have a Jack. There was a Jack moment tonight.
- [54:21]
C
Don't tell me. Well, yeah, he, he, they were celebrating him today, right?
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A
They were. They brought out Jack Givens and Rick Roby and recognized them at half court during a timeout because they linked up for the first points in Rupp arena history. And tonight marked the 50th season of Rupp Arena. Yeah. So a little moment with. With Jack Givens and Rick Roby at mid court. I didn't realize it was your 50 for Kentucky basketball and Rupp Arena. But I hope they continue to do Rupp arena things throughout the year.
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C
And Jack was giving Rick a hard time because Rick was the center man. And then he tipped it to himself and then tried to throw it up real quick and got fouled and had the free. First free throw. That's why Jack was the first field goal. And he was the first free throw.
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A
Okay. Cause I wasn't sure why they were both out there. I didn't hear first point. Yeah, I heard his first point. And I'm like, two people. Was one in assist. One was the point. So Jack scored the first field goal.
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C
Yes.
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A
Rick, the first free throw.
- [55:08]
C
Yeah. But tipping it to yourself on the first jump ball ever at Rupp Arena. He was. He was going for that historical landmark. No doubt.
- [55:15]
A
He wanted to be recognized 50 years later on the night Colin Chandler had the dunk of the year. That's. That's what it was.
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C
I think so.
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A
But a fun night. Thank you for letting me do this, Billy. And to Matt out there, wherever you are, I appreciate the opportunity. Maybe I'll do a few more this season. This is a little more fun than after, like a football loss. I had South Carolina earlier this year. That wasn't a lot of fun.
- [55:32]
C
Well, you come into the studio, so I. I enjoy that. You know, Matt's in bed by the time the fourth segment's going on, so.
- [55:39]
A
Well, I get it now because it sounded like we had a caller called from bed that was a little weird. Thanks for thinking of us while you're in bed, Joel. And that dog situation. Hope he sleeps that off, but we enjoyed hearing from him. But a fun show. Guess we'll wrap it up here. Did I hit my. My quota on time? Do we do everything we're supposed to do?
- [55:54]
C
We're over time. We hit all the sponsors. You've. You've done it again, Drew.
- [55:59]
A
Well, I'll stop delaying and layering. We'll wrap it up. After Kentucky got the big win. Game one of Pope's second season. 77 51, beating Nichols. Moving on to Valpo on Friday. We'll sign off here from downtown Lexington, it's been Drew and Billy on the Kentucky Select Toyota Dealers post game show. We'll talk to you in the morning on our regular morning radio shows. See you then.
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