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Matt Jones
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Matt Jones
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Billy
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Matt Jones
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Billy
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Matt Jones
Mutual Insurance Co. Affiliates excludes Massachusetts welcome everyone. It is the local Toyota dealers KSR Post Game Show Kentucky. Well, let's just go ahead and say it. Best team in the country 7865 with a win at home tonight in a preseason game that I would suggest is probably the most hyped Kentucky fans have ever been for a preseason game. This is the local Toyota dealers KSR Post Game Show. I'm Met Jones. It was. You know a lot of people are going to look at this result, especially non UK fans and even some sort of down in the dumps or Debbie Downer UK fans and they're going to say, oh, don't, don't overreact. It's a preseason game, et cetera, et cetera. I say phooey to all that. Let me overreact for one night. After tonight we can all take a break. But let's, let's give ourselves tonight and let's give ourselves through the weekend and Monday and then we'll stop, then we'll, then we'll slow down. But for tonight, let me give you some numbers. The number one team in the country just came into your arena. Not just the number one team. A team that's been consistently good for a number of years has a returning lineup where four of the five people starting are guys that were on the team last year, on a good team last season. I believe they were, what were they, a Sweet 16 team last year. They have the returning preseason national player of the year playing point guard and their experience mostly juniors and seniors. Kentucky was without what I would say is the second best player on the team. We may have to adjust that over the course of the year, but Jalen Lowe, and without the number one ranked NBA prospect on the team in Jaden Quaintance, the preseason all American on the team, played 17 minutes and is coming off an injury, played the sixth most minutes in the game of any UK player. And with all of that happening, Kentucky dominated the game, won by double digits and by any eye test that you watched was clearly the better team. More athletic, better rebounding, more explosive, shot the ball better. Now, I don't know if that would be true in every game this year, but tonight they did. And defensively, even though I think Kentucky, especially in the second half, had some defensive lapses, significantly better defensively, all in all, I don't know how you couldn't be excited. I'm not sure you could have drawn that game up better from a Kentucky standpoint. 78, 65. I'm thrilled. I mean, we needed after what's been going on in football to have excitement around this fan base and we had it. You saw it at the arena, pretty much full, loud people into it. Louder than most regular season games. I can tell you at my bar, they people were doing Mark Pope chants. It was full during the game and excitement that's there only occasionally in regular season games, period. This city was lit up for this game and Kentucky delivered. And you see when you listen to the Mark Pope after the game, you see the confidence he has in this group. You know, not only did we win, we played 10 guys and we played them a lot. I'M going to go through here because I honestly think everyone that played needs a mention. I'll start with Otega. O way he was big early on, scored seven of the first, I think 14 points. He finishes with 10 points. He only played 17 minutes. Of all the players on the team, the person you're the worried the least about is away because you saw him do it. Last year, Denzel Aberdeen led the team in minutes 29. He led the team in plus minus with plus 14. He was great. This is our backup point guard. Okay. When Jalen Lowe comes back, I don't know if he'll start or not. He might. Drew thinks he will. We'll see. But tonight he had to play 29 minutes and I thought he was great. He, I thought controlled the offense well, played really good defense. He and all the various people that were on Braden Smith throughout the game, I thought did an excellent job. He did as well. He had nine points, Trent Noah 10 points. He had one banked in three. But I thought, I was surprised he started. To be honest with you, I thought he handled himself really well. Played good defense on his guy. Brandon Garrison was your regular. Brandon Garrison all over the place. However, defensively actually thought he was pretty good. He had some foul issues, but otherwise good. Diabate is exactly what you want from a senior you bring in to play that position. He controlled the glass, nine rebounds. And by the way, Kentucky as a whole controlled the glass. I mean, that is Purdue is a really good rebounding team. I mean, they're very tall. They played two bigs most of the game. They, they should have kind of killed Kentucky on the glass. And honestly, until the very end of the game, I thought Kentucky completely controlled the glass. As a matter of fact, we had more offensive rebounds than they did 10 to 7. If you had told me that before the game with the lineup they put on the pool floor, I would have never imagined that was true. I think Diabate was a big piece of that. The two guys that stood out to most to me as like the wow are the two freshmen. Jasper Johnson led the team in scoring 15 points, 6 of 10 from the field, 3 of 7 from 3 point line, and really a lot of wow plays. I mean, it seems like he played more. He only played 19 minutes. He had 15 points in 19 minutes and took his man. If I'm Purdue and you sit there and you sort of say, what do I look at that game? I'd look at how you had no chance of stopping Jasper Johnson off the bounds. He completely dominated whoever they put on him, I thought he was excellent. But the story of the game to me is Malachi Moreno, because I have to tell you, I saw that kid play when he's a junior in high school in the state semifinals here in Rupp arena, and I thought to myself, yeah, I don't know how that dude's going to play at Kentucky. You know, I knew his. I knew his brother when his brother played there, and I just thought, look, Malachi obviously got a lot of potential. I don't know how he plays at Kentucky. I'm kind of surprised he's ranked that high. Well, clearly that's what the scouts see that sometimes we as fans do not, because he has improved exponentially in the last 18 months. But he was great tonight, and he has all the potential in the world. Matt Painter was saying after the game, purdue recruited him hard, may have been the second choice, and you could see how he could play at Purdue. He kind of plays their style. And he said, that kid is a great kid with a ton of talent. The sky's the limit for him, and it's going to be hard to keep him off the floor. If I was Brandon Garrison, I would say, hey, man, stay out of foul trouble and work hard, because you got a dude sitting behind you who, if you're not careful, will steal a lot of your minutes. So for me, the two Kentucky kids that are freshmen were the stories of the game. Yellow bitch thought played really, really well. He had. He had 20 minutes. He was much better on defense than I would have thought. I kind of thought defensive. He would be a defensive liability. Maybe some of that is me just sort of thinking about the weaknesses Z had and then imputing them on him. But he actually played really well defensively, slid his feet. I was impressed. He's going to get playing time. Colin Chandler only had two points, but Mark Pope said he was the mvp, said he did all the little things. Pope probably watches that stuff more than I do. He did have the highlight of the game, Billy. That dunk he almost did. I'm not saying it was dirt minute, okay? But he did do that thing where it looked like he wasn't going to rise anymore, and then right at the last second, seemed to rise again. You know what I'm talking about on that dunk. That. Or did you watch it? You have to listen to radio feed.
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Billy
Yeah, I saw it.
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Matt Jones
That dunk was very, very impressive to me. Like, very impressive. And then Cam Williams, you know, I. I think when Jalen Lowe comes back, I think Cam Williams is going to Be spotty. I liked what Jim Jimmy Dyke said, which is there's going to be three or four games next year where. Or this year where we're really going to need Cam Williams. And that's what I'm going to judge. He was 2 for 6 from 3. My issue is not shooting with him. I think he'll shoot the ball fine. He struggles on defense and he struggled on defense a lot in the game. But this, when Jaylen Lowe comes, he might be your 11th man. So if your 11th man is a guy that's on NBA draft boards, then you're going to be pretty good. So my takeaway from all this, we are. We are good and we have a chance to be really, really good. This team can be great defensively. If they rebound like they did tonight, that's even more exciting. And then offensively, the sky's the limit. I mean, I know they scored 78. I think they can be more efficient offensively than they even were tonight. They were nine for 29 from three point land. That percentage, I think will be higher in a lot of games. And you don't have your point guard. That's the big thing. You didn't have your point guard if you have your point guard. I think a lot of that stuff is different. So I may sound excited in my voice. That's because I am excited. I love Kentucky basketball, but I also love when the product kind of represents the fan base and the state. And to that point, it hit me towards the end of the game, you know, Purdue made a run. I think they cut it to maybe five or six. And then all of a sudden we pushed it out to 14. Trent Noah, I think hit a three, Jasper Johnson hit a three. Malachi made an and one. And it occurred to me that against the number one team in the country, a team that's got a chance to play, you know, for a national championship, a team that two years ago was in the championship game, Kentucky put it away with three Kentucky kids on the floor. I'm always one who says, hey, I love Kentucky kids, but we need to have the best players. But when you can have the best players and then they are from Kentucky and two of them are freshmen, one of them is a sophomore. And you're able to get the performance you did to win a game like this. I don't know how you can't be thrilled about that. That's what, that's what this whole thing is about. So, yes, this doesn't mean the team is going to be great. A couple years ago, Purdue lost to Arkansas in a game. Arkansas didn't make the tournament. Purdue went the national championship game. So this doesn't mean anything in the big picture, but in the short term picture, we are really good, we are really fun and this is going to be a really exciting year. And maybe most importantly, this is a group of players that if everything goes right, can have a shot to win the whole thing. I love the team. Last year I thought they were a team that had a shot to do something exciting if they got some breaks. But I don't think I ever thought they could win the national championship. I certainly haven't thought that in the last. You probably have to go back for me to the team that lost to Auburn in the Elite Eight. I believe that was 2019, the Tyler Hero Keldon Johnson team. That's probably the last time that I thought, you know what? Things go great, this team could have a shot to win it all. I think that's true about this team. Now we'll see what happens. They're going to have to play better than they did tonight and they're going to have to do a lot of stuff well, but you have a team now that's going to be in that conversation and that's really exciting. 859-280-2287. We're going to take your calls. This should be a fun night. Cats first game on the floor look awesome. Beat the number one team in the country. How can you not be happy? We'll be right back. It is the local toy dealers KSR Postgame show. Welcome back, local toy dealers KSR Postgame show. Louisville has a big preseason game in their arena tonight too. They are playing Kansas. Kansas is ranked 19th. Kansas is up 13 on Louisville 5946. Darren Peterson. This was supposed to be a big matchup against two guys who have dreams of being the number one overall pick. Darren Peterson and Mikhail. Is it Mike Mikhail or Michael, the guy from Louisville?
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Billy
I think it's Mikhail.
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Matt Jones
Mikhail Brown at halftime. I don't know what it is right now. At halftime, Darren Peterson had 24 and Mikel Brown had 0 and Mikel Brown was over 7. So I think the early advantage goes to Darren Peterson, who looks to be like, Kansas may not be good, but he is going to be really, really good. By the way, if you hear tittering in the background, Billy Tall and hubby are here. We've been going all day at Keeneland and. And they went to the game. So if you hear, if you hear ambiance in the Background, that's who that is.
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Billy
You win any money today?
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Matt Jones
Did I win money? No. I did horribly. I wore the cowboy hat. And while it gave good luck to the basketball team, it did not give good luck to the. To the gambling. One person writes math. I need you to give me your unrealistic right now record prediction for the year. Okay, so I think I said. I think I said something like, what, 24 and 7 or something before. All right, I need to. Let's assume Jalen Lowe's back for Game 2, and let's assume we get Jaden Quaintance by conference play. If you give me that set of parameters. Now, I'm going after tonight, Billy. 20, 26 and five and a one seed. That's what I'm going. Some hubby says 40 and. Oh, Billy, what are you going there?
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Billy
I think it's closer to what you're saying. Four or five losses, probably.
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Matt Jones
Yeah. I think they're better than I thought. I do. And the reason I think they're better than I thought is I think there's a couple dudes that are. That are better. I think Malachi Moreno is better than I thought. I think Jasper Johnson's going to have some inconsistencies, but he's going to have some games where he is unstoppable. And then, you know, if this team could look like that and Colin Chandler can have two points and Otega away can play 17 minutes and Jalen Lowe's not in the game, then, like, sky's the limit. All right, who's up first?
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Billy
Josh.
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Matt Jones
Josh. Go ahead, Josh.
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Callers
Well, how's it doing, Matt? All right. If we would have been healthy tonight, do you believe it would have been a blowout? We just blew him out.
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Matt Jones
I think it had been the same. Well, I've been. Probably a similar result. I mean, you gotta. I mean, you look at the minutes Pope played, pretty much everybody except Aberdeen, equal minutes, which was clearly what he wanted to do. So my guess is if low plays, he does the same. And then Low plays 20 minutes and Aberdeen plays 20 minutes. And so you probably get a similar result.
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Callers
Well, I'm really happy and I hope we do beat Tennessee tomorrow in football. I don't see it happening, but I hope we do.
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Matt Jones
I hope we do, too. Appreciate the call. Yeah, somebody reminded me. And then I tweeted it out. Billy, it was four years ago, this game when we played Kentucky State, that John Caliperi asked Kentucky State to not play Zone.
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Billy
Oh, yeah.
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Matt Jones
Do you remember that? Yes. He said, we haven't worked on It. So I'm going to ask you not to play zone, which in hindsight is one of the weaker things I think a Kentucky coach has ever done. Come along, right?
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Billy
Yeah.
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Matt Jones
To Kentucky State, by the way. Not to, you know, not to Purdue. And tonight, I mean, besides the top three guys, Purdue kind of distributed its minutes, but they left their top three in over 30 minutes each. That. So if you hear Purdue people say, well, we didn't play, but we played more guys more minutes than they did. Who's next?
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Billy
Tyler.
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Matt Jones
Tyler.
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Callers
Go ahead, Tyler, on the second one. I'm glad you brought up Cal, because one of my talking points of the two that I have is about him, but not. And keep in mind when I say this, I'm 24 years old. When I think of Kentucky basketball, Matt, it's still so weird for me to think that Cal isn't here anymore.
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Matt Jones
I understand that. Because you're 24, right. So, like, your people's fandom is formed strongest, I think, in their, like, middle school, high school years. And you had Cal that whole time?
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Callers
Oh, yeah. My first memories of UK basketball or John Wall. So anyway, and then my second point is. So I didn't get to watch the game tonight. I listened to it and heard the crowd. Tom and Jack were getting into it. And I'm thinking, man, you know, I'm a pretty realistic fan. So I'm thinking, man, we're going 40 0. And then I realized that the Final Four is in Indianapolis.
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Matt Jones
Yeah.
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Callers
And Indy, as we all know, hasn't been kind to us. So I'm like, is this the Revenge Tour? Like, does this revenge. Does this avenge 2015 last year? Like, I'm like, it kind of destroyed me because I'm like, Indy is like the worst place for Kentucky basketball. But then I'm like, huh, Maybe we make that 2015 loss in last year's loss kind of go away anyway.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, I. I mean, that. That's. It is something to think about. They're going to have it in Indy. Billy, look up for me. I. I always care less about where the Final Four is because if you make the Final Four. Oh, that really good kid for Louisville just went down. I hope he's all right. Yeah, he just went down. Hopefully it's hope. Looks. Looks. He's walking, so hopefully he's all right. I always care a little less about where the Final Four is than where the regionals are, because if you can get. I've always thought it's important. Looks like he just turned his ankle. If you can get a One seed and the regional is, like, in your backyard. That makes a big impact. Do you. Will you look up where the regionals are?
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Billy
Yeah, I have it here if you want.
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Matt Jones
Where is it?
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Billy
Houston, San Jose, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. okay.
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Matt Jones
So, I mean, Chicago is relatively close, but none of those are. It's not like when it's in Louisville or one of those. Where. Where's the. Does you see where the first eight ones are? The first and second round?
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Billy
Yeah. Buffalo, Greenville, Oklahoma City, Portland, Tampa, Philly, San Diego, St. Louis.
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Matt Jones
Okay. Yeah. None of them. None of them. We don't have one in our backyard. I guess St. Louis would be the one that would be the. The closest. 859-280-2287. Who's next?
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Billy
Parker.
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Matt Jones
Parker. Go ahead, Parker.
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Callers
Hey, Matt. So I'm a senior at UK right now. I went to the game. I'm actually driving home for a fall break, and I'm just grinning ear to ear. I'm reminiscing about all little plays, and I could talk about it for a while, but what you said that I love is just give me one night to be delusional.
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Matt Jones
Yeah.
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Callers
I haven't been able to be delusional. I haven't been able to be delusional about Kentucky basketball since, like, middle school, man. So I'm just happy. I'm just happy to be happy about something. Kentucky basketball, man, it's so awesome. The defense was great. College Chandler is the man. Jasper is Rob Dillingham. I love it. Go Cats and go Big Blue. Thank you, Matt.
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Matt Jones
Be delusional. Tonight's a good night to be delusional. And I totally agree with you. There's no reason to. There's no reason to not be delusional. The Jasper. Rob Dillingham thing, I think, is actually a really good analogy, because Rob Dillingham could have moments where he, like, took your breath away in a way that a lot of players just don't like. Just an excitement and, you know, just a thrill that you don't get a lot. And Jasper's gonna have. Jasper has some of that, too. And Rob could get hot. Jasper, I think, can get hot. You know, Rob could also do crazy things. I think we're gonna see. Jasper has some games where he does crazy things. I do. But, yeah, I think the Jazz, him. Jasper being a lefty. Dillingham is a pretty good call. And I. I tell you, I love our defense. You know, last year we just didn't have the athletes to have a good defense. We just didn't. And there Wasn't gonna be anything we could do about it. And I love that team last year. That team last year is going to be. End up being one of my favorites because I just like them. I just like the kids. And they got sweet 16. I think they maximize their talent. But man, this team is so much more athletic and like, you can just see it. And, and, and it overwhelmed Purdue. And they always have that problem when they get to the tournament.
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Callers
Billy.
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Matt Jones
Purdue always meets a team like this and it screws them over, you know, always. And, and we were that team this year in the, in the preseason. It'll be interesting to see if they're able to fix that during the course of the year. And Kansas is just putting it on Louisville right now. Who's next?
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Billy
James.
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Matt Jones
James. Go ahead, James.
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Callers
Hey, Matt, thanks for taking my call. I like what you said earlier, that we're the best team in the country.
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Matt Jones
Well, if they were number one. If they're number one, then why not? I know it's exhibition. Ole Miss beat number two Houston in an exhibition. Like the thing is.
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Callers
Exactly.
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Matt Jones
I understand. I understand. Jimmy. Doc said, well, Purdue show. Purdue didn't scout. Well, they chose not to scout. Right. That's their choice. But you know what? That's not an excuse. You don't get to say, well, I didn't study for the test, so it doesn't count. No, you still take the test. If you choose not to stay, then that's on you. I don't think it would have made any difference. What were they going to study? Most of our dudes weren't here last year. As far as Purdue, they played their three. They have three really, really good players. Really good. And they played all three of them, 30 minutes a game. One of them had a bad game, so be it. Braden Lewis missed a lot of shots. Well, we probably had something to do with that, right? So I, I'm not, I'm not taking the excuses from Purdue, folks. If they were number one, then I'm going to, in my mind, say, we're number one now.
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Callers
So what I was going to say is I just told my cousin I just watched the number one team in the country beat the number one team in the country. I just watched.
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Matt Jones
Why not? Why not?
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Callers
Right.
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Matt Jones
Why not?
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Callers
Exactly.
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Matt Jones
Remember, we're not. We can be unrealistic tonight. We'll have real conversations this week, but tonight we can be unrealistic. Appreciate 59280 2287. Billy, you haven't said a lot. Do you feel. Are you. Are you unrealistic? About this?
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Billy
Well, I had a lot of question marks about this team, and a lot of those were answered. I mean, Mo Diabate was incredible. Jason Johnson was somebody that can play a ton of minutes this year. I mean, I'm just more thinking of what this team is going to look like, who's going to be on the outside looking in when Quatin comes back and Jalen Lowe is here.
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Matt Jones
Yeah, I mean, if you were to do the. Okay. My expectations versus what we saw in one game. There were two guys, three guys. If you throw in Jasper Johnson, although I knew he could have moments of greatness, but how good Malachi Moreno and Yellow Vich played really surprised me. I knew Malachi had it in him, but I just thought he was. He was a freshman. Whatever. Yellow bitch. I don't know. I wasn't sure how much he was going to play. Well, now, again, this is a team that he probably matches up pretty well. There's a lot of yellow bitches in that game, to be honest with you. But I like. I. I liked him a lot tonight, and he didn't. And on offense, he didn't particularly shoot the ball very well. I think he'll do better at that. Remember, otega only played 17 minutes. Like he, like he only played our best. Our preseason all American play. 17 minutes.
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Billy
Goose and Tom were fawning over the stat that in the first half, 11 assists on 14 made basket.
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Matt Jones
That's great. That's great.
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Billy
Without.
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Matt Jones
That is great.
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Billy
Point guard.
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Matt Jones
So again, we shoot under 33%. From three, we shot probably under 30%. What do we shoot like 29. Is that what that number is? 29, 30, something like that? From. From three point land. You know, that's. I don't know, man. There's a lot you left on the table. We fouled a lot. I think we gave them. How many free throws did they have? I think they have like 22 free throws or something like that.
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Billy
They had 18 of 22.
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Matt Jones
18 to 22. So think about that. They scored 65 and we gave them 18 on free throws. We fouled them a lot. So I. I don't know. I'm sure there's something to be back. I guess the one thing you could say is, well, we fouled them a lot. That's a negative. But otherwise, I don't know what you could really complain about. What's next?
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Billy
Stub.
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Matt Jones
Stub, how are you? Stub?
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Callers
We're hanging number nine, man. I don't. I don't know what you can take from this game. I know, it's a too early of an assessment, but they're really good. They're long and athletic. If I had one criticism, I don't think this team needs to shoot so many threes so early in the shot clock. That's the only thing. They're long and athletic and good enough. They don't need to do that.
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Matt Jones
I don't, I don't think that's. I don't think that's a bad. I don't think that's a bad analysis. I will say, you know, we play in the SEC where the strength of, of the teams in that conference is athleticism, right? So I think we were a lot more athletic than Purdue. We're probably going to play some teams this year, sir, in the sec. Like, we're not going to have that athleticism advantage against them a lot. Now, probably Purdue probably executes better than most teams in the SEC do, but I don't think we're going to be able to just take guys off the bounce like we were doing sometimes tonight.
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Callers
Well, Jimmy Dykes and I think accurately described Purdue in a very nice way. He said they're. They're slow twitch.
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Matt Jones
They are slow twitch. They are. You're exactly right. And I think it. They always get hurt every year. Like the fact they're so methodical allows them to beat bad teams. But when they play good teams that are athletic, I feel like they run into this every single year. I appreciate the call.
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Callers
Yeah, that's all I got. Thank you, Matt.
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Matt Jones
They really. I do feel like this is. I, I don't want to. You know, it was one game for Purdue, but I, I do. And they were on the road, which is part of it. But I do feel like Purdue runs into this every year. You play, you play the way they play and you get the personnel they have, and there this happens. I will say that Braden Lewis kids really good. He didn't shoot the ball well tonight. He's so smart. It seems like he always makes the right decision. He's athletic, he's really good. I don't know if he'll be national player of the year, but he's got a real.
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Billy
I was Tom and Jimmy tonight.
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Matt Jones
I love Tom and Jimmy. You know, Tom Hart, Jimmy Dykes. He can annoy you with, like, his plane and all that stuff, but there's no announcer in the country that does college games that knows more about Kentucky and their team than Jimmy Dykes. So I like that. And if you listen, he says stuff that we've not heard about how they Play like when he talked about Cam Williams, he said publicly what I've had some coaches tell me privately when, which is they're really worried about his ability to guard people. Well, Jimmy said that and he said it because he knows it, because they told him. And then Tom's awesome. He had, Billy, had a couple of KSR references. I heard he mentioned Picasso, mentioned Ken Pomeroy, the singer. Okay. I kept waiting for Annabelle or for Ryan or eating alone because I thought that might come. But we didn't get that one. Maybe that'll be the next guy. Let's do one more. We'll take a break. Who's next?
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Billy
Dylan.
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Matt Jones
Dylan, Go ahead, Dylan.
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Callers
What's up, Matt? First time caller here.
- [31:33]
Matt Jones
Who.
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Callers
So I got a question and a thought for you. Well, I'll start off with my. With my thought after watching tonight's game. You know, it's just we're so athletic, you know that that's so apparent within the first two minutes. You can just see it physically at every position. And it's just so refreshing to be able to see at all five spots that, you know, head to head, our guy is better than your guy or we're at least competitive. It seems like in past years we're always probably going to give up something, whether it be on offensively or defensively. We got a guy who's better at offense, but we're having to give up something defensively. So that's just so refreshing and I'm excited about that. My question, though, here, I just wanted your thoughts. So how do you think Mark Pope is going to be able to manage all this talent? I mean, you just, you take in consideration Quaintance and Jaylo, two of our best, in my opinion. Three players without tonight.
- [32:32]
Matt Jones
So it's, I mean, there's a manager, there's going to be dudes who don't play. Right. Like, there's going to be dudes who don't play. So in particular games, I think, I mean, this team is essentially winning. When you get acquaintance and low back, you got 12 guys who will expect to get minutes. And I think it's just inevitable that at least two of those guys are not playing in games or only playing a couple minutes. So it's going to be, I think, a constant fight when you get past low away. I mean, Diabate, Aberdeen and Garrison, because I think those five dudes will play no matter what. Garrison now, his minutes can go down, but he'll play. But those other seven guys are going to have to fight. And there may be Games where like a dude like Cam Williams plays 25 minutes and then there might be a game where he plays two minutes. I think that's going to happen. And so Pope will have to be careful. You know, I don't know how many Kentucky teams have had it to where there's this many guys who will really expect to play. I mean, you know the 2015 team, the platoon team, it was still only 10. You know, this is 12, so it'll be interesting to see. I appreciate the call. I mean it's a good problem to have though because you'll get injuries, Billy, and stuff during the year and so now you got a lot of guys.
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Billy
Yeah, there was a lot last year. So it can always change.
- [34:10]
Matt Jones
But I mean, if I had to guess today of those 12, it's. I mean, I don't know, I think it could change game to game. My initial inclination would be Cam, but it's hard to see him not playing yellow bitch if he plays like tonight. So I don't know, I think it'll be. And how about Trent Noah starting? I didn't see that coming. I thought he did really well. 859-280-2287 we will take a break and be right back. This is the local toy dealers KSR postgame show. Welcome back. It is local toy dealers KSR postgame show. Billy, I think you have. What is it? The Johnny Rocker. What?
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Billy
Yeah. So post games for the basketball season we have the Johnny Rockers role player of the game injured get small town compassion with big city results. When you call The Rocker at 270-321-4429 Tonight, Matt, I'm going with Mo Diabate. Eight points, nine rebounds, two blocks, two steals and a slam at the end of the game. He was good on defense. He was great rebounding despite the early foul trouble. He's our Johnny Rocker role player of the game.
- [35:17]
Matt Jones
All right, I'll accept that. But like are starters allowed to be role players?
- [35:24]
Billy
Well, I just figured it was not the MVP of the game. That's the really the only.
- [35:28]
Matt Jones
I'm okay with that person.
- [35:29]
Billy
We don't.
- [35:30]
Matt Jones
Who would you have picked as our mvp?
- [35:32]
Billy
Jasper.
- [35:33]
Matt Jones
I think it probably has to be Jasper.
- [35:35]
Billy
Yeah, he was great.
- [35:36]
Matt Jones
Which is crazy because I wouldn't have thought that. It's Braden Smith, by the way. I get it. It's not Braden Lewis. Yeah, everybody's got to give people a break to, you know, say mistaken words. Everybody was getting on Tom or of Jimmy Jacks for saying Trevor Noah. He knew it was Trent Noah. Trevor Noah's a famous person. Noah also starts with T. That can happen, right, Billy?
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Billy
Oh, believe me, I know better than anybody. I got Ryanisms as. Me, too.
- [36:04]
Matt Jones
Yeah. Trevor Noah. I just listened to his book a few weeks ago. I've probably come close to calling him Trevor Noah.
- [36:09]
Billy
So, doing the Daily Show.
- [36:12]
Matt Jones
I don't think he does the Daily show anymore. I don't think he's done it in years. Yeah, I don't think he's done it in, like, four or five years, but nevertheless. Yeah. So. All right, who's up next?
- [36:23]
Billy
Josh is next.
- [36:24]
Matt Jones
Josh. I have a question for you, Billy.
- [36:25]
Billy
Yeah.
- [36:26]
Matt Jones
The MLS Eastern Conference playoffs are going on. I will give you $20 if you can name both teams in it.
- [36:35]
Billy
Inter Miami and Nashville.
- [36:40]
Matt Jones
You looked it up. You looked it up. You're not getting. You're not getting the 20 yards.
- [36:44]
Billy
I didn't look anything up.
- [36:45]
Matt Jones
You looked it up. You're cheating.
- [36:47]
Billy
I saw a graphic earlier in the day.
- [36:48]
Matt Jones
I knew it. I'm glad you're being honest. All right, go ahead.
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Billy
Josh is up.
- [36:52]
Matt Jones
Josh, go ahead.
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Callers
What? I'm Matt. Listen, what about that Boiler Muse guy on Twitter being an absolute goober, Being like, oh, this is personal. Like, what are you talking about, dude? Like, we don't think about Purdue ever.
- [37:06]
Matt Jones
Yeah, I don't think anybody does, really. Probably only Indiana fans really think of. Yeah, it's weird because, you know, Purdue has been a power for the last five years. You could argue next to UConn and maybe Houston, the most consistently good team, but I never think about them as one, honestly.
- [37:24]
Callers
Yeah, for. But, yeah, other than that, I'm gonna eat, like, three Papa John's pizzas. And tonight, in honor of Yellow Bitch. So y' all have a good night. Go, cat.
- [37:31]
Matt Jones
Appreciate it. And how about. I mean, Louisville's down 15. Mikhail Brown, one of 13 in his first game. That's one game. But that's not good in a game. I know he was hyped up about because of the playing against Darren Peterson. Darren Peterson, by the way, 24 points in the first half, two in the second half. It's crazy how that goes. There's Jacques Vaughn. There's a guy.
- [37:57]
Billy
Point guard. You.
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Matt Jones
Yeah. Who's next?
- [37:59]
Billy
Avery is next.
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Matt Jones
Avery is point guard. You, Avery? Go ahead.
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Callers
Hello. First time caller. Who are I. I just wanted to say that my favorite play was when Jasper Johnson had the crazy dunk and me and my dad went nuts.
- [38:23]
Matt Jones
Yeah, Jasper, he's really athletic now. Is he your favorite player?
- [38:30]
Callers
Yeah.
- [38:32]
Matt Jones
All right. See, I appreciate the Call. I think, I think you're gonna get that from kids. The same way that Dillingham kind of had that thing where Dillingham was every kid's favorite player. Even on a team with Reed shepherd, kids still were like Rob Dillingham. I think Jasper Johnson has the same thing. Then you throw in he's got a tick tock presence. That whole 6, 7 thing that he was a part of, I think you're going to see. I think Jasper Johnson is going to be. Little kids are going to be big time Jasper Johnson things and I love that he's a kid from Kentucky. I mean, I, I continue to say the fact that we have three kids from Kentucky on the team and we don't have to like fight, force them to play, like they really deserve to play is, is awesome. Who's next?
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Billy
Lucas.
- [39:17]
Matt Jones
Lucas. Go ahead, Lucas.
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Callers
Hey, Matt. I am so pumped about this team this season. I think we're gonna have such a great year and I think we can make a big run in the tournament. Quick question for you here though. How do you think Jaden Quaint. Do you think he'll have a big impact come in later in the season?
- [39:36]
Matt Jones
Yes, I do. I mean he's too good. He's too Atlantic and he's too, he's too good. I think his impact is, is. I mean he'll be a great defensive player, but you know, I mean, like, I think he was what, third team or something preseason all sec. I. I don't know if he'll be that in part because I don't know that he needs to be that. I don't know that he's gonna need to get those kind of minutes. You know what I mean? Like I. But I do think here's where he's going to be really important. He's going to be able to guard guys that really no one else on our team can. And he's going to be able to do some stuff athletically and more importantly, he's going to provide matchup issues like, like imagine anyone on Purdue trying to guard him. You know what I mean? Like who's guarding?
- [40:28]
Callers
I don't think anyone could.
- [40:29]
Matt Jones
Nobody's guarding, right? So. So that's the thing. And a dude built like him, he will just. There'll be a game or two where like the other team just won't have a guy who can handle him and that'll be the difference in the game. So I appreciate the call. I think that's where he'll make a big impact. But like the good thing Is, you know, if these bigs, especially if Malachi Moreno is as good as he's been so far, like, you know, he. What if Malachi Moreno can be 75% of Jake Quaint? Well, that's pretty good.
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Billy
Yeah. That was the surprise of the night. Honestly.
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Matt Jones
Malachi and I was surprised how. Well, how good they look playing two bigs a lot because they got so many bigs with these guys that you want to play too because you've got. You're going to have Garrison Moreno yellow diabate. And then you may also have quaintance. So there's good. Like to get all those guys minutes. You're going to want to play two. But I was worried it would screw up the offense. Well, it didn't tonight. At least for the vast majority of the game. And who's up next?
- [41:32]
Billy
Another Josh.
- [41:34]
Matt Jones
Josh. Go ahead, Josh. 859-280-22. 87.
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Callers
Hey, man. So I was so worried tonight that our threes wouldn't show up. And I was worried, you know.
- [41:45]
Matt Jones
Well, they did really. And we still won. They really did.
- [41:49]
Callers
But we, we still did quite a bit, but, you know.
- [41:55]
Matt Jones
Yeah, we shot 9 of 29, but still won by 13.
- [42:00]
Callers
You're right. And, and we looked amazing. But me and my daughter wanted you. She's super nervous. So let's, let's, let's, let's give her a second. But here, here we go. We want to go. C A T S. Cat. Cat. Cat.
- [42:15]
Matt Jones
Love it. Thank you.
- [42:20]
Callers
There you go, girl.
- [42:22]
Matt Jones
Thank you very much. Appreciate the call, Billy. You're kind of thing there. What's up next?
- [42:27]
Billy
Destin is.
- [42:29]
Matt Jones
Destin. Go ahead, Destin.
- [42:32]
Callers
Matt, I got a couple things I'm gonna go real quick. Me and the 2033 UK Future Point Guard sitting here in the truck hadn't even got to watch the game yet. Left the football game of Hoptown County. They were getting blowed out, hurt.
- [42:45]
Matt Jones
Okay, let me ask you a question. Was that. Was that the final Hop Town Christian county game?
- [42:52]
Callers
It's supposed to be. Yes. It was 22 to 6 and they were waiting on a drone to leave the field. I was like, I've had enough.
- [43:00]
Matt Jones
But like, it had to be cool for the community. I bet it had a huge crowd. Did it?
- [43:04]
Callers
Oh, it was. It was packed. It was the most people at a Hoptown county game in 20 years. It was. It was. It was amazing, honestly.
- [43:11]
Matt Jones
Well, I mean, I hate that. That whole thing. I mean, I. It's probably good or maybe it's not good. You would have a better opinion than me on. On the schools combining. But I'm glad they got to have one more kind of send off with the whole community there. That's good.
- [43:24]
Callers
Yes, sir. And man, I just. I had to call in. I love what Pope's doing. We've got our team back. It's amazing. I love the Kentucky kids playing. Let's go get number nine and shout out to my kid Kalyn. Her and the Christian county colonel band gonna play for a state title tomorrow.
- [43:41]
Matt Jones
Well, good luck to her. Appreciate the call. Probably a lot of empty seats in this crowd. Billy for Louisville, Kansas. What's that about?
- [43:50]
Billy
I don't know.
- [43:51]
Matt Jones
That's a lot of empty seats and.
- [43:53]
Billy
I hand out more tickets.
- [43:56]
Matt Jones
That's kind of amazing for a game where you're. I mean, I know it's an exhibition but you're playing Kansas. When's Kansas going to come to Louisville? All right, who's next?
- [44:05]
Billy
Bear claw.
- [44:06]
Matt Jones
Bear claw, go ahead.
- [44:10]
Callers
I am excited for this team. Really excited for this team. And I was glad Billy called out Diabate earlier. That was one of my favorite players to watch in Alabama and I was so excited. We got him. We needed him on defense and this is going to be a great team this year.
- [44:25]
Matt Jones
He's going to have a lot of games this year where he has like a double double or I mean again part of it will be amount of minutes he plays but if he gets the minutes, he's a double double machine.
- [44:38]
Callers
That's right. And I like to see Colin Chandler on Smith there. He shut him down a couple of times. That was nice to see.
- [44:43]
Matt Jones
I thought the guys garden Smith, it was Aberdeen, Chandler, a little bit of Jasper. I mean he. They played really well against him. I mean and because that kid is good and I thought the way they play, I thought that's about as good as you can guard him in a course of a game like that.
- [45:04]
Callers
Yeah, I thought he was going to tear us up but we, we've shut him down pretty good for the most part.
- [45:08]
Matt Jones
Yeah, you're right. Yep. I appreciate the call. How about the stat, Billy, that Purdue has had a seven footer on their roster 14 straight seasons.
- [45:16]
Billy
I didn't know that. I love that stat and I think their seven footer hit a three pointer tonight.
- [45:21]
Matt Jones
He did. He said. I think they said What? He was 7 foot 7 4. Yeah, he actually looked pretty good. I feel like he scored a bunch. Yeah, he actually looked all right. Might be the Zach. Where do they find these people?
- [45:36]
Billy
The pipeline?
- [45:37]
Matt Jones
They just keep finding Zach Eddies all over. They had A couple before him. And where do they find these guys? All right, let's do one more. We'll take our final break. Who's next?
- [45:44]
Billy
Alex.
- [45:45]
Matt Jones
Alex. Go ahead, Alex.
- [45:47]
Callers
Hey, Matt. First time, long time. I got two quick points. First of all, DraftKings has this team 14 to 1 and win the national championship. That seems crazy high to me. How many.
- [46:01]
Matt Jones
How many teams are ahead of them? Like what? Which teams have better odds?
- [46:06]
Callers
I. I'll be honest, I only focused on Kentucky and I'm.
- [46:09]
Matt Jones
When I went to bet, I mean, I can tell you I would not bet on Purdue to win the championship just because they'll find.
- [46:13]
Callers
Absolutely not.
- [46:14]
Matt Jones
They'll play a team like. Like us. I mean, Mike, I do think before he's done, Kelvin Sampson's going to get one. So if you were to say to me, who would I make the first favorite right now? I would probably say Kelvin Sampson. I think they play like Purdue, but they're tough and play good defense. I mean that, like, they're seniors and they're, you know, that they stay in the system, but they're defensive and physical. Went to championship game last year. So, yeah, my initial pick would be to them, but I'd have to look.
- [46:44]
Billy
Houston and Purdue at +9.50.
- [46:46]
Matt Jones
Duke, those are the only teams ahead of us.
- [46:48]
Billy
Duke is plus 1300. Yukon's plus 1300. Kentucky plus.
- [46:52]
Matt Jones
Those are all just because of names. I mean, Duke, Con, and probably Kentucky are their cousin names, and they're trying to kind of get people to bet them. But yes, 14 to 1. I agree with you, sir. Not a bad bet.
- [47:06]
Callers
Great. Yeah. And then the last point. I don't know what made me think of this, but 14 years ago, you wrote an article on Grantland in the fall of 2011 detailing how it was Kentucky's time we were ushering in the Caliper era.
- [47:20]
Matt Jones
I forgot that. I did write an article on Grantland. You did?
- [47:24]
Callers
You did. And it was time for Kentucky to win the national title. Well, here we are, 14 years removed from our last national title. We're ushering in the Mark Pope era. It's our time again to go win the national title. Win number nine. That's all I got cast by 90.
- [47:41]
Matt Jones
Appreciate the call. You know what? That's weird because that's one of those things in life that for some reason had completely escaped me until he said that. Billy, I think I'd forgotten I did.
- [47:51]
Billy
That 14 years ago.
- [47:53]
Matt Jones
Yeah, I think a lot of those Grant Land articles are not online anymore, but I did write that. I don't remember why? No. I mean I don't remember who asked me. Somebody asked me to write that and I actually think it was pretty good. And I honestly have not thought about that article in 10 years until he just said that. Huh.
- [48:14]
Billy
Well, if it's online Corey Price will find it.
- [48:16]
Matt Jones
Corey Price, find that article for me because I'd like to have that. I completely Forgot I did that. 8592802287 Louisville is down 8171 to Kansas with with two minutes to go in a 2/3 empty. Yum center in an exhibition game whereas Kentucky's arena was. What percentage? I mean what percentage full? 95% full. Rup arena. We'll take a break and be right back. This is the local toy dealers KSR postgame show. It is the final segment of the local Toyota dealers KSR post game show. Do you remember Billy, the last time I had the audience of these guys? Do you remember what happened?
- [48:57]
Billy
It was after the Oklahoma game.
- [48:59]
Matt Jones
After the Oklahoma game in the SEC tournament. But what happened during that hour?
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Billy
You guys were on the roof.
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Matt Jones
Well, no, that was the. That was the Oklahoma game. The game actually afterwards we lost. Who do we lose to in the tournament that year? Alabama. We lost Alabama. And if you remember after the game they were all sitting on a couch and the weight of the couch collapsed during the middle of the show and they all ended up in the floor.
- [49:24]
Billy
I'm hoping that didn't happen again.
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Matt Jones
We were in an Airbnb for that one so I didn't care about the couch. I'm hoping my couches survive this. 1-855-980-2287 did you know the NBA is on Amazon prime tonight? No. It's the debut of Amazon Prime. I will ask you. It's Nick Celtics. Can you take a guess who the two big announcers on Amazon prime are for? The NBA. You know. You've heard of both of them?
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Billy
I have no clue. Who is it?
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Matt Jones
Iron Eagle and Stan Van Gundy. That's your main announcing crew for Amazon Prime.
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Billy
I love a little I and I'm surprised you're not watching the World Series.
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Matt Jones
I'm going to do. I'm watching Louisville right now. I was just. I'm going to turn on. I am going to Turn on the baseball. 859-2802. That's the guy for Louisville. That's the guy that Pope coach, right? The Egyptian guy. What's his name? Ali Norani, I think. Who's up next?
- [50:21]
Billy
Trey.
- [50:22]
Matt Jones
Trey. Go ahead, Trey.
- [50:25]
Callers
Hey Matt, how you doing Doing good. I just wanted to say that I was really impressed with our defensive rebounding tonight.
- [50:33]
Matt Jones
It's just, I agree with you. They usually killed. They usually kill teams with offensive rebounds. We held them to seven.
- [50:41]
Callers
Yeah. And it seems like over the past few years that we've really had trouble with that, so. And also o way after the game saying that he really wanted to have the team defend the home court. That was really nice to hear. Also.
- [50:55]
Matt Jones
I like that he did say that on the SEC network. Said defending home court was important to him. You know, these guys. Look, this is not to say that the other way didn't want work because it did, but it is cool and I know UK fans like it that the way Pope sells this experience to players is not, hey, use this as a path to your next spot. He sells the time they're here, the fans and things like defending the court. And I agree with you. I think that's very cool.
- [51:28]
Callers
Yep. Thank you. Great game today.
- [51:30]
Matt Jones
Appreciate the call. I, you know, the other way worked too and we love those players. So I'm not trashing that. But this way I do think connects with fans in some way more. We'll do six more and call tonight. Who's next?
- [51:42]
Billy
Chris.
- [51:43]
Matt Jones
Chris. 859-280-2287. Go ahead.
- [51:47]
Callers
Hey, first time, long time.
- [51:49]
Matt Jones
Who are. What's up?
- [51:51]
Callers
Hey, you know this was an exhibition game, but I took this as a season opener game. I mean, I mean I was impressed how many weapons we have on offense this year. You know, we went to OA last year and seemed like this. I kept on trying to figure out who was scoring. I trying to. I don't know the players yet.
- [52:10]
Matt Jones
Well, part of the problem is Jasper Johnson and Aberdeen look exactly the same from like they, but from far away. They're both left handed, they're both point guards, they both have the same hair and they both kind of play the same way. And so like it's easy to sometimes not be able to tell and they're. One of them is number one, the other one's number two. And so it's sometimes hard to tell which one's which and number.
- [52:29]
Callers
And number two, Chandler, after his layup or dunk, he did a little header. Like I saw the header. Did you see the header after that?
- [52:38]
Matt Jones
What do you mean the header? Like where he taps his head?
- [52:40]
Callers
Yeah, he tapped the ball with his head after I went.
- [52:44]
Matt Jones
Oh, you mean a header like a soccer header? I didn't see that. No.
- [52:50]
Callers
Yeah, go back and look. He does a little, I mean he does a little soccer header on that.
- [52:55]
Matt Jones
Okay, I. Look. I did not see that. I did not.
- [52:57]
Billy
Yeah, he headbutted it. And then they called delay a game, I think.
- [52:59]
Matt Jones
Oh, is that what they call? I didn't see why. I saw they called delay a game. That's why they called delay game. Okay, Gotcha. I didn't know what that was for. All right, well, I appreciate the call. Yeah, Two great dunks. The Jasper Johnson and the Colin Chandler dunk. Chandler dunk to me. I got to go back and look at it. It had some, like. He's. He's kind of floating in the air. Parts to it. Who's next? Cannon. Cannon. What's up, Canon?
- [53:25]
Callers
So I just got home from work, which means that I had to listen on the radio and let me just say that Goose Givens might be my favorite person on this whole earth.
- [53:34]
Matt Jones
He gets so excited, doesn't he? I mean, he's like the. He gets excited, but he's also like the proud uncle when he's calling the game.
- [53:42]
Callers
Yeah. And then just let me share this little interaction just to show what BBN is like. I work at the automotive center in Berea Walmart, and this lady got a flat tire on 75, and I asked where she was from, and she was coming from Williamsburg to Lexington for an exhibition. That just shows what BBN is.
- [54:02]
Matt Jones
I hope you did you. Were you able to get her tire done so she could get there?
- [54:06]
Callers
Of course. Because I know if it was me in that situation, I don't want somebody to do the same.
- [54:10]
Matt Jones
I love it. Appreciate the call. Good man. Four. Four left. Who's next?
- [54:14]
Billy
Todd is next.
- [54:15]
Matt Jones
Todd. Go ahead, Todd.
- [54:18]
Callers
Hello, Matt.
- [54:20]
Matt Jones
What's going on, Todd?
- [54:21]
Callers
The game doing well? It's been a while since I've talked to you. Go for it tonight. As the game started, I thought Kentucky looked like the best team from the tip till the end, and that totally surprised me. I just offered by Purdue being ranked number one that it would be a really tough game, but, man alive, we just really look great. And Purdue just didn't look like a number one.
- [54:58]
Matt Jones
No, they really didn't. They really didn't. And I didn't want to, like, you know, I don't want to crush them because they. They did not look like a number one team. I mean, I think we played really well, but I don't think we played Todd, like, insanely well. Like, I thought. You know, I thought we. I thought we were really good. But, yeah, they don't look like a number one team, but I Think we're also used to Todd playing teams with, like, great athletes, and they're just a different kind of team. And I think it bites them in the tournament. They're a Big Ten team. Like, they're. They are Big Ten teams play like that. Right. And they're the best Big Ten teams, and we play like SEC teams, and I think SEC teams really give them a hard time because they just. They can't guard them.
- [55:42]
Callers
Yeah. I'm just looking forward to a. To a real good year. Hoping we'll go 40 and.
- [55:49]
Matt Jones
Oh, well, let's slow down. We're not gonna go 40, you know, I mean, we're gonna lose games. I appreciate the call. I mean, we could. I know Louisville lost tonight, but we could lose them. That's on their home floor. You know, road games are hard. We have a hard road conference schedule. Like, we play all the hard teams on the road. We tend to play the easy teams at home. We got kind of a weird draw with that, but nevertheless, we're going to be good. Three more. Who's next?
- [56:15]
Billy
Don.
- [56:16]
Matt Jones
Don. Go ahead, Don.
- [56:18]
Callers
Hey, Matt. I'm really trying to temper my excitement tonight, but don't tempt a little bit.
- [56:24]
Matt Jones
Hard to do really, really good. And I don't.
- [56:28]
Callers
I don't care that this was preseason. We just be the preseason number one team with arguably our two best players not playing tonight or two of our five best players not playing tonight.
- [56:40]
Matt Jones
So I. I think two of our fives fair. Yeah.
- [56:43]
Callers
And I'm super excited about this. I don't. I mean, it's been a while since we could get this excited about one of our top two sports programs, and I am. I love it.
- [56:53]
Matt Jones
Well, I mean, I was really excited last year when we beat Duke in that first game because it felt. Because it felt like Kentucky basketball was back, but I never really thought that team could win a title. I think this team. I think this team could win a title, and I think that's really exciting.
- [57:12]
Callers
That's great, man. I'm just. I'm glad to be in this state right now.
- [57:16]
Matt Jones
I agree with you. Appreciate the call. When did they start having ads on the helmets? Is that Billy? How long has that been going? I'm at the World Series right now. Is that normal?
- [57:25]
Billy
First time I've seen it, but I haven't watched a ton of it.
- [57:27]
Matt Jones
I'm sure they've been doing. I mean, I guess I go to the games, but I don't really focus on the.
- [57:31]
Billy
Yeah, you do have season three.
- [57:32]
Matt Jones
I do got to have season Tickets. You think I behind home plate, but yeah, I haven't really noticed to it. Who's next?
- [57:39]
Billy
Two more. Elijah.
- [57:41]
Matt Jones
I actually watched more baseball in the last two years than my.
- [57:43]
Callers
Hey, Matt, how you doing?
- [57:45]
Matt Jones
Maybe this should have been going on the whole time. I should have. I never really processed it. Go ahead.
- [57:51]
Callers
You there, Matt?
- [57:52]
Matt Jones
Yes.
- [57:55]
Callers
Last year our guard play was extremely concerning at times and probably lost us a few key games. Do you think that's a concerning point moving forward with this roster?
- [58:07]
Matt Jones
And we don't have Jalen Low yet though, right? I mean, if you believe like I.
- [58:11]
Callers
Know, I know that.
- [58:12]
Matt Jones
That Jaylen Low is our second best player and maybe and like the initiator of our offense, he's not here, then I can't be concerned yet. You know what I mean? So, no, I'm not concerned. Let me watch a couple games with Jay Low and then maybe I'd have a different view. But right now, no, I'm not concerned.
- [58:31]
Callers
Is the guard play the key for this year, do you think, or will there be other ways to kind of facilitate and win?
- [58:38]
Matt Jones
I think. I think the key for this team is. I always think the key is what we don't do well. Right. Because we've got to make it better. So last year we knew we could shoot. My question was, are we going to be able to create offense in key possessions? Are we going to be able to create shots this year? I think we're going to be able to do it. The key is going to be we're going to get open threes and when it's not Trent, Noah and you know, can those. Can Jalen, Lowe, Ortega away the bigs, you know, can those guys, Aberdeen, can they hit the open looks that they get? That'll be the key to the season and let's see what happens. This is one game, but if we're hitting it with this team, if we're hitting threes, we're going to be really hard to beat.
- [59:25]
Callers
Yeah, I agree. Thank you, Matt.
- [59:26]
Matt Jones
Appreciate it. I mean, you saw we had a ton of open looks tonight and we took some bad threes too. But I'd. I bet you we were like 9 of 17 or whatever from open threes. That'll be. That'll be the question. One more and then we'll call it a night. Who's next?
- [59:41]
Billy
Chris.
- [59:41]
Matt Jones
Chris. Go ahead, Chris.
- [59:44]
Callers
Hey, Matt Jones. First time ever.
- [59:47]
Matt Jones
Who are.
- [59:47]
Callers
You know, you know, just real quick. You know, I really think that this is finally a great moment, you know, through all the Cal years and then the last few years that we just had some concerns and now we're seeing this team and we beat Purdue regardless of its exhibition. But to reiterate, the rest of the fans, Go Cats. You know we would. We lose six games, we don't win the sec, but we tough it out, we win the national championship. God bless. Take care. Thank you. Go Cats.
- [60:18]
Matt Jones
Appreciate the call. I like that prediction and I like tonight. Tonight was a great night. Tonight is great for the program, great for the fan base. Packed house, exciting win against a good team. Lexington has a buzz about it. Who do we play tomorrow on football?
- [60:37]
Billy
Doesn't matter.
- [60:38]
Matt Jones
Yeah, it doesn't matter for tonight. Everybody enjoy it. And at least until Tuesday we're going to say this team can win the national championship. Cats beat the number one Purdue boilermakers at home 7865 in an exhibition game and Kentucky basketball is back and it's going to be a great year. This has been the local toy dealers KSR postgame show.
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