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Billy Rutledge (0:26)
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Billy Rutledge (1:01)
It is the local toilet dealers KSR post game show the Cats get a big win at home against Vanderbilt after one of the better second halves I think they've played this entire year winning by 20 on a snowy day here in Lexington, Kentucky. You can give us a shout 859-280-2287. I hope you will because if you don't, who am I going to talk to tonight? Kentucky came out first half I thought offensively played well all night. Colin Chandler missed a three at the end or we would have hit the KSR parlay. But offensively I thought they were good the whole night. Defensively not good in the first half. But then second half when you consider the roster and when you consider kind of what what this team is in terms of with injuries, I thought the second half they played absolutely excellent. A lot of guys were a lot of guys had a big role. I think one of the Amari Williams had a period of the game where he was absolutely dominant but they got good contributions from obviously away Almanor. Andrew Carr looked the most like himself he has this year. Colin Chandler I thought played excellent, had good good minutes from Travis Perry. Lot lot of really positive things. But I think the game turned at halftime when Mark Pope, or as I like to call him now thanks to the girl in the video, Tom decided to basically take the game inside. We had a huge height advantage over Vandy. Vandy's one of the worst rebounding and worst size teams in the country. And we took advantage of it and we went download Amari Williams, download to Andrew Carr. And I thought it was really, really impressive what those guys were able to do. They went as a team. This is an amazing statistic to me. They went 19 for 24 from 2 on 2 point shots tonight. That is 79%. 79% from 2. I mean that is unbelievable. That's one. I don't. I would like to know how many games has Kentucky shot that 2 point percentage in a game ever? I mean, that's a, that's an amazingly high percentage. And a lot of it was at the second half. I think between Carr and Williams. They probably had five or six post ups that led to easy buckets that got them the gap that they ended up winning by. It was interesting to hear Mark Pope say that Amari Williams is top five in the history of the SEC at par, which as I guess points, assists and rebounds per 40 minutes. My answer to that was would be let's play more. Because it's a different game when he's in there. He just, he is defensively, he feels like he's finally getting his hands up all the time. But he's also offensively really coming into his own. I mean, I, you know, a lot of the things we talked about earlier in the year about him dribbling and, and all that, he does less of that. But when he makes moves to the basket, I, I think they're on purpose and distinct and I think they actually do. Really, really. I think he plays really, really well. Like I said, same with Carr. We get this was closer to the Andrew Carr that we saw at the beginning of the year. I really thought he played excellent tonight. And in the second half when they needed offense from him, he gave it to him and he can just score. We've talked a lot about this in ways that are. Nobody else on the team can score that easily. And I thought that was, that was really huge. He, he played 21 minutes. You know, he'd only been playing like 14 or 15. Played 21 minutes. Getting closer and closer to the amount of minutes you'd like to see. We said on the pregame show we thought Kentucky need to hit 10 threes. They hit 11. You could take that. How about 13 of 13 from the free throw line? Williams going five of five from the free throw line away. Five of five. Those are guys has. Haven't necessarily shot like that from the line this year. Did it tonight. And then I think, you know, maybe the, the biggest story coming out of it is, is how well Colin Chandler played. I mean, you would have been forgiven if as a Kentucky fan, you had watched the minutes Colin Chandler got and just were like, well, I mean, we just, we just can't play that guy. I mean, he had in the last few weeks started to play big, better defense, but offensively just seemed lost. And tonight, offensively, it was a different, that was a different dude. I mean, not only do you have a seven points, but dribbled with confidence, made good passes. You know, he's number five. And since we have three point guards out and Travis Perry was fourth, I saw somebody online calling PG5. Well, he is the fistering point guard. But tonight he played really well. I thought at point guard gives them an option. You know, I, I, when Colin Chandler, when we, when we got him, I, I had seen, I saw him play before his mission in high school once on television, and I remember thinking, man, that kid's athletic. And we just hadn't seen any of that. And tonight, for the first time this year, I'm like, okay, that is the Colin Chandler that Mark Pope, you know, the was recruiting and that Mark Pope, like wanted at byu. And it was, was really excellent to see it. And I thought he made a huge impact tonight. You know, Travis Perry didn't shoot great, although I think he hit 1 3. But, but the two of them, I thought played point relatively well, which helped, which kind of helped the team flow. And on a night where Trit Noah was kind of off and you know, Kobe Braya hit a couple early threes, but it was good to those guys to give, to give good minutes so all around a big win. Had to win this game. Had to, had to, had to win this game. And they did. They're now two games up on 10th place, so they're, they're ninth place. But there's still, there's a lot of ways for them to move up in conference and now fewer ways to move down after winning that tonight. So big win. You go to Alabama Saturday. You want to talk about a game where you're playing with house money? I mean, nobody expects you to win. Nobody, including me. And you know, a lot of times this year that's when the teams played the best. So maybe it'll happen again. They are down right now, Billy. At halftime at Missouri, 59 to 46, they gave up 59 at halftime. Wow. At halftime, 59 to 46. You know, I watched the game, that game. They were down 12, nothing in two and a half minutes. So who knows? I mean, they lost a lost Auburn. They. Maybe they come back in this one, but they're down 13 right now at half. We'll see. Also, your Cal Perry tied at Auburn 37. 37 with 15 minutes to go. You know, he gets one of these every year. Thought it was gonna be against us, but now, who knows? Maybe the number one team in the country. This could be the game that gets Cal in the tournament. Right now, I think they have a 31% chance of making the tournament. You win tonight, it'll be. It'll be a different one. So we'll keep track of all that as the night goes on. 859-280-2287. All of you that are driving home from the game, please be careful on the roads. I think it's still spitting snow a little bit. School is out here in Lexington tomorrow, so, you know, why not stay up tonight and we'll. We'll do all this together. Billy, by the way.