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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to the Big Blue Insider.

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<v Speaker 2>Dick Gabriel with you on a Thursday edition of our program,

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<v Speaker 2>and we will start by telling you that if you

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<v Speaker 2>didn't see it earlier. Kentucky volleyball moving on in the

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<v Speaker 2>NCAA Tournament, knocking off Missouri for the third time this

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<v Speaker 2>year by a final of three to one. Kentucky jumped out,

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<v Speaker 2>took the first two sets, and then Missouri absolutely throttled

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<v Speaker 2>the Wildcats in set number three before Kentucky jumped out

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<v Speaker 2>to the early lead and set four kind of set.

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<v Speaker 1>The tone and moves on.

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<v Speaker 2>And because we pre record can't tell you who they're playing,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm guessing it's going to be Pittsburgh, the number one

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<v Speaker 2>team in the country. Obviously the number one seed. They're

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<v Speaker 2>playing in Pittsburgh. But the Wildcats move on to the

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<v Speaker 2>Elite eight once again. Brooklyn delay phenomenal twenty two kills,

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<v Speaker 2>four nineteen hitting percentage, And again, if you don't know

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<v Speaker 2>the sport, that's like batting average. Anything over three hundred,

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<v Speaker 2>you're doing great. Megan Wilson was huge today for the Wildcats.

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<v Speaker 2>She had thirty teen kills. Brook Baltima also big ten kills,

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<v Speaker 2>hit four thirty eight and by the way, Wilson at

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<v Speaker 2>three seventy five. But I'll tell you in that fourth set,

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<v Speaker 2>a critical juncture was still up for grabs, really and

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<v Speaker 2>Missouri which had two really big swingers Jordan Isliff who

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<v Speaker 2>had twenty kills and Michael Vernon who had eleven kills

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<v Speaker 2>but hit negative hit minus twenty nine too many errors.

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<v Speaker 2>They had a couple of huge swings and it looked

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<v Speaker 2>like they were putting down points. They would have pulled

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<v Speaker 2>them right back into it, but it was Eleanor Bevin

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<v Speaker 2>who had ten digs, massive digs on a couple of

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<v Speaker 2>big swings that led directly to Kentucky points. And so

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<v Speaker 2>Bevin who was the Libro of the Year two years

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<v Speaker 2>ago and now Mully Tuzzo's a liberal, but that gives

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<v Speaker 2>Kentucky an elite defender, what they call a defensive specialist,

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<v Speaker 2>and Eleanor Bevin and Tuzzo was phenomenal. She had eleven

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<v Speaker 2>digs as well. Em mcgrom had ten digs. So Kentucky's

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<v Speaker 2>defense was tremendous. But those two digs in particular in

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<v Speaker 2>the fourth set were so big for Kentucky. Growing by

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<v Speaker 2>the way, fifty assists, she is now the all time

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<v Speaker 2>leader and assists for the Wildcats in the history of

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<v Speaker 2>the program. Kentucky hit three forty seven for the match,

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<v Speaker 2>Missoo hit two forty one. Before I move on, I

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<v Speaker 2>gotta tell you, and I don't do that.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not going to.

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<v Speaker 2>Name names, but we talk every once in a while

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<v Speaker 2>because people complain on social media, generally about basketball. I

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<v Speaker 2>wrote something recently about Jay Billis and the fact that

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<v Speaker 2>I don't believe he hates Kentucky, even though a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of you do. It's more about basketball than football, I think,

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<v Speaker 2>just because you know of the pace of the game

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<v Speaker 2>and the way Kentucky fans of course feel about their program.

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<v Speaker 2>But I always say, look, announcers generally just want a

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<v Speaker 2>good game to cover or good match to cover. We

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<v Speaker 2>love calling upsets things like that, you know, And look,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm when it comes to volleyball, I'm the Kentucky announcer.

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<v Speaker 1>I get that.

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<v Speaker 2>When it comes to baseball, I'm the Kentucky announcer. And

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<v Speaker 2>it's different from when Darren Hedrick calls baseball in the

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<v Speaker 2>radio because his audience there is almost strictly Kentucky fans. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>when Doug Flinn and I do baseball or when you

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<v Speaker 2>know Leah Edmond and I do volleyball, there are likely

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<v Speaker 2>as many viewers rooting for the other team as there

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<v Speaker 2>are Kentucky, so we have to keep that in mind.

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<v Speaker 2>But I always say we kind of call it through

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<v Speaker 2>the Kentucky prism. I'm gonna tell you something today, the announcers.

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<v Speaker 2>I was so uncomfortable watching this match and I got

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<v Speaker 2>a little angry. This almost entire match was all about Missouri,

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<v Speaker 2>and I don't get it.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe these announcers I try to find out, were, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>regularly calling missoo games. I don't know, but I know

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<v Speaker 2>the playoff play announced her played at Hofstra and she's

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<v Speaker 2>an award winning playbook play person. And the color commentator

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<v Speaker 2>played at Minnesota. But I don't know what their connection was,

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<v Speaker 2>but they clearly had one, and so did the sideline

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<v Speaker 2>reporter with Missouri. I was just so put off by that.

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<v Speaker 2>There was one play in particular, Ava Sarafa for Kentucky

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<v Speaker 2>with an ace that's a big deal, all right, at

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<v Speaker 2>a crucial point in match, and they just kind of

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<v Speaker 2>murmured about what Missouri did wrong. Everything was about what

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<v Speaker 2>does Missouri have to do? To get back into this.

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<v Speaker 2>At one point a Missouri kid had to kill and

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<v Speaker 2>one of the announcers pointed out.

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<v Speaker 1>Just a courageous swing. Courageous.

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<v Speaker 2>What's courageous about that? She's done that a thousand times?

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<v Speaker 2>So yeah, I was put off, and if you were

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<v Speaker 2>too this time.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't blame you. A couple nud notes.

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<v Speaker 2>Before we hit the brake, and by the way, coming

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<v Speaker 2>up next, we'll hear from the basketball Wildcats after their

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<v Speaker 2>win over at Colgate, which was not the prettiest. A

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<v Speaker 2>little bit later on Sean Woods at the bottom of

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<v Speaker 2>the hour joins us, the unforgettable guard who predicted that

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<v Speaker 2>Kentucky win over Gonzaga. We'll get him a chance to

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<v Speaker 2>crow about that and explain why. Jack Gibbons joins us

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<v Speaker 2>in our number two to talk, of course about the

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<v Speaker 2>basketball cats. Aaron Gershan will join us as well in

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<v Speaker 2>our number two, and we'll talk some football with Aaron

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<v Speaker 2>about the portal and about player movement and.

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<v Speaker 1>All that sort of stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>So yeah, we've got a busy show tonight, but a

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<v Speaker 2>couple other things. Where Dan Mullen evidently is signed on

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<v Speaker 2>as the head coach at UNLV, so he's the guy

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<v Speaker 2>who coached Mississippi State to the top of college football.

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<v Speaker 1>There were ranked number one in the country.

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<v Speaker 2>In that game where Dak Prescott faced off with Patrick

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<v Speaker 2>Toles here in Lexington was one of the best games

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<v Speaker 2>I've ever seen in then Commonwealth Stadium, or maybe it

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<v Speaker 2>was Carogerfield by then. Anyway, Then he goes to Florida,

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<v Speaker 2>flames out, does not work. He's been on TV for

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<v Speaker 2>a couple of years, but he's the new head coach

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<v Speaker 2>at UNLV. Rich Rodriguez is returning to West Virginia as

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<v Speaker 2>the head coach.

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<v Speaker 1>He left there for.

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<v Speaker 2>Michigan next and did not work out there. Rich Rodriguez

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<v Speaker 2>was interviewed for the Kentucky job back in the day,

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<v Speaker 2>turned it down. That's when Rich Brooks ended up as

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<v Speaker 2>the UK coach. Bill Belichick today said somebody asked him

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<v Speaker 2>about leaving for the NFL North Carolina.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't come here to leave.

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<v Speaker 2>Tomorrow, we're going to talk about why we think is

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<v Speaker 2>it was a mistake for North Carolina to sign Belichick.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm not the only one who said that. Up next,

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<v Speaker 2>we'll talk with the basketball cats on six thirty WLAP.

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome back to the.

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<v Speaker 2>Big Blue and sider Dick Gabriel with you coming up,

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<v Speaker 2>We're gonna hear from Seawan Woods, the unforgettable guard.

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<v Speaker 1>We talked to him every week. Chris, we usually talked

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<v Speaker 1>to him on Wednesday.

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<v Speaker 2>There was basketball last night, but Sean, you might predicted

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<v Speaker 2>the win over Duke and then of course we were

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<v Speaker 2>able to talk with him about that the next day

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<v Speaker 2>as to why and what he saw. Well, last week

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<v Speaker 2>he predicted a win at Gonzaga, and this is our

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<v Speaker 2>first chance to talk with Sean since that game, so

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<v Speaker 2>we'll hear from him about what he saw, also about

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<v Speaker 2>what he saw last night. And Sean played in games

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<v Speaker 2>like last night's game where you're.

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<v Speaker 1>Supposed to win.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't recall any of his teams blowing a lead

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<v Speaker 2>the way Kentucky did last night, but we'll get his

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<v Speaker 2>thoughts on that as well. Aaron Gershan at the Cats

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<v Speaker 2>Boss coming up a little bit later on.

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<v Speaker 1>But last night, after the game.

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<v Speaker 2>The players talked about a lot of different things, including

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<v Speaker 2>that blown lead.

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<v Speaker 1>Kobe Brea, who moved into.

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<v Speaker 2>The starting lineup with the loss of Lamont Butler, said

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<v Speaker 2>that at halftime somebody asked him, you know, what did

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<v Speaker 2>you guys talk about? What were the adjustments, and he said, really,

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<v Speaker 2>before the coaches got in there, before Mark Pope started

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<v Speaker 2>talking to the team, the players talked among themselves and

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<v Speaker 2>they pretty much knew what they had to address and

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<v Speaker 2>what they had to do in the second half.

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<v Speaker 3>We all knew that the energy just wasn't right for

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<v Speaker 3>us a little bit.

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<v Speaker 4>You know.

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<v Speaker 3>We all knew that it was just going to be

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<v Speaker 3>on us today to you know, kind of lead the

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<v Speaker 3>way and you know, do what we have to do

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<v Speaker 3>to stay true to ourselves. You know, we have to

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<v Speaker 3>live up to our standard. And that's something that was

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<v Speaker 3>talked a lot about in half time, and I think

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<v Speaker 3>that in the second half we did do a better job.

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<v Speaker 3>But that's something that you know, I feel like a

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<v Speaker 3>lot of teams in games like this, they kind of

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<v Speaker 3>folded a little bit, just you know, we had a

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<v Speaker 3>really big game that we won and coming into you know,

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<v Speaker 3>playing a school that's maybe not so big, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>the team started to take a little lightly, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>But that's the good thing about having veterans.

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<v Speaker 5>In this group.

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<v Speaker 3>We understand that every game is important, and you know,

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<v Speaker 3>I think we bounced back really well in the second half.

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<v Speaker 2>And of course he had a couple of shots go down,

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<v Speaker 2>which certainly helped the Wildcats in the second half. That's

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<v Speaker 2>what turned things around, that hot shooting. But never should

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<v Speaker 2>have come to that, as you well know, and missing

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<v Speaker 2>not just Lamont Butler, but kerk cries a point guards

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<v Speaker 2>who can get you into what you need to be

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<v Speaker 2>doing just so vital, and he got to have Butler back,

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<v Speaker 2>I would think, I don't I'm not saying he can't

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<v Speaker 2>beat Louisville without him, but it's just tough to go

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<v Speaker 2>into a game like that with all that emotion.

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<v Speaker 1>And Jackson Robinson has done a nice job.

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<v Speaker 2>Travis Perry got some minutes last night, but it's gonna

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<v Speaker 2>be a lot tougher. On Saturday, and Andrew Carr talked

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<v Speaker 2>about how much they really need to get Lamont Butler

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<v Speaker 2>back and on the floor.

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<v Speaker 6>It's really hard for a team to replicate Lamont's ability

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<v Speaker 6>to just disrupt kind of what's going on. And so

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<v Speaker 6>of course we want him back as soon as possible now.

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<v Speaker 6>Of course, no at no risk of anything for the

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<v Speaker 6>rest of the season. So you know, we're we're confident

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<v Speaker 6>in him getting back onto the court and really you know,

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<v Speaker 6>making an impact for us like he always has.

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<v Speaker 2>Before he left the floor or Mark Pope put on

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<v Speaker 2>a headset and talked to ESPN, to the Sports Center

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<v Speaker 2>anchors about a lot of different things. They look back

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<v Speaker 2>at the Gonzaga game, and a former WKYT employee, Michael Leaves,

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<v Speaker 2>who has talked a couple of times from the anchor,

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<v Speaker 2>said about Kentucky and Mark Pope, they dropped in a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit of that as well, but Pope also just

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<v Speaker 2>talked about turning things around against Colgate.

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<v Speaker 1>What it took.

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<v Speaker 7>Well, we have great guys, man, We have a ton

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<v Speaker 7>of leadership on this team, and this was clearly not

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<v Speaker 7>our best night. And a lot of credit Colgate. You know,

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<v Speaker 7>they've had some misfortune, but they're a championship team. They've

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<v Speaker 7>won a ton and those guys have a lot of

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<v Speaker 7>pride and played well. But our guys are they're greater

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<v Speaker 7>at responding. They're just greater responding. It's the best part

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<v Speaker 8>Proud of them speaking of that best part of your

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<v Speaker 8>team and responding, as you say, let's go back to Saturday.

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<v Speaker 8>You guys were down eighteen in the second half against Gonzaga.

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<v Speaker 9>On the road.

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<v Speaker 8>How did you pull off that comeback win in OT.

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<v Speaker 7>Way again, it just comes back to listen. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>This all the time.

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<v Speaker 7>The beautiful thing about basketball is it is a team

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<v Speaker 7>sport and it's always gonna test the connect the tissue

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<v Speaker 7>of your team. And our guys have worked really hard,

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<v Speaker 7>they've been really intentional about trying to stay together. That

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<v Speaker 7>you the best chance to stay alive when things aren't

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<v Speaker 7>working right and to kind of keep a fresh heart

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<v Speaker 8>Yeah, and it was quite a thrilling win and OT

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<v Speaker 8>in that game and postgame you had this sweet moment

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<v Speaker 8>with your wife and took the time to think the

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<v Speaker 8>fans who traveled. How did these moments motivate you, coach?

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<v Speaker 7>Well, hey, I'll tell you what. First of all, I'm

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<v Speaker 7>is it's just as like they were incredible tonight, like

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<v Speaker 7>we were really at an energy deficit and and BBN

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<v Speaker 7>just stood up, all twenty thousand of them, and it

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<v Speaker 7>started giving us love that we probably didn't quite deserve

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<v Speaker 7>tonight and carried us through. And so, uh, it's it's

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<v Speaker 7>it's unbelievable.

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<v Speaker 1>There's there's just Kentucky.

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<v Speaker 7>There's nowhere like it, and uh we're blessed to be

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<v Speaker 10>Mark Seth Greenberg here, I absolutely love watching your team play.

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<v Speaker 10>The passion, the energy, their unselfishness. But what did you

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<v Speaker 10>learn about your team today? Obvious a game before the game,

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<v Speaker 10>but what do you learn about your team today in

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<v Speaker 10>terms of without Kerr and without Lamont in terms of

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<v Speaker 1>If you have to play without those guys.

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<v Speaker 7>Well, we're gonna we're gonna continue to adjust. You know,

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<v Speaker 7>Jackson Robinson carrying an enormous load right now. Uh TP

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<v Speaker 7>is gonna step up and help us. Colin Chandler is

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<v Speaker 7>gonna help us. Those guys are gonna get better and better.

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<v Speaker 7>We got a a terrific contribution from chat Noah tonight.

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<v Speaker 7>He was terrific with his energy, and so we'll regroup

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<v Speaker 7>right now.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know, obviously we.

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<v Speaker 7>favorite game games every year coming up Saturday, and we

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<v Speaker 1>But just like everything we.

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<v Speaker 7>Do, it's gonna be a community effort. It's gonna be

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<v Speaker 7>all hands on deck, and we'll see if we can fight

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<v Speaker 7>for each other.

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<v Speaker 8>Yeah, speaking on that effort on and off the court, coach,

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<v Speaker 8>before we let you go, we wanted you to listen

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<v Speaker 8>to our Michael Eaves at Kentucky alum who asked two

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<v Speaker 8>NBA stars, also Kentucky alumni, talking about your program in

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<v Speaker 11>Let's listen real quickly.

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<v Speaker 13>What the Cat's gonna do this year?

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<v Speaker 5>They got a new head coach too.

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<v Speaker 13>Now, Hey, looking good, right now, That's what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 13>Looking really good. So they looking really good. Obviously it's tough,

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<v Speaker 13>you know for me to see the cow lea, but uh,

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<v Speaker 13>you know, it was his time. You know, he felt

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<v Speaker 13>like it was his time to move on. And you know,

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<v Speaker 13>I'm loving the coach, I'm loving the team, so you know,

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<v Speaker 13>hopefully we can you know, we can get Benning number

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<v Speaker 13>nine this year.

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<v Speaker 14>Oh by the way, Kentucky won, so we're now seven

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<v Speaker 14>to oh go cat, it's.

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<v Speaker 9>There, there we go.

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<v Speaker 13>Hope is Hope.

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<v Speaker 11>That's the model for the Yeah, Hope is Hope.

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<v Speaker 8>Gotta love to hear that, coach. What do you think

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<v Speaker 8>of what you just heard from Anthony Davis and Shay

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<v Speaker 8>Gilges Alexander, Yeah.

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<v Speaker 7>Listen, it is It is incredibly important to us that

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<v Speaker 7>we continue to make all the players and coaches that

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<v Speaker 7>worked miracles here over the decades, that we make those

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<v Speaker 7>guys proud because we get to enjoy this because of

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<v Speaker 7>what they did. This was built by them and this

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<v Speaker 7>Kentucky family man. There's an enormous pride in what this

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<v Speaker 7>is that spans through generation after generation. And it's our

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<v Speaker 7>turn now to carry this torch and it is a

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<v Speaker 7>it is a ton of brilliantly beautiful pressure to live

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<v Speaker 7>up to the expectations here and that's what we're trying

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<v Speaker 7>to do. I'm glad those guys are enjoying it. It's

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<v Speaker 2>And again that's courtesy of ESPN. Then Pope went back

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<v Speaker 2>to the interview room. In between ESPN and talking to

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<v Speaker 2>Tom Leech, you talked to the assembled Masses and John

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<v Speaker 2>Wong asked him a little bit about the rankings.

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<v Speaker 1>John kind is kind of a man of the people.

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<v Speaker 2>When he's writing his blog, he refers oftentimes to what

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<v Speaker 2>people are talking about. And you know, as well as

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<v Speaker 2>I and maybe you're one of them, that a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of people have complained bitterly about the fact that Duke's

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<v Speaker 2>ranked the head of Kentucky. Keep in mind one thing

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<v Speaker 2>when you're talking about the rankings thinking about him.

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<v Speaker 1>The Associated Press.

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<v Speaker 2>Poll was created literally to sell newspapers. That's kind of

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<v Speaker 2>a cliche. Oh, they're just doing that to sell papers. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of times back in the day, until they

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<v Speaker 2>began to die. Everything newspapers did was designed to sell papers.

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<v Speaker 2>And when it came to college basketball, that's why they

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<v Speaker 2>created the AP Top twenty five to stimulate more interest

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<v Speaker 2>and maybe people will pick up the newspaper that day

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<v Speaker 2>to see THEAP Top twenty five because that was the

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<v Speaker 2>only place you could see it. They didn't talk about

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<v Speaker 2>it on TV when they first started it. There was

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<v Speaker 2>no Internet. So what they're trying to do is get

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<v Speaker 2>your interest in Hey, what do you know they've done that.

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<v Speaker 2>They do it every year, they do it every week,

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<v Speaker 2>so don't worry about it. And Pope just talked about

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<v Speaker 2>the fact that, you know, UK is back in the picture.

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<v Speaker 7>Listen, I'm glad we're in the conversation. I'm glad we're

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<v Speaker 7>in the national conversation. It's where we're supposed to be.

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<v Speaker 7>It's Kentucky, right and you know, and so I'm I'm

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<v Speaker 7>really happy with all that. But more importantly, I'm just

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<v Speaker 7>I just want us to be a great team, right

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<v Speaker 7>and we want to keep getting better. And and we

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<v Speaker 7>had runs tonight where we got better. You know, we

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<v Speaker 7>started the game better and then we just you know,

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<v Speaker 7>we just energy just turned a little bit, honest. But

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<v Speaker 7>we'll learn from this and we'll get better. So right

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<v Speaker 7>now it's a race to get better. But you know,

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<v Speaker 7>this is Kentucky. We have to win every game along

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<v Speaker 7>the way. That's a beautiful thing. I'm not complaining. I

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<v Speaker 7>think it's that's why Kentucky special.

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<v Speaker 2>And by the way, his former teammate Cameron Mills part

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<v Speaker 2>of our pregame coverage. You've heard him before every time

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<v Speaker 2>he's in the garage. Whether I bring it up or not,

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<v Speaker 2>and we're talking about college basketball. He somehow works in

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<v Speaker 2>the ap pole or any pole at all. They're all stupid,

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<v Speaker 2>blah blah blah. My response to him every time is

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<v Speaker 2>it's fun, and that seems to.

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<v Speaker 2>Speaking of fun, though, it had to be cool for

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<v Speaker 2>the Colgate kids to come in and play in rap arena.

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<v Speaker 1>Colgate is in Hamilton, New York.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a small town. There's like thirty two hundred kids

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<v Speaker 2>in the school. If you know anything about New York,

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<v Speaker 2>there's like a triangle Syracuse, Binghamton, and Albany. Hamilton's right

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<v Speaker 2>in the middle. I've never been there. It's nowhere near

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<v Speaker 2>the interstate. I've been to Syracuse, I've been to Albany.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think i've been to Binghamton. But anyhow, imagine

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<v Speaker 2>the media coverage or lack of same if you play

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<v Speaker 2>any sport at Colgate. So Parker Jones got a chance

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<v Speaker 2>to come in and talk to the assembled media, and.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm guessing that there were more reporters.

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<v Speaker 2>In that room than he's ever seen in his entire

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<v Speaker 2>career at Colgate. He played about twenty eight and a

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<v Speaker 2>half minutes, had a good game, seventeen points, six rebounds,

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<v Speaker 2>a couple of assists, and before he answered whatever question

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<v Speaker 2>it was put to him, he talked about the fact

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<v Speaker 2>that this was pretty cool.

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<v Speaker 12>First of all, this is pretty sick. I've never been

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<v Speaker 12>in a press conference, so this is like just kind

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<v Speaker 12>of high level for me, So I'm sorry if my

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<v Speaker 12>answer isn't top level. But coming back in from halftime,

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<v Speaker 12>I think we were all super extatic. Like I mean,

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<v Speaker 12>when you play it seemed like Kentucky you kind of

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<v Speaker 12>at least personally, I dreamed of it in like my backyard,

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<v Speaker 12>like thinking about like Parker Jones subs in and he

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<v Speaker 12>hits a three and he comes down to like all

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<v Speaker 12>this stuff that I think about in my head, and

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<v Speaker 12>I don't know, like being in this environment was really

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<v Speaker 12>cool and just kind of surreal. And we got back

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<v Speaker 12>to the locker room and obviously emotions are really high,

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<v Speaker 12>and we kind of just were all telling ourselves like

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<v Speaker 12>because I remember last year we played Arizona and we

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<v Speaker 12>were down three going into half and then they came

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<v Speaker 12>out and just blitzed us almost, so kind of just

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<v Speaker 12>trying to stay more composed and collected because we kind

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<v Speaker 12>of have a tendency to not get off to the

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<v Speaker 12>best to start. So we're trying to calm it down,

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<v Speaker 12>even though there was a lot of just really high

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<v Speaker 2>Not only did they pick up where they left off

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<v Speaker 2>in the second half, but Colgate took a three point

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<v Speaker 2>lead as you know, early in the nearly minutes of

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<v Speaker 2>the second half, and then Kentucky got hot and put

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<v Speaker 2>them away. But you know, previous administration, the head coach

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<v Speaker 2>what is said, we need a game like this.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, maybe I'll tell you.

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<v Speaker 2>What Kentucky needed was the opportunity to figure out how

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<v Speaker 2>to win without two point guards, and the Wildcats did that.

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<v Speaker 2>But they've got to get those guys back if they

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<v Speaker 2>want to make any kind of run this year. It's

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<v Speaker 2>way early, but we're learning right now if we didn't

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<v Speaker 2>already how valuable those guys are. Sean Woods is next

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<v Speaker 2>year on six thirty Welcome back to the Big Blue Insider,

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<v Speaker 2>and as promised, joining us now is the Unforgettable Guard.

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<v Speaker 2>Sean Woods joins us every week to talk about those Wildcats.

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<v Speaker 2>And before we talk about last night, it's kind of

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<v Speaker 2>weird game with Kolgate. As I mentioned before the break,

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<v Speaker 2>Sean mentioned and I mean on the record on the air,

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<v Speaker 2>told me a week ago Kentucky would beake Gonzaga in Seattle,

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<v Speaker 2>and sure enough, now, coach, I don't know if it

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<v Speaker 2>played out the way you thought it might. But take

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<v Speaker 2>me back and tell me why you made that prediction.

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<v Speaker 9>Well, as you know, I watched college basketball, and I

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<v Speaker 9>watched like I'm scouting and I'm scouting everyone. And what

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<v Speaker 9>I am very, very impressed with Kentucky about is their sustainability.

426
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<v Speaker 9>You know, they embrace in relish in the peaks and

427
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<v Speaker 9>valleys of a basketball game for forty minutes and they

428
00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:04.119
<v Speaker 9>never stopped. They do the exact same thing. They may

429
00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:08.519
<v Speaker 9>make some mistakes, but they don't get flustered, where a

430
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<v Speaker 9>lot of other teams, especially around the country right now,

431
00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:16.359
<v Speaker 9>they don't have great sustainability. I think Kentucky is the

432
00:21:16.359 --> 00:21:21.079
<v Speaker 9>best sustainability team in America. And it showed even with Gonzaga,

433
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<v Speaker 9>who's a veteran team who's got probably the best point

434
00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:30.079
<v Speaker 9>guard in America. You know it, that was the deal,

435
00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:33.960
<v Speaker 9>you know what I mean? Like, for instance, even when

436
00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:38.359
<v Speaker 9>Kentucky lost some players due to injury, they still stayed

437
00:21:38.359 --> 00:21:42.200
<v Speaker 9>the course. You know, he made some adjustments went zone,

438
00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:48.920
<v Speaker 9>which really surprised me that Gonzagti became so stagnant, But

439
00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:53.200
<v Speaker 9>it worked into our favors simply because it took away

440
00:21:53.279 --> 00:21:56.759
<v Speaker 9>the threes. It made them think and and and and

441
00:21:56.960 --> 00:22:02.519
<v Speaker 9>they became less aggressive playing against it. And then the

442
00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:04.759
<v Speaker 9>worst free throw shoot on the team was the person

443
00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:06.920
<v Speaker 9>who was getting the most shots, and he was missing

444
00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:11.920
<v Speaker 9>free throws. Yeah, I was highly shocked. Zaga missed so

445
00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:14.920
<v Speaker 9>many street throws down the stretch, which gave Kentucky an

446
00:22:14.920 --> 00:22:18.000
<v Speaker 9>opportunity to get back in the game and eventually win

447
00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:18.359
<v Speaker 9>the game.

448
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<v Speaker 1>Oh, I agree. Well, all right, let me unpack some

449
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<v Speaker 1>of this now.

450
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<v Speaker 2>You talk about sustainability, and you mentioned that as one

451
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<v Speaker 2>reason why you pick Kentucky over Duke, because Duke was

452
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<v Speaker 2>so young. But you also mentioned the fact that can

453
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<v Speaker 2>Zaga had a veteran team with a veteran point guard.

454
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<v Speaker 2>But that just speaks so well, obviously to this veteran

455
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<v Speaker 2>roster for Mark Pope, doesn't.

456
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<v Speaker 9>It, no doubt about it. And he's what he's preaching,

457
00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:50.960
<v Speaker 9>he's really doing. And the way he says his team

458
00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:55.000
<v Speaker 9>is you can honestly tell they just play for each other.

459
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<v Speaker 9>They just play. Yeah, you know, they don't get caught

460
00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:02.359
<v Speaker 9>up in who's who, Who's this player, who's that player,

461
00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:05.279
<v Speaker 9>Who's this team, who's that team. They just go out

462
00:23:05.319 --> 00:23:07.599
<v Speaker 9>and play the game the way it's supposed.

463
00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:07.839
<v Speaker 5>To be played.

464
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<v Speaker 9>Are they going to make some mistakes here and their year?

465
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<v Speaker 9>Are they going to go on you know, routes where

466
00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:17.559
<v Speaker 9>they can't make a shot, especially from three? Yeah, But

467
00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:24.519
<v Speaker 9>because they are so mature and Mar's got them from

468
00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:27.839
<v Speaker 9>to the point where the they're really not messing themselves

469
00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:32.599
<v Speaker 9>up mentally. This is what you're getting. You know, they

470
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<v Speaker 9>don't get lost in the moment. I mean they get

471
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<v Speaker 9>lost in the moment. They don't They relish in the moment.

472
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<v Speaker 9>They enjoy playing the game. And if you're not sustained,

473
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<v Speaker 9>can If you can't sustain at a high level, that

474
00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:47.680
<v Speaker 9>means you got to make every free throw down the

475
00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:50.359
<v Speaker 9>stretch to beat them. That means the last three minutes,

476
00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:52.319
<v Speaker 9>you can't turn the ball over, you can't have any

477
00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:56.240
<v Speaker 9>mishaps because their or their machine is going to continue

478
00:23:56.279 --> 00:23:59.480
<v Speaker 9>to run the same way it did at the beginning

479
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<v Speaker 9>of the game.

480
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<v Speaker 2>And yet against Godaga, they they lost a point guard,

481
00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:09.319
<v Speaker 2>their point guard, and we're still able to make that happen.

482
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<v Speaker 9>And I was surprised that Gonzaga didn't put on the

483
00:24:13.960 --> 00:24:18.480
<v Speaker 9>pressure because me as a coach, losing your the main

484
00:24:18.519 --> 00:24:21.559
<v Speaker 9>point guard that you have and no one else's everyone

485
00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:25.920
<v Speaker 9>else is pretty much questionable to pressure, especially in those moments.

486
00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:30.440
<v Speaker 9>I'm shocked that that coach you didn't didn't really turn

487
00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:33.799
<v Speaker 9>up the heat a little bit and allowed him to

488
00:24:35.240 --> 00:24:38.759
<v Speaker 9>stay comfortable. You know, Jacka was comfortable even though he

489
00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:41.599
<v Speaker 9>played the point. He doesn't like to play the point.

490
00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:45.559
<v Speaker 9>He doesn't like pressure, but he wasn't pressured in that game.

491
00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:48.920
<v Speaker 9>You know, they allowed Kurve before he got hurt, to

492
00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:52.880
<v Speaker 9>become a main, you know, main integral part in that

493
00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:55.519
<v Speaker 9>game before he got hurt because there was no pressure.

494
00:24:56.759 --> 00:25:01.880
<v Speaker 9>And you know he's out. That Butler should be back

495
00:25:01.960 --> 00:25:05.000
<v Speaker 9>for Louisville. But you know, if you're gonna get this

496
00:25:05.079 --> 00:25:07.440
<v Speaker 9>team before SEC, that was the game to get them,

497
00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:11.200
<v Speaker 9>and they didn't get got and they're only getting stronger

498
00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:13.720
<v Speaker 9>because now there's gonna be some players that hasn't been

499
00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:15.839
<v Speaker 9>able to play as much, just like the other night.

500
00:25:16.880 --> 00:25:18.839
<v Speaker 9>That's going to allow them to get some more confidence

501
00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:21.680
<v Speaker 9>and can hopefully make their bench even more deeper.

502
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<v Speaker 2>Let's talk about that zone. I didn't know, I knew

503
00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:29.559
<v Speaker 2>we would see a zone. I should have known the

504
00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:32.559
<v Speaker 2>one three one Sean, have you ever played ever?

505
00:25:32.759 --> 00:25:34.519
<v Speaker 1>Have you ever used it? Have you ever been a

506
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<v Speaker 1>part of it?

507
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<v Speaker 9>Yeah, you know, sometimes you trickle with it. You know

508
00:25:38.519 --> 00:25:40.319
<v Speaker 9>a lot of teams that you play, specially at the

509
00:25:40.440 --> 00:25:44.799
<v Speaker 9>major level, do a lot of those things because of

510
00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:47.720
<v Speaker 9>personnel and so on and so forth. But I mean

511
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<v Speaker 9>I thought it was great. You know, I don't think

512
00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:52.599
<v Speaker 9>Mark really planned on doing it. I think he had

513
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<v Speaker 9>to do it simply because Butler's out. You can't stay

514
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<v Speaker 9>in front of Zacher's point guard, and that was the

515
00:26:00.680 --> 00:26:03.440
<v Speaker 9>only way to hang on. And not only did they

516
00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:08.039
<v Speaker 9>hang on, it actually neutralized Gonzaga for the most part,

517
00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:10.680
<v Speaker 9>and it allowed them to continue to do what they're doing,

518
00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:12.519
<v Speaker 9>gave him more chances on the offensive ent.

519
00:26:13.480 --> 00:26:13.720
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

520
00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:17.240
<v Speaker 2>The one bucket I remember that Gonzaga got fairly easily

521
00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:20.079
<v Speaker 2>was when somebody got loose on the baseline. But that

522
00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:22.720
<v Speaker 2>was basically a mistake. I know there are hey, look,

523
00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:25.240
<v Speaker 2>Joby Hall. We all learned about the one three one

524
00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:27.920
<v Speaker 2>when he was coaching, and you learn where there are

525
00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:32.519
<v Speaker 2>the soft spots in that zone. But the one kid

526
00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:34.640
<v Speaker 2>that ran the baseline and got a bucket. That was

527
00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:39.880
<v Speaker 2>a communications mistake. Otherwise, Yeah, Zaga just kind of slogged

528
00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:42.559
<v Speaker 2>their way through that, didn't they See.

529
00:26:42.599 --> 00:26:44.720
<v Speaker 9>Here's the deal. A lot of teams and a lot

530
00:26:44.799 --> 00:26:48.640
<v Speaker 9>of coaches, especially at the beginning, don't even practice against.

531
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<v Speaker 5>Zone, so they're not used to it.

532
00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:53.599
<v Speaker 9>Yeah, you understand what I'm saying. And you know, you

533
00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:56.160
<v Speaker 9>really don't start doing zone until you get into your league.

534
00:26:56.200 --> 00:26:58.440
<v Speaker 9>Until you get into the conference. Nine times out of teen,

535
00:26:58.839 --> 00:27:01.079
<v Speaker 9>most teams aren't playing on the first month or two

536
00:27:01.079 --> 00:27:03.880
<v Speaker 9>of the season. So it kind of really got them

537
00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:06.359
<v Speaker 9>off guard because I'm sure from what I can tell

538
00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:09.000
<v Speaker 9>and everyone can tell, that Mark hasn't worked on it

539
00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:12.400
<v Speaker 9>a lot. Yeah, and when you don't work on it

540
00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:15.160
<v Speaker 9>a lot, I'm thinking that. Shoot, I got these veteran guys.

541
00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:17.759
<v Speaker 9>I'm just gonna tell them, look, attack the teams, you know,

542
00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:19.960
<v Speaker 9>get the ball into the middle of the paint, and

543
00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:22.880
<v Speaker 9>then get things to happen. They just continued to play

544
00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:26.240
<v Speaker 9>perimeter basketball. They got stagnant. Nope, you know, they lost

545
00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:30.079
<v Speaker 9>their aggressiveness attacking the rim and then allowed of Kentucky

546
00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:32.480
<v Speaker 9>to do what they do and gave them a chance.

547
00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:35.039
<v Speaker 9>And this is a team you can't give a chance

548
00:27:35.079 --> 00:27:36.759
<v Speaker 9>to because sooner or later they're going to make a

549
00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:41.200
<v Speaker 9>shot or two and now you're scrambling. Now the pressure's

550
00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:43.839
<v Speaker 9>on you. And as you could tell in that game,

551
00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:46.759
<v Speaker 9>free throws was the biggest key coming down the stretch.

552
00:27:46.799 --> 00:27:47.519
<v Speaker 9>They missed too many.

553
00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:50.440
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I got tired, I thought, I thought, and Jagga

554
00:27:50.519 --> 00:27:51.920
<v Speaker 1>got tired. Did you see that.

555
00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:57.160
<v Speaker 9>I don't know about tired. I just think that who know,

556
00:27:57.680 --> 00:28:00.839
<v Speaker 9>the change of pace really made them a comfortable Yeah,

557
00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:04.160
<v Speaker 9>and it just slowed them down and it made them

558
00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:06.640
<v Speaker 9>think more instead of being more reactors.

559
00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:11.000
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, when you can make them think, and then all

560
00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:13.559
<v Speaker 2>you have to do is react, you're at least one

561
00:28:13.599 --> 00:28:16.000
<v Speaker 2>step ahead, aren't you exactly?

562
00:28:16.119 --> 00:28:17.960
<v Speaker 9>And you know you got him. You just want a chance.

563
00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:19.960
<v Speaker 9>You're on the road. You just lost a big one

564
00:28:20.519 --> 00:28:24.839
<v Speaker 9>on the road to Clemson. And on paper Gonzaga was

565
00:28:24.920 --> 00:28:28.640
<v Speaker 9>better than Clemson. Well, what Clemson did was Clemson stayed

566
00:28:28.640 --> 00:28:31.480
<v Speaker 9>the course. They made, They made the plays down the

567
00:28:31.480 --> 00:28:35.799
<v Speaker 9>stretch that Gonzaga didn't make. And I thought we were

568
00:28:35.880 --> 00:28:39.000
<v Speaker 9>underman we were undermand which made it even more impressive.

569
00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:42.440
<v Speaker 2>And I thought Kentucky came out with a little more

570
00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:46.759
<v Speaker 2>physicality against Gonzaga maybe not quite as much as Clemson showed.

571
00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:50.599
<v Speaker 2>And we talked about that last week. But I didn't

572
00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:54.440
<v Speaker 2>feel I didn't feel like Kentucky was intimidated or anything.

573
00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:56.759
<v Speaker 2>I was a little surprised they got down so much.

574
00:28:57.599 --> 00:29:00.359
<v Speaker 2>But at halftime, did you still believe it win?

575
00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:04.599
<v Speaker 9>I knew they had a chance. I just you know,

576
00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:09.079
<v Speaker 9>it was kind of looking a little bleak when they

577
00:29:09.079 --> 00:29:11.480
<v Speaker 9>were down eight and then Butler got hurt. I was like,

578
00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:15.680
<v Speaker 9>oh man, yeah, here we go. And actually they got better.

579
00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:20.480
<v Speaker 9>You know, he changed his defense. Kurd to his credit,

580
00:29:20.920 --> 00:29:24.359
<v Speaker 9>you know, didn't fluster, you know, relished in the moment.

581
00:29:24.519 --> 00:29:27.079
<v Speaker 9>Unfortunately he got hurt at the end, but then it

582
00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:29.359
<v Speaker 9>allowed you know, things work.

583
00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:29.759
<v Speaker 5>For a reason.

584
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:33.920
<v Speaker 9>Yeah, you know, Jackson has been struggling. Okay, we all

585
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:36.240
<v Speaker 9>know that we feel that he doesn't play great in

586
00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:40.720
<v Speaker 9>the in the big games. Well, I think he's an

587
00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:43.759
<v Speaker 9>easy target to defend when he's on the wing because

588
00:29:43.759 --> 00:29:45.920
<v Speaker 9>he only has from the wing the corner to operate.

589
00:29:46.519 --> 00:29:48.480
<v Speaker 9>But when you put him at the point guard position,

590
00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:52.920
<v Speaker 9>which he hates, I think it shows more of his satility,

591
00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:56.519
<v Speaker 9>you know, and it gives him an opportunity to have

592
00:29:56.599 --> 00:29:59.359
<v Speaker 9>more freedom in their offense, especially with the point guard

593
00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:03.480
<v Speaker 9>concern for him to really take all smaller guys get

594
00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:05.759
<v Speaker 9>to a spot to shoot over them. Because he's a

595
00:30:05.880 --> 00:30:08.279
<v Speaker 9>he could take you one, two dribbles off the baus

596
00:30:08.319 --> 00:30:10.160
<v Speaker 9>and get to a mid range and shoot just as

597
00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:12.319
<v Speaker 9>good as he can shook the three. And it allowed

598
00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:14.319
<v Speaker 9>him to do that and show that, and I don't

599
00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:16.200
<v Speaker 9>think Gonzaga was ready for that.

600
00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:19.799
<v Speaker 2>We'll take a break, We'll come back and talk about

601
00:30:19.920 --> 00:30:22.920
<v Speaker 2>Kentucky's winterver Cole game with Seawan Woods, the unforgettable guard

602
00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:25.599
<v Speaker 2>here on the Big one Sider six thirty WLAP.

603
00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:26.799
<v Speaker 1>Welcome back.

604
00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:29.440
<v Speaker 2>We're talking with Sean Woods. His jersey hangs in the

605
00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:31.960
<v Speaker 2>rafters of rup. We talked to him each and every

606
00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:36.680
<v Speaker 2>week about Kentucky basketball. I said earlier in the show, Sean,

607
00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:39.559
<v Speaker 2>that you know you played in games where you were

608
00:30:39.640 --> 00:30:42.640
<v Speaker 2>expected as a team to go out and just destroy

609
00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:44.839
<v Speaker 2>the other guys. You know, teams that were on your

610
00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:47.359
<v Speaker 2>schedule because they needed to make budget things like that.

611
00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:50.359
<v Speaker 2>Don't know if you were ever involved in a game

612
00:30:50.359 --> 00:30:54.920
<v Speaker 2>where you blew a seventeen point lead. But what did

613
00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:58.759
<v Speaker 2>you see last night? And the two Kentucky teams we

614
00:30:58.839 --> 00:31:01.279
<v Speaker 2>saw the one want to jumped out than the one

615
00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:03.920
<v Speaker 2>that had to fight to win, to come from behind.

616
00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:08.640
<v Speaker 9>Well, Kentucky's for the first time was put in an

617
00:31:08.680 --> 00:31:14.839
<v Speaker 9>uncomfortable position. Rotations. You know, guys coming off the bench.

618
00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:18.599
<v Speaker 9>I thought in the first half, you know, the guys

619
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:21.359
<v Speaker 9>that they had in there, they were veterans, so they

620
00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:24.240
<v Speaker 9>they you know, they they knew they were better than

621
00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:28.000
<v Speaker 9>that team. But then when he made substitutions, that's when

622
00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:33.200
<v Speaker 9>Kolgate kind of got back in the games, and you know,

623
00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:38.079
<v Speaker 9>he's he's gonna have to address that situation and get

624
00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:41.000
<v Speaker 9>more contributions from his bench, some of the guys that

625
00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:44.640
<v Speaker 9>hasn't been playing as much, because you never know if

626
00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:46.799
<v Speaker 9>Butler is going to go down again. You never know

627
00:31:46.839 --> 00:31:49.799
<v Speaker 9>if Kurt you know when Kurt's coming back. So he's

628
00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:54.400
<v Speaker 9>got to get some real contributions from this bench, some

629
00:31:54.599 --> 00:31:58.519
<v Speaker 9>guys that hadn't been playing as much in order, you know,

630
00:31:58.599 --> 00:32:01.160
<v Speaker 9>going down the stretch. You know, Kogate is still a

631
00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:04.079
<v Speaker 9>mid major team. It took us a while to really,

632
00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:06.759
<v Speaker 9>you know, get back into the groove. But he got

633
00:32:06.759 --> 00:32:07.680
<v Speaker 9>back in the groove when.

634
00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:08.960
<v Speaker 5>He put his major guys back there.

635
00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:13.039
<v Speaker 9>Yeah, because he didn't get what he hopefully was wanting

636
00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:17.759
<v Speaker 9>from the guys that hadn't been playing much. They got

637
00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:18.480
<v Speaker 9>their opportunity.

638
00:32:18.759 --> 00:32:21.480
<v Speaker 2>Travis Perry got some earlier minutes, and I think, yeah,

639
00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:23.799
<v Speaker 2>he looked like he struggled with the moment a bit.

640
00:32:25.839 --> 00:32:28.400
<v Speaker 9>I mean, sometimes you know, the moment is too big,

641
00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:31.039
<v Speaker 9>run now he has to just settle down. He got

642
00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:33.559
<v Speaker 9>four or five wide open looks and wasn't even and

643
00:32:33.599 --> 00:32:35.920
<v Speaker 9>it wasn't even close, and he's a much better shooter

644
00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:39.319
<v Speaker 9>than that. I think the nerves was really you know,

645
00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:42.680
<v Speaker 9>you could just tell that he was nervous. He wasn't

646
00:32:42.759 --> 00:32:46.160
<v Speaker 9>very comfortable. It was the first opportunity to really show

647
00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:50.720
<v Speaker 9>the Kentucky big Blue nation that he's worthy. And you know,

648
00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:54.480
<v Speaker 9>he got some significant minutes. Didn't take advantage of him

649
00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:57.359
<v Speaker 9>like I wanted him to. But hopefully he'll get that

650
00:32:57.400 --> 00:33:01.319
<v Speaker 9>opportunity again, Yeah, and be more settled when the next

651
00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:02.279
<v Speaker 9>opportunity comes.

652
00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:05.680
<v Speaker 1>He was trying to do the right thing, you know.

653
00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:09.279
<v Speaker 2>And he played technically, he played point guard in high school,

654
00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:12.319
<v Speaker 2>but it was more of a guy who was looking

655
00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:14.640
<v Speaker 2>to score as much as facilitate.

656
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:16.720
<v Speaker 1>And this is kind of a new role for him.

657
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:18.039
<v Speaker 1>It's definitely a new role, isn't it.

658
00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:21.079
<v Speaker 9>He wasn't a true point guard in high school. He

659
00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:24.039
<v Speaker 9>was you know, I watched him player about eight nine times.

660
00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:27.039
<v Speaker 9>He was a guy who was actually running the lane.

661
00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:28.920
<v Speaker 9>When the ball went out, he was catching it and

662
00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:31.880
<v Speaker 9>laying it in more so than being the primary ball handling.

663
00:33:32.279 --> 00:33:34.480
<v Speaker 9>They had another decent guard in their high school team

664
00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:38.559
<v Speaker 9>who's pretty good that actually made them better than what

665
00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:42.279
<v Speaker 9>they were. I thought he played a great role in

666
00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:45.359
<v Speaker 9>their state run. But you know this is new to him,

667
00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:49.519
<v Speaker 9>you know, and you know, I think that, you know,

668
00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:52.279
<v Speaker 9>sometimes you don't have to be a primary point guard.

669
00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:53.880
<v Speaker 9>You know, as long as you can shoot the ball

670
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:56.960
<v Speaker 9>and make good decisions in the half court. You know,

671
00:33:57.079 --> 00:33:59.240
<v Speaker 9>do what coach Patino used to do with Travis Ford

672
00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:01.759
<v Speaker 9>when he played against a bigger point guard and he

673
00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:04.400
<v Speaker 9>couldn't get away from him. Let somebody else bring it up.

674
00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:07.839
<v Speaker 9>But then run the offense once you start, and then

675
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:11.760
<v Speaker 9>he's still that that that that that that that that threat.

676
00:34:11.880 --> 00:34:13.679
<v Speaker 9>Because he can shoot the ball and make plays in

677
00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:17.800
<v Speaker 9>the half court. I think that what's Travis really finds

678
00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:21.559
<v Speaker 9>his niche, Uh, he's gonna be fine. He's still a freshman,

679
00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:23.920
<v Speaker 9>you know what I mean. And he's a legit freshman. Yeah,

680
00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:27.119
<v Speaker 9>and he's playing with some older guys and he hasn't

681
00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:30.360
<v Speaker 9>been counted on. And for the first time, he felt

682
00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:33.239
<v Speaker 9>like he was going to be counted on simply because

683
00:34:33.280 --> 00:34:36.559
<v Speaker 9>of the injuries, you know. And uh, you know, he

684
00:34:36.599 --> 00:34:39.280
<v Speaker 9>didn't play bad. He didn't turn the ball over significantly,

685
00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:41.960
<v Speaker 9>I mean, nothing like that. He just didn't make a shot.

686
00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:44.760
<v Speaker 9>And you could tell that he wasn't very comfortable within

687
00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:47.199
<v Speaker 9>his own skin. But I think time, you know, as

688
00:34:47.239 --> 00:34:50.320
<v Speaker 9>time moves on and he gets more and more opportunities,

689
00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:54.280
<v Speaker 9>he's just one or two shots away from establishing his confidence.

690
00:34:54.480 --> 00:34:56.840
<v Speaker 9>He's not a bad player, he's just he's solid as

691
00:34:56.840 --> 00:34:59.480
<v Speaker 9>a rock. Just can't throw it in the ocean right now.

692
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:02.440
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you know, and you can tell he's got that

693
00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:05.960
<v Speaker 2>basketball like you. And speaking of freshman, Uh what Trent

694
00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:08.440
<v Speaker 2>No I hit a big shot. He looked really relaxed.

695
00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:09.440
<v Speaker 2>Didn't he look comfortable.

696
00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:12.960
<v Speaker 9>Well, he's been playing a little bit more, He's been

697
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:14.679
<v Speaker 9>thrown in a little bit more, you know what I mean.

698
00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:18.079
<v Speaker 9>So his opportunities have been a little more than than

699
00:35:18.159 --> 00:35:22.719
<v Speaker 9>Travis's right now, especially, and two, he didn't have to

700
00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:24.760
<v Speaker 9>worry about bringing the ball up the court. You know,

701
00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:26.400
<v Speaker 9>he just got to worry about making a shot when

702
00:35:26.440 --> 00:35:29.840
<v Speaker 9>he's open, so you know, his situation is a little different.

703
00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:33.800
<v Speaker 9>But both of them are gonna be solid players for us.

704
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:37.039
<v Speaker 9>You know, we just got to keep our fingers crossed

705
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:41.199
<v Speaker 9>that Butler comes back and also Curry comes back healthier

706
00:35:42.360 --> 00:35:46.159
<v Speaker 9>with it, you know, in time, because we sure need

707
00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:48.480
<v Speaker 9>them to be successful. They're the key to our success.

708
00:35:48.639 --> 00:35:51.440
<v Speaker 9>And Butler's you know what I mean, He's a He's

709
00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:54.440
<v Speaker 9>a spoon that stirs the coffee, no doubt about that.

710
00:35:54.760 --> 00:35:58.400
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he's every bit as good as advertised. Well, let's

711
00:35:58.440 --> 00:36:01.599
<v Speaker 2>talk about the Louisville game. Going in, you were a

712
00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:04.960
<v Speaker 2>guy who had an advantage over uh, some of the

713
00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:07.840
<v Speaker 2>new guys you've ever played with, because while you might

714
00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:10.039
<v Speaker 2>have grown up in Indianapolis, you had deep roots in

715
00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:11.840
<v Speaker 2>election and so you knew.

716
00:36:11.920 --> 00:36:15.159
<v Speaker 1>About U k U of LU. Was it interesting for you?

717
00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:18.519
<v Speaker 2>I got to think it was watching that your teammates,

718
00:36:18.559 --> 00:36:21.679
<v Speaker 2>you might not have grown up in Kentucky, learn about

719
00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:23.440
<v Speaker 2>that rivalry.

720
00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:27.239
<v Speaker 9>You can if you Kentucky basketball players, you can't hide

721
00:36:27.239 --> 00:36:29.920
<v Speaker 9>from that. You can't even be delusion about the rivalry

722
00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:33.639
<v Speaker 9>once you get here. And as much talk going on

723
00:36:33.760 --> 00:36:36.800
<v Speaker 9>around town and on the news and in the newspaper,

724
00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:40.159
<v Speaker 9>not only that with within your own team and and

725
00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:41.360
<v Speaker 9>and and.

726
00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:42.599
<v Speaker 5>And locker room.

727
00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:46.760
<v Speaker 9>You know the intensity and the significance of this situation.

728
00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:48.440
<v Speaker 9>And it's one of the reasons why you come to

729
00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:51.000
<v Speaker 9>the University Tuchy because you know, you know, if there's

730
00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:56.199
<v Speaker 9>a rivalry game, it's it's it's that, and uh, it's

731
00:36:56.239 --> 00:36:59.199
<v Speaker 9>it's never changed. And those some I got in trouble

732
00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:01.639
<v Speaker 9>hanging out with those because most a lot of those

733
00:37:01.679 --> 00:37:03.920
<v Speaker 9>group of players doing my era were my friends, you know,

734
00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:08.159
<v Speaker 9>every Evan when they was older, Boo Brewer, you know,

735
00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:11.599
<v Speaker 9>I grew up with Jerome Harmon, you know, the Bradford

736
00:37:11.639 --> 00:37:15.239
<v Speaker 9>Smith and I were rivals and and things like that,

737
00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:19.760
<v Speaker 9>but I I embraced the the competitiveness because they were good.

738
00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:24.760
<v Speaker 9>They were supposed to be better than us, and they

739
00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:26.760
<v Speaker 9>never were. You know, I got they beat me one

740
00:37:26.760 --> 00:37:29.679
<v Speaker 9>time in Ruck, but they had a I mean that's

741
00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:33.360
<v Speaker 9>they had Felton Spencer, Tony kimbro I mean, they had

742
00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:36.239
<v Speaker 9>they had a whip. Jerome Harmon was playing then the

743
00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:40.400
<v Speaker 9>Brafford Smith, Keith Williams. I mean they were you know,

744
00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:49.239
<v Speaker 9>I mean, uh, who's Cow's assistant now? Oh, Kenny Payne,

745
00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:51.239
<v Speaker 9>you know what I mean, who was a six eight

746
00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:54.880
<v Speaker 9>point six eighth guards. So you know they're they're good,

747
00:37:55.719 --> 00:37:58.039
<v Speaker 9>but uh, you know, we found a way to win,

748
00:37:58.159 --> 00:37:58.800
<v Speaker 9>you know what I mean?

749
00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:01.079
<v Speaker 5>And uh, you know.

750
00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:04.119
<v Speaker 9>I think this situation is not gonna be any different. It's,

751
00:38:04.360 --> 00:38:05.440
<v Speaker 9>you know, two new coaches.

752
00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:06.559
<v Speaker 11>One played at.

753
00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:10.199
<v Speaker 9>Kentucky, who knows the rivalry better than the other coach. Uh,

754
00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:13.400
<v Speaker 9>he's played in this game, so I think Mark has

755
00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:16.480
<v Speaker 9>a pure advantage and to the games in the RUP,

756
00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:21.239
<v Speaker 9>which is another advantage. And you know, I think, you know,

757
00:38:21.440 --> 00:38:23.559
<v Speaker 9>both of them are trying to find themselves, new team,

758
00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:27.639
<v Speaker 9>new identity, new players. But man Mark Pope is ahead

759
00:38:27.679 --> 00:38:30.119
<v Speaker 9>of the curve right now. He's doing just as good

760
00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:31.639
<v Speaker 9>of a job as any coach in America.

761
00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:35.280
<v Speaker 2>Sean Woods is the unforgettable guard. We talk with him

762
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:37.719
<v Speaker 2>each and every week. I assume you're predicting a win

763
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:38.559
<v Speaker 2>over Louisville.

764
00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:43.159
<v Speaker 9>I sure am. I'm like Charles Barkley, I get run

765
00:38:43.239 --> 00:38:45.199
<v Speaker 9>tee us winning Maruisle.

766
00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:49.000
<v Speaker 1>Well you're two for two now, brothers. So we'll talk

767
00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:50.440
<v Speaker 1>about it next week. Thanks coach.

768
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:51.599
<v Speaker 9>Looking forward to.

769
00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:54.840
<v Speaker 2>It up next Hour number two with Jack Gibbons and

770
00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:57.760
<v Speaker 2>Aaron Gershan here on the Big Bin Sider six thirty

771
00:38:58.000 --> 00:40:48.880
<v Speaker 2>wlaper SA, Welcome back to the Big Blue and Sider.

772
00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:53.360
<v Speaker 2>Joining us now in our celebrity highline is a longtime friend, classmates,

773
00:40:53.480 --> 00:40:56.679
<v Speaker 2>teammate on the UK Network. That would be mister Jack Gibbons,

774
00:40:56.800 --> 00:41:00.360
<v Speaker 2>color Analysts, sits next to Tom Leach and provides color

775
00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:04.960
<v Speaker 2>commentary for the basketball Cats. And you had a lot

776
00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:08.239
<v Speaker 2>of insight the last two games, Jack. I was really

777
00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:10.920
<v Speaker 2>interested to hear what you had to say about first

778
00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:14.440
<v Speaker 2>the comeback win against Gonzaga and then last night's game.

779
00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:16.000
<v Speaker 1>But I got to go back.

780
00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:20.559
<v Speaker 2>To Gonzaga because the point you kept hammering home post

781
00:41:20.599 --> 00:41:22.239
<v Speaker 2>game more than any is you just.

782
00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:22.920
<v Speaker 1>Got to believe.

783
00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:25.960
<v Speaker 2>And why did you feel like that was such an

784
00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:27.280
<v Speaker 2>important point to make?

785
00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:36.679
<v Speaker 14>Well? It was interesting because about the time Kentucky went

786
00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:43.000
<v Speaker 14>down to their largest deficit and out there in Seattle,

787
00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:48.639
<v Speaker 14>Gonzaga had gone up seventeen eighteen eighteen it was or whatever,

788
00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:53.880
<v Speaker 14>And just at that moment I heard Mark call out

789
00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:59.800
<v Speaker 14>to Jack Jackson Robinson and he said, at that point,

790
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:04.039
<v Speaker 14>he said, we're gonna be all right. We're gonna be

791
00:42:04.199 --> 00:42:07.079
<v Speaker 14>all right, you know, calming him down a little bit.

792
00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:12.039
<v Speaker 14>He was frustrated a little. And I think from that

793
00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:17.559
<v Speaker 14>point on is when I saw a bit the biggest

794
00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:21.519
<v Speaker 14>change in Kentucky and how they I mean, the whole

795
00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:25.159
<v Speaker 14>second half was they started to play better. But that

796
00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:29.679
<v Speaker 14>was about the time when it all happened, and it

797
00:42:29.719 --> 00:42:32.760
<v Speaker 14>was a great example of just believe, man, you have

798
00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:35.360
<v Speaker 14>to stay positive, if you have to know that we're

799
00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:39.760
<v Speaker 14>gonna get back in this thing. It hit me right there,

800
00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:42.920
<v Speaker 14>and when I saw the change in the team, I

801
00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:46.440
<v Speaker 14>thought it was worth mentioning. So that's why I was

802
00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:47.719
<v Speaker 14>so emphatic on that.

803
00:42:48.599 --> 00:42:49.960
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you absolutely were.

804
00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:54.079
<v Speaker 2>And then I really loved your reaction to the one

805
00:42:54.199 --> 00:42:57.079
<v Speaker 2>three one, and I, yeah, my mind immediately went to

806
00:42:57.159 --> 00:42:59.440
<v Speaker 2>you in the fact that you know, Joe b when

807
00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:01.960
<v Speaker 2>he played zone wasn't crazy about it.

808
00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:04.119
<v Speaker 1>But that was the zone of choice for you guys,

809
00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:04.639
<v Speaker 1>wasn't it.

810
00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:05.639
<v Speaker 7>Oh?

811
00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:05.920
<v Speaker 1>Man.

812
00:43:06.039 --> 00:43:10.480
<v Speaker 14>I could see Coach Hall at at just that moment,

813
00:43:11.159 --> 00:43:14.599
<v Speaker 14>rolling up that program, man and start slapping his hands.

814
00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:14.840
<v Speaker 1>Man.

815
00:43:14.880 --> 00:43:17.199
<v Speaker 14>He was I know he was happy to see that

816
00:43:18.159 --> 00:43:21.159
<v Speaker 14>as he was looking down at that game, man. But yeah,

817
00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:26.480
<v Speaker 14>that was it was such for us. It was such

818
00:43:26.519 --> 00:43:29.800
<v Speaker 14>a good defense and a lot of people work against

819
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:34.239
<v Speaker 14>a one to three two three in practice or variation

820
00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:37.679
<v Speaker 14>of two three, whether it's a matchup or whatever. But

821
00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:40.760
<v Speaker 14>not many times do you see a one three one,

822
00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:44.400
<v Speaker 14>And if you run it correctly, it is a real,

823
00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:50.320
<v Speaker 14>real effective defense ad taken away shots from the outside,

824
00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:53.440
<v Speaker 14>A lot of a lot of good things can happen

825
00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:55.320
<v Speaker 14>with the one three one, but you have to play

826
00:43:55.360 --> 00:43:58.559
<v Speaker 14>it right. And I was really surprised because I've been

827
00:43:58.599 --> 00:44:02.280
<v Speaker 14>in some of the practices they really haven't worked on it,

828
00:44:03.039 --> 00:44:05.840
<v Speaker 14>at least when I'm in there all that much. They've

829
00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:08.760
<v Speaker 14>worked on it enough to know what it is and

830
00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:12.719
<v Speaker 14>to know what their responsibilities are. But you know, it's

831
00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:15.639
<v Speaker 14>one of those defenses you really have to have to

832
00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:18.599
<v Speaker 14>work at to get good at it. But they were

833
00:44:18.639 --> 00:44:21.519
<v Speaker 14>really played it really well, and not just that they

834
00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:24.920
<v Speaker 14>stayed with it. They would come out of it. When

835
00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:27.519
<v Speaker 14>the ball would drop below the free throw line on

836
00:44:27.559 --> 00:44:30.960
<v Speaker 14>the wing, they would match up because it gives them

837
00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:34.480
<v Speaker 14>time on the week side of the court to find

838
00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:38.039
<v Speaker 14>people to match up with. But they played it very well.

839
00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:41.800
<v Speaker 2>I remember, and I think I tweeted at Jay Scheidler

840
00:44:41.800 --> 00:44:45.800
<v Speaker 2>because he tweeted about it during the game. Oftentimes, when

841
00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:48.280
<v Speaker 2>you guys played it, Jay ran them baseline. Jay was

842
00:44:48.320 --> 00:44:50.760
<v Speaker 2>the guy under the basket because he was such a

843
00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:54.400
<v Speaker 2>great athlete. And that guy on the baseline, he's got

844
00:44:54.440 --> 00:44:57.119
<v Speaker 2>to go sideline to sideline, doesn't he. So you don't

845
00:44:57.159 --> 00:45:00.079
<v Speaker 2>just stick a big guy back there and hope he

846
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:00.599
<v Speaker 2>can cover.

847
00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:03.719
<v Speaker 14>Now, it's you have to cover a lot of a

848
00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:08.079
<v Speaker 14>lot of space. Some of it is anticipating to you

849
00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:11.119
<v Speaker 14>know as well. You know, you try to see where

850
00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:15.159
<v Speaker 14>the ball is going, and your job is to get

851
00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:18.920
<v Speaker 14>there when the pass gets there, because you don't want

852
00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:21.400
<v Speaker 14>them to shoot it and they might rotate it all

853
00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:23.920
<v Speaker 14>the way back around and you have to then get

854
00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:28.239
<v Speaker 14>to the other corner to cover it. So uh so, yeah,

855
00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:30.159
<v Speaker 14>you have to have a guy back you like a

856
00:45:30.199 --> 00:45:33.079
<v Speaker 14>guy with a little size, and j six three or so,

857
00:45:33.079 --> 00:45:36.039
<v Speaker 14>so he's sixty two. He was able to make that work.

858
00:45:36.559 --> 00:45:39.440
<v Speaker 14>And but but you have to be a good athlete.

859
00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:42.280
<v Speaker 14>You have to be able to run and anticipate, and

860
00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:43.599
<v Speaker 14>he was very good at that.

861
00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:47.400
<v Speaker 2>I got to admit that when they started coming back

862
00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:49.079
<v Speaker 2>in the second half that well, you knew they were

863
00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:52.920
<v Speaker 2>going to play better because everything came so easily for

864
00:45:53.079 --> 00:45:56.840
<v Speaker 2>Gonzaga offensively in the first half and Kentucky had it

865
00:45:56.960 --> 00:46:00.880
<v Speaker 2>worked like hell for every bucket they made the first period.

866
00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:03.639
<v Speaker 2>But when Lamtt Butler went down Jack, I have to

867
00:46:03.639 --> 00:46:06.559
<v Speaker 2>admit I said to myself, well, I think this is

868
00:46:06.599 --> 00:46:09.440
<v Speaker 2>a little too much to overcome. How in the world

869
00:46:09.480 --> 00:46:11.960
<v Speaker 2>did they come back? I mean, Jackson Robinson, for a

870
00:46:12.039 --> 00:46:16.320
<v Speaker 2>kid who doesn't like playing the point, he was heroic.

871
00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:16.360
<v Speaker 1>Wasn't he.

872
00:46:17.679 --> 00:46:21.880
<v Speaker 14>Yeah, he ran it perfectly, man, And I think it

873
00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:27.679
<v Speaker 14>helped there on both ends of the floor because Jackson

874
00:46:27.760 --> 00:46:34.400
<v Speaker 14>Robinson was taller, so so he was the point guard.

875
00:46:35.199 --> 00:46:38.679
<v Speaker 14>Nim Hart, who was kind of running everything in the

876
00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:42.800
<v Speaker 14>first half, had a difficult time seeing over Jacks out

877
00:46:42.840 --> 00:46:46.360
<v Speaker 14>there that as he matched up with him, and they

878
00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:49.760
<v Speaker 14>did a great job of pushing him to the left,

879
00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:53.800
<v Speaker 14>which is not the way he normally wants to do things,

880
00:46:53.880 --> 00:46:57.840
<v Speaker 14>and wouldn't let him get to his spots. And that

881
00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:00.800
<v Speaker 14>was that was really good. But Gab, I think the

882
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:05.440
<v Speaker 14>scene that made the biggest difference. Yeah, I mean jack

883
00:47:05.559 --> 00:47:09.360
<v Speaker 14>played great and ran the stuff well, didn't turn the

884
00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:12.079
<v Speaker 14>ball over all of that kind of stuff. But the

885
00:47:12.159 --> 00:47:15.960
<v Speaker 14>real difference I think was how Kentucky rebounded the basketball

886
00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:19.599
<v Speaker 14>in the second half, because if you think back to

887
00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:24.000
<v Speaker 14>the first half, Kentucky was getting out rebounded pretty soundly,

888
00:47:24.639 --> 00:47:32.000
<v Speaker 14>and that that gave Gonzaga an opportunity to control the tempo,

889
00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:34.960
<v Speaker 14>get the ball up the floor, and get into their

890
00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:38.519
<v Speaker 14>offense quickly before Kentucky had a chance to get set up.

891
00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:43.880
<v Speaker 14>In the second half, when Kentucky really really went to

892
00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:46.880
<v Speaker 14>work on the glass on both ends of the floor,

893
00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:50.639
<v Speaker 14>now they couldn't run. Now, they didn't get any second

894
00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:55.400
<v Speaker 14>chance opportunities, They weren't dominated in the paint, and the

895
00:47:55.440 --> 00:47:59.239
<v Speaker 14>pace slowed to where Kentucky really needed it to be

896
00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:02.239
<v Speaker 14>able to give Jack's a chance to run the point

897
00:48:02.239 --> 00:48:04.159
<v Speaker 14>guard spot because he didn't want to be up and

898
00:48:04.199 --> 00:48:06.920
<v Speaker 14>down with nim Hart. I mean he did not. So

899
00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:11.440
<v Speaker 14>the rebounding, the change in rebounding for Kentucky in the

900
00:48:11.519 --> 00:48:14.559
<v Speaker 14>second half was as big as anything data and the

901
00:48:14.599 --> 00:48:16.320
<v Speaker 14>one three one defense.

902
00:48:16.039 --> 00:48:19.199
<v Speaker 2>UK All American Jack Gibbons my guest color analyst and

903
00:48:19.239 --> 00:48:21.079
<v Speaker 2>the UK Basketball Radio Network.

904
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:25.960
<v Speaker 1>You know, I always think about.

905
00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:30.880
<v Speaker 2>Veteran teams and how they they come together through the years,

906
00:48:31.280 --> 00:48:33.719
<v Speaker 2>like your team did. I mean, you know, by the

907
00:48:33.719 --> 00:48:36.880
<v Speaker 2>time you graduated, you guys had played a lot of

908
00:48:36.920 --> 00:48:40.199
<v Speaker 2>basketball together, the seniors and the juniors, and of course

909
00:48:40.239 --> 00:48:42.480
<v Speaker 2>we know how this team was kind of cobbled together,

910
00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:45.400
<v Speaker 2>so it's it's almost a crash.

911
00:48:45.119 --> 00:48:46.400
<v Speaker 1>Course in team building.

912
00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:49.880
<v Speaker 2>But the comeback win on the road, I know, neutral,

913
00:48:49.920 --> 00:48:53.960
<v Speaker 2>but still away from home against Duke and now then Zaga.

914
00:48:54.199 --> 00:48:56.800
<v Speaker 2>That's gonna pay dividends all year, isn't it.

915
00:48:57.760 --> 00:49:00.679
<v Speaker 14>Well, it gets them in the mindset right now that

916
00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:04.199
<v Speaker 14>we can win these kind of games, even if they're

917
00:49:04.199 --> 00:49:08.440
<v Speaker 14>close games. We can win these kind of games. So

918
00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:11.320
<v Speaker 14>that is the real key. I mean, to have one

919
00:49:11.360 --> 00:49:14.880
<v Speaker 14>of those wins would have been huge for Kentucky, I mean,

920
00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:18.920
<v Speaker 14>but to have both of those, I mean, you know,

921
00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:23.800
<v Speaker 14>they have to have a lot of confidence, Gabe, and

922
00:49:24.199 --> 00:49:27.840
<v Speaker 14>I'm anxious to see the improvement here over the next

923
00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:31.519
<v Speaker 14>month or so. Kentucky will have a lot of practice

924
00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:34.599
<v Speaker 14>time next three weeks to have a lot of practice times,

925
00:49:34.639 --> 00:49:37.639
<v Speaker 14>a lot of time to work on some things, and

926
00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:41.440
<v Speaker 14>I'm anxious to see the improvement over that time span.

927
00:49:42.119 --> 00:49:44.079
<v Speaker 2>Well, there's a big one coming up Saturday. We'll talk

928
00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:45.599
<v Speaker 2>about that on the other side of the break with

929
00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:48.440
<v Speaker 2>Jack Gibbons here on the Big One Sider six thirty

930
00:49:48.599 --> 00:49:49.719
<v Speaker 2>WLAP Welcome Back.

931
00:49:49.719 --> 00:49:51.679
<v Speaker 1>We're talking with the All American Jack Gibbons.

932
00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:56.239
<v Speaker 2>Tom Leech's sidekick as partner the color analysts on the

933
00:49:56.320 --> 00:50:01.000
<v Speaker 2>UK Radio network for Kentucky basketball. And I always tease you,

934
00:50:01.079 --> 00:50:05.000
<v Speaker 2>Jack because I hear you talking about shots as they're

935
00:50:05.039 --> 00:50:08.559
<v Speaker 2>going up. You love the way this team plays the offense.

936
00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:14.480
<v Speaker 2>Shooters love shooters and shots. I had to think you

937
00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:17.800
<v Speaker 2>were squirming a little bit last night, maybe early on,

938
00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:21.079
<v Speaker 2>when I thought Kogi did a really nice job of

939
00:50:21.119 --> 00:50:24.719
<v Speaker 2>pressure in Kentucky and not letting the Wildcats get comfortable

940
00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:25.880
<v Speaker 2>on the three point line.

941
00:50:26.280 --> 00:50:27.280
<v Speaker 1>Did you see it that way?

942
00:50:28.599 --> 00:50:28.920
<v Speaker 9>Yeah?

943
00:50:29.079 --> 00:50:34.760
<v Speaker 14>Yeah, I really did. It was interesting because their mission

944
00:50:35.719 --> 00:50:39.840
<v Speaker 14>seemed like their goal plan was to force Kentucky off

945
00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:42.960
<v Speaker 14>the three point line, and they did a great job

946
00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:47.159
<v Speaker 14>of that early. But the problem was Kentucky was dominating

947
00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:51.320
<v Speaker 14>in the paint and that was the way they built

948
00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:56.760
<v Speaker 14>that seventeen to zero run because shots weren't falling at

949
00:50:56.760 --> 00:51:02.239
<v Speaker 14>that point from the outside. But but then because they

950
00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:06.639
<v Speaker 14>were having Kentucky was having so much success at the paint,

951
00:51:06.679 --> 00:51:09.840
<v Speaker 14>they had to rethink things. And they knew Kentucky had

952
00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:12.760
<v Speaker 14>been struggling shooting the ball from behind the three point

953
00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:16.920
<v Speaker 14>line the less two three games. It seemed to me

954
00:51:17.079 --> 00:51:19.840
<v Speaker 14>like they said, well, let's see if this is another

955
00:51:19.880 --> 00:51:23.239
<v Speaker 14>one of those nights where they're going to be missing

956
00:51:23.320 --> 00:51:25.840
<v Speaker 14>from out there, you know, so they had to change

957
00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:29.880
<v Speaker 14>it to take away the paint, and Kentucky struggled for

958
00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:32.840
<v Speaker 14>a while. But this team, one of the things is

959
00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:36.000
<v Speaker 14>they can get hot, and they can get hot very quickly.

960
00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:39.880
<v Speaker 14>And we saw that when Jackson Robinson knocked down a couple.

961
00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:43.679
<v Speaker 14>I think Kentucky made like four straight three and now

962
00:51:43.800 --> 00:51:48.199
<v Speaker 14>instead of being down three, you're up Januer eleven and

963
00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:53.199
<v Speaker 14>the game's done at that time. But yeah, I felt

964
00:51:53.760 --> 00:51:57.519
<v Speaker 14>did a great job at forcing them off the line,

965
00:51:57.639 --> 00:52:01.079
<v Speaker 14>so it was good to know they can score inside

966
00:52:01.079 --> 00:52:01.559
<v Speaker 14>as well.

967
00:52:02.159 --> 00:52:04.599
<v Speaker 2>I felt like Kentucky might have gotten a little bored,

968
00:52:05.400 --> 00:52:08.159
<v Speaker 2>you know, I took the foot off the gas. Plus

969
00:52:08.800 --> 00:52:12.880
<v Speaker 2>Pope mentioned both to ESPN and in the post game,

970
00:52:13.880 --> 00:52:17.000
<v Speaker 2>you know, having him to mix lineups new guys coming in,

971
00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:20.480
<v Speaker 2>clearly you miss a couple of point guards.

972
00:52:20.280 --> 00:52:21.280
<v Speaker 1>And that has an effect.

973
00:52:22.679 --> 00:52:27.679
<v Speaker 14>Yeah, I mean, listen, the toughest position on the floor

974
00:52:28.239 --> 00:52:32.920
<v Speaker 14>to replace and to fill in for is that point

975
00:52:32.920 --> 00:52:37.000
<v Speaker 14>guard spot. And then when you lose your starting, your

976
00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:40.960
<v Speaker 14>starter and your backup point guard, the offense is not

977
00:52:41.119 --> 00:52:47.360
<v Speaker 14>gonna look very good. It's just not And listen, this team, Gabe,

978
00:52:47.480 --> 00:52:51.920
<v Speaker 14>has been so good over the last over the course

979
00:52:51.960 --> 00:52:55.440
<v Speaker 14>of this season, I mean, night in and night out,

980
00:52:55.559 --> 00:52:59.840
<v Speaker 14>they have performed. Even in the game they lost at Clemson,

981
00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:03.760
<v Speaker 14>they played well, they played hard, and in the second

982
00:53:03.840 --> 00:53:05.760
<v Speaker 14>half they were the better team.

983
00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:06.159
<v Speaker 5>Again.

984
00:53:06.679 --> 00:53:12.239
<v Speaker 14>So to have a game like last night, I'm not

985
00:53:12.400 --> 00:53:15.320
<v Speaker 14>concerned at all. I mean, to play the way they

986
00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:19.599
<v Speaker 14>played at the at the the rate they played when

987
00:53:19.639 --> 00:53:25.679
<v Speaker 14>it comes to very well, I mean, they earned themselves

988
00:53:25.719 --> 00:53:28.559
<v Speaker 14>the right to have a game like last night. Now,

989
00:53:28.599 --> 00:53:31.840
<v Speaker 14>the bad thing would have been had you lost that game.

990
00:53:32.400 --> 00:53:35.480
<v Speaker 14>But the real promising thing even on a game like

991
00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:40.440
<v Speaker 14>last night is that they won, is that they won

992
00:53:40.559 --> 00:53:45.599
<v Speaker 14>the game, and they played nowhere close to being as

993
00:53:45.639 --> 00:53:49.400
<v Speaker 14>good as they were most other nights when they played.

994
00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:54.920
<v Speaker 14>And plus they still scored in the seventies seventies, you know, yeah,

995
00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:58.639
<v Speaker 14>I mean, so still a lot of positives after after

996
00:53:58.679 --> 00:53:59.599
<v Speaker 14>that Colgate game.

997
00:54:00.760 --> 00:54:02.840
<v Speaker 2>Well, and you got to win an ugly game like this,

998
00:54:03.199 --> 00:54:06.039
<v Speaker 2>and you know you talked about it, you related to it.

999
00:54:06.400 --> 00:54:09.360
<v Speaker 2>I heard you late in the game just talking about

1000
00:54:09.360 --> 00:54:12.599
<v Speaker 2>how sometimes players look ahead. I mean, you know, it

1001
00:54:12.599 --> 00:54:16.159
<v Speaker 2>would be I think impossible even for the kids. You

1002
00:54:16.239 --> 00:54:19.760
<v Speaker 2>aren't from here. Han't been in Kentucky. One of the

1003
00:54:19.760 --> 00:54:22.239
<v Speaker 2>guys said after the game. They've been hearing about the

1004
00:54:22.239 --> 00:54:26.039
<v Speaker 2>Louisville games since summertime, you know, So to come off Gonzaga,

1005
00:54:26.079 --> 00:54:29.679
<v Speaker 2>all the jet lag, looking ahead to Louisville, you know,

1006
00:54:29.719 --> 00:54:33.119
<v Speaker 2>the national promos for it, It's only natural I would

1007
00:54:33.159 --> 00:54:35.760
<v Speaker 2>think their minds to wander a little.

1008
00:54:35.519 --> 00:54:36.280
<v Speaker 1>Bit, you know what I mean.

1009
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:41.239
<v Speaker 14>Yeah, And then the other thing gave is, you know

1010
00:54:41.320 --> 00:54:45.079
<v Speaker 14>this team needs a couple of days off. Okay, that's true.

1011
00:54:45.400 --> 00:54:48.880
<v Speaker 14>I mean you think about playing that game at Clemson

1012
00:54:49.559 --> 00:54:54.360
<v Speaker 14>started what nine thirty or ten o'clock? Really, yeah, I

1013
00:54:54.360 --> 00:54:57.639
<v Speaker 14>mean that was a late late game. Then you fly

1014
00:54:57.840 --> 00:55:00.199
<v Speaker 14>back right after the game, and you get here and

1015
00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:04.119
<v Speaker 14>lecturing commit three o'clock in the morning, and you have

1016
00:55:04.239 --> 00:55:08.519
<v Speaker 14>one day Wednesday to try to recover from that. You

1017
00:55:08.679 --> 00:55:13.639
<v Speaker 14>leave Thursday, fly across country to the West coast, three

1018
00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:18.920
<v Speaker 14>hour time different, so you don't sleep very well on

1019
00:55:19.000 --> 00:55:21.880
<v Speaker 14>those West Coast trips, and then you come right back

1020
00:55:21.960 --> 00:55:27.199
<v Speaker 14>and have to play another game. So they need they

1021
00:55:27.239 --> 00:55:32.320
<v Speaker 14>need a good, solid win against Louisville on Saturday, and

1022
00:55:32.360 --> 00:55:37.199
<v Speaker 14>then get some days off, man, so their bodies can recover.

1023
00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:40.760
<v Speaker 14>I mean, it just is like that this time of

1024
00:55:40.800 --> 00:55:41.199
<v Speaker 14>the year.

1025
00:55:42.320 --> 00:55:45.480
<v Speaker 2>I've tried to watch some UFL games when I can.

1026
00:55:46.159 --> 00:55:49.079
<v Speaker 2>They've got some talent, you know, and if they're hitting shots,

1027
00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:53.119
<v Speaker 2>they're dangerous like anybody. I don't know yet if they've

1028
00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:57.320
<v Speaker 2>made it an authod maybe game time decision on Lamont Butler,

1029
00:55:58.079 --> 00:55:59.000
<v Speaker 2>but man, as soon.

1030
00:55:58.840 --> 00:56:02.599
<v Speaker 14>As they get him back, yeah, yeah, you know Lamont.

1031
00:56:03.679 --> 00:56:07.280
<v Speaker 14>I mean, if it's NCAA tournament Lamont would have played,

1032
00:56:07.320 --> 00:56:09.800
<v Speaker 14>you would have had to tie him down to keep

1033
00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:13.480
<v Speaker 14>him out of that kind of game. But because it

1034
00:56:13.599 --> 00:56:16.639
<v Speaker 14>is early in the season, you would rather err on

1035
00:56:16.679 --> 00:56:20.679
<v Speaker 14>this side of caution and give him as much time

1036
00:56:20.719 --> 00:56:22.920
<v Speaker 14>as you possibly can. I look for him to be

1037
00:56:23.039 --> 00:56:28.239
<v Speaker 14>back Saturday, and you know, I don't know that the

1038
00:56:28.320 --> 00:56:31.280
<v Speaker 14>decision has been made. I know it hasn't been made,

1039
00:56:31.360 --> 00:56:36.119
<v Speaker 14>but we'll kind of see what happens. But Lobelle is

1040
00:56:36.119 --> 00:56:39.079
<v Speaker 14>a team that kind of has had to live by

1041
00:56:39.159 --> 00:56:43.719
<v Speaker 14>the three point shots and the key to being lobil

1042
00:56:43.719 --> 00:56:45.559
<v Speaker 14>And if you look at the game they played against

1043
00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:49.440
<v Speaker 14>Duke earlier in the week, no last week, I guess

1044
00:56:49.440 --> 00:56:54.440
<v Speaker 14>it was. They played Duke and had Duke beat until

1045
00:56:54.840 --> 00:56:57.639
<v Speaker 14>midway in the second half when Duke kind of took

1046
00:56:57.679 --> 00:57:01.519
<v Speaker 14>away their three point shots. They started chasing them off

1047
00:57:01.519 --> 00:57:04.559
<v Speaker 14>the three point line and then Louisville struggled some from there.

1048
00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:07.880
<v Speaker 14>So Kentucky will have the work cut out for them.

1049
00:57:07.960 --> 00:57:12.679
<v Speaker 14>I mean, up until the Colgate game, Kentucky had been

1050
00:57:12.679 --> 00:57:16.000
<v Speaker 14>pretty good at defending the three point line. I mean

1051
00:57:16.840 --> 00:57:21.559
<v Speaker 14>they have really done that. Gave up some against Colgate

1052
00:57:21.920 --> 00:57:25.360
<v Speaker 14>and Louiso probably. I mean, I know they will see

1053
00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:28.760
<v Speaker 14>that video and believe me, that's gonna be what they

1054
00:57:28.800 --> 00:57:32.320
<v Speaker 14>want to do. It set up opportunities at the line,

1055
00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:35.320
<v Speaker 14>So so we'll see what happens from there.

1056
00:57:35.599 --> 00:57:37.480
<v Speaker 2>Just a couple of minutes left with Jack Gibbons, the

1057
00:57:37.519 --> 00:57:41.599
<v Speaker 2>All American and the color analyst on the UK Radio Network.

1058
00:57:42.679 --> 00:57:45.280
<v Speaker 2>People have tweeted a little bit about a Mariy Williams

1059
00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:48.280
<v Speaker 2>can't seem to buy one in the paint now when

1060
00:57:48.280 --> 00:57:49.320
<v Speaker 2>you're dunking like he.

1061
00:57:49.440 --> 00:57:51.119
<v Speaker 1>Was last night, that's not a problem.

1062
00:57:51.639 --> 00:57:56.920
<v Speaker 2>But I can't imagine you're two concerned with his shot

1063
00:57:57.000 --> 00:58:01.599
<v Speaker 2>making ability because in the Mark style of play, you

1064
00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:03.559
<v Speaker 2>don't worry about those misshots.

1065
00:58:03.079 --> 00:58:04.679
<v Speaker 14>Do you.

1066
00:58:04.719 --> 00:58:04.960
<v Speaker 9>No?

1067
00:58:05.079 --> 00:58:07.519
<v Speaker 14>No, I don't I don't worry about don't where about

1068
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:12.559
<v Speaker 14>that at all? I mean, listen, am I if if

1069
00:58:12.599 --> 00:58:16.000
<v Speaker 14>you do the stuff that they want him to do.

1070
00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:21.199
<v Speaker 14>Number One, he's a great passer as long as he

1071
00:58:21.239 --> 00:58:25.199
<v Speaker 14>doesn't try to create opportunities to pass. He just catches

1072
00:58:25.239 --> 00:58:29.239
<v Speaker 14>the ball and passes it. He's really really good. He's

1073
00:58:29.480 --> 00:58:31.639
<v Speaker 14>he's got to work at getting the ball closer to

1074
00:58:31.679 --> 00:58:34.239
<v Speaker 14>the basket. And of course, always with big guys. I mean,

1075
00:58:34.280 --> 00:58:38.559
<v Speaker 14>I'm an old school guy, So I'd like to see

1076
00:58:38.639 --> 00:58:42.559
<v Speaker 14>him go up and dunk the ball more as opposed

1077
00:58:42.599 --> 00:58:46.280
<v Speaker 14>to trying to touch it up and shooting the fallaways

1078
00:58:46.360 --> 00:58:48.360
<v Speaker 14>and all of that kind of stuff. I'd like to

1079
00:58:48.400 --> 00:58:51.360
<v Speaker 14>see him explode up and try to tear the rim

1080
00:58:51.480 --> 00:58:54.440
<v Speaker 14>down a couple of times. Now you get fouled, you

1081
00:58:54.519 --> 00:58:57.360
<v Speaker 14>go to the free throw line and you get get

1082
00:58:57.400 --> 00:59:01.320
<v Speaker 14>points that way. But but no, I'm not concerned about that.

1083
00:59:01.440 --> 00:59:04.719
<v Speaker 14>There are plenty opportunities to get shot to the basket.

1084
00:59:04.360 --> 00:59:05.719
<v Speaker 1>And he's a good free throw shooter.

1085
00:59:06.920 --> 00:59:10.079
<v Speaker 14>He has he has become a pretty good free throw shooter.

1086
00:59:10.119 --> 00:59:12.920
<v Speaker 14>I mean, uh, you look at his shot and you

1087
00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:18.400
<v Speaker 14>wonder how because it's it's kind of a different trajectory

1088
00:59:18.440 --> 00:59:22.679
<v Speaker 14>on that shot. But but yeah, he's he's worked out

1089
00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:26.280
<v Speaker 14>how to make free throws. But you know, for bigs,

1090
00:59:26.320 --> 00:59:29.079
<v Speaker 14>you got to deliver messages, man, every time you get

1091
00:59:29.119 --> 00:59:32.440
<v Speaker 14>the ball because there's so much banging and pushing going

1092
00:59:32.519 --> 00:59:35.599
<v Speaker 14>on under the basket. But I always like to see

1093
00:59:35.599 --> 00:59:38.360
<v Speaker 14>those bigs go up and try to try to tear

1094
00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:41.400
<v Speaker 14>the basket down on the dunks. That probably comes from

1095
00:59:41.440 --> 00:59:45.440
<v Speaker 14>me following and broadcasting for the Orlando Magic and should

1096
00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:48.800
<v Speaker 14>kill o'mill, should kill o'nil down there. But that's the

1097
00:59:48.800 --> 00:59:52.599
<v Speaker 14>way you want to uh to attack every time when

1098
00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:53.719
<v Speaker 14>you're big in the paint.

1099
00:59:54.480 --> 00:59:55.519
<v Speaker 1>He is Jack Givens.

1100
00:59:55.559 --> 00:59:58.320
<v Speaker 2>He is the All American who works alongside Tom Leasha

1101
00:59:58.400 --> 01:00:01.079
<v Speaker 2>on the UK Radio Network and he'll be behind the

1102
01:00:01.119 --> 01:00:04.000
<v Speaker 2>mic on Saturday and Reperina when the Cats take on

1103
01:00:04.159 --> 01:00:06.920
<v Speaker 2>to Louisville Cardinals. Jack, thank you so much, looking forward

1104
01:00:06.960 --> 01:00:07.400
<v Speaker 2>to seeing you.

1105
01:00:08.519 --> 01:00:09.440
<v Speaker 5>Always enjoyed.

1106
01:00:09.519 --> 01:00:10.320
<v Speaker 14>Gabe, thank you.

1107
01:00:10.800 --> 01:00:13.280
<v Speaker 2>Aaron Gershon of the Cats. Pause is next year on

1108
01:00:13.360 --> 01:00:16.079
<v Speaker 2>six thirty. Welcome back to the Big Blue Sider joining

1109
01:00:16.159 --> 01:00:18.679
<v Speaker 2>us down our celebrity hotlines. A guy we usually talked

1110
01:00:18.719 --> 01:00:22.119
<v Speaker 2>to in studio, but we were bumped Monday night from

1111
01:00:22.119 --> 01:00:25.119
<v Speaker 2>the State Wide. So so Aaron Gershan, the catch pos

1112
01:00:25.159 --> 01:00:27.760
<v Speaker 2>catching up with us just as well, Aaron, because we

1113
01:00:27.800 --> 01:00:30.840
<v Speaker 2>have another basketball game we can talk about as well

1114
01:00:30.880 --> 01:00:34.920
<v Speaker 2>as the football schedule. No surprises there, because you know,

1115
01:00:34.920 --> 01:00:37.840
<v Speaker 2>we all knew that the teams Kentucky played this year

1116
01:00:38.559 --> 01:00:43.599
<v Speaker 2>we would play next year. I'm a little puzzled at

1117
01:00:43.599 --> 01:00:46.719
<v Speaker 2>the open dates, you know, an open date in two games,

1118
01:00:46.760 --> 01:00:49.480
<v Speaker 2>another open date. I think that's really I may be

1119
01:00:49.480 --> 01:00:51.559
<v Speaker 2>able to work out who knows who?

1120
01:00:53.039 --> 01:00:56.880
<v Speaker 11>H Yeah, I mean Old Mitt had it had the

1121
01:00:56.920 --> 01:00:59.639
<v Speaker 11>same schedule as Kentucky last year, but in reverse where

1122
01:00:59.679 --> 01:01:02.880
<v Speaker 11>they had their buys like really close together, but late

1123
01:01:02.920 --> 01:01:05.119
<v Speaker 11>in the season, and I think that kind of played

1124
01:01:05.119 --> 01:01:06.880
<v Speaker 11>into their favor, right, I mean, I know they lost

1125
01:01:06.920 --> 01:01:08.360
<v Speaker 11>the game be Floorida at the end, but they had

1126
01:01:08.360 --> 01:01:11.199
<v Speaker 11>the two losses, you know, fairly early before their buy

1127
01:01:11.239 --> 01:01:14.159
<v Speaker 11>to LSU in Kentucky, where Kentucky they have, they have

1128
01:01:14.199 --> 01:01:17.719
<v Speaker 11>those two early buys, which maybe that'll be good given

1129
01:01:17.800 --> 01:01:19.559
<v Speaker 11>this year. They lost a lot of guys in that

1130
01:01:19.960 --> 01:01:21.679
<v Speaker 11>chunk of the season. But then they have to play

1131
01:01:21.760 --> 01:01:25.559
<v Speaker 11>seven in a row, non stop down the stretch, and

1132
01:01:25.639 --> 01:01:29.760
<v Speaker 11>there's some really really hard games back to back in

1133
01:01:29.800 --> 01:01:32.239
<v Speaker 11>that period. So look, we knew, like you said, we

1134
01:01:32.320 --> 01:01:34.000
<v Speaker 11>knew the opponents. We knew it was just going to

1135
01:01:34.039 --> 01:01:36.840
<v Speaker 11>be the reverse. The home field in the SEC. Obviously

1136
01:01:36.880 --> 01:01:39.000
<v Speaker 11>reverse the home field and the Governor's stuff. We knew

1137
01:01:39.000 --> 01:01:40.239
<v Speaker 11>that was going to be at the end of the year.

1138
01:01:40.719 --> 01:01:43.440
<v Speaker 11>But it's a grueling schedule. I mean, you talk about

1139
01:01:43.440 --> 01:01:45.840
<v Speaker 11>a stretch where you go, I think it's South Carolina

1140
01:01:45.880 --> 01:01:47.599
<v Speaker 11>and Georgia on the road back.

1141
01:01:47.480 --> 01:01:49.800
<v Speaker 5>To back weekends. You get a buy in between, and then.

1142
01:01:49.719 --> 01:01:54.440
<v Speaker 11>In some ordered Texas and Tennessee like that's that's ruthless.

1143
01:01:54.760 --> 01:01:56.559
<v Speaker 5>I mean, especially with the year.

1144
01:01:56.400 --> 01:01:58.440
<v Speaker 11>That South Carolina is coming off of and they'll have

1145
01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:02.320
<v Speaker 11>their quarterback Lenora's cellars, so you know, it's the it's

1146
01:02:02.360 --> 01:02:05.239
<v Speaker 11>life in the SEC. But uh, you know they got

1147
01:02:05.280 --> 01:02:09.320
<v Speaker 11>they got a tough draw when this you know, rotating

1148
01:02:09.320 --> 01:02:11.920
<v Speaker 11>opponent thing came out before last season.

1149
01:02:12.280 --> 01:02:14.559
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and you know anymore, it used to be, uh,

1150
01:02:14.639 --> 01:02:16.800
<v Speaker 2>well you look at the conference and you think, well,

1151
01:02:16.840 --> 01:02:19.880
<v Speaker 2>there might be you know, three wins there and then

1152
01:02:19.920 --> 01:02:24.199
<v Speaker 2>who knows what the swing games. Now you know, Mandy

1153
01:02:24.400 --> 01:02:27.719
<v Speaker 2>rises up, All Miss rises up South Carolina.

1154
01:02:27.800 --> 01:02:31.280
<v Speaker 1>I mean, there just aren't any stops in the league,

1155
01:02:31.320 --> 01:02:31.800
<v Speaker 1>are there.

1156
01:02:32.679 --> 01:02:34.159
<v Speaker 5>No, there's no stops in the league.

1157
01:02:34.440 --> 01:02:37.360
<v Speaker 11>There's no you can't count Louisville anymore, just because you're

1158
01:02:37.400 --> 01:02:40.639
<v Speaker 11>coming off the lots there and fans aren't gonna want

1159
01:02:40.639 --> 01:02:42.480
<v Speaker 11>to hear it. But Toledo went in and kicked the

1160
01:02:42.480 --> 01:02:46.199
<v Speaker 11>crap out of Mississippi State last year. If you lay

1161
01:02:46.199 --> 01:02:47.559
<v Speaker 11>an egg in that one, you.

1162
01:02:47.519 --> 01:02:48.159
<v Speaker 5>Know, look out.

1163
01:02:48.320 --> 01:02:52.840
<v Speaker 11>So it's a it's an unforgiving plate. But that's why

1164
01:02:53.239 --> 01:02:57.199
<v Speaker 11>you're seeing Kentucky all over this transfer portal trying to

1165
01:02:57.199 --> 01:02:59.440
<v Speaker 11>get things right. I think they've done a good job

1166
01:02:59.480 --> 01:03:01.559
<v Speaker 11>at least with some of the names that I've seen

1167
01:03:01.599 --> 01:03:04.599
<v Speaker 11>them in contact with it both across the offensive line

1168
01:03:04.639 --> 01:03:06.840
<v Speaker 11>and at the egge rusher positions. I think they have

1169
01:03:07.599 --> 01:03:10.519
<v Speaker 11>the right line of thinking. It's about going out and executing,

1170
01:03:10.639 --> 01:03:15.679
<v Speaker 11>signing some legitimate impact makers. And you know, again, it's

1171
01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:18.880
<v Speaker 11>tough to be optimistic right now. I totally understand any

1172
01:03:18.880 --> 01:03:23.400
<v Speaker 11>fan who's very pessimistic. But in this transfer portal era,

1173
01:03:23.480 --> 01:03:26.199
<v Speaker 11>if there's any time you can go from four to

1174
01:03:26.280 --> 01:03:29.239
<v Speaker 11>eight to a nine to three, eight and four, it's now.

1175
01:03:29.320 --> 01:03:31.840
<v Speaker 11>So let's see how they execute in the portal. At

1176
01:03:31.840 --> 01:03:34.239
<v Speaker 11>this point, Mark Stups and co. Are staying and you

1177
01:03:34.360 --> 01:03:36.679
<v Speaker 11>got to just ride the wave if you want to

1178
01:03:36.760 --> 01:03:40.599
<v Speaker 11>at least look at all forward to the next football season.

1179
01:03:40.639 --> 01:03:41.559
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, it has.

1180
01:03:41.400 --> 01:03:43.559
<v Speaker 2>To be done that way, and I keep thinking back

1181
01:03:44.079 --> 01:03:47.360
<v Speaker 2>to Mark Strups's best team, in my opinion, was the

1182
01:03:47.599 --> 01:03:53.280
<v Speaker 2>twenty eighteen team. Yeah, I agree, there was there was depth.

1183
01:03:53.440 --> 01:03:56.920
<v Speaker 2>There was talent on both sides of the ball, but

1184
01:03:57.239 --> 01:04:00.159
<v Speaker 2>a majority of the depth and there were some transfer

1185
01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:03.599
<v Speaker 2>it worked out, but the majority of death was kids.

1186
01:04:03.599 --> 01:04:04.519
<v Speaker 1>And we've talked about it.

1187
01:04:04.440 --> 01:04:09.719
<v Speaker 2>Before that they scouted, evaluated, recruited, and then developed.

1188
01:04:10.559 --> 01:04:11.039
<v Speaker 5>Yeah.

1189
01:04:11.199 --> 01:04:15.400
<v Speaker 2>Man, it's just anymore. It seems like with the portal,

1190
01:04:16.079 --> 01:04:18.880
<v Speaker 2>you gotta gamble and you gotta guess. Right, there is

1191
01:04:18.920 --> 01:04:22.119
<v Speaker 2>some guessing involved and we as we have found out,

1192
01:04:22.679 --> 01:04:24.480
<v Speaker 2>sometimes you just don't hit on that, do.

1193
01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:27.920
<v Speaker 11>You No, you don't hit on it. And the recruit

1194
01:04:27.920 --> 01:04:30.159
<v Speaker 11>and developed is often like you said, it's so hard

1195
01:04:30.199 --> 01:04:33.119
<v Speaker 11>now because you have a kid that you're developing and

1196
01:04:33.199 --> 01:04:34.960
<v Speaker 11>he just hits the portal if he doesn't play enough.

1197
01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:37.760
<v Speaker 11>I mean, I love the example of Jeremiah England, that

1198
01:04:37.840 --> 01:04:40.639
<v Speaker 11>young cornerback who had I think a pick in like

1199
01:04:40.800 --> 01:04:43.599
<v Speaker 11>seven or eight pass breakups in their little condensed spring

1200
01:04:43.599 --> 01:04:46.159
<v Speaker 11>game this year, and he hit the portal two days later. Yeah,

1201
01:04:46.199 --> 01:04:49.280
<v Speaker 11>because there was tapes. It's just it's a really tough world.

1202
01:04:49.280 --> 01:04:52.480
<v Speaker 11>But yeah, like you said, the portal evaluations Now, when

1203
01:04:52.519 --> 01:04:55.559
<v Speaker 11>you're bringing in so many each year, you know you

1204
01:04:55.679 --> 01:04:59.239
<v Speaker 11>have to hit fifty percent or more. Last year they

1205
01:04:59.320 --> 01:05:02.559
<v Speaker 11>probably hit like twenty to fifteen percent. I mean, jam

1206
01:05:02.639 --> 01:05:06.280
<v Speaker 11>and Johnson had a really good year. I'm blanking on

1207
01:05:06.360 --> 01:05:08.599
<v Speaker 11>anyone else that Jalen Farmer I thought didn't carry it

1208
01:05:08.679 --> 01:05:11.880
<v Speaker 11>right guard. Other than that, I mean, it was kind

1209
01:05:11.880 --> 01:05:14.400
<v Speaker 11>of a bust of a transfer class. In the class

1210
01:05:14.400 --> 01:05:16.960
<v Speaker 11>before that, you know, you had Ray Davis play really well,

1211
01:05:17.000 --> 01:05:20.559
<v Speaker 11>Devin Leary did some good things, but overall too there

1212
01:05:20.559 --> 01:05:22.960
<v Speaker 11>weren't that many impact makers in that one either, so

1213
01:05:23.159 --> 01:05:25.239
<v Speaker 11>they got to hit at a higher percentage this year.

1214
01:05:25.280 --> 01:05:28.039
<v Speaker 11>That's how look you look at South Carolina. That's the

1215
01:05:28.079 --> 01:05:31.320
<v Speaker 11>program that Mark Stups mentioned that that didn't name them,

1216
01:05:31.320 --> 01:05:34.039
<v Speaker 11>but he mentioned them in his last press conference after

1217
01:05:34.079 --> 01:05:36.440
<v Speaker 11>the Louisville game as to why he's optimistic and they

1218
01:05:36.440 --> 01:05:38.920
<v Speaker 11>went out. They got Rocket Sanders that was a hit.

1219
01:05:39.079 --> 01:05:43.400
<v Speaker 11>Kyle Canard won the Bronco figure was the name of

1220
01:05:43.440 --> 01:05:46.880
<v Speaker 11>that award that got down? Yep, yep, yep, he won

1221
01:05:46.920 --> 01:05:50.239
<v Speaker 11>that award. Out of the portal, they got two offensive

1222
01:05:50.280 --> 01:05:52.360
<v Speaker 11>linemen that ended up starters out of the portal. So

1223
01:05:53.519 --> 01:05:56.599
<v Speaker 11>you got to be able to evaluate and hit the.

1224
01:05:56.679 --> 01:05:58.840
<v Speaker 1>D back who left it. We've talked about him before.

1225
01:05:58.840 --> 01:06:00.920
<v Speaker 1>I don't remember where he lay and to do you.

1226
01:06:02.360 --> 01:06:04.159
<v Speaker 5>The d beat that left Kentucky?

1227
01:06:04.440 --> 01:06:06.119
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the kid pitch.

1228
01:06:06.199 --> 01:06:08.000
<v Speaker 11>Yeah, he left the pit that he didn't play a

1229
01:06:08.000 --> 01:06:09.880
<v Speaker 11>single game and now he's back in the court.

1230
01:06:10.360 --> 01:06:15.159
<v Speaker 1>Amazing. Yeah, he was seen a lot of action this year.

1231
01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:18.440
<v Speaker 11>Yeah, with all the injuries, no doubt you would think.

1232
01:06:18.519 --> 01:06:20.199
<v Speaker 11>And I think he was coming off in AHL. I

1233
01:06:20.199 --> 01:06:22.480
<v Speaker 11>think you've read shirted his whole freshman year with a NCL.

1234
01:06:22.880 --> 01:06:25.159
<v Speaker 11>But so even if he didn't play this year, I mean,

1235
01:06:25.159 --> 01:06:27.519
<v Speaker 11>now you're you're we don't know for sure, but we're

1236
01:06:27.559 --> 01:06:31.199
<v Speaker 11>you know, they're probably gonna lose Maxwell Harrison. They haven't

1237
01:06:31.199 --> 01:06:33.320
<v Speaker 11>really had much attrition in the drive room off the

1238
01:06:33.360 --> 01:06:35.199
<v Speaker 11>top of my head as far as the portal goes.

1239
01:06:35.239 --> 01:06:37.360
<v Speaker 11>But you know, still, you probably want to add a

1240
01:06:37.360 --> 01:06:39.239
<v Speaker 11>body or two to help out in that room. And

1241
01:06:39.679 --> 01:06:40.960
<v Speaker 11>that could have been a guy who, if he had

1242
01:06:40.960 --> 01:06:43.400
<v Speaker 11>waited to turn was set up for a prominent role

1243
01:06:43.800 --> 01:06:44.760
<v Speaker 11>as soon as this season.

1244
01:06:44.760 --> 01:06:47.280
<v Speaker 1>Here in twenty five, I got to think.

1245
01:06:47.119 --> 01:06:51.199
<v Speaker 2>You weren't all that shocked when Stoops said he will

1246
01:06:51.239 --> 01:06:54.039
<v Speaker 2>probably go after a QB in the.

1247
01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:58.920
<v Speaker 11>Portal no, no, they have to look, that's not a

1248
01:06:59.840 --> 01:07:01.199
<v Speaker 11>the nothing against Cutter Bully.

1249
01:07:01.320 --> 01:07:03.480
<v Speaker 5>Maybe next year's is year, maybe it's twenty.

1250
01:07:03.199 --> 01:07:06.320
<v Speaker 11>Six, but you know, you're probably like, we don't know

1251
01:07:06.360 --> 01:07:08.639
<v Speaker 11>for sure on Brock, Mandergriff. I can't imagine a world

1252
01:07:08.639 --> 01:07:10.199
<v Speaker 11>he's back, and if he is, it's not going to

1253
01:07:10.239 --> 01:07:13.079
<v Speaker 11>be as a starter. Gavin Winstet's now in the portal.

1254
01:07:13.440 --> 01:07:17.239
<v Speaker 11>So your three scholarship quarterbacks taking out Brock or Cutter Bully,

1255
01:07:17.519 --> 01:07:20.440
<v Speaker 11>and then two true freshmen in Stone, Saunders and Brett

1256
01:07:20.480 --> 01:07:23.599
<v Speaker 11>and Ward. So you absolutely need to get a body

1257
01:07:23.599 --> 01:07:25.280
<v Speaker 11>in there. I think I think the way to do it.

1258
01:07:25.880 --> 01:07:27.440
<v Speaker 11>You know, if I were in that building is to

1259
01:07:27.440 --> 01:07:29.679
<v Speaker 11>get a guy who's got one year left. That way,

1260
01:07:29.760 --> 01:07:32.159
<v Speaker 11>you kind of are still sending a message to Cutter

1261
01:07:32.199 --> 01:07:34.239
<v Speaker 11>that one you could still compete for this job. And two,

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01:07:34.679 --> 01:07:36.559
<v Speaker 11>this is a one year deal. You know, no matter

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01:07:36.599 --> 01:07:39.039
<v Speaker 11>what happens here, you know you're still our guy. We

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01:07:39.119 --> 01:07:40.719
<v Speaker 11>believe in the future, and you're gonna have three years

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01:07:40.800 --> 01:07:45.360
<v Speaker 11>left of eligibility remaining to be that guy. So that

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01:07:45.480 --> 01:07:47.239
<v Speaker 11>that's the way I would kind of approach it. I

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01:07:47.280 --> 01:07:49.000
<v Speaker 11>would I wouldn't take a guy with a multi year

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01:07:49.079 --> 01:07:53.320
<v Speaker 11>eligibility unless it's just the absolute perfect fit. And we'll see.

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01:07:53.360 --> 01:07:55.639
<v Speaker 11>They haven't been linked to that many guys out of

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01:07:55.679 --> 01:07:57.840
<v Speaker 11>the portal. I think the only quarterback I've seen is

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01:07:57.840 --> 01:08:00.039
<v Speaker 11>that one from Yale, and he is a guy that

1272
01:08:00.119 --> 01:08:02.599
<v Speaker 11>has one year. So you know, we'll see, we'll see

1273
01:08:02.599 --> 01:08:04.519
<v Speaker 11>which direction they go recruiting that position.

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01:08:04.719 --> 01:08:06.679
<v Speaker 2>You know, Tim Katch went into the Hall of Fame

1275
01:08:06.719 --> 01:08:09.239
<v Speaker 2>as you know this week, and way back when he

1276
01:08:09.440 --> 01:08:13.199
<v Speaker 2>was a freshman or whatever, or there were Kentucky fans

1277
01:08:13.840 --> 01:08:17.359
<v Speaker 2>who were lobbying to just throw him in and take

1278
01:08:17.439 --> 01:08:22.680
<v Speaker 2>whatever results, you know, and my response was, he'll get clobberd.

1279
01:08:22.720 --> 01:08:24.720
<v Speaker 2>They'll get clobber they might lose every game.

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01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:26.600
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but he's a future. We don't care.

1281
01:08:26.800 --> 01:08:29.119
<v Speaker 2>You know what, when it slaps you in the face,

1282
01:08:29.239 --> 01:08:31.680
<v Speaker 2>you do care. So I know people want to see

1283
01:08:31.720 --> 01:08:35.239
<v Speaker 2>cutter bowllie, but first and foremost they want to win.

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01:08:35.159 --> 01:08:38.359
<v Speaker 11>Don't they Absolutely they want to win. And I think

1285
01:08:38.680 --> 01:08:40.800
<v Speaker 11>you probably got to that point with the Louisville game

1286
01:08:40.920 --> 01:08:43.880
<v Speaker 11>where it's like, all right, where bull eligibility's out, let's

1287
01:08:43.880 --> 01:08:46.079
<v Speaker 11>just see the play and you know they're coaching for

1288
01:08:46.119 --> 01:08:48.960
<v Speaker 11>that brand with it didn't go well, but yeah, it's

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01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:52.239
<v Speaker 11>a very tough it's a tough predicament, but you got

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01:08:52.239 --> 01:08:55.399
<v Speaker 11>to when you're bringing back an entire staff that's in

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01:08:55.840 --> 01:08:57.720
<v Speaker 11>you know, with Stup the mayor at the top and

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01:08:57.720 --> 01:09:02.079
<v Speaker 11>the year thirteen, there's no quote unquote rebuilding at this point,

1293
01:09:02.199 --> 01:09:04.039
<v Speaker 11>like you have to go try to win. You're not

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01:09:04.319 --> 01:09:06.920
<v Speaker 11>by bringing them back, not that Kentucky was gonna let

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01:09:06.960 --> 01:09:09.880
<v Speaker 11>him go, but by coming back and bringing them back

1296
01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:13.319
<v Speaker 11>all together, you're sending a message like, hey, we're still

1297
01:09:13.319 --> 01:09:16.199
<v Speaker 11>trying to win here and you can't go you can't

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01:09:16.199 --> 01:09:18.760
<v Speaker 11>go half you know, acid for last of better terms

1299
01:09:18.800 --> 01:09:19.319
<v Speaker 11>of quarterback.

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01:09:19.960 --> 01:09:24.159
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's it's too important. It's avage just way, way

1301
01:09:24.239 --> 01:09:27.439
<v Speaker 2>too important. Obviously, we'll talk basketball on the other side

1302
01:09:27.479 --> 01:09:29.479
<v Speaker 2>of the break with Aaron gershan here on the Big

1303
01:09:29.520 --> 01:09:32.039
<v Speaker 2>Moon side or six thirty well from back, we're talking

1304
01:09:32.039 --> 01:09:35.920
<v Speaker 2>with Aaron gershano the Cats pause. We talked football in

1305
01:09:36.039 --> 01:09:38.439
<v Speaker 2>the previous segments, so we got to talk some basketball

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01:09:39.079 --> 01:09:42.000
<v Speaker 2>real quickly. Gonzaga and one, I know you didn't make

1307
01:09:42.000 --> 01:09:46.079
<v Speaker 2>the trip, but you had to write it up at halftime,

1308
01:09:46.359 --> 01:09:48.279
<v Speaker 2>did you think there was any way to come back?

1309
01:09:48.560 --> 01:09:49.359
<v Speaker 1>And when Lamar.

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01:09:49.279 --> 01:09:51.720
<v Speaker 2>Butler went down, did you think there was any way

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01:09:51.760 --> 01:09:52.520
<v Speaker 2>they could come back.

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01:09:53.560 --> 01:09:55.560
<v Speaker 11>No one, no, no one, no.

1313
01:09:57.359 --> 01:09:57.600
<v Speaker 9>Yeah.

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01:09:57.640 --> 01:09:58.840
<v Speaker 5>That was one of the more.

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01:10:00.439 --> 01:10:04.199
<v Speaker 11>Results I can remember covering the team. I mean probably

1316
01:10:04.279 --> 01:10:07.039
<v Speaker 11>up there honestly on the other end of the spectrum

1317
01:10:07.039 --> 01:10:11.520
<v Speaker 11>as an Evansville like I genuinely well in the way Gonzaga.

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01:10:11.159 --> 01:10:11.760
<v Speaker 5>Was just playing.

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01:10:12.399 --> 01:10:14.600
<v Speaker 11>I mean, nem Hart was tearing them apart.

1320
01:10:14.600 --> 01:10:14.880
<v Speaker 6>E K.

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01:10:15.079 --> 01:10:18.079
<v Speaker 5>Grahamy K the big center transfer.

1322
01:10:17.800 --> 01:10:19.840
<v Speaker 11>From Wyoming who came in here in rep Arena and

1323
01:10:19.920 --> 01:10:24.079
<v Speaker 11>costsavoc in February, was doing it all over again. It

1324
01:10:24.319 --> 01:10:28.000
<v Speaker 11>just they gave up fifty points by half. They couldn't

1325
01:10:28.039 --> 01:10:31.079
<v Speaker 11>shoot the three again. Like you said, no Lama, I

1326
01:10:31.159 --> 01:10:34.000
<v Speaker 11>was like, no way. And the mark Pope's credit and

1327
01:10:34.039 --> 01:10:37.159
<v Speaker 11>the players, I mean they jumpted that one three one

1328
01:10:37.279 --> 01:10:39.359
<v Speaker 11>that you know, after one or two passes they went

1329
01:10:39.399 --> 01:10:42.319
<v Speaker 11>into a man. Sometimes they played it straight up. It

1330
01:10:42.439 --> 01:10:46.119
<v Speaker 11>confused them, as Kenny Pin would say, it tricked them.

1331
01:10:46.560 --> 01:10:49.840
<v Speaker 11>It was just very, very impressive that they were able

1332
01:10:49.840 --> 01:10:51.800
<v Speaker 11>to go get that done. And I thought, you know,

1333
01:10:51.840 --> 01:10:55.520
<v Speaker 11>they also shifted their offensive game plan. They just attacked

1334
01:10:55.520 --> 01:10:58.399
<v Speaker 11>the rim similarly to when they did against Duke. I mean,

1335
01:10:58.399 --> 01:11:01.600
<v Speaker 11>they relied on Andrew carr at Robinson had his best

1336
01:11:01.640 --> 01:11:04.640
<v Speaker 11>game of the season and that was that was a stunning,

1337
01:11:05.000 --> 01:11:07.720
<v Speaker 11>awesome result. And to do that without La Pomp Butler

1338
01:11:07.920 --> 01:11:09.640
<v Speaker 11>when you're facing a guy like neim Hart, who is

1339
01:11:09.760 --> 01:11:12.720
<v Speaker 11>just I mean, that guy is just a true point guard,

1340
01:11:12.800 --> 01:11:16.159
<v Speaker 11>and that like, he's not an amazing scorer, but he

1341
01:11:16.239 --> 01:11:18.880
<v Speaker 11>averages over ten assist the game. He's an amazing defender.

1342
01:11:18.960 --> 01:11:21.119
<v Speaker 11>And the fact you were able to beat that team

1343
01:11:21.159 --> 01:11:25.279
<v Speaker 11>without Nemhard or without Butler guarding nim Hard is nothing

1344
01:11:25.279 --> 01:11:28.640
<v Speaker 11>short of extraordinary. I mean, that was as impressive as

1345
01:11:28.640 --> 01:11:31.680
<v Speaker 11>a Kentucky win as I can remember in quite some time,

1346
01:11:31.760 --> 01:11:33.039
<v Speaker 11>just given the circumstances.

1347
01:11:33.199 --> 01:11:36.000
<v Speaker 2>You know, there are some coaches out there who really

1348
01:11:36.039 --> 01:11:41.359
<v Speaker 2>prefer the drill sergeant approach on the court. Maybe not

1349
01:11:41.439 --> 01:11:44.560
<v Speaker 2>off the court, but you know, just and and Pope

1350
01:11:44.880 --> 01:11:49.560
<v Speaker 2>used to he admitted just you know recently, but he

1351
01:11:49.640 --> 01:11:52.439
<v Speaker 2>kind of did a one eighty and he's going more positive.

1352
01:11:53.479 --> 01:11:56.039
<v Speaker 2>And Jack Gibbons, we just had Jack on and he

1353
01:11:56.119 --> 01:11:58.960
<v Speaker 2>talked about this on the radio broadcast. When they were

1354
01:11:59.000 --> 01:12:02.560
<v Speaker 2>behind by eight teen points. He could hear because he

1355
01:12:02.640 --> 01:12:04.640
<v Speaker 2>was right next to the Kentucky bench. You probably saw

1356
01:12:04.680 --> 01:12:09.560
<v Speaker 2>him on TV. He could hear Pope yelling to Jackson Robinson,

1357
01:12:09.960 --> 01:12:13.439
<v Speaker 2>We're okay, we're gonna be all right, you know, just

1358
01:12:13.439 --> 01:12:15.680
<v Speaker 2>trying to keep their heads up and in the game,

1359
01:12:16.439 --> 01:12:19.119
<v Speaker 2>and it paid off. And I think Aaron with a

1360
01:12:19.199 --> 01:12:23.680
<v Speaker 2>veteran ball club like this, I think it's really fascinating

1361
01:12:24.279 --> 01:12:26.800
<v Speaker 2>that they're getting this brand of coaching that they probably

1362
01:12:26.840 --> 01:12:27.800
<v Speaker 2>never had before.

1363
01:12:27.800 --> 01:12:31.119
<v Speaker 5>You know, no question, it's completely different.

1364
01:12:31.159 --> 01:12:34.119
<v Speaker 11>I mean he and you saw it in their little

1365
01:12:34.199 --> 01:12:36.439
<v Speaker 11>journey video that they do the amazing job with the

1366
01:12:36.640 --> 01:12:39.600
<v Speaker 11>K Sports video and their people there and like they go,

1367
01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:42.199
<v Speaker 11>he went into that locker room just totally calm, as

1368
01:12:42.199 --> 01:12:45.159
<v Speaker 11>if they were almost like as almosts if they had

1369
01:12:45.199 --> 01:12:46.840
<v Speaker 11>nothing to lose or they were winning the game.

1370
01:12:46.880 --> 01:12:47.920
<v Speaker 5>It was just unbelievable.

1371
01:12:48.000 --> 01:12:50.720
<v Speaker 11>Utcom and mild mannerdy Is and even you know, last night,

1372
01:12:50.760 --> 01:12:52.720
<v Speaker 11>I'm sure we'll talk about that game, which was not

1373
01:12:52.840 --> 01:12:55.600
<v Speaker 11>pretty at all and they're losing by three to a

1374
01:12:55.680 --> 01:12:59.880
<v Speaker 11>bad Colgate team with seven fifteen minutes ago, and he's

1375
01:13:00.119 --> 01:13:03.239
<v Speaker 11>the same guy, like completely steady Eddie, not worried at all.

1376
01:13:03.359 --> 01:13:05.640
<v Speaker 5>So you know, I do.

1377
01:13:05.479 --> 01:13:08.800
<v Speaker 11>Think and you know the fact too, I think I

1378
01:13:08.880 --> 01:13:11.119
<v Speaker 11>am curious. I don't think it's Demeanor's going to go

1379
01:13:11.159 --> 01:13:13.880
<v Speaker 11>to a one eighty and he's gonna become a drill sergeant.

1380
01:13:14.520 --> 01:13:17.079
<v Speaker 11>But I am curious to see next year when they

1381
01:13:17.079 --> 01:13:19.239
<v Speaker 11>have a younger team, when you're probably gonna have three

1382
01:13:19.359 --> 01:13:22.000
<v Speaker 11>or four freshmen and maybe two or three sophomores in

1383
01:13:22.039 --> 01:13:24.960
<v Speaker 11>the rotation, if that changes it all. I think the

1384
01:13:24.960 --> 01:13:27.239
<v Speaker 11>fact that he has so many veterans he can rely on,

1385
01:13:27.319 --> 01:13:31.399
<v Speaker 11>they basically coach themselves at halftime. I think that maybe

1386
01:13:32.399 --> 01:13:35.359
<v Speaker 11>that too has kind of helped him say commerce than

1387
01:13:35.720 --> 01:13:37.680
<v Speaker 11>most coaches would. So I am curious to see if

1388
01:13:37.680 --> 01:13:40.039
<v Speaker 11>there's a shift at all next season when they're younger.

1389
01:13:40.439 --> 01:13:43.119
<v Speaker 11>But all that, to mine, it's a winning formula.

1390
01:13:43.119 --> 01:13:43.439
<v Speaker 5>I think.

1391
01:13:43.479 --> 01:13:46.159
<v Speaker 11>I really think this team, you know too, every team,

1392
01:13:46.279 --> 01:13:48.680
<v Speaker 11>I'm sure he also has to shift based on personnel

1393
01:13:48.760 --> 01:13:51.760
<v Speaker 11>right there. The players, All players have to be coached

1394
01:13:51.760 --> 01:13:54.439
<v Speaker 11>a little differently, and it's especially harder to figure that

1395
01:13:54.479 --> 01:13:57.319
<v Speaker 11>out now in this day and age. But I think

1396
01:13:57.359 --> 01:14:00.439
<v Speaker 11>this team, being veteran led, knowing kind of when they

1397
01:14:00.439 --> 01:14:02.279
<v Speaker 11>screw up and when they don't, he can kind of

1398
01:14:02.680 --> 01:14:04.920
<v Speaker 11>let them talk to themselves and then kind of be

1399
01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:07.399
<v Speaker 11>the one who just puts the game playing together and

1400
01:14:07.399 --> 01:14:10.000
<v Speaker 11>and rally the troops when he needs to. So uh,

1401
01:14:10.079 --> 01:14:12.079
<v Speaker 11>you know, I think I think he's done a fantastic job.

1402
01:14:12.119 --> 01:14:14.359
<v Speaker 2>Obviously a few minutes up with Aaron gershin as a

1403
01:14:14.399 --> 01:14:15.079
<v Speaker 2>cat's pause.

1404
01:14:15.560 --> 01:14:17.880
<v Speaker 1>Uh. Some of the players you talked to you last night.

1405
01:14:17.800 --> 01:14:21.720
<v Speaker 2>I know, mentioned that at halftime, even before Pope got

1406
01:14:21.760 --> 01:14:25.239
<v Speaker 2>in there, they talked among themselves about what they need

1407
01:14:25.279 --> 01:14:28.640
<v Speaker 2>to do to turn this thing around. And again, just

1408
01:14:28.680 --> 01:14:30.640
<v Speaker 2>the joy of having veteran players, right.

1409
01:14:31.520 --> 01:14:34.479
<v Speaker 11>No question, and and your car. Every time I see

1410
01:14:34.560 --> 01:14:36.520
<v Speaker 11>him talking like, are we sure that's not more Sope,

1411
01:14:36.560 --> 01:14:40.600
<v Speaker 11>it's crazy. Their their mannerisms, the way they talk, the

1412
01:14:40.680 --> 01:14:44.600
<v Speaker 11>words they use, it's almost scary.

1413
01:14:44.760 --> 01:14:46.840
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, the way they play, it's crazy.

1414
01:14:46.880 --> 01:14:50.159
<v Speaker 11>So I see why Pope was very much drawn to him.

1415
01:14:50.239 --> 01:14:53.199
<v Speaker 11>So yeah, definitely every game. I mean, that was the

1416
01:14:53.199 --> 01:14:55.119
<v Speaker 11>common theme. They said it at the Duke game, they

1417
01:14:55.399 --> 01:14:57.600
<v Speaker 11>did it in Seattle, we saw it on video, and

1418
01:14:58.159 --> 01:15:00.960
<v Speaker 11>they probably they did it again last night. So uh,

1419
01:15:01.119 --> 01:15:03.600
<v Speaker 11>that is definitely a huge benefit of having you know, what,

1420
01:15:03.920 --> 01:15:06.199
<v Speaker 11>what is it seven seniors and the junior.

1421
01:15:06.439 --> 01:15:10.439
<v Speaker 2>We talked about after the Clemson game, the template or

1422
01:15:10.479 --> 01:15:13.439
<v Speaker 2>at least challenging Kentucky, and that's get physical with them.

1423
01:15:13.760 --> 01:15:16.600
<v Speaker 2>And I also thought Colgate obviously not a team that

1424
01:15:16.680 --> 01:15:20.359
<v Speaker 2>can do that. But the tack that their coach chose

1425
01:15:20.600 --> 01:15:24.399
<v Speaker 2>was run Kentucky off the three point line, yep, and

1426
01:15:24.600 --> 01:15:27.000
<v Speaker 2>and see if we can hit shots at the other end.

1427
01:15:27.560 --> 01:15:30.720
<v Speaker 1>And it worked for a while. I think we'll see

1428
01:15:30.720 --> 01:15:31.399
<v Speaker 1>more of that, don't you.

1429
01:15:31.520 --> 01:15:34.159
<v Speaker 11>Yeah, yeah they did. And you know they played some

1430
01:15:34.279 --> 01:15:37.600
<v Speaker 11>zones too, kind of you not not the one. I

1431
01:15:37.640 --> 01:15:39.840
<v Speaker 11>think that's if they played a three two or two three,

1432
01:15:39.960 --> 01:15:42.880
<v Speaker 11>but uh, you know, they they tried to throw Kentucky

1433
01:15:43.199 --> 01:15:46.479
<v Speaker 11>Kentucky off that way and they did. And look, I mean, honestly,

1434
01:15:46.640 --> 01:15:49.239
<v Speaker 11>Kentucky has some good looks. It's been five straight games

1435
01:15:49.319 --> 01:15:52.199
<v Speaker 11>where Kentucky just hasn't shot the three at a good clip.

1436
01:15:52.279 --> 01:15:54.279
<v Speaker 11>I mean, the first five games this year they shot

1437
01:15:54.560 --> 01:15:58.159
<v Speaker 11>over forty two from three, uh, twenty eight percent. The

1438
01:15:58.199 --> 01:16:01.319
<v Speaker 11>last five games. They got to figure that out. You

1439
01:16:01.520 --> 01:16:03.640
<v Speaker 11>definitely got to get credit Colgate. They've made some tough

1440
01:16:03.640 --> 01:16:07.119
<v Speaker 11>shots too, and some open ones. I think they've made

1441
01:16:07.319 --> 01:16:09.960
<v Speaker 11>eight of their last nine threes in the first half. So,

1442
01:16:10.279 --> 01:16:12.000
<v Speaker 11>I mean, you know, we go back to what John

1443
01:16:12.039 --> 01:16:13.920
<v Speaker 11>Calipari used to say, teams come in a rough and

1444
01:16:13.920 --> 01:16:15.680
<v Speaker 11>play their best because they have nothing to lose. And

1445
01:16:16.000 --> 01:16:17.960
<v Speaker 11>you know, that's one of the things I always agreed

1446
01:16:18.000 --> 01:16:22.079
<v Speaker 11>with him. They do, and Colgate definitely plays with played

1447
01:16:22.119 --> 01:16:24.800
<v Speaker 11>like a team that that cow would describe like that,

1448
01:16:24.920 --> 01:16:27.760
<v Speaker 11>and and you definitely got to give him credit for

1449
01:16:27.800 --> 01:16:30.720
<v Speaker 11>adjusting on the three point line and making some tough shots.

1450
01:16:30.720 --> 01:16:32.760
<v Speaker 11>But I do think a lot of it was self inflicted.

1451
01:16:32.800 --> 01:16:36.680
<v Speaker 11>And you know they they also they just need it's things.

1452
01:16:36.680 --> 01:16:39.279
<v Speaker 11>Not having Kirk Carisa, I think they'll be fine without

1453
01:16:39.359 --> 01:16:42.039
<v Speaker 11>him as long as they get Lamar Butler back. I mean,

1454
01:16:42.079 --> 01:16:44.479
<v Speaker 11>they need their floor general back on both ends of

1455
01:16:44.479 --> 01:16:48.479
<v Speaker 11>the floor. Kobe Brays just not he struggles on the

1456
01:16:48.479 --> 01:16:52.159
<v Speaker 11>defensive end. Great shooters struggles on the defensive end. Jackson Robinson,

1457
01:16:52.159 --> 01:16:53.840
<v Speaker 11>you want to be able to use his defense more

1458
01:16:53.880 --> 01:16:57.199
<v Speaker 11>against a more a bigger, physical guy rather than the

1459
01:16:57.199 --> 01:17:02.359
<v Speaker 11>point guard. So it's really important to get Lamont Butler back.

1460
01:17:02.520 --> 01:17:04.840
<v Speaker 11>I don't think you want to put Chucky Hempburn their

1461
01:17:04.960 --> 01:17:07.760
<v Speaker 11>point guard from Louisville. Yeah, probably playing better than anyone

1462
01:17:07.800 --> 01:17:11.399
<v Speaker 11>on their team, and especially defensively. That's not a matchup

1463
01:17:11.399 --> 01:17:13.960
<v Speaker 11>I like for Jackson Robinson. It's a matchup. I'm just

1464
01:17:14.039 --> 01:17:16.439
<v Speaker 11>fine with the Ford Lamont Butler, So hopefully he's back

1465
01:17:16.439 --> 01:17:19.239
<v Speaker 11>out there. Hopefully he's back out there Saturday because that

1466
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<v Speaker 11>game could get could get dicey.

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<v Speaker 5>They really need him back.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I got about ninety seconds left.

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<v Speaker 1>Have you seen Louisville play much?

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<v Speaker 5>I haven't.

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<v Speaker 11>I saw the most I saw him play was against Duke,

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<v Speaker 11>so obviously wasn't they They came out hot and then

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01:17:32.560 --> 01:17:35.399
<v Speaker 11>they fell apart late. But you know, the big thing

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<v Speaker 11>with Louisville that I think Kentucky has an advantage way

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01:17:38.960 --> 01:17:41.319
<v Speaker 11>is if they could play the Brendon basketball that is

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01:17:41.319 --> 01:17:44.880
<v Speaker 11>is Louisville. Unfortunately, injury bug has just killed them. Now

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01:17:44.960 --> 01:17:48.239
<v Speaker 11>they're down to like seven guys they trust in the rotation.

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01:17:48.680 --> 01:17:50.520
<v Speaker 11>I think eight that are even okay to go with

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01:17:50.560 --> 01:17:54.720
<v Speaker 11>scholarship lives. So they Kentucky used to just get out

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01:17:54.760 --> 01:17:56.560
<v Speaker 11>and run this game. If they get out and run,

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01:17:56.840 --> 01:17:58.079
<v Speaker 11>they're gonna get tired, That's.

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<v Speaker 5>What you know.

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01:17:58.600 --> 01:18:00.920
<v Speaker 11>Duke chipped and chip the w and then they started

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<v Speaker 11>to run in the second half and Louisville just ran

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<v Speaker 11>out of gas. And you know, Utep gave him a

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01:18:05.840 --> 01:18:08.119
<v Speaker 11>heck of a game last night. I mean they only

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<v Speaker 11>won by three. Louisville did and there was a high

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01:18:09.840 --> 01:18:11.920
<v Speaker 11>game with a minute thirty left and Louisville is down

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<v Speaker 11>at half, so I think if Kentucky can make Louisville

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01:18:14.479 --> 01:18:17.279
<v Speaker 11>run a little bit, get them tired, I think UF

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01:18:17.439 --> 01:18:20.279
<v Speaker 11>will eventually just run out of gas. And that's unfortunate.

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<v Speaker 11>With the erring jury situation, you never want to see

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01:18:22.239 --> 01:18:25.960
<v Speaker 11>it that way. But they do need the Mot Butler

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<v Speaker 11>back because I can tell you that game will be

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01:18:28.239 --> 01:18:29.960
<v Speaker 11>a lot closer than people might think.

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<v Speaker 5>If he's not. Just with the way their point guard

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01:18:32.560 --> 01:18:34.640
<v Speaker 5>the transfer from Wisconsin, Hepburn is playing.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, whatever happens, Aaron Gershawn, we'll cover it for the

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<v Speaker 2>Cat's pause and speaking of our best to Oscar Combs,

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<v Speaker 2>who of course created the Cat's pause, and we're all rooted.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah Oscar, he's on the end. But follow Aaron on

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01:18:47.880 --> 01:18:52.840
<v Speaker 2>x or on Twitter. It's a gershawan ninety nine. Correct, yep,

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01:18:52.920 --> 01:18:55.119
<v Speaker 2>that is right, all right, and we're out of time,

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01:18:55.159 --> 01:18:58.000
<v Speaker 2>so we don't have time to talk about your beloved

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01:18:58.079 --> 01:18:58.880
<v Speaker 2>football giants.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll do that next okay, okay, all right, man, we'll

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01:19:04.039 --> 01:19:07.199
<v Speaker 1>see you see you this weekend, alright, and that'll do

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<v Speaker 1>it for now.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks to my guest Sean Woods, Jack Gibbons and Aaron

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01:19:10.880 --> 01:19:14.000
<v Speaker 2>Gershawn of course, coming up Saturday, it's the Cats and

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01:19:14.079 --> 01:19:17.479
<v Speaker 2>the Cards at a five point fifteen start at Rupparina.

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<v Speaker 1>You'll hear it right here.

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<v Speaker 2>Of course, you'll have it on the tube, but I've

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<v Speaker 2>been able to synk things up a little bit. I've

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<v Speaker 2>got my TV comes through Roku and Hulu and all that,

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01:19:26.159 --> 01:19:29.319
<v Speaker 2>so give it a try. I recommend it, but if not,

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01:19:29.399 --> 01:19:31.479
<v Speaker 2>we'll have it for you right here on your number

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01:19:31.520 --> 01:19:34.800
<v Speaker 2>one spot for sports. Stay warm out there, keep an

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01:19:34.840 --> 01:19:36.039
<v Speaker 2>eye on your animals as well.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it. Good night from the garage and Lexington.

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<v Speaker 4>Sixty nine offense. He's giving them the business.

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<v Speaker 3>The FAA

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<v Speaker 9>Has the