WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:04.040 Hell. Everybody to the facilities of the iHeartMedia Megaplexis is 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:07.080 Dick Gabriel. This is the statewide edition of the Big 3 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:10.640 Blue Insiety. You've heard comments from Mark Pope and Kenny Brooks, 4 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:12.839 and tonight we'll talk with Aaron Gershan of The Cat's 5 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:15.880 Boss and our own Billy Ruttledge. Stay tuned. It's the 6 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:19.559 statewide BBI Border to Border. It is the Big Blue Insider. 7 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:22.600 Dick Gabriel, Aaron Gershan of The Cats Boss, Billy Rutledge, 8 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:27.199 our UK network producer, and you hear him on some 9 00:00:27.320 --> 00:00:30.839 of these same radio stations every morning. Following the Leech report, 10 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:36.439 Aaron was in Tuscaloosa, yep. And at what point did 11 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:38.640 you say to yourself, I don't think they can get 12 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:40.640 this one, because man, they were in it. 13 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:42.880 They were in it, but it was probably how they 14 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:45.759 finished the first half. If we're being honest, you're up 15 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:48.799 twelve with nine minutes to go in that half, you're 16 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:52.759 feeling really good. And Alabama look, even when Kentucky was 17 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:55.039 ut full strength, we saw their tough matchup with how 18 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:57.439 fast they play, they're simply more athletic. They're coming off 19 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:00.520 a Final four and Kentucky's got a brand new ross. 20 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:03.719 That's to be expected. So you know, Kentucky goes down 21 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:06.480 seven and a half after they were up twelve seven 22 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:09.760 minutes earlier. They only scored ten points in the last 23 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:12.400 ten minutes of the first half against the worst defensive 24 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:15.480 team in the SEC. As far as scoring goes, you 25 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:17.200 kind of felt like things were a little bleak, but 26 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:19.439 they did to their credit, they kept fighting and clawing. 27 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:21.480 They were I think they cut it the three with 28 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:23.359 ten or so minutes left and they kind of just 29 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:26.560 ran out of gas. But look, Mark Pope was right, 30 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:29.439 Kentucky's not a program that's going to celebrate moral victories. 31 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:31.719 And there were some missed opportunities in this game, like 32 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:34.519 when Alabama came out really slow in the second half, 33 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:37.799 you couldn't get anything to fall. So there's still things 34 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:40.599 that frustrate you with this loss. But to go in 35 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:44.319 there with your two lead guards down and against the 36 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:46.239 number four team in the country that beat you at 37 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:48.319 full strength in their house and put up that type 38 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:50.840 of effort, I think you got to be, in hindsight, 39 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:54.040 pretty pleased with that. If you're a Kentucky faner Mark Pope. 40 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:57.319 Your two point guards are down, your best shooting guard 41 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:02.280 is down, yep, and your best all around offensive player 42 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:06.159 from the back court is largely ineffective. Yo, what you're 43 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:09.759 looking at in that game in hindsight, and obviously Away 44 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:14.639 played but four of your top seven guys basically, I know. 45 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:16.719 It was in foul trouble, so I didn't see what 46 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:18.759 his final minute count was. He fell out like six 47 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:21.360 minutes later. So even yeah, like you said, they were 48 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:25.960 basically down four bodies in the players. Yeah, on the 49 00:02:26.039 --> 00:02:27.919 road at the number four team in the country, and 50 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:31.080 it was great to see Andrew Carr looking himself. Remember 51 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:33.919 here when Carr was dealing with the back injury, Grant 52 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:36.800 Nelson kicked his butt and it was the other way around. 53 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:38.759 So there, Look, there were some good signs. 54 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:41.479 Yeah, twenty two minutes and two points for Away in 55 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:43.560 that game, one to nine from the field. If he 56 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:46.560 just gives somewhat of a normal effort. I mean the 57 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:49.080 Kentucky's right in that game, So I mean there are 58 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:51.919 reasons to be encouraged. Another one is some of the 59 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:54.400 player getting off of guys that are normally should be 60 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:56.599 on the bench, like Travis Parry's great. I mean, he 61 00:02:56.840 --> 00:02:59.000 didn't have the best shooting night from three. But I 62 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:01.479 mean I thought he played with energy and effort and 63 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:03.520 a couple times he should have been called over the 64 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:06.520 foul but didn't. Colin Chandler or somebody who. I didn't 65 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:08.960 know if he would have a lot of minutes on 66 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:11.120 this year's team, but over the last couple of games, 67 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:14.240 he's proven himself a little bit. Brandon Garrison is the 68 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.039 one for me. Yeah, when he comes in and Amaro's out, 69 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:20.680 a nervous makes me nervous. He there's usually one moment 70 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:22.719 in the game where he tries to go coast to coast. 71 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:24.520 Brandon Garrison time and. 72 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:27.159 So and Mari has just been so good. He's improved 73 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:28.719 so much that. 74 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:30.039 Garrison gets for me. 75 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:35.560 It's a little lack of days ago with even handoffs, passes, 76 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:38.520 but it just seems like every once in a while 77 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:38.919 it's like. 78 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:40.479 What are you doing? He tries to do too much 79 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:42.800 a little bit. I mean, he's probably, but you know, 80 00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:44.879 I got to get him a little slack because somehow 81 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:46.840 in the year his assistant turned it over. He shows 82 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:50.080 fifty four to thirty two at center. That's pretty good, 83 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:53.560 damn good. So he gets I think sometimes it gets 84 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:54.879 a little bit of a bad rap, But it's the 85 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:57.240 selfish moments with him that even in the I think 86 00:03:57.240 --> 00:03:59.039 there was a shot against Vandy where there are still 87 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:01.240 twelve seconds on the clay, you take this step back 88 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:03.960 fifteen firs. Oh, like you can't have those and like 89 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:06.960 Billy you said, the coast to coast stuff can't happen, 90 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:09.960 and defensively is a liability right now. He's not a 91 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:15.120 great rebounder getting despite his size. But yeah, I'm with you. 92 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:16.920 When he comes in the game, you're holding your breath, 93 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:19.879 and especially because of Maari Williams has been that good 94 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:21.639 and you want to keep him on the floor. But 95 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:24.000 you know, for fans who are calling in and they're like, oh, 96 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:26.040 he's got to play thirty five minutes, he's seven foot 97 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:28.120 two sixty, like, that's a really hard ask. 98 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:30.000 Well, it's so glad you brought that up because I 99 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:31.639 was going to ask both of you guys. What was 100 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:33.560 your comment. Billy, I'm not sure if you were able 101 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:36.360 to guess. You're running the board producing answer and calls. 102 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:40.920 But when Pope talked about tonight again and he's mentioned 103 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:47.879 this many times, why essentially he doesn't play the rotation. 104 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:49.920 In fact, it was when somebody called an answer, you're 105 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:52.360 going to tighten a rotation and he basically said no, 106 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:55.920 but he explained it the way he's explained it all year, 107 00:04:55.959 --> 00:04:57.959 and that is and I thought this was really interesting 108 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:00.360 to me and I'm going to start watching this more. 109 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:03.759 When he talked about it in possessions, there aren't lulls 110 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:07.000 when they have the ball, and I started thinking about 111 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:09.680 but boy, he's right, and maybe him thinking too much 112 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:13.120 about cal Perry's team last year when the ball would stick. 113 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:17.360 But I mean, just your average team can rest a 114 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:18.319 little bit on offense. 115 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:22.480 They don't do that, right, And yeah, look he almost 116 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:24.879 like a hockey ship, right, And his point was with 117 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:29.079 Amari specifically, was we yes, we're clearly more effective with 118 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:32.680 him on the floor, but we're equally equally as ineffective 119 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:35.199 without him on the floor than when he's overextended. So 120 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:37.240 that was kind of the point he was making. And look, 121 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:40.240 ideal world, Yes, you're getting thirty plus minutes out of him, 122 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:43.240 but again, with what you just said about the offense, 123 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:46.079 they're always moving and this dude is seven foot two 124 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:50.199 sixty two. That's that's a hard, hard ask. And Brandon 125 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:52.800 Garrison was a McDonald's All American just two years ago. 126 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:55.240 It's in there somewhere, and they got it. They got 127 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:57.639 in spurts like the Duke game. He played a great 128 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:00.240 game at that one. Even earlier in SEC play, I 129 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:02.519 think of South Carolina had a really strong game. Uh, 130 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:04.160 they got to get that out of him somehow, or 131 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:06.600 Ghost Small and Andrew Carr's playing really well, but man, 132 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:09.160 it's a gauntlin in the SEC. So even when he's 133 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:12.720 putting in minutes, it's it's it's physicality and and he's 134 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:15.079 wearing down and and it's a lot of it is 135 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:17.399 him initiating the offense and not really. 136 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:20.600 The drop off on Amar Amari Amari. Yeah, when Garrison 137 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:22.319 comes in that you just see that drop off. And 138 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:23.839 that's why you know Amar. 139 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:25.839 How do you think he's going to handle a Jedi 140 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:28.439 Broom on Saturday when Lamar needs a break. 141 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:30.680 Yeah, that might be tough as well. 142 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:33.600 But Broom's a guy can step. I need to put 143 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:35.279 car on him and see if he can do anything. 144 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:35.639 You know. 145 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:37.720 One thing I think of though, is the NCAA tournament 146 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:41.040 has more commercial breaks, right, more chances for you to 147 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:44.480 break more, but longer longer. Do you think that could 148 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:46.600 play a factor in Amari playing more minutes in the 149 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:50.959 because Garrison cannot be putting in fifteen minutes a game. 150 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:53.600 I don't think. I think he's got to go down 151 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:55.160 more to ten well. 152 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:56.519 And that I don't think you're going to see that 153 00:06:56.600 --> 00:06:59.560 guy friand I just I want to think a bandon 154 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:01.639 what he I don't think he's going to abandon him. 155 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:03.680 The only thing I can think of, and he's done 156 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:06.519 it a little bit, is play small and Andrew Carr, 157 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:08.920 now that he's healthy, do you stick him at the 158 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:12.040 five instead and burning Garrison? With how he's struggling, You 159 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:13.920 just sit him, And I think that might be something 160 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:16.800 that's matchup based. I think you know, against LSU and Oklahoma, 161 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:19.560 you're gonna try to get Garrison going. Maybe against Auburn. 162 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:22.240 If against really tight and Omar he needs a break, 163 00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:25.279 you go Car there. But also Cars coming off a 164 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:28.240 back injury, you don't necessarily want to overextend him either. 165 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:31.120 I think he played twenty eight minutes on Saturday, which 166 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:32.759 is the most he's played in a while, and he 167 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:36.120 looked great. Yeah, but it's a tricky predicament. That's how 168 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:37.439 he built this front court. 169 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:41.079 And you mentioned matchups, And immediately, Billy, when you talk 170 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:45.000 about Garrison, my mind immediately went to the NCAA tournament 171 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:48.199 because I think Kentucky's going to be one of most 172 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:52.040 teams that have a shot at winning a couple of 173 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:54.639 games where it's all gonna come down to the bracketing, 174 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:58.360 who's in your bracket, what are your matchups? You know, 175 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:03.000 they may find themselves with teams where Garrison can play 176 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:05.160 and they can absorb some of his mistakes, you know, 177 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:06.000 especially if he's not. 178 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:08.399 Playing like a Vanderbilt who's really small, like as him 179 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:09.879 like that, Yeah, somebody like that. 180 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:12.839 So and there's so much basketball to be played between 181 00:08:12.839 --> 00:08:14.560 now and then they can figure it out at least 182 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:15.360 get better. 183 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:17.600 Right, Yeah, And speaking of small teams, I think it 184 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:19.600 was Andrew Carr that played so well versus Vandy. 185 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:21.920 Wasn't He was excellent? Yeah, and then he was excellent again. 186 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:24.879 So it's a very very physical and big Alibamon boy. 187 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:27.000 They needed him, and you kind of didn't know which 188 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:28.720 way that was going to go. With back pain. It 189 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:31.959 was is he ever going to be himself? And he 190 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:34.600 looked like the guy that was playing major minutes in 191 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:35.639 the beginning of the year, So. 192 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:37.200 I'm shot better than he has all year. 193 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:39.039 No, I want to jinx it, but man, that's a 194 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.600 huge key. But you know when Aley Almore, Almanor has 195 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:45.480 a night like he's had over the it feels like 196 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:47.919 two of the last three games, he's just kind of disappeared. 197 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:50.039 But you can live with that. When Andrew Carr's playing 198 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:50.600 that well. 199 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:54.080 He was, Well that's why because he cars getting Almanor's minutes. 200 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:56.600 Well, that too, but he has to have more productive minutes, 201 00:08:56.639 --> 00:08:59.399 like well, sure he's going ten minutes and registering one shot. 202 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:01.799 Yeah, but I think he's a guy who needs to 203 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:05.360 be in the game a little bit longer to get 204 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:06.919 to it's just not much of a defender. 205 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.799 That's the problem with them. What what's the term for 206 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:12.559 the zero stat line across the trillion club? He was 207 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:14.960 the shot attempt was the only stat he put on 208 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:18.240 the sheet against Alabama, the one to three in the corner, 209 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:20.440 which is his spot too, and he just missed it. 210 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:25.480 Yeah, Well, you can look at the Alabama game as 211 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:28.159 and I know they don't want a moral victory. Was 212 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:29.120 it a step forward? 213 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:30.240 Yeah? 214 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:34.039 I think when you talk about that the younger guys, right, 215 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:37.559 when you talk about Perry, Noah Chandler. Anytime they're out 216 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:41.639 there on the floor like this and Chandler knocking the 217 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:44.559 rust off and the guy hadn't played basketball, really played 218 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:48.879 basketball in two years. I think he's better, a little 219 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:52.159 bit better athletically than both Noah and Perry. They're better 220 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:55.720 shooters than he is. At least they've shown it, so 221 00:09:55.799 --> 00:09:57.440 it gives Pope a lot of options. 222 00:09:57.519 --> 00:10:00.480 That was such an it for Perry specifically. I know struggled. 223 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:01.879 I think you shout, what was it? One for seven 224 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:03.840 from three? Yeah, but the fact he got in the 225 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:07.000 lane against the again. Alabama is a big team, like 226 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:10.000 even the Jared Stevenson who's a kinds of place of 227 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:12.440 the three for them, but guard some guards. He's six eleven. 228 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:15.480 They just got big dude after big dude, and he's 229 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:18.399 going in the lane, unafraid and getting contact, drawing a 230 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:21.960 valley to an one, no turnovers in such a fast 231 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:25.279 paced game. That was really an encouraging night for him. 232 00:10:25.320 --> 00:10:26.919 That was the one I was like, Okay, you can 233 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:30.279 really build off this, especially God forbid La Momp. Butler 234 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:32.200 doesn't come back. I think he is going to come 235 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:34.679 back and give it a go soon. But that was 236 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:37.480 very very encouraging, specifically with Perry on Saturday. 237 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:38.879 Could Oklahoma be a trap game? 238 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:39.240 Yes? 239 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:42.960 Well, yeah, I mean this they're on the bubble right now, 240 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:45.039 like this would be a huge win to get him 241 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:46.320 into the NCAA TORONMA. 242 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:49.240 Yeah. And they do some things that I'm pulling up 243 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:50.720 the stats in front of me. They do some things 244 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:54.000 that Kentucky doesn't handle well, and that's they shoot really well. 245 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:58.279 They're they're forward Jaalen Moore, who's six' seven is a 246 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:01.360 thirty eight percent three. Shooter they have two, guards including 247 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:03.799 one who was teammates With Kobe braa last year At. 248 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:06.120 Oklahoma one's a forty three eight and one's a forty 249 00:11:06.120 --> 00:11:08.679 four percent point four shooter from three at a high. 250 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:11.879 Volume and then then they have This Jeremiah fears freshman 251 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:14.200 who doesn't shoot it at a great, clip but he's 252 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:17.279 coming off a twenty seven and ten game in points 253 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:19.559 and assists against The Mississippi. State and like you, Said, 254 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:22.480 billy they're fighting for THEIR ncaa tournament. Lives they went 255 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:25.879 thirteen and zero non, conference Beat, michigan they Beat. Louisville, 256 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:28.440 uh there's another big win in there that's blanking. Me 257 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:30.720 but and then THE sec play has been, tough but 258 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:33.200 they just got a big win Over Mississippi state and 259 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:35.039 they're looking for another one to kind of solidify their. 260 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:37.879 Bid, yeah but it's the otakea away revenge. 261 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:39.720 Camp it is the oh take away revenge. Game and 262 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:43.480 Also oklahoma by far the worst rebounding team in THE, sec. 263 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.440 Although top pointed out that only ONE i think kid 264 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:48.720 on ou roster played with OH i. 265 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:51.039 Fact checked him on that he's, right he's. Wrong, yeah 266 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:54.000 well not usually the, case but it's actually like it's 267 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.440 only like four scholarship, guys but it's like six or seven, 268 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:58.039 total so there's a couple. 269 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:00.600 Guys and Then garrison played it Out Glahoma, state. 270 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:03.039 Yep and Then, JACKSON i know he's probably not going to, 271 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:05.000 play but he's from me To. Oklahoma and then last 272 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:09.720 year B yu obviously played At oklahoma and lost as 273 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:11.919 a rank. Team oh, wait didn't do much in that, 274 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:16.519 game but Clearly oklahoma Gave Mark pope and his staff. 275 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:19.159 Fits it was a pretty lopsided lost eighty two sixty. 276 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:22.000 Four you, know in a backhanded, WAY i think the 277 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:24.399 fact that he's having to lean on or is able 278 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:28.919 to lean on these. Freshmen maybe that works in his 279 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:30.759 favor when it comes to whether or not this is 280 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:33.039 a trap, game because they're going they got to be 281 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:34.000 going into all these. 282 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:35.600 Games wide, eyed, buddy you know WHAT i? Mean? 283 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:39.360 Sure, Sure and you Know Colin chandler And Travis perry 284 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:41.879 playing in those positions allows the other guys to stay 285 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:43.519 in the position they're most comfortable. 286 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:44.080 In good. 287 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:46.600 Point if you want to look towards the. Future they 288 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:48.720 Asked Mark pope tonight how many freshmen he's going to 289 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:50.799 take on a. Roster he said about one to. Three 290 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:53.480 but the most important thing is. Continuity and if you're 291 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:56.440 going to get multiple, players he got three like like 292 00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:59.240 that and and like, Those, yeah like freshmen that could 293 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:02.279 come back like. That that makes next year's roster even more, 294 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:04.440 so maybe more of the method to the. 295 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:06.799 Madness, Wellney he Referenced Rick bettino's. 296 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:08.759 COMMENT i was gonna bring that up with you guys 297 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:12.759 When rick, said we're not even looking at, freshmen we're 298 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:14.960 not even looking at highest signing high. School and of 299 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:18.600 course With, rick you know you sort of take. It 300 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:20.639 he meant it when he said, it how many time 301 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:22.759 about you guys weren't? Around you, KNOW i can't tell 302 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:26.000 you how many times there was A patino comment that 303 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:30.879 completely reversed an earlier statement or. Position, well he meant 304 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:33.120 it when he said, it you, know so he might 305 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:35.399 have meant it when he said, It BUT i wouldn't 306 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:37.879 be surprised if he signed one or two. Freshmen you 307 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:41.519 can't just keep going to the portal every. YEAR i 308 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:45.480 think it was making a, point BUT i think if 309 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:48.799 you're A kentucky and you can sign kids who are 310 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:51.720 the caliber of the kids that are. Signing and Now 311 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:53.360 aaron AND i were talking about this coming, up AND 312 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:55.960 i know you've talked about it, Before, billy you don't 313 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:59.840 have to worry quite as much with a kid going 314 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:04.159 to THE nba unless he's a lottery pick and then 315 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:06.679 you get into some crazy, money right because there are 316 00:14:06.759 --> 00:14:09.039 kids who can make any deals at. Match would he 317 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:11.919 get in the first round incredibly of THE Nba? Draft, 318 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:13.039 Absolutely and that's. 319 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:14.759 Why, YEAH i think that's WHY i would, say, you oh, 320 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:17.480 way ultimately ultimately be back and that that's. 321 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:19.639 Huge, yeah he's got another, year he sure. 322 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:24.240 Does. Wow, Yeah But Rick patino just he. Bends he 323 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:28.120 had a comment on today About Kadari, richman WHO'S i 324 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:30.080 think they're leading scorer up, there and he, says it's 325 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:32.600 the most Hurt i've ever had a. Player uh before 326 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:35.120 in my coaching. Career he had a guy snap his 327 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:37.879 leg in the nca tournament if you remember, It kevin 328 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:41.159 who Could, yeah but that was one. INJURY i. Know 329 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:44.240 but how has he been injured a lot of? Time, 330 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:46.799 no he, said he's currently the most injured he's ever 331 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:48.960 had a. Player he's having the most serious injury he's 332 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:49.480 had as. 333 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:50.799 A Coach Florida state. 334 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:52.879 Players that's What i'm trying to. Say he's likes to 335 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:55.519 Be Rick patino bends the truth little they, will and 336 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:58.279 they went very hard After Boogie flann after he decommitted 337 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:03.120 From kentucky to so, yes why. Not i'm just, saying, 338 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:05.360 no Freshman john's rocking right. 339 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:07.720 NOW i, mean that looks like a fun. Environment Nason 340 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:10.240 Square garden non contact injury here for This florida, Sake 341 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:11.039 it does not look. 342 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:15.000 Good, gosh oh, no the. Garden, Yeah Buddy garden's rocking right. 343 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:15.720 Now it really. 344 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:19.360 Is although they Beat yukon in their own, gym didn't 345 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:20.639 they know? 346 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:23.480 That? Yeah because they did back because they HAD. 347 00:15:23.799 --> 00:15:26.480 I was watching one game where they did in their own. 348 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:28.480 Gym, yeah they did player game recently in their Own. 349 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:30.919 Yeah but, Yeah yukon was at The garden because they 350 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:34.159 had That Duke illinois game Where duke just Slaughtered hillis 351 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:37.279 On saturday and quick turn Around sunday Of Saint John's, Ukon. 352 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:38.799 Well and you knew that was going to, happen and 353 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:42.320 the Moment betino signed a contract With Saint, john's back 354 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:43.120 to The, garden you. 355 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:47.320 Know but you, know it's like When Kim molki was. 356 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:48.360 Trying to, say you know that uk ought to be 357 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:52.320 playing womens. Up you, know what good does it do 358 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:56.240 if nobody shows? Up OR i shouldn't say, that if small. 359 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:59.440 Crowds you, know maybe she just didn't like that it 360 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:02.440 was actually a home court advantage Usually i'm To kentucky 361 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:04.240 and it wasn't this. Year it WAS i don't, know, 362 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:05.000 WELL i think. 363 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:08.000 She saw it perhaps as though and what DO i, 364 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:11.759 know but like it was some kind of slight to 365 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:13.919 the women's, program AND i, TWEETED i think it's a. 366 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:16.960 COMPLIMENT i wouldn't afraid to tweet. THIS i have covered 367 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:22.960 this program, Forever. OKAY i have never privately or publicly 368 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:26.440 had a women's coach tell, me, MAN i wish we 369 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:28.879 were playing in Rupp. Arena i've had coaches tell me, 370 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:31.720 honestly we would rather stay in the. 371 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:34.039 Coliseum. YEAH i actually think it's a. Compliment you have 372 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:36.480 a whole building that they just renovate and it looks 373 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:38.639 incredible and if you haven't been, there check it. Out 374 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:43.600 that's dedicated to women's, sports the women's, basketblay, volleyball. Gymnastics 375 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:46.120 like so women's. Sports and you. 376 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:49.000 Bring a recruit, in this is. Ours, yeah we don't 377 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:52.720 share with the. Men, yeah this is. Ours and uh 378 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:56.559 WHEN i was, there okay telling my age my first two, years, 379 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:01.480 uh the men's, varsity well everybody the varsity team played 380 00:17:01.480 --> 00:17:04.440 there my FIRST uk basketball games for a couple of, 381 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:07.079 years or in The Memorial, coliseum and let me tell 382 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:11.160 you something eleven five hundred back then before they, renovated 383 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:14.240 and they've renovated it three. Times and you talk about 384 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:18.640 a home court. Advantage there were opposing players who would 385 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:21.599 tell us, man and of course they had just been. Beaten 386 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:25.319 we felt like fans could reach out and touch. 387 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:28.920 Us well really they, couldn't but it felt that. Way 388 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:31.279 that's why there's all this discourse now about HOW rup 389 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:34.319 And Thompson bowling there was environment stink and then you 390 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:36.960 go To auburn or you go To Ole miss when they're, 391 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:40.359 rocking or someone like those smaller ten thousand person. Gym 392 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:42.680 you know Why Thompson bowling was built and built the 393 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:44.559 way it was, built? Right do you know? 394 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:44.839 Why? 395 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:48.279 No is it like a sound echo chamber and. 396 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:50.960 Copyrup the copy. Rup. Yeah. 397 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:53.920 Wow their whole thing, was we want to build something 398 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:58.960 as good or even better than Rupp, arena and they. 399 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:03.480 DID i can't, say but it's. Bigger but after a 400 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:07.839 few years of nobody in the top, sections that's when 401 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:10.519