WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.279 Breaking news coming in from bet three six to five, 2 00:00:02.399 --> 00:00:06.440 where every nail biting, overtime win, breakaway, pick six, three 3 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:10.679 point shot, underdog win, buzzer beater, shoot it out, walk off, 4 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:15.679 and absolutely every play in between is amazing, from football 5 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:19.359 to basketball and hockey to baseball. Whatever the moment, it's 6 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:23.719 never ordinary. At bet three sixty five gambling problem call 7 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:26.079 one eight hundred Gambler twenty one plus only must be 8 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:30.559 physically located in Virginia. 9 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:32.679 I don't know if you know this, but when you 10 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:35.200 don't have time to read the Washington Post, you can 11 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:38.600 listen to it. 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Experience incredible gaming with one twenty 22 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:21.840 FPS at ten eightyp and stream your favorite festive playlist 23 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:23.480 with the built in iHeartRadio app. 24 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:24.840 Give the gift of entertainment. 25 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:27.760 Get your Visio sixty five inch Quantum Smart TV for 26 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:29.719 just four forty eight at Walmart today. 27 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:33.120 Welcome to the Big Blue Insider. Dick Gabriel with you 28 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:36.359 on a Thursday. We are one day closer to a 29 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:40.239 big weekend as the Wildcats will take on Murray State 30 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:43.159 College Football. It's a one thirty start. We will have 31 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:46.680 it for you. Network covers begins at eleven thirty am. 32 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:49.680 Local coverage to ten thirty. And keep in mind this 33 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:51.840 game is going to be streamed. It will not be 34 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:55.079 on any of the networks that you ordinarily would see 35 00:01:55.319 --> 00:02:00.040 SEC football, like the SEC Network, ESPN, ABC, whatever. I 36 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:04.480 need your computer or your iPad or whatever, So prepare 37 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:06.120 if you want to see it. You're not sure how 38 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:10.759 to do it, Grab a kid, grab your son or 39 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:14.879 daughter or grandson, granddaughter, whatever. Some of you stubbornly refuse 40 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:18.240 to watch streaming, which is unfortunate. Look, it is the future, 41 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:21.159 and I say that as somebody who works for the 42 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:25.240 SEC Plus streaming channel. But we also of course urge 43 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:28.800 you to listen to your radio. Christy and Jeremy and 44 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:31.159 Logan will have pregame for you on the network side, 45 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:33.199 and then Tom, Jeff and I will have to call 46 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:35.800 for you at one point thirty as the Cats take 47 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:39.719 on the Murray State Racers. Look, Murray's is just quite frankly, 48 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:43.800 not very good. Trying to rebuild a program that used 49 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.599 to be really good in the Ohio Valley Conference but 50 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:50.199 just this year not quite getting it done and has 51 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:54.639 been overwhelmed almost the entire season. It is what used 52 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:58.639 to be called one DOUBLEAFCS. And the Racers have won 53 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:04.560 one game. They beat Mississippi Valley State, and in every 54 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:08.479 one of their losses with the exception of Butler. They 55 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:11.560 lost their second game of the year to Butler nineteen 56 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:16.000 to seventeen. They've given up at least thirty one points, 57 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:19.560 and then their last three losses the North Dakota State, 58 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:22.800 South Dakota State, and then Missouri State, they've given up 59 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:26.599 at least fifty points. They've lost to all the Dakotas 60 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:30.520 the states and then North Dakota and South Dakota. Those 61 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:34.280 are really good. One Double A teams. It should be 62 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:37.919 a walkover for the Wildcats, obviously not having a great year, 63 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:41.080 but still an SEC team much much better than Murray State. 64 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:43.560 And coming up in our next segment, we'll hear Mark 65 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:46.439 Troops and Brad White talk about what they expect to 66 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:51.199 see from their respective squads. Of course Brad White the 67 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:54.639 defensive coordinator. Before we get started, I got to tell 68 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:57.800 you that tonight we're gonna hear from Cameron Mills. He's 69 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:00.319 going to join me here in the garage. That'll be 70 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:02.039 at the bottom of the hour and it'll take the 71 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:04.560 rest of the show. But if you listen to us, 72 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:07.319 you know that oftentimes that's how Cameron and I do things. 73 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:11.039 We just talk about the basketball, Wildcats and a lot 74 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:14.360 of other stuff. But it's always a special occasion when 75 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:16.560 he drops by and you hear him on the pregame 76 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:19.120 show with Dave as well going into basketball games. But 77 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:22.959 I want to talk obviously specifically about that Duke game, 78 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:26.000 but just about how this Mark Pope era has begun 79 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:28.399 to unfold, and we talked to Cameron more than once 80 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:30.839 about it right after Mark was named the head coach, 81 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.480 and of course CAMRA's terribly biased because He and Mark 82 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:36.000 are close. They were teammates. They won a national title 83 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:38.959 together in nineteen ninety six. So Camera's going to join 84 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:40.439 us at the bottom. 85 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:40.519 Of the hour. 86 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:43.720 Before we get there, though, I need to talk about recruiting. 87 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:46.480 Yesterday was a big day across the country and some 88 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:49.279 of the highlights for the Wildcats. Michael Moreno made it 89 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:52.560 official he is the six to eleven center from Georgetown 90 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:57.199 and officially signed the agreement to attend UK this coming fall. 91 00:04:57.279 --> 00:05:01.600 This was part of the NCA's early signing per Malachi 92 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:04.920 is rated as a top three center in the class 93 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:08.199 of twenty twenty five by all the major recruiting services. 94 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:12.319 He plays over a great Crossing High school in Georgetown 95 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:15.000 and of course helped lead the Warhawks to the Sweet 96 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:19.199 sixteen state tournament last year. Got him to I think 97 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:25.120 the semifinals and averaged sixteen points, thirteen rebounds, and on 98 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:27.839 more than three and a half blocks per game. He 99 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:31.240 scored a double double in all but three games in 100 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:35.279 the state tournament, averaged seventeen points and sixteen boards. Yeah, 101 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:38.560 two got them to the state semifinals. I will tell 102 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:41.160 you this, I watched him a couple times in the 103 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:44.800 Sweet sixteen well you talk about all kinds of potential. 104 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:49.879 He is not as dominant as you might think a 105 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:53.959 big guy of his stature would be right now, But 106 00:05:54.160 --> 00:06:00.680 as you know, big guys develop more slowly than players, 107 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:04.800 and he'll get there. He doesn't have a great arsenalal 108 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:10.120 low post moves offensively, but he does have a decent touch, 109 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:13.600 good hands, pretty good feet, and again I'm not an expert, 110 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:16.879 but just watching him out there, he's a good basketball 111 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:20.279 player obviously, and a lot of size and bulk. He's 112 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:23.160 not a skinny guy with a long neck. He is 113 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:27.720 a legit broad shouldered six ' eleven guy, so he 114 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:33.040 will help tremendously. And if Pope likes him and obviously 115 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:36.560 is recruited and signed him, that means they connected the 116 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:41.560 way that a player needs to connect with somebody as 117 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:45.720 heady as Mark Pope. So keep an eye on him 118 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:48.920 this year. Rivals right now has him number twenty five overall. 119 00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:53.120 ON three has him thirty two overall, two four seven, 120 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:57.480 twenty seven overall. ESPN has him rated the lowest at 121 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:02.079 thirty seventh overall, and each one has him either second 122 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:05.480 or third at center. They all have him with four stars. 123 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:08.879 If you care about that, kind of thing. But just 124 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:11.279 keep an eye on and go see him play. See 125 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:13.959 for yourself. This year it's got a good chance of 126 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:17.279 taking the Warhawks back to the Sweet sixteen, but that's 127 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:20.800 no guarantee. Reminder, Rex Chapman one of the greatest ever 128 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:23.000 to come out of the state of Kentucky, but was 129 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:26.959 in a wicked, tough region with Owensboro. He got to 130 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:31.160 the Sweet sixteen once playing for Apollo High School, so 131 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:33.879 it ain't easy. But get out and see Malachi play. 132 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:36.680 Don't wait until the Sweet sixteen rolls around, because he 133 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:39.240 might not be there. Kenny Brooks and his team, the 134 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:43.279 UK Women, picked up a commitment signed Kaitlin Carroll, the 135 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:47.720 overall number thirty two prospect in the class of twenty 136 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:54.959 twenty five power forward from Massachusetts, chose Kentucky over Villanova, Minnesota, 137 00:07:55.079 --> 00:08:00.680 Ohio State, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia text So 138 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:03.879 I gotta think Kenny Brooks had forged a relationship with 139 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:07.600 her back when he was at Tech and now she's 140 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:10.480 coming to Kentucky. She's a six ' to two, six 141 00:08:10.519 --> 00:08:14.079 ' three power forward. I'm sorry, six to two, and 142 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:18.120 that's what you need in the SEC these days. It's 143 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.920 all about well, it's all about everything really, but if 144 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.480 you don't have legit front liners anymore, you're not going 145 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:27.720 to be able to compete in the Southeastern Conference. South 146 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:32.000 Carolina has set that standard and everybody else is trying 147 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:35.879 to live up to it. Speaking of standards, Kentucky Volleyball 148 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:42.159 seven time defending SEC champion. Three signees for Craig Skinner, 149 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:46.440 a senter Cassie O'Brien from Katie, Texas, six ' to one, 150 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:51.840 good size for a setter, a defensive specialist again out 151 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:56.399 of Louisville, a Libro Trinity ward played at Holy Cross, 152 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:01.440 and an outside hitter named Georgia Watson from Hontlely, Illinois. 153 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:05.799 They have all formerly agreed to play for Kentucky, and 154 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:11.399 again size is vital and Watson herself is six ' one. 155 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:13.919 Kentucky getting it done right now at times with Asia 156 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:17.000 Thigpen on the front line. She was signed as a 157 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:21.440 defensive specialist. She's five ten five eleven, but because of 158 00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:23.960 injuries they've had to play her on the front line 159 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:27.360 and she's doing incredibly well all things considered. But Craig 160 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:31.320 Skinner went out and got himself more size, and some 161 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:34.519 future Wildcats are on the way. Now that's the good news. 162 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:38.120 The bad news, and this happens. Jakayden Ferguson, he's a 163 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:44.440 wide receiver from Missouri City, Texas, has de committed after 164 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:48.519 he had taken a visit to LSU. He committed to 165 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:53.360 the Wildcats back in June. This primary recruiter is receiver's 166 00:09:53.399 --> 00:09:57.840 position coach to Kill Schwartz, the kid recruited by the 167 00:09:57.879 --> 00:10:02.200 Wildcats committed to the Wildcats. Bod kept on taking visits, 168 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:04.919 and you know you should if you're a player. But 169 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:08.679 if you say you're committed and again, I wass go 170 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:12.919 back to Mac Jones committed, as he said, one hundred 171 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:16.240 percent to the Wildcats. Bod, I'm going to visit Alabama. 172 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:20.120 Guess what happened? Big time scoring night in the NBA 173 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:24.679 last night, including a former Wildcat Three players with at 174 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:28.200 least forty five points. That tied for the most in 175 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:32.960 a single day in NBA history. Happened seven other times, 176 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:37.480 but Karl Anthony Towns had forty five points even though 177 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:40.960 the Knicks lost to the Chicago Bulls by a point. 178 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:44.600 But that was not the biggest scoring explosion That went 179 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:47.480 to Giannis onto the combo of the Bucks he had 180 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:52.559 fifty nine. Victor Wimbanyama of the Spurs went for fifty. 181 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:56.919 So these guys went off last night at virtually the 182 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:00.159 same time. And while we're talking about the Spurs, if 183 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:03.000 you follow the NBA, you know Greg Popovich has been 184 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:06.039 mia the head coach of the Spur as well. The 185 00:11:06.039 --> 00:11:09.759 Spurs finally announced that he is recovering from a stroke 186 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:13.799 he had back on November the second. 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And what I do 246 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:18.919 every weekday morning is I bring you the best of 247 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:22.639 South Asian music and culture from around the world, and 248 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:26.559 that includes some of the most exclusive access to the 249 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:30.639 South Asian music industry. I'll bring you world premieres and 250 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:35.159 I'll bring you exclusive interviews only on Ruckus Avenue Radio. 251 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:39.200 And another one hundred that's regular season, one hundred and 252 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:44.039 seventy postseason wins, five NBA titles, twenty nine years now 253 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:49.600 in San Antonio. Incredible run. Finally, this is bizarre. The 254 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:52.240 FBI is involved now and the break ins of the 255 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:58.720 homes of Travis Kelcey and Patrick Mahomes. The FBI reportedly 256 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:03.360 joined the investigation of to TMZ after mahomes property in Belton, 257 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:10.120 Missouri was burglarized back in October, while the tight Ends Leewood, 258 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:13.240 Kansas home was hit just a day later in the 259 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:16.639 middle of the Chief's Monday night football game on October seventh. 260 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:22.360 Why the FBI Well, apparently other homes in the area 261 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:26.279 have been hit as well. There is a possibility organized 262 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:30.919 crime is involved, meaning the crossing of state lines that 263 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:35.919 makes it federal that brings in the FBI. The only 264 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:39.919 thing TMZ reported as to what was taken twenty thousand 265 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:44.399 dollars in cash from the home of Travis Kelce. So 266 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:46.360 I guess he'd actually have a little tip money around 267 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:49.440 for you know, when the door dash people arrive. All right, 268 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:51.799 we'll step out, come back to Kentucky football in just 269 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:54.200 a minute. Cameron Mills at the bottom of the hour 270 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:57.480 here on six thirty WLAP Welcome back to the Big 271 00:15:57.519 --> 00:15:59.480 Blue Cider. Coming up at the bottom of the hour. 272 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:01.840 Cameron will join us here in the garage. We'll go 273 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:04.639 over the win over Duke and talk about what he 274 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:08.440 has seen and practices and in games from Mark Pope's 275 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:11.759 ball clubs. Cameron, of course has been banging the Mark 276 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:15.320 Pope drums since really the rumors began that Pope was 277 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:17.919 on Kentucky's list. So we'll hear what he has to 278 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:21.840 say and talk a lot of Kentucky basketball, but more 279 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:25.000 football to talk about, because the Wildcats take on Murray 280 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:28.120 State Saturday, looking to get well against the really poor 281 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:31.320 Murray State team, one of the in state clubs Kentucky 282 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:34.200 has played through the years. Last time the Cats played 283 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:37.639 the Murray State Racers was back in twenty eighteen, and 284 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:41.000 that was a fairly easy win as well, everybody expecting 285 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:43.960 as much. But Mark Stoops, who was asked about the 286 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:47.559 possibility of getting a good win, a feel good win, 287 00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:51.279 and also playing young guys, getting younger players into the 288 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:54.480 games maybe early, something they haven't been able to do 289 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:58.720 all year obviously. But again once again Stoops not taking 290 00:16:58.759 --> 00:16:59.720 anything for granted. 291 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:02.679 I'll never you know, we don't ever assume anything. I 292 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:04.480 think you know our team, I mean, we need to 293 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:09.359 go play or we've shown that we can play with anybody, 294 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:11.319 but we can also loose to anybody, and there's a 295 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:14.559 lot of teams like that. So we always respect our opponents. 296 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:17.640 But anybody will tell you it is truly about us 297 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:19.680 and our mentality and how we prepare and how we 298 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:22.640 play and all those things that go into it and 299 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:26.920 turnovers and just different things. But Jody Wright is one 300 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:29.279 heck of a football coach. I know he's not having 301 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:31.519 the year that he wants. Is his first year there. 302 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:34.279 He has work to do, but he's been in player 303 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:37.079 player personnel at some of the best places in the country. 304 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:40.400 He's coached with some great coaches. He knows what he's doing. 305 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:42.359 He's a good football coach and he will build that 306 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:45.799 program the right way. And I'm sure it's been hard 307 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:47.359 for him like it's been hard for us. 308 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:50.720 Been a tough year, which is why he doesn't expect 309 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:52.720 to just be able to go out and throw helmets 310 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:55.119 on the field and win. And a year like this, 311 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:57.440 you never know what's going to happen. Maybe you go 312 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:00.039 out and you play your butts off against Georgia and 313 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:02.079 you pull off an upset win over Ole Miss which 314 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:04.839 is looking better and better every week, and then you 315 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:07.759 just lay eggs against Auburn, then Florida, and then you 316 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:10.119 play tough against Tennessee. It's just that kind of year, 317 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:12.920 and in terms of wins and losses, we haven't seen 318 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:17.519 that from a Mark Steuf's team since he got here. Now, 319 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:21.400 his very first game was against an inste opponent, Western Kentucky, 320 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:25.519 remember that down in Nashville. Really steamy kind of night, hot, muggy, 321 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:29.440 and Western Kentucky kicked the Wildcats, but I mean it 322 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:32.359 was Western Kentucky all the way through. That game. Score 323 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:35.880 was closer than it indicated, really, But Bobby Petrino, that 324 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:40.839 was his first game at WKU and Hilltoppers one of 325 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:43.759 thirty five twenty six. So you take nothing for granted 326 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:46.400 when you play another team from instate. Of course, Western 327 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:49.960 Kentucky's Division one, Murray State's the equivalent equivalent of one 328 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:53.400 double A. But you got to play well. That's what 329 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:57.160 Brad White's looking for the defensive coordinator. Yeah, would he 330 00:18:57.279 --> 00:18:59.440 like to be able to get young guys into the game. Sure, 331 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:03.240 and clearly you want to win, but you want to 332 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:07.160 play well. He talked about games where they're not moral victory, 333 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:09.599 you play well and you just fall short, or games 334 00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:13.160 he said, where you win but you didn't play well 335 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:15.279 so you don't feel good. What he wants to see 336 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:18.119 is quality from the UK defense. 337 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:21.720 But there is a pride and performance you know level 338 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:26.039 to it. And the key focus this week for us. 339 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:27.559 Is we got to take pride in our performance. 340 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:31.480 Everybody that's on that field next needs to take pride 341 00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:34.240 in and performance in the standard that we've set. So 342 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:36.119 from the first nap to the last, Like, I want 343 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:41.039 to see guys for straining, finishing, you know, you know, 344 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:44.440 pinning ball carriers to the ground. I don't want it sloppy, 345 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:47.720 you know, I want it high energy and execution. 346 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:50.640 You know, at a at a high level, they should 347 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:53.519 be able to hold off the Racers, who have scored 348 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:56.440 a lot of points from time to time, but generally 349 00:19:56.559 --> 00:19:58.960 when they've put points on the scoreboard, they've been involved 350 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:02.559 in track meets. So what they're looking for, of course, 351 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:06.799 is scoring on just about every possession if you're Kentucky 352 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:10.480 and keeping the Racers out of the end zone completely, 353 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:15.559 that's the optimum situation. But more than anything, it's going 354 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:19.119 to be interesting to see how many Kentucky defensive players 355 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:21.920 make it back to the field after all these injuries 356 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:25.160 they've suffered. They've had the extra week to rest and heal. 357 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:27.839 But you've got the huge game coming up. You don't 358 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:31.200 overlook this one. But you've got Texas and Louisville coming up, 359 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:33.960 and if things play out the way they should, you 360 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:37.480 need both of those wins to get to a bowl game. 361 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:40.039 And by as it should, I mean you beat Murray. 362 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:43.400 That puts you in a position to finish six and 363 00:20:43.480 --> 00:20:46.440 six with two of the toughest games for any team 364 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:50.559 in a country left on your schedule, going to Austin 365 00:20:50.640 --> 00:20:53.680 but then playing Louisville in the Lexington. A good Louisville 366 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:58.119 team that is going to be looking for revenge. So yeah, 367 00:20:58.119 --> 00:21:00.720 this game is vital not only to get a win, 368 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:04.319 but to play well. And as I said, when you 369 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:07.400 play an in state team, Hey, remember EKU came to 370 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:11.359 town coach by Dean Hood and it took last minute 371 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:15.359 heroics by the Wildcats to win that game. If Eastern 372 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:17.480 had pulled off that, up said, Dean Hood might still 373 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:21.319 be at Ekau. You never know. But do you remember 374 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:25.480 one of Joker Phillips's last games in Jokers last year? 375 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:34.559 Kentucky lost to Western Kentucky in twenty twelve on a 376 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:38.039 trick play in overtime, And I had forgotten about this. 377 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:41.279 I know Kentucky didn't play well obviously. The Cats fell 378 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:47.000 behind seventeen to nothing in the second quarter, made it 379 00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:51.480 seventeen ten by halftime, but then fell behind twenty four 380 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:56.160 to ten in the second avenue started grinding started coming back. 381 00:21:56.440 --> 00:22:01.440 Maxwell Smith had a huge game and that one thirty 382 00:22:01.559 --> 00:22:05.119 seven of sixty. Remember that Kentucky was spraying the ball 383 00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:08.000 all over the field back then, three hundred and thirty 384 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:10.039 two yards and a couple of touchdowns, but he threw 385 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:14.359 four picks and Western Kentucky made him stand up but 386 00:22:14.559 --> 00:22:21.400 Kentucky still managed to drive for the tying touchdown in 387 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:24.400 the last couple of minutes made it twenty four to 388 00:22:24.440 --> 00:22:31.039 twenty four. They go to overtime. Wildcats go first. Western 389 00:22:31.079 --> 00:22:35.359 Kentucky wins the toss, right Kentucky scores and kicks the 390 00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:40.039 extra point and now it's Western Kentucky's turn and the 391 00:22:40.119 --> 00:22:44.519 Hilltoppers score a touchdown. Catchers still up thirty one to thirty, 392 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:49.000 but Western Kentucky goes for to two and remember how 393 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:53.400 the Toppers did it. They scored on a throwback, pulled 394 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:56.480 off the two point conversion, and the upset thirty two 395 00:22:56.519 --> 00:23:00.319 to thirty one. So playing an instate team is no 396 00:23:00.440 --> 00:23:04.319 guarantee of a win. Obviously, I don't see Murray State 397 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:09.119 pulling off any kind of shocker on Saturday. But the 398 00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:13.920 biggest question will the Wildcats play well after that? How 399 00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:17.400 many of the young guys get in the game. That, 400 00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:19.119 as much as anything, is what I want to see. 401 00:23:19.160 --> 00:23:21.359 I want to see some of these new faces, but 402 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:23.920 you want to see everybody come out of the game 403 00:23:23.960 --> 00:23:27.319 healthy as well as they head down to Austin, Texas. 404 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:29.920 And while we're talking about players we'd like to see, 405 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:32.599 I think everybody would like to see more ja Mary 406 00:23:32.599 --> 00:23:35.319 and will Cox and Stoops talked about him at his 407 00:23:35.400 --> 00:23:39.359 news conference. Somebody asked about him specifically and he mentioned 408 00:23:39.400 --> 00:23:42.119 the fact that there were plays designed for him. That's 409 00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:45.480 what happens. There are packages of plays for different running backs. 410 00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:48.960 And of course the run that opened the Tennessee game 411 00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:52.480 was spectacular, maybe all things considered, the best one of 412 00:23:52.519 --> 00:23:54.480 the year. Definitely, I think the best one of the year. 413 00:23:55.079 --> 00:23:57.279 So wouldn't you love to see more of that against 414 00:23:57.359 --> 00:24:00.440 Murray State. They ought to be able to get stuff 415 00:24:00.519 --> 00:24:03.079 like that against the Racers, but you just never know. 416 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:05.559 So that'll be somebody to keep an eye on, as 417 00:24:05.599 --> 00:24:08.680 well as Cutter Bowlie and some of the utter names 418 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:11.039 of the young guys. You've seen him here and there. 419 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:13.519 Maybe some of the guys you haven't seen yet because 420 00:24:13.559 --> 00:24:16.079 they're trying to preserve red shirt status and all that. 421 00:24:16.279 --> 00:24:19.000 But remember you can play in four games and protect 422 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:22.400 your red shirt availability. So those are some of the 423 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:26.359 guys we're all hoping to see. Coming up on Saturday afternoon, 424 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:29.920 Camera Mills in the Garage next six point thirty WLAP 425 00:24:32.279 --> 00:24:34.680 Welcome back to the Big Blue Insider. As promised, Cameron 426 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:37.519 Mills has joined us here in the garage. He of 427 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:40.079 course the two time national champion. 428 00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:42.839 Almost three part of it. 429 00:24:42.839 --> 00:24:47.960 It's don't be bitter, part of our pregame coverage, and 430 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:51.039 you see him online with the practice reports. You enjoy 431 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:52.440 those prouts. You do a great job. 432 00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:53.160 Thank you. 433 00:24:53.160 --> 00:24:53.559 You know what. 434 00:24:53.920 --> 00:24:57.279 It's one of those things where I look when it 435 00:24:57.319 --> 00:24:59.079 comes to this media stuff. And you know this because 436 00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:01.720 as I have rightfully called you my media mentor for 437 00:25:01.799 --> 00:25:05.000 now thirty years, we have to thirty twenty five years. 438 00:25:05.079 --> 00:25:06.200 Golly, how are you still alive? 439 00:25:06.359 --> 00:25:06.839 It's you. 440 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:08.880 I want to see my scar. 441 00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:11.599 No, I didn't mean that. I don't mean that. I 442 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:14.119 just meant, like age, I'm forty eight, So where are 443 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:14.559 you now? 444 00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:15.279 Sixty nine? 445 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:17.680 Good lord? Are you about to turn seventy? 446 00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:20.000 Oh? Man, I have more than you. 447 00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:23.799 Well, I just yeah, you do know it still looks good. 448 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:25.480 I'm on the inside. My look. 449 00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:27.720 Mine happened when we were doing the bottle signing few 450 00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:31.920 years ago and they were taking pictures once yeah yeah, yeah, 451 00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:35.880 well no, no, no, but but my moment where I realized. 452 00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:36.839 I just gotta get rid of it. 453 00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:40.160 Actually, when Susan I started dating, it was like, this 454 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:42.119 is this weird thing. Where I was like, you know, Susan, 455 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:45.119 I were falling in love, and it was in the 456 00:25:45.119 --> 00:25:47.720 middle COVID too, so it was like COVID hair don't 457 00:25:47.720 --> 00:25:49.000 care kind of thing where I. 458 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:50.519 Was like, just shave it off. 459 00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:53.920 And so I I saw, you know, I'm with Susan. 460 00:25:54.119 --> 00:25:57.000 She and I are are growing our relationship. And it's 461 00:25:57.079 --> 00:25:58.519 like I had the self confidence like all right, I'm 462 00:25:58.519 --> 00:26:00.119 going to do it. So I shave it off. And 463 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:01.960 then but I didn't shave it all the way off, 464 00:26:02.599 --> 00:26:05.200 and so and because I was afraid to. And then 465 00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:09.079 I thought, I'm just gonna go bald. I'm just gonna 466 00:26:09.079 --> 00:26:11.880 I'm just gonna do a Rex Chapman and go ball. 467 00:26:12.359 --> 00:26:14.839 It looks good on and it looks good on racks 468 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:15.440 and looks. 469 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:17.920 Good on I am. I'm happy with the way. So anyway, 470 00:26:17.960 --> 00:26:18.599 but I just. 471 00:26:19.240 --> 00:26:21.200 You talked about not going all the way. You and 472 00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:27.359 I are Seinfeld nuts the episode, you know what, Yeah, Elaine. 473 00:26:28.519 --> 00:26:33.839 A great Yeah great? What was a great civilization of hair? 474 00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:37.000 And Elaine asking George, why don't you just shave it 475 00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:39.160 up hanging on to these scraps. 476 00:26:39.960 --> 00:26:40.799 No, that's what she says. 477 00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:43.839 He goes, this was once a great civilization of hair, right, 478 00:26:43.839 --> 00:26:45.599 and she goes a bunch of scraps. 479 00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:49.160 Yeah, where are you hanging on to a bunch of scraps? 480 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:52.480 That's tangent number one many Yeah, yeah, in the next 481 00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:55.759 ninety minutes or so. But back to your practice report, 482 00:26:56.160 --> 00:26:58.759 than you have done so much public speaking, well beyond 483 00:26:58.759 --> 00:27:02.279 your radio show. I mean, you got stuck in the 484 00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:04.920 radio show. You could turn to whoever else of the 485 00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:07.519 you know, twelve or fifteen people in the studio with you, 486 00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:10.640 but and I know there's more than one take or whatever, 487 00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:16.200 but putting your thoughts together on camera, so it's not easy. 488 00:27:16.599 --> 00:27:20.839 It's not because there's no teleprompter. Right, That's not something 489 00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:24.359 I'm used to. 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And what I do 542 00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:12.200 every weekday morning is. 543 00:30:12.440 --> 00:30:14.960 I bring you the best of South Asian music and. 544 00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:17.279 Culture from around the world. 545 00:30:17.319 --> 00:30:21.160 And that includes some of the most exclusive access to 546 00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:25.039 the South Asian music industry. I'll bring you world premieres 547 00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:30.119 and I'll bring you exclusive interviews only on Ruckus Avenue Radio. 548 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:32.960 I'm thrilled with how they've turned out. I'm thrilled with 549 00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:37.440 how easily I can I can take a thought or 550 00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:39.079 and and look. The first time I did with those, 551 00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:40.759 I wrote out a script and I knew I wasn't 552 00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:42.480 going to read it word for word, but I wanted 553 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:43.920 to kind of commit some up to memory to know 554 00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:46.599 where I was going. And at this point, honestly, I 555 00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:49.079 just feel like I need an idea, Yes, like I 556 00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:51.240 need an idea, and I can take that idea and look. 557 00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:54.960 A lot of this comes from knowing Mark for thirty years, 558 00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:58.279 and I think more importantly playing with him for two 559 00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:01.279 knowing who you know in a Bible study with him 560 00:31:01.319 --> 00:31:03.559 and Shep. I mean, because the you know, the three 561 00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:07.480 of us, including Walter McCarty, a lot the three of 562 00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:09.000 us were, I mean, we were in Bible study every 563 00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:13.359 week together. And honestly, our bond, you know, to the 564 00:31:13.359 --> 00:31:16.960 point where I would even call Jeff Shephard my you know, 565 00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:19.440 one of my best friends now and closer now. 566 00:31:19.319 --> 00:31:20.400 Than we were when we played. 567 00:31:20.839 --> 00:31:23.279 Came from that Bible study with Max Apple, who's the 568 00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:25.599 at the time was director of Fellowship of Chrision Athletes 569 00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:28.240 for Kentucky, and Mark was in there too, and I 570 00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:30.480 mean we just we did things together all the time. 571 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:33.559 It's like, you know, the three of us were always 572 00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:35.359 doing stuff. And so I just think the knowledge of 573 00:31:35.400 --> 00:31:38.759 who Mark is as a person truly is a person 574 00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:41.000 because and and this goes for any of my teammates, 575 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:44.519 because you know this. I mean, you can present yourself 576 00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:47.400 to the world one way, but when you live with somebody, 577 00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:51.839 when you live with fourteen idiots, and I'm including. 578 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:56.279 Myself in this, you you get You can say every. 579 00:31:56.119 --> 00:31:58.039 Anything you want about who you are as a person, 580 00:31:58.079 --> 00:31:59.799 but everybody else knows the truth that you live with. 581 00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:01.039 You can't hide that. 582 00:32:02.119 --> 00:32:04.359 And so I think honestly a lot of that coming 583 00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:06.759 from just knowing Mark enables me to kind of share 584 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:11.119 in practice support what I think sometimes he's thinking. What 585 00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:13.160 is you know was mine because and you know this 586 00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:13.799 about him too. 587 00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:16.319 I mean he is. I mean, he's a genius. I mean, 588 00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:16.759 I don't know. 589 00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:18.759 I don't know if he's you know, genius level IQ 590 00:32:18.920 --> 00:32:21.640 test genius. But he's got to be not far if 591 00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:24.599 he isn't. I mean, he just no one in the country. 592 00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:26.599 And I think Coach Patino said this about him. He 593 00:32:26.680 --> 00:32:29.799 is the most intelligent college basketball coach in the country. 594 00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:33.319 And if people don't realize, if Kentucky fans at least 595 00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:36.920 don't realize that yet, just from the way he does 596 00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:40.279 his press conference, I mean he's using Look, I played 597 00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:42.079 basketball for twenty two years. I played basketball for one 598 00:32:42.119 --> 00:32:47.079 of the greatest coaches ever. Right, He's using I know 599 00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:52.160 the game. He's using words basketball, words that must have 600 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:53.599 been invented in the last twenty years. Because I have 601 00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:54.720 no idea what he's talking about. 602 00:32:55.279 --> 00:32:57.880 I have no idea what He's also using words. 603 00:32:57.559 --> 00:33:02.119 And applying them to basketball that you rarely, if ever 604 00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:06.359 here applied to basketball. That's what as a word talking guy, 605 00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:13.000 that's what Lionel huts Simpsons, Uh, that's what. That's what 606 00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:13.839 interests me. 607 00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:17.359 I mean, it all interests me, Like Philosty and the like. 608 00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:20.720 Just you know, he talked about I asked a question 609 00:33:20.839 --> 00:33:23.119 last week about about a certain way they were playing, 610 00:33:23.319 --> 00:33:26.400 and he said, yeah, most of our possessions we were 611 00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:31.000 really intentional that but but and then I raised my 612 00:33:31.079 --> 00:33:35.880 hand follow up, it's what what do you mean by intentional? 613 00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:39.240 And he did, you know, obviously, So I just find 614 00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:40.000 that fascinating. 615 00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:46.640 So that so intentional. So Mark had some markisms. Be careful, 616 00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:49.119 I say that, not some Marxisms. Some markisms. 617 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:51.480 So we're all Marxist. 618 00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:53.519 Let's call him popisms. 619 00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:57.599 Mark had some popisms back in the day that he 620 00:33:57.799 --> 00:34:00.960 was because again he is he is not just frick no, no, no, 621 00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:01.240 no no. 622 00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:03.160 That was that. That was the fun one that everybody 623 00:34:03.200 --> 00:34:05.400 the first time I heard it, I'm like, what what's 624 00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:06.960 he saying? What's that? 625 00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:09.360 Turned to a manager over on the sidelines, price like 626 00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:13.039 what is he saying? That's his cuss word? So anyway, 627 00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:15.400 but Mark has some things that he's that he says 628 00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:18.920 that that, you know, like being being intentional, right, I 629 00:34:18.920 --> 00:34:21.000 mean that was that was that was a specific one 630 00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:23.599 when back back in the day, like what you know 631 00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:26.159 he would be like if he was remember he was captain, 632 00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:29.000 try captain, but captain the year w went the championship 633 00:34:29.079 --> 00:34:32.480 ninety six, and so you know, he was constantly felt 634 00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:37.320 the uh, he felt like he was in the position, 635 00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:41.639 which he definitely was too, you know, you know, right 636 00:34:41.679 --> 00:34:43.079 for practice in the locker room. 637 00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:44.000 Before we took the court. 638 00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:45.639 All right, guys, we need to we need to be 639 00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:47.079 real intentional today about practice. 640 00:34:47.079 --> 00:34:49.639 All right, real intentional. Now we all knew what he meant. 641 00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:54.719 Focused, not not not fooling around, not no, you know, 642 00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:56.480 don't be sloppy today. We got we gotta, we gotta. 643 00:34:56.519 --> 00:34:59.760 We have zwn in so that one I've heard, I 644 00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:02.599 have helped you with that one in a moment. But 645 00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:07.679 he also uses one. He also uses one. And this 646 00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:10.000 one he always said with a smile on his face, 647 00:35:10.079 --> 00:35:13.360 leading me and I presume my teammates to believe this 648 00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:16.079 was either something that it was just a joke to 649 00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:18.760 him or more more than likely because I think there's 650 00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:22.400 some truth to this. It was a truism for him, 651 00:35:23.079 --> 00:35:26.559 but he always he said it so much that he 652 00:35:26.599 --> 00:35:29.440 knew it became funny does and that was this life 653 00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:31.280 and and I'm putting my I'm putting my hands together 654 00:35:31.280 --> 00:35:34.960 in a circle. Everything was about the circle. Everything's about circle. 655 00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:36.960 It all comes back around and to be honest, a 656 00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:39.039 lot of us wasn't. We weren't exactly sure what he 657 00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:40.320 meant by that, and we kind of made up our 658 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:42.480 own stuff. But it was like everything comes back to 659 00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:44.519 the circle, which was when we had a bad practice, 660 00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:45.360 right he. 661 00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:47.559 You know, he he, you know, he, he. 662 00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:50.079 Would know it and we'd all have to admit it 663 00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:51.840 because Coach made sure we understood it. 664 00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:53.320 And then we'd walk out of there. 665 00:35:53.159 --> 00:35:56.559 And you know, you know, because Mark is impossibly positive 666 00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:01.000 and and and it's still the same way today with 667 00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:01.440 the players. 668 00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:02.760 But he'd come back to the circle. 669 00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:06.199 Guys, listen, it's all gonna come back around, right, It's 670 00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:09.199 it's about the circle. But then he would use it 671 00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:12.039 in ways that it would make no sense. It would 672 00:36:12.079 --> 00:36:15.320 make no sense. You know, Yeah, somebody somebody got somebody 673 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:17.360 got sick from eating something, and he would go, you know, 674 00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:19.239 life is about the circle. I mean, it was just 675 00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:21.760 and that that's not a true story, that part, but 676 00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:24.039 that's how he would use it, just in bizarre ways. 677 00:36:24.079 --> 00:36:28.039 But well, and that's that's that's the thing in his 678 00:36:28.199 --> 00:36:33.000 mind is always work. He is never not thinking about 679 00:36:33.719 --> 00:36:36.400 basketball and about UK basketball. I mean, he just and 680 00:36:36.440 --> 00:36:39.239 I think that's what's exciting to me because if you can't, 681 00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:41.840 if you couldn't, if you can't tell so far, and 682 00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:43.480 I'm talking about you, I'm telling you, just talking about 683 00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:45.960 fans in general. He and his staff do not miss 684 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:47.920 a thing, right, Oh, yeah, we're gonna talk to do 685 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:48.800 not miss a thing. 686 00:36:48.679 --> 00:36:50.079 Because that's what helped him beat Duke. 687 00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:50.840 Yeah, all right. 688 00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:52.960 When we come back camera Mills in the garage, we're 689 00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:55.639 going to talk about that Duke game and the fact 690 00:36:55.719 --> 00:36:59.239 that Mark Pope made quite the splash, but through his 691 00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:01.440 team there was a assistance Innis players here on six 692 00:37:01.559 --> 00:37:05.519 thirty WLAP Welcome back to the Big Blue Cider here 693 00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:08.239 in the garage with Cameron Mills. Last time you were 694 00:37:08.239 --> 00:37:10.280 here was just before the season began. 695 00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:12.400 I think it's before the first exhibition. 696 00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:15.599 Yeah, and we were talking obviously, we had already talked 697 00:37:15.639 --> 00:37:20.360 about how excited you were about Mark Pope arriving. But 698 00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:23.159 then on your follow up visit, like you were some 699 00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:27.159 sort of doctor, you told us what to expect. 700 00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:27.679 Yeah. 701 00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:31.079 And as it comes to and you've worked all the 702 00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:33.119 games for radio, I think you work one for TV? 703 00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:35.079 Is it two two? Two? 704 00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:35.400 Yeah? 705 00:37:35.480 --> 00:37:38.800 Is it? In terms of the way they play style 706 00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:41.320 of Planet what you expect because you go to practice 707 00:37:41.320 --> 00:37:43.159 all the time. Yeah, as we said. 708 00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:46.480 Well based on what I saw in practice, yes, because 709 00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:51.840 I mean the way they play. Yeah, because there were 710 00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:55.599 moments in practice where like the passing the ball movement, 711 00:37:55.920 --> 00:37:57.960 like you would see that in practice, and then in 712 00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:02.039 my cynicalness, I would sit there and think, looks good, right, 713 00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:04.880 and not that I thought specifically this, but let's see 714 00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:07.239 what this looks like against Duke, so to speak. You know, 715 00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:09.880 it would be like it looks good in practice, but 716 00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:12.960 in practice, You've always got that dichotomy of Okay, well, 717 00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:14.360 if offense looks. 718 00:38:14.119 --> 00:38:16.480 This good, the defense doesn't. 719 00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:19.199 Right, Yeah, because you've got you've got guys on the 720 00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:21.639 defense playing defense. Who these are the guys that are 721 00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:24.199 gonna be playing for us too? So and I always 722 00:38:24.199 --> 00:38:26.519 found that fast thing, you know, during my time under 723 00:38:26.519 --> 00:38:29.440 coach Patina, just in just in basketball general, specifically under 724 00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:33.039 at UK under Patino and Smith whereas you know, because 725 00:38:33.360 --> 00:38:35.079 they're doing a lot of yelling, you know, and Mark 726 00:38:35.079 --> 00:38:36.719 doesn't do a lot of yelling, but they're doing a 727 00:38:36.719 --> 00:38:39.679 lot of yelling, and so they're yelling at you know, 728 00:38:39.719 --> 00:38:42.360 the blue team because the white team just whipped them. 729 00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:45.440 To two possessions in a row. Well, I mean, so 730 00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:50.079 I can remember one time when Patino was happy with 731 00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:53.079 both at the same time. Huh, one time in three 732 00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:56.000 years and my three years with him where we ran 733 00:38:56.079 --> 00:38:57.800 and ran and ran, and he. 734 00:38:57.960 --> 00:38:59.559 And and I thget about it. 735 00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:03.840 This way, offense didn't score and they still had the ball. 736 00:39:04.079 --> 00:39:06.880 You know, Now Shocklock had probably run out by this point, 737 00:39:07.239 --> 00:39:09.320 but it was like he blew the whistle and he said, 738 00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:10.639 all right, move it on to the next way. He 739 00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:13.159 goes that was great offense, great defense. Never heard him. 740 00:39:13.199 --> 00:39:14.360 I mean, that's the only time I ever heard him 741 00:39:14.360 --> 00:39:17.280 say that. And I'm like, how can that be? I mean, 742 00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:21.719 the defense, you know, stopped offense from scoring. Offense didn't 743 00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:24.400 turn it over, but they certainly ran out to shock clock. 744 00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:28.519 And it was just always fascinating. But so watching practice, yeah, 745 00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:32.960 you see flashes. But I'll say this, they look they 746 00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:35.480 have looked better in the games than they have in practice. 747 00:39:35.519 --> 00:39:37.760 Really yeah, And I think a lot of that goes 748 00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:40.119 down to something that surprised me the other night against Duke, 749 00:39:40.159 --> 00:39:42.599 and that was our defense. I did not know. Look, 750 00:39:42.760 --> 00:39:45.880 I am not prone to recognize good defense myself personally. 751 00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:50.119 I can tell when someone gets to steal. But you know, 752 00:39:50.239 --> 00:39:53.519 I just don't. I am a ball watcher, right, which 753 00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:55.079 means I am not a student of the game. The 754 00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:59.280 students of the game like Mark at all. They see 755 00:39:59.320 --> 00:40:02.679 it all. Coach Patino always amazed me. And Mark is 756 00:40:02.679 --> 00:40:05.000 the same way where he can watch a just and 757 00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:08.000 I think I've used this example with you before where 758 00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:11.400 it can be a standard you know, initiation to the 759 00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:15.119 right or or even before the initiation we're doing downscreen 760 00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:18.199 pop outs. Point guard throws it basically a motion offense. 761 00:40:18.639 --> 00:40:21.440 Point guard throws it to the right wing, meaning he 762 00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:24.400 screens away. Big men screen away. So now we've got 763 00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:26.159 two guys coming to the ball. I mean, just just 764 00:40:26.239 --> 00:40:29.400 basic standard motion offense. He could watch that run for 765 00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:33.840 thirty seconds and then he had the ability to in 766 00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:38.719 fifteen seconds dissect and communicate everything that the offense did 767 00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:41.079 wrong and everything that the defense did wrong, and then 768 00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:45.880 communicate the corrections. And that's the way Pope is. And 769 00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:50.639 then you add this staff and this staff, I mean, 770 00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:53.800 we heard, we had all heard they were man, he's 771 00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:56.079 putting together. And I'd hear this from you know, national 772 00:40:56.320 --> 00:40:59.039 pundits or you know national people in college basketball. I 773 00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:02.360 would hear this that this is I mean, I know 774 00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:04.239 you all may not have known who this guy was 775 00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:07.480 before now, but this is a guy. 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Save two 829 00:43:54.880 --> 00:43:57.400 hundred dollars on the seventy five inch Visio Quantum Pro 830 00:43:57.480 --> 00:43:59.119 Smart TV at Walmart today. 831 00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:03.719 What's up, Everybody, My name is Sammy John. Tune in 832 00:44:03.760 --> 00:44:07.320 every weekday morning at nine am Pacific Standard time and 833 00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:10.000 hear my show called The Bridge. And what I do 834 00:44:10.079 --> 00:44:13.320 every weekday morning is I bring you the best. 835 00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:14.280 Of South Asian music and. 836 00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:18.360 Culture from around the world, and that includes some of 837 00:44:18.400 --> 00:44:22.280 the most exclusive access to the South Asian music industry. 838 00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:26.119 I'll bring you world premieres and I'll bring you exclusive 839 00:44:26.119 --> 00:44:29.440 interviews only on Ruckus Avenue Radio. 840 00:44:29.880 --> 00:44:31.719 He's still coached D one, So he. 841 00:44:31.719 --> 00:44:34.039 Made a name for himself prior to getting to George. 842 00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:36.719 Georgia didn't work out for him. Yeah, but prior to that, 843 00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:40.000 he was well known, well respected. I hope he didn't 844 00:44:40.039 --> 00:44:41.760 lose respect. What happened to Georgia. 845 00:44:41.840 --> 00:44:43.119 I think wrote well respected. 846 00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:46.000 I think is the key now because I think he 847 00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:49.960 is to me, to the guys, to the players, I 848 00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:50.880 think he's the one. 849 00:44:50.920 --> 00:44:52.239 I think he's the. 850 00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:54.760 One because I've told you just four we always had 851 00:44:54.880 --> 00:44:57.760 the assistant coaches, coach O'Brian Kochobi. We would go to 852 00:44:57.840 --> 00:45:00.159 Ka Chobe to complain about coach Patino, of course, and 853 00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:02.519 I have a feeling, right and not not that, not 854 00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:04.559 that any of players to complain about Coach Pope because 855 00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:07.639 he just has a way of Now, he'll he'll push you. 856 00:45:08.199 --> 00:45:10.400 I mean, you know there are moments where the guy, 857 00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:12.320 you know, they're running and running and he's just like, 858 00:45:13.159 --> 00:45:15.360 I mean it's it's like, hey, guys, we'll be here 859 00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:17.320 all day, right. I Mean, he's got that attitude that 860 00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:19.880 Patino has of you know, get across the line, stop 861 00:45:19.960 --> 00:45:22.159 missing the stop make sure you're getting you know, I 862 00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:24.519 mean he is. He is a stickler for details, which 863 00:45:24.519 --> 00:45:30.079 he should be. But it's it's just fun watching him 864 00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:35.840 take the take the best parts of Patino and the 865 00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:37.719 best parts of as you said earlier, and and I 866 00:45:38.039 --> 00:45:40.840 appreciate you saying this, and I think it was all air, uh, 867 00:45:40.880 --> 00:45:44.320 but of Larry Bird, George Carl you know all I 868 00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:46.840 mean because in my world Mark Pope was coach by 869 00:45:46.920 --> 00:45:50.800 Rick Patino. I'd forgotten about the fact he spent what 870 00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:53.320 nine years in the NBA. 871 00:45:53.480 --> 00:45:55.039 Yeah, I mean, you know. And then Turkey. 872 00:45:55.039 --> 00:45:57.800 We gotta throw Turkey in there, because Turkey came one 873 00:45:57.840 --> 00:46:00.400 of the greatest stories ever uh to us his former 874 00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:04.440 teammates of his. But uh, it's just interesting to find 875 00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:08.239 him take you know, bits and pieces from these from 876 00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:11.760 these mentors and become a mentor himself. 877 00:46:12.039 --> 00:46:15.239 And he put it all together the other night, did 878 00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:21.119 plan the sideline, the halftime adjustments. 879 00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:22.840 The last play that last underneath out of bounds. Oh 880 00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:24.599 my gosh, who thought that was coming? 881 00:46:25.599 --> 00:46:28.400 And now we didn't we'd all seen it before. What 882 00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:31.400 you're talking about, the throw of the long throw. Yeah, 883 00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:33.320 I mean, I've talked about it and those of us 884 00:46:33.320 --> 00:46:36.920 old timers. Joe b used that you know who caught 885 00:46:36.960 --> 00:46:39.280 that ball on that play? Jack given Jack. 886 00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:41.840 I was going to guess Jack because head. 887 00:46:41.960 --> 00:46:44.639 Yeah, that play was called Rick Rick the name for 888 00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:45.239 Rick Roby. 889 00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:46.679 Do we know what it was called the other day? 890 00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:47.039 No? 891 00:46:47.119 --> 00:46:48.280 Okay, but Roby? 892 00:46:48.360 --> 00:46:51.239 Because Tom brought it up to Mark after the game. 893 00:46:51.480 --> 00:46:54.880 He yeah, and uh uh so, yeah it was that. 894 00:46:55.159 --> 00:46:58.239 I was. I was laughing when I saw that play. 895 00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:00.599 I had such a smile on my face. But anyway, 896 00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:02.320 coming back, we've only got a couple of minutes left 897 00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:06.079 in this segment. But did you sit there through the 898 00:47:06.119 --> 00:47:08.719 second half and did you just kind of nod and 899 00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:11.320 grin like I knew it? Or were you jumping up 900 00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:11.960 and down like a. 901 00:47:11.840 --> 00:47:15.559 Maniacor both both jumping up and down like a mania. Look, 902 00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:18.639 I have struggled to watch, and this is this is 903 00:47:18.679 --> 00:47:20.360 nothing to do with cal Perry. This is how I am. 904 00:47:20.679 --> 00:47:23.599 I've struggled. I don't care what happens in the regular season. 905 00:47:23.719 --> 00:47:28.039 I don't care when we hit March. I become an 906 00:47:28.039 --> 00:47:30.920 idiot fan like the rest of us. Okay, I become 907 00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:34.199 I'm I get superstitious. I get like, oh, well, I 908 00:47:34.239 --> 00:47:35.840 walked in the room and we weren't doing well, so 909 00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:37.360 I'm walking out of the room, so we do well. 910 00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:42.000 I mean, I become an absolute idiot. But the other 911 00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:44.559 night and the other night, even though it wasn't tournament 912 00:47:44.559 --> 00:47:47.119 atmosphere to me, because there was nothing on the line, 913 00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:50.039 There was nothing on the line. There is nothing on 914 00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:52.559 theline meaning win or go home, it wasn't that wasn't there. 915 00:47:52.599 --> 00:47:54.639 Now everything else was there that looks like a tournament 916 00:47:54.920 --> 00:47:57.079 except for the Michigan State Kansas game, where the heck 917 00:47:57.199 --> 00:48:02.320 was everybody that was embarrassing. But I just I mean 918 00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:04.960 I sat there Washington, and I've watched it twice since then, 919 00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:10.519 and I mean, I'm like, if anybody, if anybody had 920 00:48:10.599 --> 00:48:14.000 doubt that, and a lot of people did that first 921 00:48:14.039 --> 00:48:15.800 twenty four hours that we were getting one of the 922 00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:18.000 best coaching coaches in college basketball, one of the most 923 00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:21.800 mindful coaches, one of the most motivating coaches. If anybody 924 00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:24.880 was gonna become if anyone needed to be the next 925 00:48:24.920 --> 00:48:28.000 coach at Kentucky, it was this guy. And a lot 926 00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:29.960 of people doubt it. And I get it, and I've 927 00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:32.719 even had my You know, I know he's gonna be 928 00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:35.440 good here. I don't know how quickly he's gonna be 929 00:48:35.440 --> 00:48:38.639 able to be good and to me, even though the 930 00:48:38.679 --> 00:48:42.079 assignment wasn't completed against Duke, And I think that's important 931 00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:45.039 to remind everybody. Mark is the one talking about the assignment. 932 00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:48.559 The assignment is banner number nine. Not to beat Duke 933 00:48:48.599 --> 00:48:50.320 in the third game of the twenty twenty four to 934 00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:51.199 twenty five season. 935 00:48:51.679 --> 00:48:52.679 That doesn't matter. 936 00:48:52.800 --> 00:48:57.800 However, what did matter about that game is that no 937 00:48:57.840 --> 00:48:59.920 one knew how good we were, and I think that 938 00:49:00.039 --> 00:49:05.800 includes Mark. 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The Quantum 993 00:53:39.920 --> 00:53:42.840 Pro features wide viewing angle and anti glare film, so 994 00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:45.679 everyone at your gatherings gets the perfect view no matter 995 00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:48.719 where they sit. With built in apps like iHeartRadio Ready 996 00:53:48.760 --> 00:53:51.159 to Go, you can stream your favorite holiday music right 997 00:53:51.199 --> 00:53:53.320 out of the box. Save two hundred dollars on the 998 00:53:53.360 --> 00:53:56.840 seventy five inch Visio Quantum Pro Smart TV at Walmart Today. 999 00:53:57.880 --> 00:53:59.000 What's up, everybody? 1000 00:53:59.320 --> 00:54:00.599 My name is me John. 1001 00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:04.320 Tune in every weekday morning at nine am Pacific Standard 1002 00:54:04.320 --> 00:54:07.360 time and hear my show called The Bridge. And what 1003 00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:10.400 I do every weekday morning is I bring you the 1004 00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:12.000 best of South Asian music and. 1005 00:54:11.960 --> 00:54:14.320 Culture from around the world. 1006 00:54:14.360 --> 00:54:18.199 And that includes some of the most exclusive access to 1007 00:54:18.320 --> 00:54:22.079 the South Asian music industry. I'll bring you world premieres 1008 00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:27.039 and I'll bring you exclusive interviews only on Ruckus Avenue Radio. 1009 00:54:27.880 --> 00:54:29.480 Welcome back to the Big Blue and Sider. I re 1010 00:54:29.519 --> 00:54:31.320 number two of our program. We were in the garage 1011 00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:34.280 with Cameron Mills of course talking well so far we've 1012 00:54:34.360 --> 00:54:36.400 kind of skirted the issue. 1013 00:54:36.320 --> 00:54:37.559 Well we always have to talk sient. 1014 00:54:37.679 --> 00:54:40.760 That's true. Yes, but we are going to break down 1015 00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:44.079 Kentucky and Duke and Moore as we talk college basketball 1016 00:54:44.119 --> 00:54:47.480 with Cameron part of our UK Sports Network coverage of 1017 00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:50.599 the Wildcats. Well, let's go back to the game as 1018 00:54:50.639 --> 00:54:53.039 it began. Kentucky gets off to the good start thanks 1019 00:54:53.039 --> 00:54:56.159 to I'm sure this touched your heart three point shooting. 1020 00:54:56.719 --> 00:54:59.480 But I thought Billis made a great point. I was 1021 00:54:59.519 --> 00:55:02.199 bounced back and forth between the TV and radio. Sure, 1022 00:55:02.960 --> 00:55:05.719 Jack Gibbons down the stretch was giggling. It was so 1023 00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:09.159 great here having a great time. 1024 00:55:09.960 --> 00:55:13.199 I like, I think we all were. Yeah, I mean yeah. 1025 00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:15.679 But at one point Bill has talked about and I 1026 00:55:15.719 --> 00:55:20.480 had just thought this that Kentucky was really working hard 1027 00:55:20.760 --> 00:55:23.480 to get buckets and everything was coming so easily for Duke. 1028 00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:24.400 Did you see it that way? 1029 00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:24.719 Yeah? 1030 00:55:24.840 --> 00:55:27.920 Yeah, And to be honest, I kind of expected it 1031 00:55:27.920 --> 00:55:31.360 that way. That was that was well, I think because 1032 00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:36.440 and and I'm I felt I fell into the trap 1033 00:55:37.039 --> 00:55:38.440 that a lot of other people do. 1034 00:55:38.480 --> 00:55:40.079 This is why I hate hate. 1035 00:55:40.119 --> 00:55:42.239 One of the reasons I hate preseason polls or polls 1036 00:55:42.280 --> 00:55:45.639 in general, is because just because Duke is ranked sixth 1037 00:55:45.679 --> 00:55:51.039 and we're nineteenth. We're the underdog. No, there's no such 1038 00:55:51.039 --> 00:55:53.159 thing as an underdog until you get to March. There 1039 00:55:53.199 --> 00:55:55.480 isn't because in March you've had a year to go by. 1040 00:55:55.840 --> 00:55:58.159 You had a year for the media or more importantly, 1041 00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:01.920 the committee to really evaluate these teams. And now we 1042 00:56:01.960 --> 00:56:06.119 can more accurately put in one through seventy. 1043 00:56:06.360 --> 00:56:06.840 Whatever it is. 1044 00:56:07.079 --> 00:56:09.239 So, I mean, and not to get too sidetracked here, 1045 00:56:09.239 --> 00:56:17.199 but the mere stupidity, arrogance, cockiness, self interest of bracketology 1046 00:56:17.599 --> 00:56:21.920 and you know, well, I mean, we're in January and. 1047 00:56:21.880 --> 00:56:24.719 You guys suggest one thing. What for the average fan, 1048 00:56:24.800 --> 00:56:27.480 which you are not. Stop It's fun. 1049 00:56:28.840 --> 00:56:29.400 It's fun. 1050 00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:34.880 So these people, so, these people, So these fans that 1051 00:56:34.920 --> 00:56:37.280 come up to me after a loss to a team 1052 00:56:37.320 --> 00:56:41.559 that was ranked behind us and can't sleep for three days. 1053 00:56:41.559 --> 00:56:43.239 That doesn't sound like fun to me. 1054 00:56:43.400 --> 00:56:45.440 No, some take it, you're right, Some take it away. 1055 00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:49.679 Some Look, we live in Kentucky. The reason our basketball 1056 00:56:49.719 --> 00:56:54.280 program is what it is is because those fans, God 1057 00:56:54.360 --> 00:56:58.039 love them, as much as they can drive me crazy 1058 00:56:58.079 --> 00:57:00.639 with the importance they put on this I mean, ultimate 1059 00:57:00.719 --> 00:57:03.840 life important some of them. If it wasn't for that 1060 00:57:04.920 --> 00:57:09.000 we become an Indiana. We become a Louisville. I mean, 1061 00:57:09.039 --> 00:57:09.840 we become a U C. 1062 00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:14.119 L A. I mean, yeah. 1063 00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:18.440 I mean, I mean when look Gillespie, we gave him 1064 00:57:18.440 --> 00:57:24.000 two years, which is unfair in normal circumstances. But here 1065 00:57:24.679 --> 00:57:26.840 and that, and that's I think why I've been so 1066 00:57:27.480 --> 00:57:31.239 excited about Pope, obviously for a thousand reasons, but also 1067 00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:36.119 nervous because I'm like, I mean, other than and and 1068 00:57:36.159 --> 00:57:38.679 it's got to work and this and this is because 1069 00:57:39.800 --> 00:57:42.519 he's our guy. I mean, for those of us who 1070 00:57:42.599 --> 00:57:45.599 played with him, for all, for former players in general, 1071 00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:49.599 that he has done an incredible job of embracing. 1072 00:57:49.119 --> 00:57:51.880 Back into the guys got off the bus and more. 1073 00:57:51.960 --> 00:57:52.800 Oh and a lot more. 1074 00:57:53.639 --> 00:57:55.440 For all of us, it's like, this is the first 1075 00:57:55.519 --> 00:57:59.000 time we've got a guy I know, coach a Coach 1076 00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:00.519 Hall played here. But I I read the other day 1077 00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:05.320 he didn't graduate here. I didn't know that, But this 1078 00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:08.800 is this and Coach Hall played years ago. Right for 1079 00:58:09.159 --> 00:58:10.599 those of us that have played in the last forty 1080 00:58:10.679 --> 00:58:14.559 fifty years, you know, hey, this is one of us. 1081 00:58:14.800 --> 00:58:15.559 He gets it. 1082 00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:19.840 He understands what it's like to be in this glass house, 1083 00:58:21.320 --> 00:58:25.679 and he also has a love for this program that. 1084 00:58:25.719 --> 00:58:31.559 We all have. But now he's he's like, he's at 1085 00:58:31.599 --> 00:58:32.440 the very top of it. 1086 00:58:32.519 --> 00:58:34.519 I mean, and for him, as he said, this is 1087 00:58:34.559 --> 00:58:37.719 his dream job. I mean, when he quit Columbia Medical 1088 00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:40.480 School and went into coaching. I mean, I honestly, I 1089 00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:41.920 don't know this for a fact, but I honestly think 1090 00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:44.400 like if he did his dream board, this was at 1091 00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:46.000 the top and he got. 1092 00:58:45.960 --> 00:58:46.840 Here in eleven years. 1093 00:58:47.039 --> 00:58:49.960 Yeah, it's stupid, But what does that say, I mean, 1094 00:58:49.960 --> 00:58:52.000 what does that say about how he climbed the coaching 1095 00:58:52.039 --> 00:58:55.159 tree or to the coaching ladder and what he had 1096 00:58:55.199 --> 00:58:58.920 done right to lead Mitch Barnhardt to his door? 1097 00:58:59.119 --> 00:59:02.480 You know the other thing, though, You're right, it seems 1098 00:59:02.519 --> 00:59:04.880 like a pretty quick climb, except for the fact that 1099 00:59:05.039 --> 00:59:06.840 look at all the things that had to fall into 1100 00:59:06.880 --> 00:59:09.559 place for him to get here, for the people that 1101 00:59:09.599 --> 00:59:12.159 had to say no or I can't talk right now, 1102 00:59:12.239 --> 00:59:16.719 that kind of thing. But it because of all that, 1103 00:59:17.599 --> 00:59:21.639 it was interesting that Barnhardt recognized, look, it's time for 1104 00:59:21.719 --> 00:59:25.559 this guy. You know. Sometimes, you know, we all thought 1105 00:59:25.559 --> 00:59:28.639 Billy Gillespie. Ninety five percent of the people who weighed 1106 00:59:28.679 --> 00:59:30.920 in on it thought Billy Gillespie was the right choice. 1107 00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:32.719 He was an up and comer totally. 1108 00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:35.000 However, there was that one person I've told you that 1109 00:59:35.039 --> 00:59:36.800 and you know who it is who called me the 1110 00:59:36.920 --> 00:59:38.880 day of the announcement and said. 1111 00:59:38.719 --> 00:59:41.039 You all just do you all just? And I'm like, 1112 00:59:41.280 --> 00:59:42.440 I didn't make the decision and. 1113 00:59:42.559 --> 00:59:44.719 Found that out much later. Who that was. 1114 00:59:44.760 --> 00:59:47.519 I'm not going to say no, no, no, but. 1115 00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:49.800 But but I mean they were everything workout? 1116 00:59:49.840 --> 00:59:51.119 Oh yeah on day one, I know. 1117 00:59:51.559 --> 00:59:55.000 But everything fell into place for Mark. But there's a 1118 00:59:55.039 --> 00:59:55.840 reason for that. 1119 00:59:56.000 --> 00:59:58.519 Well, it's one of the It's that thing where even 1120 00:59:58.559 --> 01:00:00.960 though I don't believe in luck, it's like I do 1121 01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:03.320 believe you make your own luck kind of thing, and 1122 01:00:03.400 --> 01:00:05.320 that that has pope to a tee and always has 1123 01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:08.679 been yeah, work, not just hard work. 1124 01:00:08.719 --> 01:00:10.480 But yeah, that's probably a majority of it. 1125 01:00:10.960 --> 01:00:18.480 Same thing intelligence in basketball. Intelligence. But I think this 1126 01:00:18.679 --> 01:00:21.360 is the key for him is that. And I think 1127 01:00:21.360 --> 01:00:24.480 this is what I've learned since he's been here, is 1128 01:00:24.519 --> 01:00:28.760 that because he's so intelligent, because because he's so thoughtful. 1129 01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:31.800 I mean, this guy's in his head in a good 1130 01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:33.079 way constantly. 1131 01:00:33.440 --> 01:00:33.760 He is. 1132 01:00:33.920 --> 01:00:37.480 He is always thinking. And when I say thinking, I 1133 01:00:37.519 --> 01:00:40.960 don't mean just about basketball. I mean thinking about other 1134 01:00:41.000 --> 01:00:45.000 people's feelings. That story about Deb Moore and Pope in 1135 01:00:45.079 --> 01:00:46.559 the article we were talking about just fe minutes ago, 1136 01:00:46.559 --> 01:00:49.239 the New York Times article, the Athletic article. That story 1137 01:00:49.880 --> 01:00:53.480 is Pope where you know Deb gives him some advice 1138 01:00:53.639 --> 01:00:55.199 posted what was his first press conference. 1139 01:00:55.239 --> 01:00:56.960 She thought she had stepped over a line. 1140 01:00:57.000 --> 01:01:01.760 Well, because he reacted in a way apparently that yes. 1141 01:01:02.599 --> 01:01:04.320 And then the way I read the story, and tell 1142 01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:05.719 me if and tell me if I read it wrong, 1143 01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:08.199 But the way I read the story is he kind 1144 01:01:08.199 --> 01:01:09.960 of popped at her, maybe a little bit. 1145 01:01:09.960 --> 01:01:11.039 It's kind of how I imagine. 1146 01:01:11.079 --> 01:01:13.760 But Deb was worried she'd overstepped her bounds, which I 1147 01:01:13.760 --> 01:01:15.400 don't think she had. I think she was doing exactly 1148 01:01:15.480 --> 01:01:18.159 what she should have done, which was to give the 1149 01:01:18.159 --> 01:01:19.880 coach advice about dealing with the media. 1150 01:01:20.840 --> 01:01:22.239 And then Mark in the. 1151 01:01:22.320 --> 01:01:25.559 Article right, it says over the weekend, and it even 1152 01:01:25.599 --> 01:01:30.440 mentions going to church, So that entire weekend, Mark has 1153 01:01:30.480 --> 01:01:34.519 been thinking, I'm sure about other things, but including yeah, 1154 01:01:34.719 --> 01:01:37.960 it was, and you know what, and it weighed well, 1155 01:01:38.079 --> 01:01:41.199 I know it weighed on her because this is boss, 1156 01:01:40.719 --> 01:01:44.280 this is my boss, and so but it weighed on 1157 01:01:44.320 --> 01:01:47.719 Mark probably what she said and I think to be fair. 1158 01:01:47.760 --> 01:01:50.480 And again I wasn't there obviously, I don't know how 1159 01:01:50.519 --> 01:01:53.760 he said it to her, because Mark's gonna be on 1160 01:01:53.760 --> 01:01:56.920 with these coaches, like because he never yells when he 1161 01:01:57.000 --> 01:02:01.239 never like you know, gets on you. When he does 1162 01:02:01.280 --> 01:02:04.559 get on you, you're you are just I mean, you 1163 01:02:04.840 --> 01:02:09.519 turn white, because he's not like that usually. So but 1164 01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:11.000 he spent a week in thinking about it, and I 1165 01:02:11.039 --> 01:02:13.480 think he was. I think he was as thoughtful about 1166 01:02:13.480 --> 01:02:15.199 what she said as he was how he said it. 1167 01:02:15.800 --> 01:02:18.239 And and I could be making that last part up. 1168 01:02:18.280 --> 01:02:18.719 I don't know. 1169 01:02:18.760 --> 01:02:21.360 I think on what I read, Yeah, that that's how 1170 01:02:21.400 --> 01:02:23.960 I read it, is that he basically went back to her. 1171 01:02:24.719 --> 01:02:26.960 However he did it and said not only you're right, 1172 01:02:27.039 --> 01:02:30.199 but I think and maybe that's maybe that's all he said. 1173 01:02:30.199 --> 01:02:35.440 But even doing that to me, that that shows self awareness. 1174 01:02:35.480 --> 01:02:37.880 That shows and and and again I'm saying these things 1175 01:02:37.960 --> 01:02:40.320 knowing that's who Mark is. But it's just fun to 1176 01:02:40.360 --> 01:02:42.440 see it come back out again, right, because that's who 1177 01:02:42.440 --> 01:02:45.159 Mark was when we played it was it was apology 1178 01:02:45.199 --> 01:02:47.800 if he needed to apologize, It was respect if he 1179 01:02:47.960 --> 01:02:50.400 if he needed to be respectful, which he was always respectful. 1180 01:02:51.119 --> 01:02:53.199 He was silly when he wanted to be silly, and 1181 01:02:53.239 --> 01:02:55.039 we needed to be to be silly, like when we 1182 01:02:55.079 --> 01:02:57.440 were all down, Mark would be the goofball and you know, 1183 01:02:57.519 --> 01:03:01.119 kind of lighthearted, make the room more light heart. He 1184 01:03:01.280 --> 01:03:03.039 always had this ad. I've told you the story before. 1185 01:03:03.119 --> 01:03:05.760 Lafter my very first practice, we're walking and I am like, 1186 01:03:06.440 --> 01:03:08.519 before practice, I'm like, I don't know if I mean 1187 01:03:08.559 --> 01:03:11.239 everything I've been told. I'm I'm going to be dead 1188 01:03:11.320 --> 01:03:13.519 in thirty minutes, right, I'm not gonna be able to 1189 01:03:13.559 --> 01:03:15.760 survive this. And my body is not prepared for this, 1190 01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:17.639 even though my body had been preparing for this for 1191 01:03:17.880 --> 01:03:22.239 at that point four or five months longer than that. 1192 01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:25.679 Maybe even we're walking out of that practice, my very 1193 01:03:25.679 --> 01:03:29.440 first one, the beginning of the ninety four ninety five season, 1194 01:03:30.039 --> 01:03:32.280 and Mark is walking in front of me as we 1195 01:03:32.360 --> 01:03:35.639 leave mister Kyle's office and he says, and I'm desperate 1196 01:03:35.639 --> 01:03:39.000 for some feedback, And I said, Mark, Mark, can I 1197 01:03:39.000 --> 01:03:41.760 talk to you from Matt hey Man? I said, is 1198 01:03:41.800 --> 01:03:46.400 that about as bad as it gets? And Mark being Mark, 1199 01:03:46.440 --> 01:03:50.360 before he did anything or said anything, he thought about it. Yeah, 1200 01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:52.039 that's about as bad as it'll get. 1201 01:03:52.039 --> 01:03:52.239 Man. 1202 01:03:52.800 --> 01:03:54.440 And I remember walking up all the way to the 1203 01:03:54.480 --> 01:03:56.519 lodge getting lunch, thinking I can do this. 1204 01:03:57.239 --> 01:03:59.159 I can do this. If that's it, I handled it. 1205 01:03:59.199 --> 01:04:02.400 But I needed Mark in the position he was in 1206 01:04:02.440 --> 01:04:05.960 after being here for a year, to tell me this 1207 01:04:06.039 --> 01:04:08.800 is this is how bad it'll get. But I survived 1208 01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:10.239 it so I can take more. 1209 01:04:10.480 --> 01:04:13.000 Cameron Mills in the garage, we're talking, of course, about 1210 01:04:13.000 --> 01:04:15.360 Mark Pope and the Wildcats. We kind of got into 1211 01:04:15.360 --> 01:04:17.639 the Duke game. We will get more in Wesson Bolts 1212 01:04:18.079 --> 01:04:21.000 when we come back. As we talk about Kentucky's win, 1213 01:04:21.840 --> 01:04:24.760 I'll call it an upset win, but Camera doesn't like. 1214 01:04:24.800 --> 01:04:25.840 We'll find out the end of the year. 1215 01:04:25.960 --> 01:04:31.239 Martacom six thirty w LAP Welcome back to the Big 1216 01:04:31.320 --> 01:04:33.840 lewins Sider. We're in the garage with Camera Mills talking 1217 01:04:33.880 --> 01:04:37.519 about Mark Pope, the Duke game, Kentucky basketball in general. 1218 01:04:37.840 --> 01:04:40.880 As I said, we kind of flirted with actually talking 1219 01:04:40.920 --> 01:04:41.880 about the game before we. 1220 01:04:41.880 --> 01:04:44.800 Get off imagines. 1221 01:04:44.920 --> 01:04:47.880 Hey, I'm supposed to run this show, but I don't 1222 01:04:47.960 --> 01:04:51.000 let you exactly right, Yeah, through all these years I 1223 01:04:51.079 --> 01:04:54.800 should know better, But all right, I started talking to 1224 01:04:54.840 --> 01:04:57.639 you about how the game unfolded with three pointers. 1225 01:04:57.280 --> 01:04:58.559 Yeah, uh, and then. 1226 01:04:58.440 --> 01:05:01.360 It was it went Duke's way in the fron first half. Now, 1227 01:05:01.519 --> 01:05:02.519 I've said this many. 1228 01:05:02.320 --> 01:05:03.800 Many times, the first half. 1229 01:05:03.840 --> 01:05:06.519 Yeah, yeah, And I've said this many many times. I 1230 01:05:06.559 --> 01:05:10.679 always go back to something Steve Brown, former Kentucky defensive coordinator, 1231 01:05:10.719 --> 01:05:13.360 said to us the assembled media just one day off 1232 01:05:13.360 --> 01:05:17.079 the coffee sit. People simple make such a big deal 1233 01:05:17.119 --> 01:05:20.480 out of a quote unquote adjustments at halftime. 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And what I do every weekday 1287 01:08:04.480 --> 01:08:05.519 morning is I. 1288 01:08:05.599 --> 01:08:07.880 Bring you the best of South Asian music and. 1289 01:08:07.840 --> 01:08:10.159 Culture from around the world. 1290 01:08:10.280 --> 01:08:14.119 And that includes some of the most exclusive access to 1291 01:08:14.199 --> 01:08:18.000 the South Asian music industry. I'll bring you world premieres 1292 01:08:18.359 --> 01:08:23.239 and I'll bring you exclusive interviews only on Ruckus Avenue Radio. 1293 01:08:23.680 --> 01:08:27.439 Reinforcing what you practice, exactly, what you know you're supposed 1294 01:08:27.479 --> 01:08:30.920 to be doing exactly. You're not doing anything new. People 1295 01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:32.840 think it's like, all right, we're throwing out the game 1296 01:08:32.920 --> 01:08:34.920 plan and we're drawn up a new one here in 1297 01:08:34.920 --> 01:08:37.920 about eleven minutes. But that ain't the case. 1298 01:08:37.960 --> 01:08:40.079 It could be there, but do you know why what 1299 01:08:40.279 --> 01:08:41.479 do you mean that the case? 1300 01:08:41.520 --> 01:08:44.199 We're not because you can't create an install a game 1301 01:08:44.239 --> 01:08:47.119 plan in less than fifteen minutes, well, especially when you're 1302 01:08:47.119 --> 01:08:50.159 playing a team like Duke. So my question to you is, 1303 01:08:50.760 --> 01:08:53.199 what did Kentucky? What do you what do you think 1304 01:08:53.239 --> 01:08:55.399 they talked about at the half? What did you see 1305 01:08:55.439 --> 01:08:58.960 them do better in the second half that they did 1306 01:08:59.000 --> 01:09:01.600 not do in the first half, thereby helping them win 1307 01:09:01.640 --> 01:09:05.079 the game? Didn't do anything new, they just did it better. 1308 01:09:05.680 --> 01:09:06.439 What did they do? 1309 01:09:06.520 --> 01:09:06.760 Well? 1310 01:09:07.039 --> 01:09:09.560 Let let let's talk about that first, because that that 1311 01:09:09.359 --> 01:09:11.520 that that is definitely a pet peep of miment and 1312 01:09:11.560 --> 01:09:15.560 because I think the adjustments at halftime, because I hear 1313 01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:19.720 that from people a lot, and I don't know where 1314 01:09:19.840 --> 01:09:23.479 that that and I'm not saying there are none but 1315 01:09:24.760 --> 01:09:28.560 I mean they're minute, they're minute, they're like, Okay, maybe 1316 01:09:28.920 --> 01:09:32.000 maybe we need to start, you know, on this downscreen, 1317 01:09:32.479 --> 01:09:34.760 maybe we need to look at playing it a little different. 1318 01:09:34.880 --> 01:09:35.000 Right. 1319 01:09:35.680 --> 01:09:37.880 But the bottom line is you spent three days drilling 1320 01:09:37.920 --> 01:09:40.560 into these guys' heads how we're going to play it, 1321 01:09:41.079 --> 01:09:44.319 and then in the moment, on the in front of 1322 01:09:44.359 --> 01:09:48.359 the big lives of national television, you're gonna change. That's 1323 01:09:48.399 --> 01:09:52.000 not working, that's gonna make things worse. So if you 1324 01:09:52.119 --> 01:09:54.920 believe in your game plan, if you have a plan 1325 01:09:55.039 --> 01:09:57.279 to beat a team, you are sold out to it 1326 01:09:57.319 --> 01:09:59.439 through the completion of the game. What you do at 1327 01:09:59.439 --> 01:10:04.720 halftime is you re emphasize and you make some minor adjustments, 1328 01:10:04.760 --> 01:10:07.520 not to the game plan, but to how your guys 1329 01:10:07.600 --> 01:10:11.359 are executing the game plan. It's like when Cow was 1330 01:10:11.399 --> 01:10:15.279 here and everybody said his offense is antiquated. 1331 01:10:15.319 --> 01:10:17.119 That always bothered me, because look. 1332 01:10:17.880 --> 01:10:21.560 There's no such thing as antiquated. All you know what's antiquated. 1333 01:10:21.640 --> 01:10:24.279 If we were still shooting into peach bass, that would 1334 01:10:24.279 --> 01:10:26.760 be antiquated. That's not what we're talking about. 1335 01:10:26.760 --> 01:10:31.000 What we're talking about is everybody does. 1336 01:10:31.199 --> 01:10:33.479 It's just a different version of it. And the ones 1337 01:10:33.520 --> 01:10:38.840 that excel at it, execute it. Yes, that is offense. 1338 01:10:38.920 --> 01:10:43.039 And look, there is very little difference between Pope's offense 1339 01:10:43.039 --> 01:10:47.199 and Cow's offense, except Pope has got older guys who 1340 01:10:47.359 --> 01:10:50.720 understand the game more just because they're older. They've been 1341 01:10:50.760 --> 01:10:53.399 taught more, just because they're older. They played at this 1342 01:10:53.479 --> 01:10:56.880 level more, just because they're older. And you've got a 1343 01:10:56.920 --> 01:11:00.880 coaching staff that is drilling and drilling and drilling the 1344 01:11:01.079 --> 01:11:06.079 same thing all the time, consistently into their heads about 1345 01:11:06.199 --> 01:11:08.199 what our offense looks like. And remember the one last thing, 1346 01:11:08.319 --> 01:11:10.520 the bandwidth. He's got guys, because that's what he said, 1347 01:11:10.560 --> 01:11:13.239 I'm good guys who can absorb this bandwidth that we're 1348 01:11:13.239 --> 01:11:16.319 gonna get them. And then they go out and they've executed. 1349 01:11:16.439 --> 01:11:19.960 And what about the high volume three point shooting? How 1350 01:11:19.960 --> 01:11:22.720 does that fit in? Because yeah, they might be running 1351 01:11:22.720 --> 01:11:26.079 the same offense, just executing it differently, but they clearly 1352 01:11:26.119 --> 01:11:28.600 shoot more threes than almost any team in the country. 1353 01:11:28.840 --> 01:11:29.680 Not yet they don't. 1354 01:11:30.640 --> 01:11:35.239 Not this year we shot we shot around twenty twenty five. 1355 01:11:35.279 --> 01:11:36.279 The first game. 1356 01:11:36.439 --> 01:11:40.039 Twenty five, we shot thirty five. We shot thirty five, 1357 01:11:40.159 --> 01:11:42.159 but twenty five the first game too, Yeah, thirty five. 1358 01:11:42.239 --> 01:11:45.479 The second game twenty five against Doo. Yeah we're not. 1359 01:11:45.640 --> 01:11:47.800 We're not really coming close to leading the country in 1360 01:11:47.800 --> 01:11:50.079 three point shots right now, not even close. Like if 1361 01:11:50.079 --> 01:11:51.520 you and I know it's early, but if you look, 1362 01:11:51.720 --> 01:11:55.359 you look at Kimpom. I mean there's one team out there, 1363 01:11:55.359 --> 01:11:58.119 I think it's Wafford. Of all teams, like Wafford shot 1364 01:11:58.159 --> 01:12:00.960 like I don't and it may not be so, but 1365 01:12:01.079 --> 01:12:03.319 I remember looking at Major, Yeah it was. It was 1366 01:12:03.319 --> 01:12:05.600 a mid major that like, first of all, they had 1367 01:12:05.760 --> 01:12:08.000 I think one team got up like eighty shots in 1368 01:12:08.039 --> 01:12:10.680 a game, and I think it was Wolford. But like, 1369 01:12:10.720 --> 01:12:12.520 there are other teams out there that are shooting more 1370 01:12:12.560 --> 01:12:15.039 threes than we are. So I don't think at this 1371 01:12:15.119 --> 01:12:19.359 point anyway we are shooting because Figure City wants thirty 1372 01:12:19.359 --> 01:12:22.239 five threes a game. Yeah right, We've only done that 1373 01:12:22.279 --> 01:12:25.279 once in two games and three games now and we've 1374 01:12:25.319 --> 01:12:26.079 won all three of them. 1375 01:12:26.079 --> 01:12:27.760 So look there is here's the thing. 1376 01:12:28.560 --> 01:12:30.000 We're we are going to shoot a lot, and I 1377 01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:32.159 think honestly it'll be a minimum of twenty five a game. 1378 01:12:32.840 --> 01:12:34.720 But what matters more is not how many you shoot, 1379 01:12:34.720 --> 01:12:38.680 it's how many you make. And with the exception of 1380 01:12:38.720 --> 01:12:42.159 the fact that the mere fear of us getting off 1381 01:12:42.239 --> 01:12:45.359 thirty five if you're scouting us, right, guys, we can't 1382 01:12:45.439 --> 01:12:47.800 let them get good looks from the three, right, Okay, 1383 01:12:48.479 --> 01:12:52.319 play us that way because once we are firing on 1384 01:12:52.359 --> 01:12:56.399 all cylinders, which we're not yet, which is what's exciting 1385 01:12:56.399 --> 01:13:00.119 to me. Once we're firing on all cylinders, we're going 1386 01:13:00.119 --> 01:13:03.479 to be the team where we're going to be able 1387 01:13:03.520 --> 01:13:06.520 to hopefully beat you inside and outside, right, because that's 1388 01:13:06.560 --> 01:13:08.239 what look if you are a three, this is why 1389 01:13:08.279 --> 01:13:09.319 teams come in to rupt. 1390 01:13:09.640 --> 01:13:10.399 How did they beat us? 1391 01:13:10.479 --> 01:13:12.560 If it's an underdog team, right, if it's a team 1392 01:13:12.560 --> 01:13:14.600 that we have no business losing to in the last 1393 01:13:14.680 --> 01:13:17.399 twenty five thirty years, how did they beat us? There 1394 01:13:17.479 --> 01:13:20.159 is one way, one way only that they beat us, 1395 01:13:20.279 --> 01:13:22.399 and they lit it up from the three point line. Yeah, 1396 01:13:22.479 --> 01:13:23.880 that's the only way they can beat us. So now 1397 01:13:23.920 --> 01:13:27.159 you've got a team that is well should be if 1398 01:13:27.199 --> 01:13:29.960 I believed in rankings, should be ranked in the top 1399 01:13:30.079 --> 01:13:33.720 five on Monday. Won't be, but should be especially considering well, 1400 01:13:33.800 --> 01:13:36.319 let's see, and this is again the stupidity of the polls. 1401 01:13:36.600 --> 01:13:40.439 Arkansas was one and one, We were two and oh 1402 01:13:41.000 --> 01:13:42.960 and yet Arkansas still was one place in front of 1403 01:13:43.039 --> 01:13:46.239 us in the eight people, duke, Now is what two 1404 01:13:46.319 --> 01:13:46.960 and one? 1405 01:13:47.159 --> 01:13:47.600 We're three? 1406 01:13:47.600 --> 01:13:49.840 And oh why should they be in front of us, 1407 01:13:49.880 --> 01:13:52.800 especially when when we beat them poul wise, just pole wise? 1408 01:13:53.520 --> 01:13:55.600 Why are they better than us? We just proved they weren't, 1409 01:13:55.720 --> 01:13:57.279 and we got a better record than they they are, 1410 01:13:58.159 --> 01:14:00.439 and we won't leave frog them, We won't stupid. 1411 01:14:00.479 --> 01:14:02.600 I know better than to waste my time after all 1412 01:14:02.640 --> 01:14:06.720 these years trying to explain what you mean to some people, 1413 01:14:06.840 --> 01:14:07.560 mean to others? 1414 01:14:07.560 --> 01:14:09.239 You did you explained to it's fun? 1415 01:14:09.680 --> 01:14:12.720 No? No, no, beyond that, I mean, is it which 1416 01:14:12.760 --> 01:14:15.479 team has the best record or which team is better 1417 01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:16.239 than another? Oh? 1418 01:14:16.319 --> 01:14:18.039 Do they know which team is better than the other? 1419 01:14:18.600 --> 01:14:21.720 Guess work exactly right, exactly so. 1420 01:14:21.680 --> 01:14:23.199 Basketball is not a game of guesses. 1421 01:14:23.199 --> 01:14:25.319 That's why it hits double zero, and there are two 1422 01:14:25.319 --> 01:14:27.359 sets of scores up on the court, up on the scoreboard. 1423 01:14:27.359 --> 01:14:29.560 Spend how we find out? 1424 01:14:29.600 --> 01:14:30.800 Too much energy. 1425 01:14:32.000 --> 01:14:34.319 Ing about this. I'm not venting. I'm converting the world. 1426 01:14:35.840 --> 01:14:39.319 I don't know anybody listen, By golly, he's right. I 1427 01:14:39.319 --> 01:14:41.159 am never looking at it again. 1428 01:14:41.319 --> 01:14:42.920 Several that have at least told me that you know 1429 01:14:43.159 --> 01:14:45.000 you're right. You know, why not not as many as 1430 01:14:45.039 --> 01:14:45.399 I like. 1431 01:14:45.479 --> 01:14:47.920 Just to calm you down. That's the only they're taking 1432 01:14:47.960 --> 01:14:50.159 the thorn out of your Pam. This is what they're doing. 1433 01:14:50.239 --> 01:14:52.960 I played in the at this at this place for 1434 01:14:53.000 --> 01:14:55.760 four years. I won two national championship. I'm not saying 1435 01:14:55.800 --> 01:14:57.520 I got everything right, but I'm telling you the things 1436 01:14:57.520 --> 01:14:59.119 that I'm passionate about, I'm right about. 1437 01:14:59.199 --> 01:15:02.439 I understood, all right, we only got a couple of 1438 01:15:02.439 --> 01:15:05.439 minutes back in this segment. But uh, tell me what 1439 01:15:05.520 --> 01:15:07.760 impressed you the most about the second half and two 1440 01:15:07.800 --> 01:15:08.560 minutes or less. 1441 01:15:10.800 --> 01:15:15.319 The consistency, the lack of panic. Good call, Yeah, I 1442 01:15:15.319 --> 01:15:19.720 mean and again, upper classmen, upper classmen know we're down 1443 01:15:19.760 --> 01:15:20.920 ten with five minutes to go. 1444 01:15:21.039 --> 01:15:22.399 We that's that wasn't our situation. 1445 01:15:22.479 --> 01:15:24.880 But nonetheless, we're down ten with five minutes to go, 1446 01:15:25.039 --> 01:15:26.600 gay mid and over, we're up ten. 1447 01:15:26.479 --> 01:15:28.079 With five minutes ago came over. 1448 01:15:28.680 --> 01:15:32.840 That's what senior players, and I don't mean specifically, but upperclassmen, 1449 01:15:33.119 --> 01:15:35.319 that's what they learn over their course of their college career. 1450 01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:38.960 And we've got what twenty five of them on our team, right, 1451 01:15:39.159 --> 01:15:42.279 I mean, it's absurd. The maturity le and I also 1452 01:15:42.279 --> 01:15:45.159 think the maturity level is what leads to the unselfishness, 1453 01:15:45.159 --> 01:15:48.000 the passing it is we not I. I think Marcus 1454 01:15:48.039 --> 01:15:49.640 drilled that into their heads. I think I think what 1455 01:15:49.720 --> 01:15:51.600 he said about you know what was this quote of 1456 01:15:51.640 --> 01:15:55.000 the press conference, we are you are not doing Kentucky 1457 01:15:55.000 --> 01:15:59.279 a service by allowing them to wear right, uh, Kentucky 1458 01:15:59.279 --> 01:16:02.880 cross their chest something like that. But yeah, the lack 1459 01:16:02.920 --> 01:16:08.039 of panic in that game, the lack of emotion right 1460 01:16:08.119 --> 01:16:10.000 until after the game. And I'm not saying they weren't 1461 01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:12.800 celebrating in high five. I'm just saying there wasn't any 1462 01:16:13.079 --> 01:16:16.000 we're gonna lose this game. There wasn't Like I use myself, 1463 01:16:16.000 --> 01:16:18.560 for example, my feelings on the on the bench against 1464 01:16:18.600 --> 01:16:22.039 Duke in ninety eight when we were down seventeen. I 1465 01:16:22.159 --> 01:16:24.159 was failing myself and my teammates with what I was 1466 01:16:24.159 --> 01:16:27.399 thinking of feeling said that I was failing my teammates. 1467 01:16:27.399 --> 01:16:29.039 On the other hand, you were thinking, well, we've had 1468 01:16:29.079 --> 01:16:29.560 a good run. 1469 01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:32.399 Well, I selfishly, I was thinking, well I've had a 1470 01:16:32.439 --> 01:16:36.199 good run because who thought I'd win a national Who 1471 01:16:36.199 --> 01:16:36.760 thought that. 1472 01:16:36.640 --> 01:16:38.680 This was my last? Well if we lost it in 1473 01:16:38.680 --> 01:16:40.279 my last name, But you thought it. 1474 01:16:40.239 --> 01:16:41.239 Was going to be your last game? 1475 01:16:41.319 --> 01:16:42.319 Yeah, And that was the thing I was. 1476 01:16:42.359 --> 01:16:44.479 I was having a pity party in the meantime, Wayne 1477 01:16:44.720 --> 01:16:49.319 jeff Nase, Allen Sheimu jamal Out. I mean, they're all 1478 01:16:49.359 --> 01:16:51.560 out there fighting to get us back in the point 1479 01:16:51.560 --> 01:16:53.239 where I can just step in there and hit a 1480 01:16:53.319 --> 01:16:54.279 three that somebody did. 1481 01:16:54.439 --> 01:16:55.359 I'm wide open. 1482 01:16:55.439 --> 01:16:56.319 Somebody tapped out. 1483 01:16:56.239 --> 01:16:58.920 To that, Shemu tapped out to me. So but there 1484 01:16:58.920 --> 01:16:59.840 was none of that in this Duke. 1485 01:17:00.439 --> 01:17:03.319 No panic, man, no worry, no we I mean, you know, 1486 01:17:03.359 --> 01:17:05.279 I'm not saying there weren't self doubts in the moment, 1487 01:17:05.319 --> 01:17:07.479 but man, it's a team. There weren't Yeah and that, 1488 01:17:07.479 --> 01:17:09.920 that and that and the other thing real quick Andrew 1489 01:17:09.960 --> 01:17:13.199 Carr and not just because of his points, but because 1490 01:17:13.279 --> 01:17:15.600 he helped us to a degree. 1491 01:17:15.439 --> 01:17:17.119 And I want to come back to that because he's 1492 01:17:17.199 --> 01:17:19.439 we haven't really talked about specific players in that game, 1493 01:17:19.439 --> 01:17:21.680 but I want to get to that when we come back. 1494 01:17:21.680 --> 01:17:23.560 There's so many you could go one through ten, which 1495 01:17:23.560 --> 01:17:26.439 is what Mark Pope did. Of course, that death was 1496 01:17:26.439 --> 01:17:29.680 was huge. It I don't back in a minut At 1497 01:17:29.680 --> 01:17:33.359 six thirty w l A. P. Welcome back to the garage, 1498 01:17:33.399 --> 01:17:35.840 where we find Cameron Mills sitting right across from me. 1499 01:17:35.920 --> 01:17:38.680 We're talking, of course about Kentucky basketball and the Wildcats 1500 01:17:38.720 --> 01:17:41.600 win over Duke. All right, going into the previous break, 1501 01:17:41.640 --> 01:17:44.319 you mentioned Andrew Carr. During the break we talked about 1502 01:17:44.479 --> 01:17:48.319 three or four other guys, but everybody Mark Pope played 1503 01:17:49.039 --> 01:17:50.960 had some effect on the game. You can make the 1504 01:17:51.039 --> 01:17:54.920 argument Jackson Robinson, even though statistically not a great game, 1505 01:17:55.239 --> 01:17:58.079 he forced Duke's hand defensively, he did some good things 1506 01:17:58.159 --> 01:18:00.079 on defense. But you mentioned. 1507 01:18:01.600 --> 01:18:05.000 Well, I think number one. I feel bad because. 1508 01:18:06.319 --> 01:18:10.119 As we were doing the pregame show, kind of thinking about, 1509 01:18:10.159 --> 01:18:12.720 all right, who who Who is shutting down Cooper Flag? 1510 01:18:13.199 --> 01:18:16.119 Who's shutting down cone Ca Nipple? How are we dealing 1511 01:18:16.119 --> 01:18:18.119 with these two freshmen right now? I'm not saying I'm 1512 01:18:18.119 --> 01:18:20.439 not I'm not dismissing the rest of Duke's team, but 1513 01:18:21.479 --> 01:18:24.520 at this point number one going into that game, Cooper 1514 01:18:24.560 --> 01:18:27.079 Flag highly touted as he is deservedly so, he was 1515 01:18:27.119 --> 01:18:29.039 not the number one score on Duke Steam. That was 1516 01:18:29.079 --> 01:18:29.760 Conan Nipple. 1517 01:18:30.079 --> 01:18:31.279 I heard you talk about. 1518 01:18:31.560 --> 01:18:36.520 Cooper has had cramping issues. He's played I don't think 1519 01:18:36.560 --> 01:18:40.039 any more than twenty minutes a game, and he's he 1520 01:18:40.119 --> 01:18:40.479 is going to. 1521 01:18:40.479 --> 01:18:43.359 Be the number one draft pick. He's an amazing athletic player, though, 1522 01:18:44.239 --> 01:18:49.279 But he's a freshman. And we saw that win. When 1523 01:18:49.279 --> 01:18:49.560 did we? 1524 01:18:49.880 --> 01:18:50.920 Is he seventy seven? 1525 01:18:51.239 --> 01:18:53.000 All right, I'm changing everything I'm saying about him. Then 1526 01:18:53.039 --> 01:18:55.520 he's he's not a freshman, he's. 1527 01:18:55.239 --> 01:18:59.640 A reclassified Oh my gosh, should be a high school senior. 1528 01:19:00.079 --> 01:19:00.640 This is kid. 1529 01:19:00.720 --> 01:19:07.000 I know who's going to stop him, and Andrew make 1530 01:19:07.159 --> 01:19:09.560 is the logical choice. 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I'll bring 1593 01:22:26.199 --> 01:22:30.439 you world premieres and I'll bring you exclusive interviews only 1594 01:22:30.560 --> 01:22:32.399 on Ruckus Avenue Radio. 1595 01:22:33.159 --> 01:22:36.319 Can he shut down Cooper? Well, I don't know if 1596 01:22:36.319 --> 01:22:38.720 he did, if he didn't, but he had seventeen points 1597 01:22:38.760 --> 01:22:42.479 on his own. He came to play, and that was obviously. 1598 01:22:42.520 --> 01:22:44.800 I mean, you look at our just good on our scoring. 1599 01:22:44.960 --> 01:22:47.840 Oh I had fifteen. He's been consistent. Amari had ten, 1600 01:22:50.279 --> 01:22:52.279 ten points with how many rebounds, Actually he got his 1601 01:22:52.319 --> 01:22:55.960 third double double in a row. You know, Lamont had nine. 1602 01:22:57.399 --> 01:23:02.039 But everybody else, I mean, everyone else has under double 1603 01:23:02.039 --> 01:23:06.439 digit scoring. So you've got Andrew, Amari and Otega. Everyone 1604 01:23:06.439 --> 01:23:08.960 else has less than ten. You look at Duke, you 1605 01:23:09.039 --> 01:23:10.119 got Cooper with twenty six. 1606 01:23:10.199 --> 01:23:10.800 You got. 1607 01:23:12.239 --> 01:23:14.800 Come on from I think he's the one from Sudan. 1608 01:23:15.720 --> 01:23:18.640 He had he had ten and then you got tyrees 1609 01:23:18.720 --> 01:23:22.960 with twelve and con Knipple with fourteen, and then is 1610 01:23:23.000 --> 01:23:24.680 it I mean you got to do with four, do 1611 01:23:24.800 --> 01:23:27.159 with four and do with two? Yeah, so I mean 1612 01:23:27.720 --> 01:23:28.399 even though we. 1613 01:23:28.359 --> 01:23:30.720 Didn't have our balance, yes, well, and. 1614 01:23:30.640 --> 01:23:32.600 You know what, And I think that's where I go 1615 01:23:32.680 --> 01:23:35.960 back to going forward. Who are you gonna stop, who's 1616 01:23:35.960 --> 01:23:38.159 gonna scout, who's gonna focus on? Where I'm thinking we 1617 01:23:38.199 --> 01:23:40.000 focused on Cooper Flag? And even I even had somebody 1618 01:23:40.000 --> 01:23:41.279 call me and say, how do we deal with this? 1619 01:23:41.359 --> 01:23:45.359 And I'm like, you know what, I don't know my job. 1620 01:23:45.399 --> 01:23:45.560 You know. 1621 01:23:45.720 --> 01:23:48.720 When I saw the matchup, my first reaction was, oh, man, 1622 01:23:48.760 --> 01:23:51.479 Flag's gonna foul mark or Andrew Carr, it's gonna fail 1623 01:23:51.520 --> 01:23:54.600 him out of the game. He drew nine Cooper Flag 1624 01:23:54.680 --> 01:23:58.199 drew nine fouls, but only a couple from from Car. 1625 01:23:58.279 --> 01:24:01.039 Yeah, well, a lot of that could have been he 1626 01:24:01.119 --> 01:24:03.760 got buy car into the lane of somebody else. 1627 01:24:03.960 --> 01:24:05.039 But but Carr. 1628 01:24:04.880 --> 01:24:07.840 Didn't foolishly grab him or try to block a shot. 1629 01:24:08.079 --> 01:24:10.079 Seniority, thank you wisdom. 1630 01:24:10.279 --> 01:24:10.640 Yeah. 1631 01:24:10.960 --> 01:24:13.560 And at the same time, and this is no offense 1632 01:24:13.600 --> 01:24:16.520 to Cooper, because I cannot say enough about how incredibly 1633 01:24:16.560 --> 01:24:19.880 talented and athletic he is, but what happened at the 1634 01:24:20.000 --> 01:24:22.720 end of that game? Who made the three biggest mistakes 1635 01:24:22.720 --> 01:24:24.159 At the end of that game, he got tired. 1636 01:24:25.039 --> 01:24:27.000 Now, he should not have had the ball in the corner. 1637 01:24:27.039 --> 01:24:29.840 They should have the point guard hand right. But I 1638 01:24:29.880 --> 01:24:31.920 thought Duke as a team, and a friend of mine 1639 01:24:32.000 --> 01:24:33.760 last night just said to me, who was at the 1640 01:24:33.800 --> 01:24:37.079 game watching with his wife. Middle of the first half, 1641 01:24:37.399 --> 01:24:39.560 he turned to his wife, said, these guys are tired, Duke. 1642 01:24:39.640 --> 01:24:39.920 Why do you? 1643 01:24:40.079 --> 01:24:43.319 I mean, I think and I'm guessing, but look, he's 1644 01:24:43.319 --> 01:24:44.359 had these cramping issues. 1645 01:24:44.520 --> 01:24:45.399 He's seventeen years old. 1646 01:24:45.399 --> 01:24:46.439 He never played this much. 1647 01:24:46.439 --> 01:24:49.239 He never played this much basketball practice. He's never gone 1648 01:24:49.279 --> 01:24:50.800 this hard. He's never been pushed this hard. And I 1649 01:24:50.840 --> 01:24:53.319 don't care how talented he is. And that's what's scary 1650 01:24:53.319 --> 01:24:56.199 about him is that this year, this year at Duke, 1651 01:24:57.760 --> 01:24:58.439 he's gonna be. 1652 01:24:58.439 --> 01:25:00.239 A my March, your favorite. 1653 01:25:00.279 --> 01:25:02.520 That's right, He's gonna be a monster. Technically April is 1654 01:25:02.560 --> 01:25:06.439 my favorite. March's preparation. Hopefully you can get to April. 1655 01:25:06.680 --> 01:25:11.479 But yeah, I mean, I just as a team, the 1656 01:25:11.560 --> 01:25:12.840 team showed up for Kentucky. 1657 01:25:12.960 --> 01:25:16.199 Yes, the name of a weak documentary. 1658 01:25:16.199 --> 01:25:18.600 By the way, it is the name of a good 1659 01:25:18.600 --> 01:25:20.760 documentary that hopefully bearing on Channel twenty seven here in 1660 01:25:20.760 --> 01:25:23.800 the next few months, the next couple of months. It's 1661 01:25:23.800 --> 01:25:26.800 also another fantastic documentary actually Immy nominated called Out of 1662 01:25:26.840 --> 01:25:32.039 the Blue, but it's another story. But I just think 1663 01:25:32.680 --> 01:25:36.600 going back to the fatigue thing that is a Rick 1664 01:25:36.640 --> 01:25:43.399 Patino special. And yet Mark Pope and his team was 1665 01:25:43.439 --> 01:25:50.159 able to wear down Duke University and their number supposedly 1666 01:25:50.239 --> 01:25:55.319 number six ranked team in the country without pressing full 1667 01:25:55.319 --> 01:25:59.399 court for forty minutes and not to pat myself on 1668 01:25:59.439 --> 01:26:02.359 the back, but pregame at least I hope I said 1669 01:26:02.399 --> 01:26:05.560 this on air because I know I thought it, and 1670 01:26:05.560 --> 01:26:09.279 I know I talked to Dave about it. But there's 1671 01:26:09.319 --> 01:26:11.359 got to be a way. Is Mark gonna find a 1672 01:26:11.399 --> 01:26:13.560 way because conditioning is as big to him as it 1673 01:26:13.600 --> 01:26:15.640 is to coach b So Mark's gonna find a way too. 1674 01:26:15.720 --> 01:26:18.159 If we move the ball, you know what I think 1675 01:26:18.199 --> 01:26:19.439 I did say this on there. If we move the 1676 01:26:19.439 --> 01:26:22.039 ball the way we typically do, because it's what you 1677 01:26:22.159 --> 01:26:24.680 learned this in elementary school, middle school. Make the defense 1678 01:26:24.800 --> 01:26:28.000 work on defense, right, I mean the way we whip 1679 01:26:28.039 --> 01:26:30.119 the ball around. I mean you're gonna have their big 1680 01:26:30.159 --> 01:26:34.119 guys have to run out to challenge guards because the. 1681 01:26:34.039 --> 01:26:37.119 Way we move and I mean just the way we play. 1682 01:26:38.159 --> 01:26:40.880 I mean, you're gonna have fives on ones and fives 1683 01:26:40.920 --> 01:26:43.960 on twos for them. And if we could wear them 1684 01:26:44.000 --> 01:26:48.000 down by by by, you know, because look, we want 1685 01:26:48.000 --> 01:26:49.960 the best shot when the best shot comes, but at 1686 01:26:50.000 --> 01:26:50.840 the same time. 1687 01:26:50.840 --> 01:26:51.239 You don't. 1688 01:26:51.279 --> 01:26:53.199 You're not going down jacking up the first shot you 1689 01:26:53.279 --> 01:26:55.479 get because you're not making the defense work. So the 1690 01:26:55.479 --> 01:26:57.399 more you make the defense work, even in a half 1691 01:26:57.439 --> 01:27:02.600 court setting, the better chance you have of especially when 1692 01:27:02.640 --> 01:27:05.279 you're dealing with a bunch of freshmen. And they are right, 1693 01:27:05.319 --> 01:27:07.720 I mean, we're not we're the experience, grown men team. 1694 01:27:08.119 --> 01:27:12.039 They are a talented, apparently team of seventeen year olds, 1695 01:27:12.039 --> 01:27:14.000 which is just baffles my mind, which I didn't know. 1696 01:27:14.840 --> 01:27:15.560 Well he's seven. 1697 01:27:15.640 --> 01:27:16.880 Well I know, I know, I know it, right. 1698 01:27:17.359 --> 01:27:23.199 Exaggeration, So that was I think probably the more I 1699 01:27:23.199 --> 01:27:24.720 think about. The most amazing thing to me is that 1700 01:27:25.199 --> 01:27:28.520 we wore them down without forcing them into full court 1701 01:27:28.560 --> 01:27:29.560 pressure constantly. 1702 01:27:30.000 --> 01:27:31.279 And that is amazing to me. 1703 01:27:31.359 --> 01:27:34.600 There's a great football axiom. I just realized it works 1704 01:27:34.640 --> 01:27:39.479 for basketball. The best defense is less defense. In other words, 1705 01:27:39.720 --> 01:27:42.399 if your offense stays on the field and you're forcing 1706 01:27:42.439 --> 01:27:44.680 the other guys to play defense longer than you are, 1707 01:27:45.960 --> 01:27:48.840 you've got a great shot at winning. If you come 1708 01:27:48.880 --> 01:27:52.079 down and you can get you know, you can keep 1709 01:27:52.079 --> 01:27:55.039 the other guys from scoring, and then you get the 1710 01:27:55.079 --> 01:27:57.239 ball away, take the ball away from them. But there 1711 01:27:57.560 --> 01:27:59.760 and you're back on offense and you're forcing them to 1712 01:27:59.760 --> 01:28:04.359 play defense for longer, longer than Yeah, not that you 1713 01:28:04.399 --> 01:28:07.880 want to choke things down and be so deliberate. 1714 01:28:07.640 --> 01:28:09.840 Right, it's a balance, right, but you've got. 1715 01:28:09.720 --> 01:28:11.920 To force them to work on defense. 1716 01:28:11.920 --> 01:28:13.560 It's the same thing as what I said about the shooting. 1717 01:28:13.640 --> 01:28:13.800 Yeah. 1718 01:28:14.039 --> 01:28:16.119 Look, if you come down on transition and you've got 1719 01:28:16.159 --> 01:28:18.279 an open three, then you take that. But if you 1720 01:28:18.399 --> 01:28:20.960 don't have it, don't force That's why you don't force 1721 01:28:21.079 --> 01:28:23.359 bad shots, right, forcing bad shots. 1722 01:28:23.439 --> 01:28:25.840 Let's the defense off the hook. Eat, don't let the 1723 01:28:25.840 --> 01:28:26.680 defense off the hook. 1724 01:28:26.680 --> 01:28:29.000 It's almost a relief to them. Yes, yeah, we'll give 1725 01:28:29.000 --> 01:28:30.600 you that shot all day. Yeah, and you know what, 1726 01:28:30.600 --> 01:28:31.600 you hear that on the blue courts. 1727 01:28:31.600 --> 01:28:33.640 Even if you make it a couple of times, keep 1728 01:28:33.640 --> 01:28:35.119 shooting it, dude, you need to hit this all day. 1729 01:28:35.159 --> 01:28:35.319 You know. 1730 01:28:35.359 --> 01:28:37.800 The most amazing stat to me for the entire game 1731 01:28:38.560 --> 01:28:41.520 turnovers one for Duke in the first half, right, and 1732 01:28:41.800 --> 01:28:44.720 only six in the second half, but three down the 1733 01:28:44.760 --> 01:28:47.399 stretch like you said, and Kentucky only had ten for 1734 01:28:47.479 --> 01:28:50.319 the game. So it was a fairly cleanly played game. 1735 01:28:50.680 --> 01:28:53.079 And yet to your point, with the game on the line, 1736 01:28:53.119 --> 01:28:55.199 it was the kiddies who made the miss. 1737 01:28:55.199 --> 01:28:58.119 Well, now, according to what I'm looking at, Kentucky had nine, 1738 01:28:58.359 --> 01:29:01.079 which is I'm not saying blow ten because you said ten. 1739 01:29:01.119 --> 01:29:03.560 I'm saying that's the goal for Kentucky's blow ten turnovers. 1740 01:29:03.600 --> 01:29:05.399 I've got the official statu sheet in front of me. 1741 01:29:05.399 --> 01:29:07.039 I've got the I've got I've got the NC do 1742 01:29:07.079 --> 01:29:08.039 bla stat cheat in front. 1743 01:29:07.880 --> 01:29:10.319 Of printed off would you print? Are you printing off ESPN? No? 1744 01:29:10.399 --> 01:29:12.319 I printed it off UK Athletics dot com. 1745 01:29:12.359 --> 01:29:15.640 I'm looking at the same Really. Yeah, your says ten, nine. 1746 01:29:15.520 --> 01:29:16.159 Mine says ten. 1747 01:29:16.399 --> 01:29:18.239 Mine usually is ten or nine? 1748 01:29:18.359 --> 01:29:18.600 Mine? 1749 01:29:18.720 --> 01:29:21.920 Okay, Mine says Kentucky had nine turnovers, it says Duke 1750 01:29:22.000 --> 01:29:26.199 had fifteen. No, Well, then somebody needs to go back 1751 01:29:26.199 --> 01:29:28.680 and see if we even won the game, because according 1752 01:29:28.760 --> 01:29:31.000 to this, what was final score on your statu sheet? 1753 01:29:31.039 --> 01:29:32.479 Dick eight to six. 1754 01:29:34.159 --> 01:29:39.600 Anyway points into paint. Oh yeah, we drilled them points 1755 01:29:39.640 --> 01:29:40.920 in the paint. By twenty you. 1756 01:29:40.880 --> 01:29:43.039 Were looking at a different, different statu sheet. 1757 01:29:43.079 --> 01:29:44.439 I don't know what we're looking at. Then I got 1758 01:29:44.640 --> 01:29:46.520 I got the final statue. Unless this is Duke Kentucky 1759 01:29:46.520 --> 01:29:47.600 got nineteen seventy eight. 1760 01:29:47.640 --> 01:29:49.680 I got points in the paid in Duke forty six, 1761 01:29:49.840 --> 01:29:50.960 Kentucky twenty six. 1762 01:29:52.079 --> 01:29:54.399 I don't know what we're looking at. Then what what? 1763 01:29:54.399 --> 01:29:56.239 What in the world are you looking at? 1764 01:29:56.439 --> 01:29:58.039 You had me scared that I was even looking at 1765 01:29:58.039 --> 01:29:59.880 maybe the Oh this is how many we had with eight, 1766 01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:00.479 it's left to go on. 1767 01:30:00.479 --> 01:30:04.720 No, you're says the same thing. What are you you're 1768 01:30:04.760 --> 01:30:08.560 says the same thing. Mine says. Under turnovers, it says 1769 01:30:08.680 --> 01:30:09.960 seven for Duke. 1770 01:30:10.079 --> 01:30:10.840 That's what I said. 1771 01:30:10.920 --> 01:30:14.600 No, I was looking at points off turnovers, exactly right. 1772 01:30:15.079 --> 01:30:19.079 Oh, this thing's gone off again. All right, we're going 1773 01:30:19.119 --> 01:30:20.319 to rally soft turnovers. 1774 01:30:20.319 --> 01:30:22.760 We're gonna rally here soft turn points of the paint. 1775 01:30:23.359 --> 01:30:25.680 We okay, all right, I got a break. I'm completely 1776 01:30:25.720 --> 01:30:27.319 in the gate everything I just said in that second. 1777 01:30:27.319 --> 01:30:29.319 All right, we'll come back and talk more to Kentucky 1778 01:30:29.399 --> 01:30:31.479 Duke in just a minute. In the garage on six 1779 01:30:31.560 --> 01:30:35.279 thirty w LAP. All right, welcome back. We have figured 1780 01:30:35.279 --> 01:30:38.119 out the mystery of the statue. Cameron was reading the 1781 01:30:38.159 --> 01:30:40.720 wrong Cari can't read the stat on the wrong table. 1782 01:30:40.880 --> 01:30:41.680 I got excited. 1783 01:30:41.720 --> 01:30:45.159 He was reading points off turnovers, so which it is 1784 01:30:45.199 --> 01:30:49.600 interesting though only fifteen to nine a Duke advantage, huge 1785 01:30:49.600 --> 01:30:52.840 advantage in the paint, but Kentucky was bench points. And 1786 01:30:52.880 --> 01:30:55.239 again that goes to depth. As we all, we knew 1787 01:30:55.279 --> 01:30:56.479 Kentucky had more depth. 1788 01:30:56.520 --> 01:31:00.720 We knew that, but well supposedly people didn't because I 1789 01:31:00.760 --> 01:31:02.560 kept bearing before the game that Duke had more depth, 1790 01:31:02.920 --> 01:31:06.680 which again death meaning more talent won through en or eleven. 1791 01:31:07.199 --> 01:31:09.119 But talent does it always win game? 1792 01:31:09.159 --> 01:31:11.640 See if you also, I hate to hate to direct 1793 01:31:11.720 --> 01:31:14.159 you back to the statue, which I don't know how 1794 01:31:14.199 --> 01:31:17.359 to read it. But Duke for the game shot thirty 1795 01:31:17.439 --> 01:31:21.560 nine percent, including twenty nine percent in the second half, 1796 01:31:21.600 --> 01:31:24.000 one of eleven from the arc. I think again, Cameron, 1797 01:31:24.319 --> 01:31:25.800 that goes back to conditioning. 1798 01:31:26.159 --> 01:31:30.920 Yeah, yeah, the the mistakes in the last what would 1799 01:31:30.960 --> 01:31:33.479 you say, five minutes, five minutes, Yeah, mistakes in the 1800 01:31:33.520 --> 01:31:37.600 last five minutes. Keep going down to that sid I'm 1801 01:31:37.600 --> 01:31:42.359 gonna race that box. I stopped looking at it. But yeah, 1802 01:31:42.439 --> 01:31:44.159 the three, the three point shooting, because it's it's all, 1803 01:31:44.159 --> 01:31:47.000 it's all legs. Yeah, I mean, and and again, let 1804 01:31:47.000 --> 01:31:48.159 me make sure I've got this right. 1805 01:31:48.800 --> 01:31:53.279 Duke Duke shot seventeen percent from three toy, get that right. 1806 01:31:53.560 --> 01:31:54.359 In the second half? 1807 01:31:54.439 --> 01:31:58.119 Yeah again, Yeah for game, Actually. 1808 01:31:57.800 --> 01:32:00.880 In the second half, seventeen have a change of the game. 1809 01:32:01.159 --> 01:32:01.359 Yeah. 1810 01:32:01.439 --> 01:32:01.600 Four. 1811 01:32:01.880 --> 01:32:04.640 Ah, there we go. Redemption, redemption right there. 1812 01:32:06.039 --> 01:32:08.119 But yeah, no, I mean, it looks it's all conditioning, 1813 01:32:08.159 --> 01:32:11.920 and that's what that's what you ought to expect from 1814 01:32:12.039 --> 01:32:16.000 a group of you know, especially from the stars of Duke, 1815 01:32:16.119 --> 01:32:19.039 like from the talent to guys, the celebrated guys. 1816 01:32:20.000 --> 01:32:21.399 I don't even think they're I don't. I don't. 1817 01:32:21.439 --> 01:32:24.239 I don't think their bodies. 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And what 1879 01:35:29.199 --> 01:35:32.159 I do every weekday morning is I bring you the 1880 01:35:32.159 --> 01:35:35.760 best of South Asian music and culture from around the world, 1881 01:35:36.159 --> 01:35:39.960 and that includes some of the most exclusive access to 1882 01:35:40.079 --> 01:35:43.840 the South Asian music industry. I'll bring you world premieres, 1883 01:35:44.199 --> 01:35:48.399 and I'll bring you exclusive interviews only on Ruckus Avenue 1884 01:35:48.479 --> 01:35:49.840 Radio who are. 1885 01:35:49.760 --> 01:35:51.119 Running their tails off every day. 1886 01:35:51.159 --> 01:35:54.520 And again that comes from among other people, I have 1887 01:35:54.560 --> 01:35:59.000 to say at this point, but a head coach who 1888 01:35:59.239 --> 01:36:02.680 was told in his time in college with me, just 1889 01:36:02.720 --> 01:36:04.680 like I was told, you were going to be the 1890 01:36:04.680 --> 01:36:08.479 most conditioned team in the country. Teams will might work 1891 01:36:08.520 --> 01:36:11.279 as hard as you do, but no one will outwork you, 1892 01:36:11.920 --> 01:36:16.520 and you are going to have the cardiovascular and muscles 1893 01:36:16.600 --> 01:36:19.800 to what Because again, remember so just for game days 1894 01:36:19.800 --> 01:36:24.359 were off days to us, because on practice days, all 1895 01:36:24.439 --> 01:36:27.119 twelve of us, myself and you know, some other bench 1896 01:36:27.159 --> 01:36:29.439 warmers along with me less so, but you got ten 1897 01:36:29.479 --> 01:36:31.119 guys going full court for two and a half half 1898 01:36:31.159 --> 01:36:33.600 three and out three hours. In a game day, you 1899 01:36:33.680 --> 01:36:36.159 only got two hundred minutes period, two hundred minutes to 1900 01:36:36.159 --> 01:36:39.840 divide between eight nine guys. So game days are off days, 1901 01:36:39.880 --> 01:36:41.399 and of course they would be for Duke as well. 1902 01:36:41.760 --> 01:36:44.079 But if you work it the right way like Patino 1903 01:36:44.159 --> 01:36:45.359 used to do it with the full court press. Was 1904 01:36:45.560 --> 01:36:48.279 it intended to turn teams over thirty five times a 1905 01:36:48.319 --> 01:36:51.359 game as much as it was intended to turn teams 1906 01:36:51.399 --> 01:36:53.720 over five minutes left to go in the game when 1907 01:36:53.720 --> 01:36:55.279 the game is quote unquote on the line, And of 1908 01:36:55.359 --> 01:36:56.960 course a lot of times by that time we were 1909 01:36:57.039 --> 01:36:58.960 up by thirty or forty and I was in the game, 1910 01:36:59.000 --> 01:37:02.520 so it didn't really matter. Yeah, But I think the 1911 01:37:02.760 --> 01:37:04.680 biggest thing to me, and the most exciting thing to 1912 01:37:04.680 --> 01:37:11.279 me was I think Marcus said for the last few weeks. 1913 01:37:11.920 --> 01:37:16.960 What he's anxious about, my words, not his, is I 1914 01:37:17.000 --> 01:37:18.640 want to know where we are. 1915 01:37:18.359 --> 01:37:19.680 Sure you can't tell. 1916 01:37:19.439 --> 01:37:22.439 Exactly where you are when you blow right, stayed out, 1917 01:37:22.439 --> 01:37:26.840 when you blow Wesleyan out, when you blow Minnesota, stayed out, 1918 01:37:27.319 --> 01:37:31.159 when you blow what's the other team we played out Wesleyan, 1919 01:37:31.520 --> 01:37:36.119 I said, Wesleyan, there's the other buck. Now when you 1920 01:37:36.119 --> 01:37:38.000 when you blow these teams out, you don't really know 1921 01:37:38.039 --> 01:37:40.760 how good you are. Now we're and he said, we're 1922 01:37:40.760 --> 01:37:42.399 gonna find out. Everybody was saying that we'll find out 1923 01:37:42.439 --> 01:37:44.960 on Tuesday. We'll find out on Tuesday. We found out 1924 01:37:45.039 --> 01:37:47.199 on Tuesday. And what we found out is you look, 1925 01:37:47.520 --> 01:37:51.000 because if we're honest, we and Duke are honestly right 1926 01:37:51.039 --> 01:37:52.960 their neck and neck, right, their neck and neck. 1927 01:37:53.479 --> 01:37:54.760 Okay, they played again. 1928 01:37:54.800 --> 01:37:56.159 You might see the same kind of game. 1929 01:37:56.319 --> 01:37:57.920 You might you might see the same kind of game 1930 01:37:57.960 --> 01:38:00.399 you might not. Because here's the thing, and this is 1931 01:38:00.399 --> 01:38:06.520 why I think Mark's focus on the quiet stuff, the 1932 01:38:06.560 --> 01:38:13.640 focus stuff, the intentional stuff, is so important because you 1933 01:38:13.720 --> 01:38:15.239 can have the best team in the world. 1934 01:38:15.359 --> 01:38:16.399 You literally can have the. 1935 01:38:16.319 --> 01:38:18.600 Best college basketball team in the world without any debate. 1936 01:38:18.640 --> 01:38:21.720 You can be receiving every single number one vote, and 1937 01:38:22.920 --> 01:38:24.199 you can go out there and lay in EG one 1938 01:38:24.199 --> 01:38:28.159 particularly not sure. Again, it's why the games are played, 1939 01:38:28.159 --> 01:38:31.279 and I know that's cliche. But we went out on 1940 01:38:31.439 --> 01:38:33.159 a big stage, though I don't know the stage was 1941 01:38:33.159 --> 01:38:34.960 any bigger than any game we've had so far other 1942 01:38:35.000 --> 01:38:38.479 than our opponent. We went out on the big stage 1943 01:38:38.560 --> 01:38:40.720 against the big opponent, one way or the other. Whether 1944 01:38:40.720 --> 01:38:43.119 the Duke could have been ranked one hundred and fiftieth, 1945 01:38:43.119 --> 01:38:45.640 it's still be a big game for Kentucky fans and 1946 01:38:45.680 --> 01:38:48.960 probably for ESPN especially. But we went out and we 1947 01:38:49.880 --> 01:38:52.479 we played a complete forty minute game. You know, I mean, 1948 01:38:52.640 --> 01:38:54.119 and again I think I am looking at the right 1949 01:38:54.159 --> 01:38:56.520 stat line here. I mean as much as Cooper what 1950 01:38:56.640 --> 01:38:59.720 twenty eight points, twenty six points, seven to nine from 1951 01:38:59.720 --> 01:39:01.399 the foul shot, he he won't one to five from 1952 01:39:01.399 --> 01:39:04.479 free throw from three You said that nine of nineteen, 1953 01:39:04.560 --> 01:39:08.399 so he didn't shoot particularly bad overall. To assist, had 1954 01:39:08.439 --> 01:39:11.680 three turnovers and two of those two of those turnovers 1955 01:39:11.960 --> 01:39:15.680 were pretty big. Yeah, But is plus minus minus eight? 1956 01:39:16.000 --> 01:39:19.640 Yeah? Are you a plus minus guy? See? To me 1957 01:39:19.760 --> 01:39:22.119 sometimes that I am Sometimes I'm not. 1958 01:39:22.520 --> 01:39:24.560 I agree because to me it's like saying, are you 1959 01:39:24.600 --> 01:39:27.359 an analytics guy? Yeah, sometimes I am, Sometimes I'm not. 1960 01:39:27.520 --> 01:39:29.479 I cannot, nor do I think you should. 1961 01:39:29.479 --> 01:39:31.920 Plus minus might be terrible, but it's because of two 1962 01:39:32.000 --> 01:39:33.359 or three of the guys that are on the floor 1963 01:39:33.399 --> 01:39:33.800 with you. 1964 01:39:33.960 --> 01:39:36.479 Yeah, so well, I think I think the bottom line 1965 01:39:36.520 --> 01:39:39.199 is when you get to analytics, and and and Marcus 1966 01:39:39.199 --> 01:39:42.840 said this as well, you can go too deep into it. 1967 01:39:43.239 --> 01:39:45.199 You can, you can go down a rabbit trail, and 1968 01:39:45.199 --> 01:39:46.880 and and I loved it when he said that because 1969 01:39:46.920 --> 01:39:50.359 I was like, good, Well, because think of it this way. 1970 01:39:50.840 --> 01:39:53.079 In nineteen ninety eight, when we were playing Duke in 1971 01:39:53.079 --> 01:39:57.279 the in the Elite eight game, right, if we're going 1972 01:39:57.319 --> 01:40:01.159 by analytics, Coach Smiths not have had me in the game. 1973 01:40:01.880 --> 01:40:03.479 I had not hit a shot up to that point. 1974 01:40:03.880 --> 01:40:04.600 I had not had a. 1975 01:40:04.520 --> 01:40:08.000 Particularly great senior season, right, Yeah, for the tournament I had. 1976 01:40:08.920 --> 01:40:12.079 I had not had a particularly great senior season. I 1977 01:40:12.119 --> 01:40:14.000 shot better my junior year than I did my senior year. 1978 01:40:14.039 --> 01:40:16.359 From three, got more threes up. I think I did 1979 01:40:16.439 --> 01:40:18.119 my senior year my junior year than I had my 1980 01:40:18.199 --> 01:40:20.000 senior year. So if you go by the analytics and 1981 01:40:20.039 --> 01:40:22.720 how well I was playing, I shouldn't have been in 1982 01:40:22.720 --> 01:40:25.359 that game when we were making that comeback. I mean, 1983 01:40:25.680 --> 01:40:28.159 I just have I mean, but sometimes you go with 1984 01:40:28.199 --> 01:40:30.520 your gut, And I think that's what I want as 1985 01:40:30.560 --> 01:40:33.520 a coach, that is that dives into the analytics and 1986 01:40:33.560 --> 01:40:34.840 puts his team in the position to win. 1987 01:40:34.880 --> 01:40:37.520 But then sometimes you gotta go with your gut. 1988 01:40:37.880 --> 01:40:39.880 And you know what, And I know fans will criticize 1989 01:40:39.920 --> 01:40:43.439 that on the back end, sure on the you know, 1990 01:40:43.520 --> 01:40:47.239 because the hindsight twenty twenty, I don't care. I mean 1991 01:40:47.720 --> 01:40:49.840 to say that, you know, I can't believe he had 1992 01:40:49.920 --> 01:40:51.159 him in the game. Look at look at look at this, 1993 01:40:51.159 --> 01:40:52.279 Look at this, look at this, look at this. 1994 01:40:52.680 --> 01:40:54.840 Come on, dude, or more accurately, why was so and 1995 01:40:54.880 --> 01:40:55.640 so on the bench? 1996 01:40:56.560 --> 01:40:58.560 That's what we've heard more than anything. Yeah, why was 1997 01:40:58.560 --> 01:41:00.079 so and so on the bench when he can do this? 1998 01:41:00.039 --> 01:41:00.399 Is this? 1999 01:41:00.479 --> 01:41:04.800 Well, here's the thing. What you see is not what 2000 01:41:04.920 --> 01:41:06.520 the coach. He's in practice. 2001 01:41:06.520 --> 01:41:09.680 That's right. You only see five percent of these dudes play. Coach. 2002 01:41:09.720 --> 01:41:11.720 He's the other ninety five percent of these guys playing, 2003 01:41:11.840 --> 01:41:14.319 And what picks he picks up in practice goes along 2004 01:41:14.319 --> 01:41:16.279 with the analytics to help he and his staff make 2005 01:41:16.279 --> 01:41:16.760 the decision. 2006 01:41:16.960 --> 01:41:20.359 People look at teams as other fantasy teams, their stat 2007 01:41:20.479 --> 01:41:23.159 versus stat Yeah, when it's anything, but. 2008 01:41:23.640 --> 01:41:25.359 I mean, especially in you. It's a perfect example. 2009 01:41:25.600 --> 01:41:27.560 I mean we went stat versus stat on this we 2010 01:41:27.560 --> 01:41:30.039 would have lost, oh yeah, because we had never played, 2011 01:41:30.319 --> 01:41:31.359 but instead we played. 2012 01:41:31.800 --> 01:41:35.600 And is conditioning an analytic rao? 2013 01:41:36.479 --> 01:41:40.680 Nope, it they can break it down as an analytic, but. 2014 01:41:41.039 --> 01:41:42.399 How do they know. 2015 01:41:42.680 --> 01:41:45.560 Oh you know, they can measure heart rate and this 2016 01:41:45.680 --> 01:41:47.399 and that, but no, it comes down to who's tired, 2017 01:41:47.439 --> 01:41:48.680 who's not well. 2018 01:41:48.680 --> 01:41:51.680 But here's what they can't break down, the mental fatigue exactly. 2019 01:41:51.800 --> 01:41:54.159 That's a great point. And as always we leave you 2020 01:41:54.199 --> 01:41:58.159 on a great point, fun because there are so many. 2021 01:41:58.319 --> 01:41:59.920 Can we go back and leave that one that once 2022 01:42:00.039 --> 01:42:02.039 segment right up? The statue wrong out of the show? 2023 01:42:02.119 --> 01:42:04.479 No, we have to come. I get to uh, I 2024 01:42:04.520 --> 01:42:06.680 get to hold that over here for the rest of 2025 01:42:06.720 --> 01:42:08.720 the season. I learned a valuable lessons. 2026 01:42:08.720 --> 01:42:09.479 It was so bad. 2027 01:42:09.520 --> 01:42:11.880 What that im how to read a statue? 2028 01:42:12.039 --> 01:42:13.960 No, I think the lesson is I'm not want to 2029 01:42:13.960 --> 01:42:15.720 take a class on how to learn a stat sheet. 2030 01:42:16.199 --> 01:42:18.640 I know what that box is for. 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