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Speaker 5: Welcome to the Big Blue Insider. Dick Gabriel with you
Speaker 5: on a Thursday. We are one day closer to a
Speaker 5: big weekend as the Wildcats will take on Murray State
Speaker 5: College Football. It's a one thirty start. We will have
Speaker 5: it for you. Network covers begins at eleven thirty am.
Speaker 5: Local coverage to ten thirty. And keep in mind this
Speaker 5: game is going to be streamed. It will not be
Speaker 5: on any of the networks that you ordinarily would see
Speaker 5: SEC football, like the SEC Network, ESPN, ABC, whatever. I
Speaker 5: need your computer or your iPad or whatever, So prepare
Speaker 5: if you want to see it. You're not sure how
Speaker 5: to do it, Grab a kid, grab your son or
Speaker 5: daughter or grandson, granddaughter, whatever. Some of you stubbornly refuse
Speaker 5: to watch streaming, which is unfortunate. Look, it is the future,
Speaker 5: and I say that as somebody who works for the
Speaker 5: SEC Plus streaming channel. But we also of course urge
Speaker 5: you to listen to your radio. Christy and Jeremy and
Speaker 5: Logan will have pregame for you on the network side,
Speaker 5: and then Tom, Jeff and I will have to call
Speaker 5: for you at one point thirty as the Cats take
Speaker 5: on the Murray State Racers. Look, Murray's is just quite frankly,
Speaker 5: not very good. Trying to rebuild a program that used
Speaker 5: to be really good in the Ohio Valley Conference but
Speaker 5: just this year not quite getting it done and has
Speaker 5: been overwhelmed almost the entire season. It is what used
Speaker 5: to be called one DOUBLEAFCS. And the Racers have won
Speaker 5: one game. They beat Mississippi Valley State, and in every
Speaker 5: one of their losses with the exception of Butler. They
Speaker 5: lost their second game of the year to Butler nineteen
Speaker 5: to seventeen. They've given up at least thirty one points,
Speaker 5: and then their last three losses the North Dakota State,
Speaker 5: South Dakota State, and then Missouri State, they've given up
Speaker 5: at least fifty points. They've lost to all the Dakotas
Speaker 5: the states and then North Dakota and South Dakota. Those
Speaker 5: are really good. One Double A teams. It should be
Speaker 5: a walkover for the Wildcats, obviously not having a great year,
Speaker 5: but still an SEC team much much better than Murray State.
Speaker 5: And coming up in our next segment, we'll hear Mark
Speaker 5: Troops and Brad White talk about what they expect to
Speaker 5: see from their respective squads. Of course Brad White the
Speaker 5: defensive coordinator. Before we get started, I got to tell
Speaker 5: you that tonight we're gonna hear from Cameron Mills. He's
Speaker 5: going to join me here in the garage. That'll be
Speaker 5: at the bottom of the hour and it'll take the
Speaker 5: rest of the show. But if you listen to us,
Speaker 5: you know that oftentimes that's how Cameron and I do things.
Speaker 5: We just talk about the basketball, Wildcats and a lot
Speaker 5: of other stuff. But it's always a special occasion when
Speaker 5: he drops by and you hear him on the pregame
Speaker 5: show with Dave as well going into basketball games. But
Speaker 5: I want to talk obviously specifically about that Duke game,
Speaker 5: but just about how this Mark Pope era has begun
Speaker 5: to unfold, and we talked to Cameron more than once
Speaker 5: about it right after Mark was named the head coach,
Speaker 5: and of course CAMRA's terribly biased because He and Mark
Speaker 5: are close. They were teammates. They won a national title
Speaker 5: together in nineteen ninety six. So Camera's going to join
Speaker 5: us at the bottom.
Speaker 6: Of the hour.
Speaker 5: Before we get there, though, I need to talk about recruiting.
Speaker 5: Yesterday was a big day across the country and some
Speaker 5: of the highlights for the Wildcats. Michael Moreno made it
Speaker 5: official he is the six to eleven center from Georgetown
Speaker 5: and officially signed the agreement to attend UK this coming fall.
Speaker 5: This was part of the NCA's early signing per Malachi
Speaker 5: is rated as a top three center in the class
Speaker 5: of twenty twenty five by all the major recruiting services.
Speaker 5: He plays over a great Crossing High school in Georgetown
Speaker 5: and of course helped lead the Warhawks to the Sweet
Speaker 5: sixteen state tournament last year. Got him to I think
Speaker 5: the semifinals and averaged sixteen points, thirteen rebounds, and on
Speaker 5: more than three and a half blocks per game. He
Speaker 5: scored a double double in all but three games in
Speaker 5: the state tournament, averaged seventeen points and sixteen boards. Yeah,
Speaker 5: two got them to the state semifinals. I will tell
Speaker 5: you this, I watched him a couple times in the
Speaker 5: Sweet sixteen well you talk about all kinds of potential.
Speaker 5: He is not as dominant as you might think a
Speaker 5: big guy of his stature would be right now, But
Speaker 5: as you know, big guys develop more slowly than players,
Speaker 5: and he'll get there. He doesn't have a great arsenalal
Speaker 5: low post moves offensively, but he does have a decent touch,
Speaker 5: good hands, pretty good feet, and again I'm not an expert,
Speaker 5: but just watching him out there, he's a good basketball
Speaker 5: player obviously, and a lot of size and bulk. He's
Speaker 5: not a skinny guy with a long neck. He is
Speaker 5: a legit broad shouldered six ' eleven guy, so he
Speaker 5: will help tremendously. And if Pope likes him and obviously
Speaker 5: is recruited and signed him, that means they connected the
Speaker 5: way that a player needs to connect with somebody as
Speaker 5: heady as Mark Pope. So keep an eye on him
Speaker 5: this year. Rivals right now has him number twenty five overall.
Speaker 5: ON three has him thirty two overall, two four seven,
Speaker 5: twenty seven overall. ESPN has him rated the lowest at
Speaker 5: thirty seventh overall, and each one has him either second
Speaker 5: or third at center. They all have him with four stars.
Speaker 5: If you care about that, kind of thing. But just
Speaker 5: keep an eye on and go see him play. See
Speaker 5: for yourself. This year it's got a good chance of
Speaker 5: taking the Warhawks back to the Sweet sixteen, but that's
Speaker 5: no guarantee. Reminder, Rex Chapman one of the greatest ever
Speaker 5: to come out of the state of Kentucky, but was
Speaker 5: in a wicked, tough region with Owensboro. He got to
Speaker 5: the Sweet sixteen once playing for Apollo High School, so
Speaker 5: it ain't easy. But get out and see Malachi play.
Speaker 5: Don't wait until the Sweet sixteen rolls around, because he
Speaker 5: might not be there. Kenny Brooks and his team, the
Speaker 5: UK Women, picked up a commitment signed Kaitlin Carroll, the
Speaker 5: overall number thirty two prospect in the class of twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five power forward from Massachusetts, chose Kentucky over Villanova, Minnesota,
Speaker 5: Ohio State, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia text So
Speaker 5: I gotta think Kenny Brooks had forged a relationship with
Speaker 5: her back when he was at Tech and now she's
Speaker 5: coming to Kentucky. She's a six ' to two, six
Speaker 5: ' three power forward. I'm sorry, six to two, and
Speaker 5: that's what you need in the SEC these days. It's
Speaker 5: all about well, it's all about everything really, but if
Speaker 5: you don't have legit front liners anymore, you're not going
Speaker 5: to be able to compete in the Southeastern Conference. South
Speaker 5: Carolina has set that standard and everybody else is trying
Speaker 5: to live up to it. Speaking of standards, Kentucky Volleyball
Speaker 5: seven time defending SEC champion. Three signees for Craig Skinner,
Speaker 5: a senter Cassie O'Brien from Katie, Texas, six ' to one,
Speaker 5: good size for a setter, a defensive specialist again out
Speaker 5: of Louisville, a Libro Trinity ward played at Holy Cross,
Speaker 5: and an outside hitter named Georgia Watson from Hontlely, Illinois.
Speaker 5: They have all formerly agreed to play for Kentucky, and
Speaker 5: again size is vital and Watson herself is six ' one.
Speaker 5: Kentucky getting it done right now at times with Asia
Speaker 5: Thigpen on the front line. She was signed as a
Speaker 5: defensive specialist. She's five ten five eleven, but because of
Speaker 5: injuries they've had to play her on the front line
Speaker 5: and she's doing incredibly well all things considered. But Craig
Speaker 5: Skinner went out and got himself more size, and some
Speaker 5: future Wildcats are on the way. Now that's the good news.
Speaker 5: The bad news, and this happens. Jakayden Ferguson, he's a
Speaker 5: wide receiver from Missouri City, Texas, has de committed after
Speaker 5: he had taken a visit to LSU. He committed to
Speaker 5: the Wildcats back in June. This primary recruiter is receiver's
Speaker 5: position coach to Kill Schwartz, the kid recruited by the
Speaker 5: Wildcats committed to the Wildcats. Bod kept on taking visits,
Speaker 5: and you know you should if you're a player. But
Speaker 5: if you say you're committed and again, I wass go
Speaker 5: back to Mac Jones committed, as he said, one hundred
Speaker 5: percent to the Wildcats. Bod, I'm going to visit Alabama.
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Speaker 5: he had back on November the second. He is expected
Speaker 5: to make a full recovery. So far, he has missed
Speaker 5: seven games, but they finally explained what had happened and
Speaker 5: why he has been absent. But the team's general manager,
Speaker 5: Brian Wright, said Popovich is doing well, winning his head
Speaker 5: coach in the NBA with nearly fourteen hundred victories.
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Speaker 5: And another one hundred that's regular season, one hundred and
Speaker 5: seventy postseason wins, five NBA titles, twenty nine years now
Speaker 5: in San Antonio. Incredible run. Finally, this is bizarre. The
Speaker 5: FBI is involved now and the break ins of the
Speaker 5: homes of Travis Kelcey and Patrick Mahomes. The FBI reportedly
Speaker 5: joined the investigation of to TMZ after mahomes property in Belton,
Speaker 5: Missouri was burglarized back in October, while the tight Ends Leewood,
Speaker 5: Kansas home was hit just a day later in the
Speaker 5: middle of the Chief's Monday night football game on October seventh.
Speaker 5: Why the FBI Well, apparently other homes in the area
Speaker 5: have been hit as well. There is a possibility organized
Speaker 5: crime is involved, meaning the crossing of state lines that
Speaker 5: makes it federal that brings in the FBI. The only
Speaker 5: thing TMZ reported as to what was taken twenty thousand
Speaker 5: dollars in cash from the home of Travis Kelce. So
Speaker 5: I guess he'd actually have a little tip money around
Speaker 5: for you know, when the door dash people arrive. All right,
Speaker 5: we'll step out, come back to Kentucky football in just
Speaker 5: a minute. Cameron Mills at the bottom of the hour
Speaker 5: here on six thirty WLAP Welcome back to the Big
Speaker 5: Blue Cider. Coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 5: Cameron will join us here in the garage. We'll go
Speaker 5: over the win over Duke and talk about what he
Speaker 5: has seen and practices and in games from Mark Pope's
Speaker 5: ball clubs. Cameron, of course has been banging the Mark
Speaker 5: Pope drums since really the rumors began that Pope was
Speaker 5: on Kentucky's list. So we'll hear what he has to
Speaker 5: say and talk a lot of Kentucky basketball, but more
Speaker 5: football to talk about, because the Wildcats take on Murray
Speaker 5: State Saturday, looking to get well against the really poor
Speaker 5: Murray State team, one of the in state clubs Kentucky
Speaker 5: has played through the years. Last time the Cats played
Speaker 5: the Murray State Racers was back in twenty eighteen, and
Speaker 5: that was a fairly easy win as well, everybody expecting
Speaker 5: as much. But Mark Stoops, who was asked about the
Speaker 5: possibility of getting a good win, a feel good win,
Speaker 5: and also playing young guys, getting younger players into the
Speaker 5: games maybe early, something they haven't been able to do
Speaker 5: all year obviously. But again once again Stoops not taking
Speaker 5: anything for granted.
Speaker 11: I'll never you know, we don't ever assume anything. I
Speaker 11: think you know our team, I mean, we need to
Speaker 11: go play or we've shown that we can play with anybody,
Speaker 11: but we can also loose to anybody, and there's a
Speaker 11: lot of teams like that. So we always respect our opponents.
Speaker 11: But anybody will tell you it is truly about us
Speaker 11: and our mentality and how we prepare and how we
Speaker 11: play and all those things that go into it and
Speaker 11: turnovers and just different things. But Jody Wright is one
Speaker 11: heck of a football coach. I know he's not having
Speaker 11: the year that he wants. Is his first year there.
Speaker 11: He has work to do, but he's been in player
Speaker 11: player personnel at some of the best places in the country.
Speaker 11: He's coached with some great coaches. He knows what he's doing.
Speaker 11: He's a good football coach and he will build that
Speaker 11: program the right way. And I'm sure it's been hard
Speaker 11: for him like it's been hard for us.
Speaker 5: Been a tough year, which is why he doesn't expect
Speaker 5: to just be able to go out and throw helmets
Speaker 5: on the field and win. And a year like this,
Speaker 5: you never know what's going to happen. Maybe you go
Speaker 5: out and you play your butts off against Georgia and
Speaker 5: you pull off an upset win over Ole Miss which
Speaker 5: is looking better and better every week, and then you
Speaker 5: just lay eggs against Auburn, then Florida, and then you
Speaker 5: play tough against Tennessee. It's just that kind of year,
Speaker 5: and in terms of wins and losses, we haven't seen
Speaker 5: that from a Mark Steuf's team since he got here. Now,
Speaker 5: his very first game was against an inste opponent, Western Kentucky,
Speaker 5: remember that down in Nashville. Really steamy kind of night, hot, muggy,
Speaker 5: and Western Kentucky kicked the Wildcats, but I mean it
Speaker 5: was Western Kentucky all the way through. That game. Score
Speaker 5: was closer than it indicated, really, But Bobby Petrino, that
Speaker 5: was his first game at WKU and Hilltoppers one of
Speaker 5: thirty five twenty six. So you take nothing for granted
Speaker 5: when you play another team from instate. Of course, Western
Speaker 5: Kentucky's Division one, Murray State's the equivalent equivalent of one
Speaker 5: double A. But you got to play well. That's what
Speaker 5: Brad White's looking for the defensive coordinator. Yeah, would he
Speaker 5: like to be able to get young guys into the game. Sure,
Speaker 5: and clearly you want to win, but you want to
Speaker 5: play well. He talked about games where they're not moral victory,
Speaker 5: you play well and you just fall short, or games
Speaker 5: he said, where you win but you didn't play well
Speaker 5: so you don't feel good. What he wants to see
Speaker 5: is quality from the UK defense.
Speaker 12: But there is a pride and performance you know level
Speaker 12: to it. And the key focus this week for us.
Speaker 5: Is we got to take pride in our performance.
Speaker 12: Everybody that's on that field next needs to take pride
Speaker 12: in and performance in the standard that we've set. So
Speaker 12: from the first nap to the last, Like, I want
Speaker 12: to see guys for straining, finishing, you know, you know,
Speaker 12: pinning ball carriers to the ground. I don't want it sloppy,
Speaker 12: you know, I want it high energy and execution.
Speaker 5: You know, at a at a high level, they should
Speaker 5: be able to hold off the Racers, who have scored
Speaker 5: a lot of points from time to time, but generally
Speaker 5: when they've put points on the scoreboard, they've been involved
Speaker 5: in track meets. So what they're looking for, of course,
Speaker 5: is scoring on just about every possession if you're Kentucky
Speaker 5: and keeping the Racers out of the end zone completely,
Speaker 5: that's the optimum situation. But more than anything, it's going
Speaker 5: to be interesting to see how many Kentucky defensive players
Speaker 5: make it back to the field after all these injuries
Speaker 5: they've suffered. They've had the extra week to rest and heal.
Speaker 5: But you've got the huge game coming up. You don't
Speaker 5: overlook this one. But you've got Texas and Louisville coming up,
Speaker 5: and if things play out the way they should, you
Speaker 5: need both of those wins to get to a bowl game.
Speaker 5: And by as it should, I mean you beat Murray.
Speaker 5: That puts you in a position to finish six and
Speaker 5: six with two of the toughest games for any team
Speaker 5: in a country left on your schedule, going to Austin
Speaker 5: but then playing Louisville in the Lexington. A good Louisville
Speaker 5: team that is going to be looking for revenge. So yeah,
Speaker 5: this game is vital not only to get a win,
Speaker 5: but to play well. And as I said, when you
Speaker 5: play an in state team, Hey, remember EKU came to
Speaker 5: town coach by Dean Hood and it took last minute
Speaker 5: heroics by the Wildcats to win that game. If Eastern
Speaker 5: had pulled off that, up said, Dean Hood might still
Speaker 5: be at Ekau. You never know. But do you remember
Speaker 5: one of Joker Phillips's last games in Jokers last year?
Speaker 5: Kentucky lost to Western Kentucky in twenty twelve on a
Speaker 5: trick play in overtime, And I had forgotten about this.
Speaker 5: I know Kentucky didn't play well obviously. The Cats fell
Speaker 5: behind seventeen to nothing in the second quarter, made it
Speaker 5: seventeen ten by halftime, but then fell behind twenty four
Speaker 5: to ten in the second avenue started grinding started coming back.
Speaker 5: Maxwell Smith had a huge game and that one thirty
Speaker 5: seven of sixty. Remember that Kentucky was spraying the ball
Speaker 5: all over the field back then, three hundred and thirty
Speaker 5: two yards and a couple of touchdowns, but he threw
Speaker 5: four picks and Western Kentucky made him stand up but
Speaker 5: Kentucky still managed to drive for the tying touchdown in
Speaker 5: the last couple of minutes made it twenty four to
Speaker 5: twenty four. They go to overtime. Wildcats go first. Western
Speaker 5: Kentucky wins the toss, right Kentucky scores and kicks the
Speaker 5: extra point and now it's Western Kentucky's turn and the
Speaker 5: Hilltoppers score a touchdown. Catchers still up thirty one to thirty,
Speaker 5: but Western Kentucky goes for to two and remember how
Speaker 5: the Toppers did it. They scored on a throwback, pulled
Speaker 5: off the two point conversion, and the upset thirty two
Speaker 5: to thirty one. So playing an instate team is no
Speaker 5: guarantee of a win. Obviously, I don't see Murray State
Speaker 5: pulling off any kind of shocker on Saturday. But the
Speaker 5: biggest question will the Wildcats play well after that? How
Speaker 5: many of the young guys get in the game. That,
Speaker 5: as much as anything, is what I want to see.
Speaker 5: I want to see some of these new faces, but
Speaker 5: you want to see everybody come out of the game
Speaker 5: healthy as well as they head down to Austin, Texas.
Speaker 5: And while we're talking about players we'd like to see,
Speaker 5: I think everybody would like to see more ja Mary
Speaker 5: and will Cox and Stoops talked about him at his
Speaker 5: news conference. Somebody asked about him specifically and he mentioned
Speaker 5: the fact that there were plays designed for him. That's
Speaker 5: what happens. There are packages of plays for different running backs.
Speaker 5: And of course the run that opened the Tennessee game
Speaker 5: was spectacular, maybe all things considered, the best one of
Speaker 5: the year. Definitely, I think the best one of the year.
Speaker 5: So wouldn't you love to see more of that against
Speaker 5: Murray State. They ought to be able to get stuff
Speaker 5: like that against the Racers, but you just never know.
Speaker 5: So that'll be somebody to keep an eye on, as
Speaker 5: well as Cutter Bowlie and some of the utter names
Speaker 5: of the young guys. You've seen him here and there.
Speaker 5: Maybe some of the guys you haven't seen yet because
Speaker 5: they're trying to preserve red shirt status and all that.
Speaker 5: But remember you can play in four games and protect
Speaker 5: your red shirt availability. So those are some of the
Speaker 5: guys we're all hoping to see. Coming up on Saturday afternoon,
Speaker 5: Camera Mills in the Garage next six point thirty WLAP
Speaker 5: Welcome back to the Big Blue Insider. As promised, Cameron
Speaker 5: Mills has joined us here in the garage. He of
Speaker 5: course the two time national champion.
Speaker 6: Almost three part of it.
Speaker 5: It's don't be bitter, part of our pregame coverage, and
Speaker 5: you see him online with the practice reports. You enjoy
Speaker 5: those prouts. You do a great job.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 5: You know what.
Speaker 13: It's one of those things where I look when it
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Speaker 13: as I have rightfully called you my media mentor for
Speaker 13: now thirty years, we have to thirty twenty five years.
Speaker 6: Golly, how are you still alive?
Speaker 4: It's you.
Speaker 5: I want to see my scar.
Speaker 6: No, I didn't mean that. I don't mean that. I
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Speaker 5: Sixty nine?
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Speaker 5: Oh? Man, I have more than you.
Speaker 6: Well, I just yeah, you do know it still looks good.
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Speaker 13: Mine happened when we were doing the bottle signing few
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Speaker 13: well no, no, no, but but my moment where I realized.
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Speaker 13: Actually, when Susan I started dating, it was like, this
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Speaker 13: And so I I saw, you know, I'm with Susan.
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Speaker 13: then but I didn't shave it all the way off,
Speaker 13: and so and because I was afraid to. And then
Speaker 13: I thought, I'm just gonna go bald. I'm just gonna
Speaker 13: I'm just gonna do a Rex Chapman and go ball.
Speaker 5: It looks good on and it looks good on racks
Speaker 5: and looks.
Speaker 6: Good on I am. I'm happy with the way. So anyway,
Speaker 6: but I just.
Speaker 5: You talked about not going all the way. You and
Speaker 5: I are Seinfeld nuts the episode, you know what, Yeah, Elaine.
Speaker 6: A great Yeah great? What was a great civilization of hair?
Speaker 5: And Elaine asking George, why don't you just shave it
Speaker 5: up hanging on to these scraps.
Speaker 6: No, that's what she says.
Speaker 13: He goes, this was once a great civilization of hair, right,
Speaker 13: and she goes a bunch of scraps.
Speaker 5: Yeah, where are you hanging on to a bunch of scraps?
Speaker 5: That's tangent number one many Yeah, yeah, in the next
Speaker 5: ninety minutes or so. But back to your practice report,
Speaker 5: than you have done so much public speaking, well beyond
Speaker 5: your radio show. I mean, you got stuck in the
Speaker 5: radio show. You could turn to whoever else of the
Speaker 5: you know, twelve or fifteen people in the studio with you,
Speaker 5: but and I know there's more than one take or whatever,
Speaker 5: but putting your thoughts together on camera, so it's not easy.
Speaker 13: It's not because there's no teleprompter. Right, That's not something
Speaker 13: I'm used to. But I'll be honest, and this may
Speaker 13: sound a little arrogant, and it probably it's not arrogance
Speaker 13: for me.
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Speaker 13: I'm thrilled with how they've turned out. I'm thrilled with
Speaker 13: how easily I can I can take a thought or
Speaker 13: and and look. The first time I did with those,
Speaker 13: I wrote out a script and I knew I wasn't
Speaker 13: going to read it word for word, but I wanted
Speaker 13: to kind of commit some up to memory to know
Speaker 13: where I was going. And at this point, honestly, I
Speaker 13: just feel like I need an idea, Yes, like I
Speaker 13: need an idea, and I can take that idea and look.
Speaker 13: A lot of this comes from knowing Mark for thirty years,
Speaker 13: and I think more importantly playing with him for two
Speaker 13: knowing who you know in a Bible study with him
Speaker 13: and Shep. I mean, because the you know, the three
Speaker 13: of us, including Walter McCarty, a lot the three of
Speaker 13: us were, I mean, we were in Bible study every
Speaker 13: week together. And honestly, our bond, you know, to the
Speaker 13: point where I would even call Jeff Shephard my you know,
Speaker 13: one of my best friends now and closer now.
Speaker 6: Than we were when we played.
Speaker 13: Came from that Bible study with Max Apple, who's the
Speaker 13: at the time was director of Fellowship of Chrision Athletes
Speaker 13: for Kentucky, and Mark was in there too, and I
Speaker 13: mean we just we did things together all the time.
Speaker 13: It's like, you know, the three of us were always
Speaker 13: doing stuff. And so I just think the knowledge of
Speaker 13: who Mark is as a person truly is a person
Speaker 13: because and and this goes for any of my teammates,
Speaker 13: because you know this. I mean, you can present yourself
Speaker 13: to the world one way, but when you live with somebody,
Speaker 13: when you live with fourteen idiots, and I'm including.
Speaker 6: Myself in this, you you get You can say every.
Speaker 13: Anything you want about who you are as a person,
Speaker 13: but everybody else knows the truth that you live with.
Speaker 6: You can't hide that.
Speaker 13: And so I think honestly a lot of that coming
Speaker 13: from just knowing Mark enables me to kind of share
Speaker 13: in practice support what I think sometimes he's thinking. What
Speaker 13: is you know was mine because and you know this
Speaker 13: about him too.
Speaker 6: I mean he is. I mean, he's a genius. I mean,
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 13: I don't know if he's you know, genius level IQ
Speaker 13: test genius. But he's got to be not far if
Speaker 13: he isn't. I mean, he just no one in the country.
Speaker 13: And I think Coach Patino said this about him. He
Speaker 13: is the most intelligent college basketball coach in the country.
Speaker 13: And if people don't realize, if Kentucky fans at least
Speaker 13: don't realize that yet, just from the way he does
Speaker 13: his press conference, I mean he's using Look, I played
Speaker 13: basketball for twenty two years. I played basketball for one
Speaker 13: of the greatest coaches ever. Right, He's using I know
Speaker 13: the game. He's using words basketball, words that must have
Speaker 13: been invented in the last twenty years. Because I have
Speaker 13: no idea what he's talking about.
Speaker 6: I have no idea what He's also using words.
Speaker 5: And applying them to basketball that you rarely, if ever
Speaker 5: here applied to basketball. That's what as a word talking guy,
Speaker 5: that's what Lionel huts Simpsons, Uh, that's what. That's what
Speaker 5: interests me.
Speaker 6: I mean, it all interests me, Like Philosty and the like.
Speaker 5: Just you know, he talked about I asked a question
Speaker 5: last week about about a certain way they were playing,
Speaker 5: and he said, yeah, most of our possessions we were
Speaker 5: really intentional that but but and then I raised my
Speaker 5: hand follow up, it's what what do you mean by intentional?
Speaker 5: And he did, you know, obviously, So I just find
Speaker 5: that fascinating.
Speaker 13: So that so intentional. So Mark had some markisms. Be careful,
Speaker 13: I say that, not some Marxisms. Some markisms.
Speaker 5: So we're all Marxist.
Speaker 6: Let's call him popisms.
Speaker 13: Mark had some popisms back in the day that he
Speaker 13: was because again he is he is not just frick no, no, no,
Speaker 13: no no.
Speaker 6: That was that. That was the fun one that everybody
Speaker 6: the first time I heard it, I'm like, what what's
Speaker 6: he saying? What's that?
Speaker 13: Turned to a manager over on the sidelines, price like
Speaker 13: what is he saying? That's his cuss word? So anyway,
Speaker 13: but Mark has some things that he's that he says
Speaker 13: that that, you know, like being being intentional, right, I
Speaker 13: mean that was that was that was a specific one
Speaker 13: when back back in the day, like what you know
Speaker 13: he would be like if he was remember he was captain,
Speaker 13: try captain, but captain the year w went the championship
Speaker 13: ninety six, and so you know, he was constantly felt
Speaker 13: the uh, he felt like he was in the position,
Speaker 13: which he definitely was too, you know, you know, right
Speaker 13: for practice in the locker room.
Speaker 6: Before we took the court.
Speaker 13: All right, guys, we need to we need to be
Speaker 13: real intentional today about practice.
Speaker 6: All right, real intentional. Now we all knew what he meant.
Speaker 13: Focused, not not not fooling around, not no, you know,
Speaker 13: don't be sloppy today. We got we gotta, we gotta.
Speaker 13: We have zwn in so that one I've heard, I
Speaker 13: have helped you with that one in a moment. But
Speaker 13: he also uses one. He also uses one. And this
Speaker 13: one he always said with a smile on his face,
Speaker 13: leading me and I presume my teammates to believe this
Speaker 13: was either something that it was just a joke to
Speaker 13: him or more more than likely because I think there's
Speaker 13: some truth to this. It was a truism for him,
Speaker 13: but he always he said it so much that he
Speaker 13: knew it became funny does and that was this life
Speaker 13: and and I'm putting my I'm putting my hands together
Speaker 13: in a circle. Everything was about the circle. Everything's about circle.
Speaker 13: It all comes back around and to be honest, a
Speaker 13: lot of us wasn't. We weren't exactly sure what he
Speaker 13: meant by that, and we kind of made up our
Speaker 13: own stuff. But it was like everything comes back to
Speaker 13: the circle, which was when we had a bad practice,
Speaker 13: right he.
Speaker 6: You know, he he, you know, he, he.
Speaker 13: Would know it and we'd all have to admit it
Speaker 13: because Coach made sure we understood it.
Speaker 6: And then we'd walk out of there.
Speaker 13: And you know, you know, because Mark is impossibly positive
Speaker 13: and and and it's still the same way today with
Speaker 13: the players.
Speaker 6: But he'd come back to the circle.
Speaker 13: Guys, listen, it's all gonna come back around, right, It's
Speaker 13: it's about the circle. But then he would use it
Speaker 13: in ways that it would make no sense. It would
Speaker 13: make no sense. You know, Yeah, somebody somebody got somebody
Speaker 13: got sick from eating something, and he would go, you know,
Speaker 13: life is about the circle. I mean, it was just
Speaker 13: and that that's not a true story, that part, but
Speaker 13: that's how he would use it, just in bizarre ways.
Speaker 13: But well, and that's that's that's the thing in his
Speaker 13: mind is always work. He is never not thinking about
Speaker 13: basketball and about UK basketball. I mean, he just and
Speaker 13: I think that's what's exciting to me because if you can't,
Speaker 13: if you couldn't, if you can't tell so far, and
Speaker 13: I'm talking about you, I'm telling you, just talking about
Speaker 13: fans in general. He and his staff do not miss
Speaker 13: a thing, right, Oh, yeah, we're gonna talk to do
Speaker 13: not miss a thing.
Speaker 5: Because that's what helped him beat Duke.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 5: When we come back camera Mills in the garage, we're
Speaker 5: going to talk about that Duke game and the fact
Speaker 5: that Mark Pope made quite the splash, but through his
Speaker 5: team there was a assistance Innis players here on six
Speaker 5: thirty WLAP Welcome back to the Big Blue Cider here
Speaker 5: in the garage with Cameron Mills. Last time you were
Speaker 5: here was just before the season began.
Speaker 6: I think it's before the first exhibition.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we were talking obviously, we had already talked
Speaker 5: about how excited you were about Mark Pope arriving. But
Speaker 5: then on your follow up visit, like you were some
Speaker 5: sort of doctor, you told us what to expect.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And as it comes to and you've worked all the
Speaker 5: games for radio, I think you work one for TV?
Speaker 5: Is it two two? Two?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Is it? In terms of the way they play style
Speaker 5: of Planet what you expect because you go to practice
Speaker 5: all the time. Yeah, as we said.
Speaker 13: Well based on what I saw in practice, yes, because
Speaker 13: I mean the way they play. Yeah, because there were
Speaker 13: moments in practice where like the passing the ball movement,
Speaker 13: like you would see that in practice, and then in
Speaker 13: my cynicalness, I would sit there and think, looks good, right,
Speaker 13: and not that I thought specifically this, but let's see
Speaker 13: what this looks like against Duke, so to speak. You know,
Speaker 13: it would be like it looks good in practice, but
Speaker 13: in practice, You've always got that dichotomy of Okay, well,
Speaker 13: if offense looks.
Speaker 6: This good, the defense doesn't.
Speaker 13: Right, Yeah, because you've got you've got guys on the
Speaker 13: defense playing defense. Who these are the guys that are
Speaker 13: gonna be playing for us too? So and I always
Speaker 13: found that fast thing, you know, during my time under
Speaker 13: coach Patina, just in just in basketball general, specifically under
Speaker 13: at UK under Patino and Smith whereas you know, because
Speaker 13: they're doing a lot of yelling, you know, and Mark
Speaker 13: doesn't do a lot of yelling, but they're doing a
Speaker 13: lot of yelling, and so they're yelling at you know,
Speaker 13: the blue team because the white team just whipped them.
Speaker 13: To two possessions in a row. Well, I mean, so
Speaker 13: I can remember one time when Patino was happy with
Speaker 13: both at the same time. Huh, one time in three
Speaker 13: years and my three years with him where we ran
Speaker 13: and ran and ran, and he.
Speaker 6: And and I thget about it.
Speaker 13: This way, offense didn't score and they still had the ball.
Speaker 13: You know, Now Shocklock had probably run out by this point,
Speaker 13: but it was like he blew the whistle and he said,
Speaker 13: all right, move it on to the next way. He
Speaker 13: goes that was great offense, great defense. Never heard him.
Speaker 13: I mean, that's the only time I ever heard him
Speaker 13: say that. And I'm like, how can that be? I mean,
Speaker 13: the defense, you know, stopped offense from scoring. Offense didn't
Speaker 13: turn it over, but they certainly ran out to shock clock.
Speaker 13: And it was just always fascinating. But so watching practice, yeah,
Speaker 13: you see flashes. But I'll say this, they look they
Speaker 13: have looked better in the games than they have in practice.
Speaker 13: Really yeah, And I think a lot of that goes
Speaker 13: down to something that surprised me the other night against Duke,
Speaker 13: and that was our defense. I did not know. Look,
Speaker 13: I am not prone to recognize good defense myself personally.
Speaker 13: I can tell when someone gets to steal. But you know,
Speaker 13: I just don't. I am a ball watcher, right, which
Speaker 13: means I am not a student of the game. The
Speaker 13: students of the game like Mark at all. They see
Speaker 13: it all. Coach Patino always amazed me. And Mark is
Speaker 13: the same way where he can watch a just and
Speaker 13: I think I've used this example with you before where
Speaker 13: it can be a standard you know, initiation to the
Speaker 13: right or or even before the initiation we're doing downscreen
Speaker 13: pop outs. Point guard throws it basically a motion offense.
Speaker 13: Point guard throws it to the right wing, meaning he
Speaker 13: screens away. Big men screen away. So now we've got
Speaker 13: two guys coming to the ball. I mean, just just
Speaker 13: basic standard motion offense. He could watch that run for
Speaker 13: thirty seconds and then he had the ability to in
Speaker 13: fifteen seconds dissect and communicate everything that the offense did
Speaker 13: wrong and everything that the defense did wrong, and then
Speaker 13: communicate the corrections. And that's the way Pope is. And
Speaker 13: then you add this staff and this staff, I mean,
Speaker 13: we heard, we had all heard they were man, he's
Speaker 13: putting together. And I'd hear this from you know, national
Speaker 13: pundits or you know national people in college basketball. I
Speaker 13: would hear this that this is I mean, I know
Speaker 13: you all may not have known who this guy was
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Speaker 13: a guy. This is this is the guy you want.
Speaker 13: Coach Figer, Coach Figer, Coach Hart, Coach Brooks, even Coach Fox.
Speaker 13: I mean, with Coach Fox, you've kind of got that
Speaker 13: senior statesman of you know, he wasn't necessarily wildly successful
Speaker 13: in his college career coaching, right, but.
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Speaker 6: He's still coached D one, So he.
Speaker 5: Made a name for himself prior to getting to George.
Speaker 5: Georgia didn't work out for him. Yeah, but prior to that,
Speaker 5: he was well known, well respected. I hope he didn't
Speaker 5: lose respect. What happened to Georgia.
Speaker 6: I think wrote well respected.
Speaker 13: I think is the key now because I think he
Speaker 13: is to me, to the guys, to the players, I
Speaker 13: think he's the one.
Speaker 6: I think he's the.
Speaker 13: One because I've told you just four we always had
Speaker 13: the assistant coaches, coach O'Brian Kochobi. We would go to
Speaker 13: Ka Chobe to complain about coach Patino, of course, and
Speaker 13: I have a feeling, right and not not that, not
Speaker 13: that any of players to complain about Coach Pope because
Speaker 13: he just has a way of Now, he'll he'll push you.
Speaker 13: I mean, you know there are moments where the guy,
Speaker 13: you know, they're running and running and he's just like,
Speaker 13: I mean it's it's like, hey, guys, we'll be here
Speaker 13: all day, right. I Mean, he's got that attitude that
Speaker 13: Patino has of you know, get across the line, stop
Speaker 13: missing the stop make sure you're getting you know, I
Speaker 13: mean he is. He is a stickler for details, which
Speaker 13: he should be. But it's it's just fun watching him
Speaker 13: take the take the best parts of Patino and the
Speaker 13: best parts of as you said earlier, and and I
Speaker 13: appreciate you saying this, and I think it was all air, uh,
Speaker 13: but of Larry Bird, George Carl you know all I
Speaker 13: mean because in my world Mark Pope was coach by
Speaker 13: Rick Patino. I'd forgotten about the fact he spent what
Speaker 13: nine years in the NBA.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, you know. And then Turkey.
Speaker 13: We gotta throw Turkey in there, because Turkey came one
Speaker 13: of the greatest stories ever uh to us his former
Speaker 13: teammates of his. But uh, it's just interesting to find
Speaker 13: him take you know, bits and pieces from these from
Speaker 13: these mentors and become a mentor himself.
Speaker 5: And he put it all together the other night, did
Speaker 5: plan the sideline, the halftime adjustments.
Speaker 13: The last play that last underneath out of bounds. Oh
Speaker 13: my gosh, who thought that was coming?
Speaker 5: And now we didn't we'd all seen it before. What
Speaker 5: you're talking about, the throw of the long throw. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean, I've talked about it and those of us
Speaker 5: old timers. Joe b used that you know who caught
Speaker 5: that ball on that play? Jack given Jack.
Speaker 6: I was going to guess Jack because head.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that play was called Rick Rick the name for
Speaker 5: Rick Roby.
Speaker 6: Do we know what it was called the other day?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 6: Okay, but Roby?
Speaker 5: Because Tom brought it up to Mark after the game.
Speaker 5: He yeah, and uh uh so, yeah it was that.
Speaker 5: I was. I was laughing when I saw that play.
Speaker 5: I had such a smile on my face. But anyway,
Speaker 5: coming back, we've only got a couple of minutes left
Speaker 5: in this segment. But did you sit there through the
Speaker 5: second half and did you just kind of nod and
Speaker 5: grin like I knew it? Or were you jumping up
Speaker 5: and down like a.
Speaker 13: Maniacor both both jumping up and down like a mania. Look,
Speaker 13: I have struggled to watch, and this is this is
Speaker 13: nothing to do with cal Perry. This is how I am.
Speaker 13: I've struggled. I don't care what happens in the regular season.
Speaker 13: I don't care when we hit March. I become an
Speaker 13: idiot fan like the rest of us. Okay, I become
Speaker 13: I'm I get superstitious. I get like, oh, well, I
Speaker 13: walked in the room and we weren't doing well, so
Speaker 13: I'm walking out of the room, so we do well.
Speaker 13: I mean, I become an absolute idiot. But the other
Speaker 13: night and the other night, even though it wasn't tournament
Speaker 13: atmosphere to me, because there was nothing on the line,
Speaker 13: There was nothing on the line. There is nothing on
Speaker 13: theline meaning win or go home, it wasn't that wasn't there.
Speaker 13: Now everything else was there that looks like a tournament
Speaker 13: except for the Michigan State Kansas game, where the heck
Speaker 13: was everybody that was embarrassing. But I just I mean
Speaker 13: I sat there Washington, and I've watched it twice since then,
Speaker 13: and I mean, I'm like, if anybody, if anybody had
Speaker 13: doubt that, and a lot of people did that first
Speaker 13: twenty four hours that we were getting one of the
Speaker 13: best coaching coaches in college basketball, one of the most
Speaker 13: mindful coaches, one of the most motivating coaches. If anybody
Speaker 13: was gonna become if anyone needed to be the next
Speaker 13: coach at Kentucky, it was this guy. And a lot
Speaker 13: of people doubt it. And I get it, and I've
Speaker 13: even had my You know, I know he's gonna be
Speaker 13: good here. I don't know how quickly he's gonna be
Speaker 13: able to be good and to me, even though the
Speaker 13: assignment wasn't completed against Duke, And I think that's important
Speaker 13: to remind everybody. Mark is the one talking about the assignment.
Speaker 13: The assignment is banner number nine. Not to beat Duke
Speaker 13: in the third game of the twenty twenty four to
Speaker 13: twenty five season.
Speaker 6: That doesn't matter.
Speaker 13: However, what did matter about that game is that no
Speaker 13: one knew how good we were, and I think that
Speaker 13: includes Mark. And now we know what we're capable of, right,
Speaker 13: and now we know how much better we might get.
Speaker 13: All right, I'm gonna even say that so much better
Speaker 13: we will get minus injury and things that are out
Speaker 13: of his hands.
Speaker 5: And the great thing is he and his staff can
Speaker 5: break down his video pick it apart already have I'm
Speaker 5: sure they already have maybe four or five. That's what
Speaker 5: that's what coaches do, That's what great State is, right exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we're going to talk more, of course, about how this happened.
Speaker 5: Kentucky's went over due with Cameron Mills. He is right
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Speaker 5: Welcome back to the Big Blue and Sider. I re
Speaker 5: number two of our program. We were in the garage
Speaker 5: with Cameron Mills of course talking well so far we've
Speaker 5: kind of skirted the issue.
Speaker 6: Well we always have to talk sient.
Speaker 5: That's true. Yes, but we are going to break down
Speaker 5: Kentucky and Duke and Moore as we talk college basketball
Speaker 5: with Cameron part of our UK Sports Network coverage of
Speaker 5: the Wildcats. Well, let's go back to the game as
Speaker 5: it began. Kentucky gets off to the good start thanks
Speaker 5: to I'm sure this touched your heart three point shooting.
Speaker 5: But I thought Billis made a great point. I was
Speaker 5: bounced back and forth between the TV and radio. Sure,
Speaker 5: Jack Gibbons down the stretch was giggling. It was so
Speaker 5: great here having a great time.
Speaker 6: I like, I think we all were. Yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 5: But at one point Bill has talked about and I
Speaker 5: had just thought this that Kentucky was really working hard
Speaker 5: to get buckets and everything was coming so easily for Duke.
Speaker 5: Did you see it that way?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Yeah, And to be honest, I kind of expected it
Speaker 13: that way. That was that was well, I think because
Speaker 13: and and I'm I felt I fell into the trap
Speaker 13: that a lot of other people do.
Speaker 6: This is why I hate hate.
Speaker 13: One of the reasons I hate preseason polls or polls
Speaker 13: in general, is because just because Duke is ranked sixth
Speaker 13: and we're nineteenth. We're the underdog. No, there's no such
Speaker 13: thing as an underdog until you get to March. There
Speaker 13: isn't because in March you've had a year to go by.
Speaker 13: You had a year for the media or more importantly,
Speaker 13: the committee to really evaluate these teams. And now we
Speaker 13: can more accurately put in one through seventy.
Speaker 6: Whatever it is.
Speaker 13: So, I mean, and not to get too sidetracked here,
Speaker 13: but the mere stupidity, arrogance, cockiness, self interest of bracketology
Speaker 13: and you know, well, I mean, we're in January and.
Speaker 5: You guys suggest one thing. What for the average fan,
Speaker 5: which you are not. Stop It's fun.
Speaker 6: It's fun.
Speaker 13: So these people, so, these people, So these fans that
Speaker 13: come up to me after a loss to a team
Speaker 13: that was ranked behind us and can't sleep for three days.
Speaker 6: That doesn't sound like fun to me.
Speaker 5: No, some take it, you're right, Some take it away.
Speaker 13: Some Look, we live in Kentucky. The reason our basketball
Speaker 13: program is what it is is because those fans, God
Speaker 13: love them, as much as they can drive me crazy
Speaker 13: with the importance they put on this I mean, ultimate
Speaker 13: life important some of them. If it wasn't for that
Speaker 13: we become an Indiana. We become a Louisville. I mean,
Speaker 13: we become a U C.
Speaker 5: L A. I mean, yeah.
Speaker 13: I mean, I mean when look Gillespie, we gave him
Speaker 13: two years, which is unfair in normal circumstances. But here
Speaker 13: and that, and that's I think why I've been so
Speaker 13: excited about Pope, obviously for a thousand reasons, but also
Speaker 13: nervous because I'm like, I mean, other than and and
Speaker 13: it's got to work and this and this is because
Speaker 13: he's our guy. I mean, for those of us who
Speaker 13: played with him, for all, for former players in general,
Speaker 13: that he has done an incredible job of embracing.
Speaker 5: Back into the guys got off the bus and more.
Speaker 6: Oh and a lot more.
Speaker 13: For all of us, it's like, this is the first
Speaker 13: time we've got a guy I know, coach a Coach
Speaker 13: Hall played here. But I I read the other day
Speaker 13: he didn't graduate here. I didn't know that, But this
Speaker 13: is this and Coach Hall played years ago. Right for
Speaker 13: those of us that have played in the last forty
Speaker 13: fifty years, you know, hey, this is one of us.
Speaker 6: He gets it.
Speaker 13: He understands what it's like to be in this glass house,
Speaker 13: and he also has a love for this program that.
Speaker 6: We all have. But now he's he's like, he's at
Speaker 6: the very top of it.
Speaker 13: I mean, and for him, as he said, this is
Speaker 13: his dream job. I mean, when he quit Columbia Medical
Speaker 13: School and went into coaching. I mean, I honestly, I
Speaker 13: don't know this for a fact, but I honestly think
Speaker 13: like if he did his dream board, this was at
Speaker 13: the top and he got.
Speaker 6: Here in eleven years.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's stupid, But what does that say, I mean,
Speaker 13: what does that say about how he climbed the coaching
Speaker 13: tree or to the coaching ladder and what he had
Speaker 13: done right to lead Mitch Barnhardt to his door?
Speaker 5: You know the other thing, though, You're right, it seems
Speaker 5: like a pretty quick climb, except for the fact that
Speaker 5: look at all the things that had to fall into
Speaker 5: place for him to get here, for the people that
Speaker 5: had to say no or I can't talk right now,
Speaker 5: that kind of thing. But it because of all that,
Speaker 5: it was interesting that Barnhardt recognized, look, it's time for
Speaker 5: this guy. You know. Sometimes, you know, we all thought
Speaker 5: Billy Gillespie. Ninety five percent of the people who weighed
Speaker 5: in on it thought Billy Gillespie was the right choice.
Speaker 6: He was an up and comer totally.
Speaker 13: However, there was that one person I've told you that
Speaker 13: and you know who it is who called me the
Speaker 13: day of the announcement and said.
Speaker 6: You all just do you all just? And I'm like,
Speaker 6: I didn't make the decision and.
Speaker 5: Found that out much later. Who that was.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to say no, no, no, but.
Speaker 13: But but I mean they were everything workout?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah on day one, I know.
Speaker 5: But everything fell into place for Mark. But there's a
Speaker 5: reason for that.
Speaker 13: Well, it's one of the It's that thing where even
Speaker 13: though I don't believe in luck, it's like I do
Speaker 13: believe you make your own luck kind of thing, and
Speaker 13: that that has pope to a tee and always has
Speaker 13: been yeah, work, not just hard work.
Speaker 6: But yeah, that's probably a majority of it.
Speaker 13: Same thing intelligence in basketball. Intelligence. But I think this
Speaker 13: is the key for him is that. And I think
Speaker 13: this is what I've learned since he's been here, is
Speaker 13: that because he's so intelligent, because because he's so thoughtful.
Speaker 13: I mean, this guy's in his head in a good
Speaker 13: way constantly.
Speaker 6: He is.
Speaker 13: He is always thinking. And when I say thinking, I
Speaker 13: don't mean just about basketball. I mean thinking about other
Speaker 13: people's feelings. That story about Deb Moore and Pope in
Speaker 13: the article we were talking about just fe minutes ago,
Speaker 13: the New York Times article, the Athletic article. That story
Speaker 13: is Pope where you know Deb gives him some advice
Speaker 13: posted what was his first press conference.
Speaker 5: She thought she had stepped over a line.
Speaker 6: Well, because he reacted in a way apparently that yes.
Speaker 13: And then the way I read the story, and tell
Speaker 13: me if and tell me if I read it wrong,
Speaker 13: But the way I read the story is he kind
Speaker 13: of popped at her, maybe a little bit.
Speaker 6: It's kind of how I imagine.
Speaker 13: But Deb was worried she'd overstepped her bounds, which I
Speaker 13: don't think she had. I think she was doing exactly
Speaker 13: what she should have done, which was to give the
Speaker 13: coach advice about dealing with the media.
Speaker 6: And then Mark in the.
Speaker 13: Article right, it says over the weekend, and it even
Speaker 13: mentions going to church, So that entire weekend, Mark has
Speaker 13: been thinking, I'm sure about other things, but including yeah,
Speaker 13: it was, and you know what, and it weighed well,
Speaker 13: I know it weighed on her because this is boss,
Speaker 13: this is my boss, and so but it weighed on
Speaker 13: Mark probably what she said and I think to be fair.
Speaker 13: And again I wasn't there obviously, I don't know how
Speaker 13: he said it to her, because Mark's gonna be on
Speaker 13: with these coaches, like because he never yells when he
Speaker 13: never like you know, gets on you. When he does
Speaker 13: get on you, you're you are just I mean, you
Speaker 13: turn white, because he's not like that usually. So but
Speaker 13: he spent a week in thinking about it, and I
Speaker 13: think he was. I think he was as thoughtful about
Speaker 13: what she said as he was how he said it.
Speaker 6: And and I could be making that last part up.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 13: I think on what I read, Yeah, that that's how
Speaker 13: I read it, is that he basically went back to her.
Speaker 13: However he did it and said not only you're right,
Speaker 13: but I think and maybe that's maybe that's all he said.
Speaker 13: But even doing that to me, that that shows self awareness.
Speaker 13: That shows and and and again I'm saying these things
Speaker 13: knowing that's who Mark is. But it's just fun to
Speaker 13: see it come back out again, right, because that's who
Speaker 13: Mark was when we played it was it was apology
Speaker 13: if he needed to apologize, It was respect if he
Speaker 13: if he needed to be respectful, which he was always respectful.
Speaker 13: He was silly when he wanted to be silly, and
Speaker 13: we needed to be to be silly, like when we
Speaker 13: were all down, Mark would be the goofball and you know,
Speaker 13: kind of lighthearted, make the room more light heart. He
Speaker 13: always had this ad. I've told you the story before.
Speaker 13: Lafter my very first practice, we're walking and I am like,
Speaker 13: before practice, I'm like, I don't know if I mean
Speaker 13: everything I've been told. I'm I'm going to be dead
Speaker 13: in thirty minutes, right, I'm not gonna be able to
Speaker 13: survive this. And my body is not prepared for this,
Speaker 13: even though my body had been preparing for this for
Speaker 13: at that point four or five months longer than that.
Speaker 13: Maybe even we're walking out of that practice, my very
Speaker 13: first one, the beginning of the ninety four ninety five season,
Speaker 13: and Mark is walking in front of me as we
Speaker 13: leave mister Kyle's office and he says, and I'm desperate
Speaker 13: for some feedback, And I said, Mark, Mark, can I
Speaker 13: talk to you from Matt hey Man? I said, is
Speaker 13: that about as bad as it gets? And Mark being Mark,
Speaker 13: before he did anything or said anything, he thought about it. Yeah,
Speaker 13: that's about as bad as it'll get.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 13: And I remember walking up all the way to the
Speaker 13: lodge getting lunch, thinking I can do this.
Speaker 6: I can do this. If that's it, I handled it.
Speaker 13: But I needed Mark in the position he was in
Speaker 13: after being here for a year, to tell me this
Speaker 13: is this is how bad it'll get. But I survived
Speaker 13: it so I can take more.
Speaker 5: Cameron Mills in the garage, we're talking, of course, about
Speaker 5: Mark Pope and the Wildcats. We kind of got into
Speaker 5: the Duke game. We will get more in Wesson Bolts
Speaker 5: when we come back. As we talk about Kentucky's win,
Speaker 5: I'll call it an upset win, but Camera doesn't like.
Speaker 6: We'll find out the end of the year.
Speaker 5: Martacom six thirty w LAP Welcome back to the Big
Speaker 5: lewins Sider. We're in the garage with Camera Mills talking
Speaker 5: about Mark Pope, the Duke game, Kentucky basketball in general.
Speaker 5: As I said, we kind of flirted with actually talking
Speaker 5: about the game before we.
Speaker 13: Get off imagines.
Speaker 5: Hey, I'm supposed to run this show, but I don't
Speaker 5: let you exactly right, Yeah, through all these years I
Speaker 5: should know better, But all right, I started talking to
Speaker 5: you about how the game unfolded with three pointers.
Speaker 6: Yeah, uh, and then.
Speaker 5: It was it went Duke's way in the fron first half. Now,
Speaker 5: I've said this many.
Speaker 6: Many times, the first half.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, And I've said this many many times. I
Speaker 5: always go back to something Steve Brown, former Kentucky defensive coordinator,
Speaker 5: said to us the assembled media just one day off
Speaker 5: the coffee sit. People simple make such a big deal
Speaker 5: out of a quote unquote adjustments at halftime. YEA, Ordinarily
Speaker 5: adjustments are just.
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Speaker 5: Reinforcing what you practice, exactly, what you know you're supposed
Speaker 5: to be doing exactly. You're not doing anything new. People
Speaker 5: think it's like, all right, we're throwing out the game
Speaker 5: plan and we're drawn up a new one here in
Speaker 5: about eleven minutes. But that ain't the case.
Speaker 6: It could be there, but do you know why what
Speaker 6: do you mean that the case?
Speaker 5: We're not because you can't create an install a game
Speaker 5: plan in less than fifteen minutes, well, especially when you're
Speaker 5: playing a team like Duke. So my question to you is,
Speaker 5: what did Kentucky? What do you what do you think
Speaker 5: they talked about at the half? What did you see
Speaker 5: them do better in the second half that they did
Speaker 5: not do in the first half, thereby helping them win
Speaker 5: the game? Didn't do anything new, they just did it better.
Speaker 5: What did they do?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 13: Let let let's talk about that first, because that that
Speaker 13: that that is definitely a pet peep of miment and
Speaker 13: because I think the adjustments at halftime, because I hear
Speaker 13: that from people a lot, and I don't know where
Speaker 13: that that and I'm not saying there are none but
Speaker 13: I mean they're minute, they're minute, they're like, Okay, maybe
Speaker 13: maybe we need to start, you know, on this downscreen,
Speaker 13: maybe we need to look at playing it a little different.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 13: But the bottom line is you spent three days drilling
Speaker 13: into these guys' heads how we're going to play it,
Speaker 13: and then in the moment, on the in front of
Speaker 13: the big lives of national television, you're gonna change. That's
Speaker 13: not working, that's gonna make things worse. So if you
Speaker 13: believe in your game plan, if you have a plan
Speaker 13: to beat a team, you are sold out to it
Speaker 13: through the completion of the game. What you do at
Speaker 13: halftime is you re emphasize and you make some minor adjustments,
Speaker 13: not to the game plan, but to how your guys
Speaker 13: are executing the game plan. It's like when Cow was
Speaker 13: here and everybody said his offense is antiquated.
Speaker 6: That always bothered me, because look.
Speaker 13: There's no such thing as antiquated. All you know what's antiquated.
Speaker 13: If we were still shooting into peach bass, that would
Speaker 13: be antiquated. That's not what we're talking about.
Speaker 5: What we're talking about is everybody does.
Speaker 6: It's just a different version of it. And the ones
Speaker 6: that excel at it, execute it. Yes, that is offense.
Speaker 13: And look, there is very little difference between Pope's offense
Speaker 13: and Cow's offense, except Pope has got older guys who
Speaker 13: understand the game more just because they're older. They've been
Speaker 13: taught more, just because they're older. They played at this
Speaker 13: level more, just because they're older. And you've got a
Speaker 13: coaching staff that is drilling and drilling and drilling the
Speaker 13: same thing all the time, consistently into their heads about
Speaker 13: what our offense looks like. And remember the one last thing,
Speaker 13: the bandwidth. He's got guys, because that's what he said,
Speaker 13: I'm good guys who can absorb this bandwidth that we're
Speaker 13: gonna get them. And then they go out and they've executed.
Speaker 5: And what about the high volume three point shooting? How
Speaker 5: does that fit in? Because yeah, they might be running
Speaker 5: the same offense, just executing it differently, but they clearly
Speaker 5: shoot more threes than almost any team in the country.
Speaker 6: Not yet they don't.
Speaker 13: Not this year we shot we shot around twenty twenty five.
Speaker 6: The first game.
Speaker 13: Twenty five, we shot thirty five. We shot thirty five,
Speaker 13: but twenty five the first game too, Yeah, thirty five.
Speaker 13: The second game twenty five against Doo. Yeah we're not.
Speaker 13: We're not really coming close to leading the country in
Speaker 13: three point shots right now, not even close. Like if
Speaker 13: you and I know it's early, but if you look,
Speaker 13: you look at Kimpom. I mean there's one team out there,
Speaker 13: I think it's Wafford. Of all teams, like Wafford shot
Speaker 13: like I don't and it may not be so, but
Speaker 13: I remember looking at Major, Yeah it was. It was
Speaker 13: a mid major that like, first of all, they had
Speaker 13: I think one team got up like eighty shots in
Speaker 13: a game, and I think it was Wolford. But like,
Speaker 13: there are other teams out there that are shooting more
Speaker 13: threes than we are. So I don't think at this
Speaker 13: point anyway we are shooting because Figure City wants thirty
Speaker 13: five threes a game. Yeah right, We've only done that
Speaker 13: once in two games and three games now and we've
Speaker 13: won all three of them.
Speaker 6: So look there is here's the thing.
Speaker 13: We're we are going to shoot a lot, and I
Speaker 13: think honestly it'll be a minimum of twenty five a game.
Speaker 13: But what matters more is not how many you shoot,
Speaker 13: it's how many you make. And with the exception of
Speaker 13: the fact that the mere fear of us getting off
Speaker 13: thirty five if you're scouting us, right, guys, we can't
Speaker 13: let them get good looks from the three, right, Okay,
Speaker 13: play us that way because once we are firing on
Speaker 13: all cylinders, which we're not yet, which is what's exciting
Speaker 13: to me. Once we're firing on all cylinders, we're going
Speaker 13: to be the team where we're going to be able
Speaker 13: to hopefully beat you inside and outside, right, because that's
Speaker 13: what look if you are a three, this is why
Speaker 13: teams come in to rupt.
Speaker 6: How did they beat us?
Speaker 13: If it's an underdog team, right, if it's a team
Speaker 13: that we have no business losing to in the last
Speaker 13: twenty five thirty years, how did they beat us? There
Speaker 13: is one way, one way only that they beat us,
Speaker 13: and they lit it up from the three point line. Yeah,
Speaker 13: that's the only way they can beat us. So now
Speaker 13: you've got a team that is well should be if
Speaker 13: I believed in rankings, should be ranked in the top
Speaker 13: five on Monday. Won't be, but should be especially considering well,
Speaker 13: let's see, and this is again the stupidity of the polls.
Speaker 13: Arkansas was one and one, We were two and oh
Speaker 13: and yet Arkansas still was one place in front of
Speaker 13: us in the eight people, duke, Now is what two
Speaker 13: and one?
Speaker 6: We're three?
Speaker 13: And oh why should they be in front of us,
Speaker 13: especially when when we beat them poul wise, just pole wise?
Speaker 13: Why are they better than us? We just proved they weren't,
Speaker 13: and we got a better record than they they are,
Speaker 13: and we won't leave frog them, We won't stupid.
Speaker 5: I know better than to waste my time after all
Speaker 5: these years trying to explain what you mean to some people,
Speaker 5: mean to others?
Speaker 6: You did you explained to it's fun?
Speaker 5: No? No, no, beyond that, I mean, is it which
Speaker 5: team has the best record or which team is better
Speaker 5: than another? Oh?
Speaker 6: Do they know which team is better than the other?
Speaker 5: Guess work exactly right, exactly so.
Speaker 6: Basketball is not a game of guesses.
Speaker 13: That's why it hits double zero, and there are two
Speaker 13: sets of scores up on the court, up on the scoreboard.
Speaker 6: Spend how we find out?
Speaker 5: Too much energy.
Speaker 6: Ing about this. I'm not venting. I'm converting the world.
Speaker 5: I don't know anybody listen, By golly, he's right. I
Speaker 5: am never looking at it again.
Speaker 6: Several that have at least told me that you know
Speaker 6: you're right. You know, why not not as many as
Speaker 6: I like.
Speaker 5: Just to calm you down. That's the only they're taking
Speaker 5: the thorn out of your Pam. This is what they're doing.
Speaker 13: I played in the at this at this place for
Speaker 13: four years. I won two national championship. I'm not saying
Speaker 13: I got everything right, but I'm telling you the things
Speaker 13: that I'm passionate about, I'm right about.
Speaker 5: I understood, all right, we only got a couple of
Speaker 5: minutes back in this segment. But uh, tell me what
Speaker 5: impressed you the most about the second half and two
Speaker 5: minutes or less.
Speaker 13: The consistency, the lack of panic. Good call, Yeah, I
Speaker 13: mean and again, upper classmen, upper classmen know we're down
Speaker 13: ten with five minutes to go.
Speaker 6: We that's that wasn't our situation.
Speaker 13: But nonetheless, we're down ten with five minutes to go,
Speaker 13: gay mid and over, we're up ten.
Speaker 6: With five minutes ago came over.
Speaker 13: That's what senior players, and I don't mean specifically, but upperclassmen,
Speaker 13: that's what they learn over their course of their college career.
Speaker 13: And we've got what twenty five of them on our team, right,
Speaker 13: I mean, it's absurd. The maturity le and I also
Speaker 13: think the maturity level is what leads to the unselfishness,
Speaker 13: the passing it is we not I. I think Marcus
Speaker 13: drilled that into their heads. I think I think what
Speaker 13: he said about you know what was this quote of
Speaker 13: the press conference, we are you are not doing Kentucky
Speaker 13: a service by allowing them to wear right, uh, Kentucky
Speaker 13: cross their chest something like that. But yeah, the lack
Speaker 13: of panic in that game, the lack of emotion right
Speaker 13: until after the game. And I'm not saying they weren't
Speaker 13: celebrating in high five. I'm just saying there wasn't any
Speaker 13: we're gonna lose this game. There wasn't Like I use myself,
Speaker 13: for example, my feelings on the on the bench against
Speaker 13: Duke in ninety eight when we were down seventeen. I
Speaker 13: was failing myself and my teammates with what I was
Speaker 13: thinking of feeling said that I was failing my teammates.
Speaker 6: On the other hand, you were thinking, well, we've had
Speaker 6: a good run.
Speaker 13: Well, I selfishly, I was thinking, well I've had a
Speaker 13: good run because who thought I'd win a national Who
Speaker 13: thought that.
Speaker 6: This was my last? Well if we lost it in
Speaker 6: my last name, But you thought it.
Speaker 5: Was going to be your last game?
Speaker 6: Yeah, And that was the thing I was.
Speaker 13: I was having a pity party in the meantime, Wayne
Speaker 13: jeff Nase, Allen Sheimu jamal Out. I mean, they're all
Speaker 13: out there fighting to get us back in the point
Speaker 13: where I can just step in there and hit a
Speaker 13: three that somebody did.
Speaker 6: I'm wide open.
Speaker 5: Somebody tapped out.
Speaker 6: To that, Shemu tapped out to me. So but there
Speaker 6: was none of that in this Duke.
Speaker 13: No panic, man, no worry, no we I mean, you know,
Speaker 13: I'm not saying there weren't self doubts in the moment,
Speaker 13: but man, it's a team. There weren't Yeah and that,
Speaker 13: that and that and the other thing real quick Andrew
Speaker 13: Carr and not just because of his points, but because
Speaker 13: he helped us to a degree.
Speaker 5: And I want to come back to that because he's
Speaker 5: we haven't really talked about specific players in that game,
Speaker 5: but I want to get to that when we come back.
Speaker 5: There's so many you could go one through ten, which
Speaker 5: is what Mark Pope did. Of course, that death was
Speaker 5: was huge. It I don't back in a minut At
Speaker 5: six thirty w l A. P. Welcome back to the garage,
Speaker 5: where we find Cameron Mills sitting right across from me.
Speaker 5: We're talking, of course about Kentucky basketball and the Wildcats
Speaker 5: win over Duke. All right, going into the previous break,
Speaker 5: you mentioned Andrew Carr. During the break we talked about
Speaker 5: three or four other guys, but everybody Mark Pope played
Speaker 5: had some effect on the game. You can make the
Speaker 5: argument Jackson Robinson, even though statistically not a great game,
Speaker 5: he forced Duke's hand defensively, he did some good things
Speaker 5: on defense. But you mentioned.
Speaker 6: Well, I think number one. I feel bad because.
Speaker 13: As we were doing the pregame show, kind of thinking about,
Speaker 13: all right, who who Who is shutting down Cooper Flag?
Speaker 13: Who's shutting down cone Ca Nipple? How are we dealing
Speaker 13: with these two freshmen right now? I'm not saying I'm
Speaker 13: not I'm not dismissing the rest of Duke's team, but
Speaker 13: at this point number one going into that game, Cooper
Speaker 13: Flag highly touted as he is deservedly so, he was
Speaker 13: not the number one score on Duke Steam. That was
Speaker 13: Conan Nipple.
Speaker 5: I heard you talk about.
Speaker 13: Cooper has had cramping issues. He's played I don't think
Speaker 13: any more than twenty minutes a game, and he's he
Speaker 13: is going to.
Speaker 6: Be the number one draft pick. He's an amazing athletic player, though,
Speaker 6: But he's a freshman. And we saw that win. When
Speaker 6: did we?
Speaker 5: Is he seventy seven?
Speaker 13: All right, I'm changing everything I'm saying about him. Then
Speaker 13: he's he's not a freshman, he's.
Speaker 5: A reclassified Oh my gosh, should be a high school senior.
Speaker 6: This is kid.
Speaker 13: I know who's going to stop him, and Andrew make
Speaker 13: is the logical choice. But Andrew, I think, and this
Speaker 13: is what I said pregame, is one through five starting lineup,
Speaker 13: probably our weakest defender. And even though Cooper got twenty
Speaker 13: six points and twelve rebounds, I mean and not that
Speaker 13: this shows you that he played great defense.
Speaker 6: But Andrew had seventeen points.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean Andrew, Andrew played his best game of
Speaker 13: the year when I was not discounting him but discounting that.
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Speaker 13: Can he shut down Cooper? Well, I don't know if
Speaker 13: he did, if he didn't, but he had seventeen points
Speaker 13: on his own. He came to play, and that was obviously.
Speaker 13: I mean, you look at our just good on our scoring.
Speaker 13: Oh I had fifteen. He's been consistent. Amari had ten,
Speaker 13: ten points with how many rebounds, Actually he got his
Speaker 13: third double double in a row. You know, Lamont had nine.
Speaker 13: But everybody else, I mean, everyone else has under double
Speaker 13: digit scoring. So you've got Andrew, Amari and Otega. Everyone
Speaker 13: else has less than ten. You look at Duke, you
Speaker 13: got Cooper with twenty six.
Speaker 6: You got.
Speaker 13: Come on from I think he's the one from Sudan.
Speaker 13: He had he had ten and then you got tyrees
Speaker 13: with twelve and con Knipple with fourteen, and then is
Speaker 13: it I mean you got to do with four, do
Speaker 13: with four and do with two? Yeah, so I mean
Speaker 13: even though we.
Speaker 5: Didn't have our balance, yes, well, and.
Speaker 13: You know what, And I think that's where I go
Speaker 13: back to going forward. Who are you gonna stop, who's
Speaker 13: gonna scout, who's gonna focus on? Where I'm thinking we
Speaker 13: focused on Cooper Flag? And even I even had somebody
Speaker 13: call me and say, how do we deal with this?
Speaker 13: And I'm like, you know what, I don't know my job.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: When I saw the matchup, my first reaction was, oh, man,
Speaker 5: Flag's gonna foul mark or Andrew Carr, it's gonna fail
Speaker 5: him out of the game. He drew nine Cooper Flag
Speaker 5: drew nine fouls, but only a couple from from Car.
Speaker 13: Yeah, well, a lot of that could have been he
Speaker 13: got buy car into the lane of somebody else.
Speaker 6: But but Carr.
Speaker 5: Didn't foolishly grab him or try to block a shot.
Speaker 6: Seniority, thank you wisdom.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 13: And at the same time, and this is no offense
Speaker 13: to Cooper, because I cannot say enough about how incredibly
Speaker 13: talented and athletic he is, but what happened at the
Speaker 13: end of that game? Who made the three biggest mistakes
Speaker 13: At the end of that game, he got tired.
Speaker 5: Now, he should not have had the ball in the corner.
Speaker 5: They should have the point guard hand right. But I
Speaker 5: thought Duke as a team, and a friend of mine
Speaker 5: last night just said to me, who was at the
Speaker 5: game watching with his wife. Middle of the first half,
Speaker 5: he turned to his wife, said, these guys are tired, Duke.
Speaker 6: Why do you?
Speaker 13: I mean, I think and I'm guessing, but look, he's
Speaker 13: had these cramping issues.
Speaker 6: He's seventeen years old.
Speaker 5: He never played this much.
Speaker 13: He never played this much basketball practice. He's never gone
Speaker 13: this hard. He's never been pushed this hard. And I
Speaker 13: don't care how talented he is. And that's what's scary
Speaker 13: about him is that this year, this year at Duke,
Speaker 13: he's gonna be.
Speaker 5: A my March, your favorite.
Speaker 13: That's right, He's gonna be a monster. Technically April is
Speaker 13: my favorite. March's preparation. Hopefully you can get to April.
Speaker 13: But yeah, I mean, I just as a team, the
Speaker 13: team showed up for Kentucky.
Speaker 5: Yes, the name of a weak documentary.
Speaker 13: By the way, it is the name of a good
Speaker 13: documentary that hopefully bearing on Channel twenty seven here in
Speaker 13: the next few months, the next couple of months. It's
Speaker 13: also another fantastic documentary actually Immy nominated called Out of
Speaker 13: the Blue, but it's another story. But I just think
Speaker 13: going back to the fatigue thing that is a Rick
Speaker 13: Patino special. And yet Mark Pope and his team was
Speaker 13: able to wear down Duke University and their number supposedly
Speaker 13: number six ranked team in the country without pressing full
Speaker 13: court for forty minutes and not to pat myself on
Speaker 13: the back, but pregame at least I hope I said
Speaker 13: this on air because I know I thought it, and
Speaker 13: I know I talked to Dave about it. But there's
Speaker 13: got to be a way. Is Mark gonna find a
Speaker 13: way because conditioning is as big to him as it
Speaker 13: is to coach b So Mark's gonna find a way too.
Speaker 13: If we move the ball, you know what I think
Speaker 13: I did say this on there. If we move the
Speaker 13: ball the way we typically do, because it's what you
Speaker 13: learned this in elementary school, middle school. Make the defense
Speaker 13: work on defense, right, I mean the way we whip
Speaker 13: the ball around. I mean you're gonna have their big
Speaker 13: guys have to run out to challenge guards because the.
Speaker 6: Way we move and I mean just the way we play.
Speaker 13: I mean, you're gonna have fives on ones and fives
Speaker 13: on twos for them. And if we could wear them
Speaker 13: down by by by, you know, because look, we want
Speaker 13: the best shot when the best shot comes, but at
Speaker 13: the same time.
Speaker 6: You don't.
Speaker 13: You're not going down jacking up the first shot you
Speaker 13: get because you're not making the defense work. So the
Speaker 13: more you make the defense work, even in a half
Speaker 13: court setting, the better chance you have of especially when
Speaker 13: you're dealing with a bunch of freshmen. And they are right,
Speaker 13: I mean, we're not we're the experience, grown men team.
Speaker 13: They are a talented, apparently team of seventeen year olds,
Speaker 13: which is just baffles my mind, which I didn't know.
Speaker 5: Well he's seven.
Speaker 6: Well I know, I know, I know it, right.
Speaker 13: Exaggeration, So that was I think probably the more I
Speaker 13: think about. The most amazing thing to me is that
Speaker 13: we wore them down without forcing them into full court
Speaker 13: pressure constantly.
Speaker 6: And that is amazing to me.
Speaker 5: There's a great football axiom. I just realized it works
Speaker 5: for basketball. The best defense is less defense. In other words,
Speaker 5: if your offense stays on the field and you're forcing
Speaker 5: the other guys to play defense longer than you are,
Speaker 5: you've got a great shot at winning. If you come
Speaker 5: down and you can get you know, you can keep
Speaker 5: the other guys from scoring, and then you get the
Speaker 5: ball away, take the ball away from them. But there
Speaker 5: and you're back on offense and you're forcing them to
Speaker 5: play defense for longer, longer than Yeah, not that you
Speaker 5: want to choke things down and be so deliberate.
Speaker 6: Right, it's a balance, right, but you've got.
Speaker 5: To force them to work on defense.
Speaker 6: It's the same thing as what I said about the shooting.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Look, if you come down on transition and you've got
Speaker 13: an open three, then you take that. But if you
Speaker 13: don't have it, don't force That's why you don't force
Speaker 13: bad shots, right, forcing bad shots.
Speaker 6: Let's the defense off the hook. Eat, don't let the
Speaker 6: defense off the hook.
Speaker 5: It's almost a relief to them. Yes, yeah, we'll give
Speaker 5: you that shot all day. Yeah, and you know what,
Speaker 5: you hear that on the blue courts.
Speaker 6: Even if you make it a couple of times, keep
Speaker 6: shooting it, dude, you need to hit this all day.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 5: The most amazing stat to me for the entire game
Speaker 5: turnovers one for Duke in the first half, right, and
Speaker 5: only six in the second half, but three down the
Speaker 5: stretch like you said, and Kentucky only had ten for
Speaker 5: the game. So it was a fairly cleanly played game.
Speaker 5: And yet to your point, with the game on the line,
Speaker 5: it was the kiddies who made the miss.
Speaker 13: Well, now, according to what I'm looking at, Kentucky had nine,
Speaker 13: which is I'm not saying blow ten because you said ten.
Speaker 13: I'm saying that's the goal for Kentucky's blow ten turnovers.
Speaker 5: I've got the official statu sheet in front of me.
Speaker 6: I've got the I've got I've got the NC do
Speaker 6: bla stat cheat in front.
Speaker 5: Of printed off would you print? Are you printing off ESPN? No?
Speaker 6: I printed it off UK Athletics dot com.
Speaker 5: I'm looking at the same Really. Yeah, your says ten, nine.
Speaker 6: Mine says ten.
Speaker 5: Mine usually is ten or nine?
Speaker 6: Mine?
Speaker 13: Okay, Mine says Kentucky had nine turnovers, it says Duke
Speaker 13: had fifteen. No, Well, then somebody needs to go back
Speaker 13: and see if we even won the game, because according
Speaker 13: to this, what was final score on your statu sheet?
Speaker 5: Dick eight to six.
Speaker 13: Anyway points into paint. Oh yeah, we drilled them points
Speaker 13: in the paint. By twenty you.
Speaker 5: Were looking at a different, different statu sheet.
Speaker 6: I don't know what we're looking at. Then I got
Speaker 6: I got the final statue. Unless this is Duke Kentucky
Speaker 6: got nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 5: I got points in the paid in Duke forty six,
Speaker 5: Kentucky twenty six.
Speaker 6: I don't know what we're looking at. Then what what?
Speaker 5: What in the world are you looking at?
Speaker 13: You had me scared that I was even looking at
Speaker 13: maybe the Oh this is how many we had with eight,
Speaker 13: it's left to go on.
Speaker 5: No, you're says the same thing. What are you you're
Speaker 5: says the same thing. Mine says. Under turnovers, it says
Speaker 5: seven for Duke.
Speaker 6: That's what I said.
Speaker 13: No, I was looking at points off turnovers, exactly right.
Speaker 5: Oh, this thing's gone off again. All right, we're going
Speaker 5: to rally soft turnovers.
Speaker 6: We're gonna rally here soft turn points of the paint.
Speaker 6: We okay, all right, I got a break. I'm completely
Speaker 6: in the gate everything I just said in that second.
Speaker 5: All right, we'll come back and talk more to Kentucky
Speaker 5: Duke in just a minute. In the garage on six
Speaker 5: thirty w LAP. All right, welcome back. We have figured
Speaker 5: out the mystery of the statue. Cameron was reading the
Speaker 5: wrong Cari can't read the stat on the wrong table.
Speaker 6: I got excited.
Speaker 5: He was reading points off turnovers, so which it is
Speaker 5: interesting though only fifteen to nine a Duke advantage, huge
Speaker 5: advantage in the paint, but Kentucky was bench points. And
Speaker 5: again that goes to depth. As we all, we knew
Speaker 5: Kentucky had more depth.
Speaker 13: We knew that, but well supposedly people didn't because I
Speaker 13: kept bearing before the game that Duke had more depth,
Speaker 13: which again death meaning more talent won through en or eleven.
Speaker 13: But talent does it always win game?
Speaker 5: See if you also, I hate to hate to direct
Speaker 5: you back to the statue, which I don't know how
Speaker 5: to read it. But Duke for the game shot thirty
Speaker 5: nine percent, including twenty nine percent in the second half,
Speaker 5: one of eleven from the arc. I think again, Cameron,
Speaker 5: that goes back to conditioning.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, the the mistakes in the last what would
Speaker 13: you say, five minutes, five minutes, Yeah, mistakes in the
Speaker 13: last five minutes. Keep going down to that sid I'm
Speaker 13: gonna race that box. I stopped looking at it. But yeah,
Speaker 13: the three, the three point shooting, because it's it's all,
Speaker 13: it's all legs. Yeah, I mean, and and again, let
Speaker 13: me make sure I've got this right.
Speaker 6: Duke Duke shot seventeen percent from three toy, get that right.
Speaker 5: In the second half?
Speaker 6: Yeah again, Yeah for game, Actually.
Speaker 5: In the second half, seventeen have a change of the game.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Four.
Speaker 6: Ah, there we go. Redemption, redemption right there.
Speaker 13: But yeah, no, I mean, it looks it's all conditioning,
Speaker 13: and that's what that's what you ought to expect from
Speaker 13: a group of you know, especially from the stars of Duke,
Speaker 13: like from the talent to guys, the celebrated guys.
Speaker 6: I don't even think they're I don't. I don't.
Speaker 13: I don't think their bodies. I mean, the fact that
Speaker 13: Cooper's seventeen, I didn't know that in bowths of my mind.
Speaker 13: But I don't think his body is even capable of
Speaker 13: getting itself into the kind.
Speaker 6: Of shape it needs to to compete with the kind
Speaker 6: of shape we're into.
Speaker 13: And again, I'm not being dismissed about I mean, I'm
Speaker 13: just saying we got ten dudes, yeah that play predominantly,
Speaker 13: and then thirteen guys fourteen guys total on the team.
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Speaker 6: Running their tails off every day.
Speaker 13: And again that comes from among other people, I have
Speaker 13: to say at this point, but a head coach who
Speaker 13: was told in his time in college with me, just
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Speaker 13: as hard as you do, but no one will outwork you,
Speaker 13: and you are going to have the cardiovascular and muscles
Speaker 13: to what Because again, remember so just for game days
Speaker 13: were off days to us, because on practice days, all
Speaker 13: twelve of us, myself and you know, some other bench
Speaker 13: warmers along with me less so, but you got ten
Speaker 13: guys going full court for two and a half half
Speaker 13: three and out three hours. In a game day, you
Speaker 13: only got two hundred minutes period, two hundred minutes to
Speaker 13: divide between eight nine guys. So game days are off days,
Speaker 13: and of course they would be for Duke as well.
Speaker 13: But if you work it the right way like Patino
Speaker 13: used to do it with the full court press. Was
Speaker 13: it intended to turn teams over thirty five times a
Speaker 13: game as much as it was intended to turn teams
Speaker 13: over five minutes left to go in the game when
Speaker 13: the game is quote unquote on the line, And of
Speaker 13: course a lot of times by that time we were
Speaker 13: up by thirty or forty and I was in the game,
Speaker 13: so it didn't really matter. Yeah, But I think the
Speaker 13: biggest thing to me, and the most exciting thing to
Speaker 13: me was I think Marcus said for the last few weeks.
Speaker 13: What he's anxious about, my words, not his, is I
Speaker 13: want to know where we are.
Speaker 6: Sure you can't tell.
Speaker 13: Exactly where you are when you blow right, stayed out,
Speaker 13: when you blow Wesleyan out, when you blow Minnesota, stayed out,
Speaker 13: when you blow what's the other team we played out Wesleyan,
Speaker 13: I said, Wesleyan, there's the other buck. Now when you
Speaker 13: when you blow these teams out, you don't really know
Speaker 13: how good you are. Now we're and he said, we're
Speaker 13: gonna find out. Everybody was saying that we'll find out
Speaker 13: on Tuesday. We'll find out on Tuesday. We found out
Speaker 13: on Tuesday. And what we found out is you look,
Speaker 13: because if we're honest, we and Duke are honestly right
Speaker 13: their neck and neck, right, their neck and neck.
Speaker 6: Okay, they played again.
Speaker 5: You might see the same kind of game.
Speaker 13: You might you might see the same kind of game
Speaker 13: you might not. Because here's the thing, and this is
Speaker 13: why I think Mark's focus on the quiet stuff, the
Speaker 13: focus stuff, the intentional stuff, is so important because you
Speaker 13: can have the best team in the world.
Speaker 6: You literally can have the.
Speaker 13: Best college basketball team in the world without any debate.
Speaker 13: You can be receiving every single number one vote, and
Speaker 13: you can go out there and lay in EG one
Speaker 13: particularly not sure. Again, it's why the games are played,
Speaker 13: and I know that's cliche. But we went out on
Speaker 13: a big stage, though I don't know the stage was
Speaker 13: any bigger than any game we've had so far other
Speaker 13: than our opponent. We went out on the big stage
Speaker 13: against the big opponent, one way or the other. Whether
Speaker 13: the Duke could have been ranked one hundred and fiftieth,
Speaker 13: it's still be a big game for Kentucky fans and
Speaker 13: probably for ESPN especially. But we went out and we
Speaker 13: we played a complete forty minute game. You know, I mean,
Speaker 13: and again I think I am looking at the right
Speaker 13: stat line here. I mean as much as Cooper what
Speaker 13: twenty eight points, twenty six points, seven to nine from
Speaker 13: the foul shot, he he won't one to five from
Speaker 13: free throw from three You said that nine of nineteen,
Speaker 13: so he didn't shoot particularly bad overall. To assist, had
Speaker 13: three turnovers and two of those two of those turnovers
Speaker 13: were pretty big. Yeah, But is plus minus minus eight?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Are you a plus minus guy? See? To me
Speaker 5: sometimes that I am Sometimes I'm not.
Speaker 13: I agree because to me it's like saying, are you
Speaker 13: an analytics guy? Yeah, sometimes I am, Sometimes I'm not.
Speaker 13: I cannot, nor do I think you should.
Speaker 5: Plus minus might be terrible, but it's because of two
Speaker 5: or three of the guys that are on the floor
Speaker 5: with you.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so well, I think I think the bottom line
Speaker 13: is when you get to analytics, and and and Marcus
Speaker 13: said this as well, you can go too deep into it.
Speaker 13: You can, you can go down a rabbit trail, and
Speaker 13: and and I loved it when he said that because
Speaker 13: I was like, good, Well, because think of it this way.
Speaker 13: In nineteen ninety eight, when we were playing Duke in
Speaker 13: the in the Elite eight game, right, if we're going
Speaker 13: by analytics, Coach Smiths not have had me in the game.
Speaker 6: I had not hit a shot up to that point.
Speaker 6: I had not had a.
Speaker 13: Particularly great senior season, right, Yeah, for the tournament I had.
Speaker 13: I had not had a particularly great senior season. I
Speaker 13: shot better my junior year than I did my senior year.
Speaker 13: From three, got more threes up. I think I did
Speaker 13: my senior year my junior year than I had my
Speaker 13: senior year. So if you go by the analytics and
Speaker 13: how well I was playing, I shouldn't have been in
Speaker 13: that game when we were making that comeback. I mean,
Speaker 13: I just have I mean, but sometimes you go with
Speaker 13: your gut, And I think that's what I want as
Speaker 13: a coach, that is that dives into the analytics and
Speaker 13: puts his team in the position to win.
Speaker 6: But then sometimes you gotta go with your gut.
Speaker 13: And you know what, And I know fans will criticize
Speaker 13: that on the back end, sure on the you know,
Speaker 13: because the hindsight twenty twenty, I don't care. I mean
Speaker 13: to say that, you know, I can't believe he had
Speaker 13: him in the game. Look at look at look at this,
Speaker 13: Look at this, look at this, look at this.
Speaker 5: Come on, dude, or more accurately, why was so and
Speaker 5: so on the bench?
Speaker 13: That's what we've heard more than anything. Yeah, why was
Speaker 13: so and so on the bench when he can do this?
Speaker 6: Is this?
Speaker 13: Well, here's the thing. What you see is not what
Speaker 13: the coach. He's in practice.
Speaker 6: That's right. You only see five percent of these dudes play. Coach.
Speaker 13: He's the other ninety five percent of these guys playing,
Speaker 13: And what picks he picks up in practice goes along
Speaker 13: with the analytics to help he and his staff make
Speaker 13: the decision.
Speaker 5: People look at teams as other fantasy teams, their stat
Speaker 5: versus stat Yeah, when it's anything, but.
Speaker 6: I mean, especially in you. It's a perfect example.
Speaker 13: I mean we went stat versus stat on this we
Speaker 13: would have lost, oh yeah, because we had never played,
Speaker 13: but instead we played.
Speaker 6: And is conditioning an analytic rao?
Speaker 5: Nope, it they can break it down as an analytic, but.
Speaker 6: How do they know.
Speaker 5: Oh you know, they can measure heart rate and this
Speaker 5: and that, but no, it comes down to who's tired,
Speaker 5: who's not well.
Speaker 13: But here's what they can't break down, the mental fatigue exactly.
Speaker 5: That's a great point. And as always we leave you
Speaker 5: on a great point, fun because there are so many.
Speaker 13: Can we go back and leave that one that once
Speaker 13: segment right up? The statue wrong out of the show?
Speaker 5: No, we have to come. I get to uh, I
Speaker 5: get to hold that over here for the rest of
Speaker 5: the season. I learned a valuable lessons.
Speaker 6: It was so bad.
Speaker 5: What that im how to read a statue?
Speaker 13: No, I think the lesson is I'm not want to
Speaker 13: take a class on how to learn a stat sheet.
Speaker 13: I know what that box is for. I just am
Speaker 13: reading it stupidly right now?
Speaker 6: All right?
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Speaker 5: I know. Congratulations. It's all on Facebook to do it.
Speaker 5: Thanks so much.
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