February 18, 2025 • 28 mins
Join us for The Bluegrass Hearing Clinic Kenny Brooks Show! Darren Headrick hosts and Coach Brooks will answer your questions.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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From the UK Sports Network.
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This is the Bluegrass Hearing Clinic Kenny Brooks Show. Talk
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here's the voice of Kentucky Women's basketball, Darren Hedrick.
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The Kentucky Wildcats are coming off an impressive showing against
the Georgia Lady Bulldogs yesterday. Kentucky earns the sweep with
the victory over Georgia, first time they have swept in
a pone inn SEC play since twenty twenty one and
twenty twenty two that season when they took two from Auburn.
So the Wildcats are now twenty and four on the year,
nine to three in SEC play, ranked number fourteen in
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the latest Associated Press poll and the NCAA First sixteen
projections came out this weekend with Kentucky coming in at
number thirteen. Wildcats began the stretch run here to the
finish line. Four games left in the regular season. They'll
be at Missouri this Thursday at seven thirty. Our airtime
will be seven fifteen. The last two remaining home games
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for the Kentucky women are sold out. They'll take on
LSU Sunday and Tennessee a week from Thursday, so the
BBN expecting to pack historic Memorial Coliseum for the final
two regular season home games. Coach Brooks is in the
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Speaker 3 (04:46):
Welcome back into the Bluegrass Hearing Clinic. Kenny Brooks show
here on the UK Sports Network Coach chatting with head
coach Mark Pop as he heads out after his radio
show the Wildcats coming off that win over Georgia, Coach,
once you had a chance to sit down and digest
that one and look over it, what was the thoughts
coming out post mortem from the Georgia game?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
A lot, a lot of feel good feelings, you know. Obviously,
it was a very very taxing week on our kids,
not only from a physical standpoint but a mental standpoint.
When you play three games in seven days against any
type of opponent, it's going to be very taxing on
your body, but especially when you played against an SEC
opponent and probably two of the most physical SEC opponents
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that we've played all year, So it was really tough week.
We had some kids who are under the weather, but
they really all battled through and so yesterday was a
really good day for us to be able to get
a good win in front of a good, great crowd,
especially considering the circumstance, and then also some alums who
were in the buildings. So all around, good day and
kids are feeling good about themselves. We're looking forward to this.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Week offensively, coach, I thought your ball movement all game
yesterday was terrific. The way they just flowed, especially in transition.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Well, Darren, if you want to get in transition, you
gotta rebound bad basketball. And that's what's one thing we
did a lot better this uh this past game as
opposed to previous We rebounded the basketball. And when you
can rebound the basketball and you can get it clean,
it will it will spark your fast break. And we
got some easy opportunities. And that's when we're at our best,
when we can mix in some fast break points. But
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if we have to just try to go toe to
toe with people, as we had to do with with
Ole Miss and as we had to do against Texas,
it's going to be a harder basketball game. So yesterday
we got out of transition. Amelia Hasset got us going
really early. It was really good to see her get
opportunities early and then she capitalized on them. Of Tiani
Key was really good in the first half. Georgia was Georgia,
(06:40):
and then I thought Clara Strat did a really good
job in the second half. But we got good production
from you know, Lexi Blue, who you know is just
you know, has never given up fighting all your long
lover attitude, and she gave us a very positive minutes yesterday.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I'm glad you brought up Amelia hass I was going
to ask about the fact she started the game for
the Wildcats with the first bucket so three, and then
from there she hit four of them in the game,
fourteen points. But that early on, was there a hope
or an emphasis of trying to help her maybe facilitate
or was that just a good point guard finding a shooter.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I think it's just kind of like, you know, if
a batter is in a slump, uh, you know, people
don't really talk to him about it, and so we
really weren't making it a known focus that we wanted
to try to get her going early, but it was
just it just happened that way organically, and I think
Clara Strake you know, found her open for a wide
open three to start the game, and we needed that
because Amelia had been struggling a little bit the last
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the last two games, I think even the last three games,
want to include the Oklahoma game, she only has seven
points total and U and when she's when she's only
getting seven points total in a three game stretch, you know,
that's gonna be a tough three game stretch for us.
And because she's valuable to us in many many ways.
But she's one of the kids that I'm talking about,
Like you and I have discussed it, you know, numerous times.
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They're not robots, you know, they are human. And she
was she was battling some type of some type of
cold and just really really knocked her out. And the
fact that she was able and was available to us,
you know, it just shows her character and she's motoring
through it. And uh, but you know it was difficult
for her and for her to be able to come
out and have such a good game yesterday, I was
(08:14):
very very pleased. And hopefully this gets her own track.
She's got her she's got her family coming in town
here shortly, so we're excited about that.
Speaker 10 (08:21):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
In terms of you know, the players, some of them
being new to this league, even if if they have experience,
I guess with the new roles that come and being
on a new team sometimes you also have to get
used to those occasions where opponents kind of zero in
on you on scouting reports and you've got to learn
to adjust. It's that chess match within the season.
Speaker 11 (08:39):
Well, and that's yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
And you know this this day and age, the technology
is just unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Sure, we were playing.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Against Texas, uh the other day, and and I can
I can say it here. I don't know who's listening
to it, but you know, when we want to run
a certain type of screen, it's a called a ghost
screen and uh, and so we named it. And I
was so tickled. We named it cast because every everyone,
all of the kids knew who Casper the Friendly Ghost was.
I was so excited because when I make references back
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to my old days and they don't know any of them,
and so they knew that one. So if we want
to run a ghost screen, we'll call the play and
we'll call it a Casper. And so we played in
Texas and you know, we called the number out, we
call Casper, and immediately Texas was like, it's going to
be a ghost screen, you know. So you knew it,
you know, and that just you're at that point of
the season where you know there's such great coaches out
(09:31):
there and so much technology, you have the ability to
know what everyone is doing, and so when you go
and you play, there's a good chance that you know
the team is going to be able to take your
play away from you. And then after that you got
to learn how to play, you know, and that's where
great players shine, and that's where great teams shine because
there's no secrets out there. Everyone knows what you're gonna do.
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We're really good at taking away what people want to
do and putting them in compromising positions, and that's the
way that we survive. That's why we play good defense.
That's how we help hold Georgia to fifty five points
and hold Old Miss, you know, under their average hole
Texas twenty points, almost under their average, because we know
what they're going to do and we play we execute it.
So this time of the year, you just have to
really try to bear down, execute, tweak some things, and
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even if you can't, then then that's when you that's
when you're lucky that you have a Georgia a Moore
on your team. You know, someone who can go out
and create not only for herself but for others and uh,
and that and that's what it is this time of
the year. And as a veteran coach, I've I've learned that.
And this league is very good because they're great coaches
in this league.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
We're coming up on a break. But just to play
off what you were talking about, you and I have
talked and spoken about how deep your playbook runs, but
that includes not just different plays, but also wrinkles within
those plays.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Absolutely, and you know, we really we have a lot
and we've run a lot, but we haven't run it
a lot consistently and uh. And that's because you know,
we we have a team that is really good learned,
they've learned each other, they know where they're supposed to be,
they can play off of each other, they can create
for each other and uh. And so when you can
have that's what's hard to guard. That's what's hard to scout,
(11:02):
and the unpredictability. And we just we have a really
good chemist, good group with that and the chemistry is great.
And so that we haven't had to dip into my
playbook as much. Maybe that makes me a better coach
because I haven't had to.
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here on the UK Sports Network, and we do have
a caller on our Clark's Pumping Shop phone line, so
let's go ahead and take that. As Joe joins the show, Joe,
thanks for being with us tonight.
Speaker 10 (14:44):
Yeah, thanks a lot, Hey, Coach Brooks, I really enjoyed
watching your OLS game down at Oxford. But I really
fell for you because Old Mills had a total of
nine ten fouls the entire game. Coach, I've just watched
the first half of the Irish Girls number one now
playing Duke CRUSARDA is the Mississippi of the a c C.
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And they called a fouls on Duke in the first
half of this game against the Irish. Well, guess what
are happening, coach in the second half Duke game foulon
because they know they can't get away with it up
the South Bend and and Irish were up by eighteen
points right now against them. So I really fell for
you the other night down there in Oxford not getting
the whistle down there. I'm really proud of the team.
(15:28):
I hope y'all have a lot of success coming up
and you're doing a tremendous child.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Thanks for all my coach, goodbye, Well Joe, I really
appreciate the call. And uh, if it's or TV, you
would see the big smile I have on my face.
For the comments that you made about that, uh that
game down at Old miss I can't really make them,
but I really appreciate you. And you know, yelling and
scream and screaming loud from the from the mountain top,
and I'm okay with it, but it does it changes
the whole complexion of the game, and you know, sometimes
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you get a little confused because you don't know, you know,
how the how it's going to go with what the
here I'm using air quotes, what the flow is going
to be like yeah, and it's actually, you know, it's
really confused a lot of our kids, you know, Claria
strike at five fouls the other day against Texas and
we looked at four of them and we were just
like scratching our head because we just don't understand sometimes
what the flow is. But that Old Miss game was
(16:17):
very eye opening. I think they took twenty two free
throws attempts two hour four or something like that, so
you know, it just definitely changes the whole complexion of
the game.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Thanks Joe for the call, And I was going to
ask you a little bit about the work that this
team is doing just continuing to improve. Obviously twenty wins,
but this team is hungry for more and watching your practices,
tell me a little bit about the individual workouts because
they seem just as important as the team drills. That
you do in practice.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
The cornerstone of my programs have always been player development.
And even though I was at James Madison, I think
we had about seven kids or seven or eight kids
who were players of the year. We get to Virginia Tech.
Obviously Elizabeth Kittley player three time ACC Player of the Year.
Her and Georgia were all Americans. And uh, you know,
this year is the very first year that I've ever
(17:07):
signed a McDonald's all American. And so we we've had
to we've had to build our kids up and so
but the other the other factor that helps in that
situation is you can't always train your body full, not
in not in a grueling season like this we we
have in in college athletics. I'm pretty sure we have
the longest season basketball does. And you know it starts
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in in September, and you know you're not done to
hopefully you know, late March or early April, and so
you know, you have to find ways to train them
without taxing on their body. And uh, and we do
a lot of individual instruction. It gives kids a lot
of confidence, they understand, uh in those in those in
those sessions, they learn what's a good shot for them,
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what's a bad shot. So when we get in the games,
they know exactly what a good shot is for them.
And I could probably count on you know, one hand
each game, uh, whether it's counting a bad shot. And
sometimes there's no time of that because they just understand
what they're supposed to do through the individual instruction and
it's something that will continue to do. But it is
a cornerstone of any program that I've ever had.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I think what amazes me about this particular group is
I'll get there sometimes early for a game day practice
and I'll see them sitting. It's almost like they're lined
up along the bench while one is getting her individual
drills done. There's some more waiting, or they're at least
watching and absorbing what you're teaching in.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
That moment, whatever saying you want to go irons sharpens
iron or whatever the case might be. I've been very
fortunate where my best players have always been the hardest
working players. And you know, and you know I've since
James Madison all the way to Virginia Tech when we
were successful and now here. When your best player is
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your hardest working player, everyone's going to follow suit. You know,
when the kids see Georgia, you know, in the gym,
they're gonna be like, well, if Georgia is in the gym,
then I need to get in the gym. And you
look at Clara Strack. Clara Strack watched Liz Kitley and
she was like, Okay, well, Letz Kitley got extra shots in.
I'm going to get extra shots in. And it just
continues on and on and on. For me, A start
a way back when, and you know when I had
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Tamra Young at James Madison University and she was the
first WNBA draft pick I ever had. She went number
seven overall from James Madison, and it was because of
those kind of workouts.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
She does it.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
She did it, and you know, Don Evans saw her
do it, so many of the great players were doing
it that now it just becomes tradition and it's something
that we hang her hat on.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
You obviously enjoy the teaching and development part of it.
You'd have to, but I imagine it's a lot of
fun to work with somebody like Georgia Amore, who is
a polished product, so now you get to refine. And
I can also see where she probably says, hey, here's
something I want to work on, and then you go
to it.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
You know, it's it's morphed into okay, do what I
say and now, and it's all the way to a
point where okay, it's a conversation. Yeah, and you know,
she tells me what she likes. She and it's a
lot of the movements and that I'm teaching her our
shreaming advance. We have some workouts right now that are
for just to get her lose. We have some workouts
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that are for the SEC and we have some workouts
that are for the w NBA. And it's just you know,
always working her and you know and teaching her angles.
So a lot of times we can go now and
we can have an hour workout but it's not taxing
on her body because we're talking about moves where where
we're walking through moves. You know, we're we're just we're
just letting her fell out the movements. And uh, that's
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where our relationship has gone. When it comes to the
development part, it's at a very very high level now.
And that's why when you know, so many of the
hockey fans are so mad at her for leaving or
couldn't understand why she would want to follow me. You know,
we have a social relationship, but it's another year development
that she's getting and that she's going to be able
to take with her. So why wouldn't she follow her
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coach who she's been working with. It would be like
Tiger Woods having a swing coach and you know, not
following him if he went somewhere. And and so it's
just been great. And you know, you watch Clara Strick
and she's she's become a student of the game. Tiani
Key wants it more and more and more. I just
watched Jordan Obi, who's out for US today, and I'm
I'm drooling at her workouts that she has with with
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coaches and the way that she looks because she's gonna
be a phenomenal player for US next year.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
And communication wise, I feel like in the few practices
that I've I've been to, more and more players are
being vocal, whether it's asking questions or offering maybe an
idea during a scouting report.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
They're they're very good, and they're a lot better than
they were in the beginning. And I think if you remember,
I was asking for more personality, for them to talk
a little bit more Uh, and it's just it's just
happened organically and their personalities have grown together and to
to form a unit and to watch them go through situations. Uh,
when we put a lot of the onus back on them,
we we allow them to figure it out. It's not
(21:46):
always us, you know, screaming at them and say, hey,
you got to do this, here's a correction. You know,
I've we've been through a scout and they're waiting for
me to tell them what to do. And I'm just
watching them communicate because they're the ones on the court
and they can communicate and figure it out themselves. We're
going to be a lot better than them trying to
wait for me to bark out an instruction. While that's
all the game's going on.
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Final segment of this week's Bluegrass here in Clinic Kenny
Brooks show here on the UK Sports Network. The Wildcats
will be at Missouri this Thursday. That's a seven thirty
Eastern time tip off at MISSOI Arena and uh coach,
I know you're I think you're a little bit familiar
with the Missouri team. You played them in the Bahamas
a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Right, we did the same uh, the same term eta
they can tun that's right. Yeah, yeah, we Uh we didn't.
We didn't ask for an SEC schedule. Wh we went
to the Bahamas. What they came on, Yeah with Kentucky
and in the Missouri the next game. So Robin does
a tremendous job, you know. And I told our team,
I said at the time, I think they were two
and nine and I don't know if they're two and
nine still in the conference where they're they're the best
(24:56):
two and nine conference team in the country.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah, they've played some teams tough, they have.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And it's going to be a battle for us, And
if we don't come in and on top of our game,
it could be a very disappointing outcome for us because
you throw away their record. They're very well coached, they're tough,
they're playing at home, they're hungry for win. So it's
gonna be a very tough challenge for us.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
And then you come home to play LSU and Tennessee.
How awesome those both are sold out. The last four
home games this year have been so.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That's tremendous, you know, and that's what we started, you know,
at the previous spot. You know, we had to build
it and we got to the point where they were
we were selling them out, and you know, I've been very,
very pleased with the crowds. You know, Memorial is a
special place. It's fun to be in, the acoustics, everything
about it is really good. And uh, you know, it's
funny because I didn't realize this Sunday was the was
Senior Day and and so George and I were talking
(25:44):
after the game and we're walking up through the tunnel
and she said, you and not gonna have to sit
down and do a lot of crying this week to
get our tear ducks empty. And I said why and
she said, because it's it's going to be Senior Day
on Sunday. And it hit me like a bag of
rocks there and I'm like, oh my gosh. And you know,
last year we went through Senior Day and I knew
that she was gonna come back and I was gonna
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have her for another year. So it was it was
just a show. This one's gonna be for real. So yeah,
you might, you guys might have to come and get
me and pick me up off the floor after that hug.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah, it's it's hard to believe just four games left
in the regular season. It has been a fun ride
to this point and we look forward to what's coming
in the future. Coach, We just got about a minute
left in the program and I wanted to remind folks
as we wrap up about the recent flooding in Kentucky.
It's devastated part of the Commonwealth. It's impacted a lot
of members of the community. I know it's it's hit
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home to one of your own players with Cassidy Rowe
and her hometown, and so our hearts go out to
those impacted, and if you would like to donate, please do.
There's there's different ways of doing it through UK Athletics
dot com slash flood Relief, but they need whatever supplies
you can give.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, our hearts go out to all those who are
been impacted by this flooding. I really didn't know the
you know, severity of it until you know, I went
on you saw National News and you talked about the
flooding and Governor Prisheer, and you know he's doing a
tremendous job of getting the word out there for relief,
teaching every one of these people who are affected. You know,
and sometimes we live in our own little bubble, a
bubble and everything is just wonderful, but you also know
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that there are people out there suffering from different situations
and this is a this is a wonderful cause. We
can raise enough money to just help people out in
a time of need. It'd be a very very special
moment for Kentuckians.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
If you'd like to drop off supplies, you can do
so outside Repparena before Wednesday's game against Vanderbilt from four
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and coach. That's our time for this week. But we
look forward to a trip to Missouri and then we'll talk.
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Welcome back into the Bluegrass Hearing Clinic. Kenny Brooks show
here on the UK Sports Network Coach chatting with head
coach Mark Pop as he heads out after his radio
show the Wildcats coming off that win over Georgia, Coach,
once you had a chance to sit down and digest
that one and look over it, what was the thoughts
coming out post mortem from the Georgia game?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
A lot, a lot of feel good feelings, you know. Obviously,
it was a very very taxing week on our kids,
not only from a physical standpoint but a mental standpoint.
When you play three games in seven days against any
type of opponent, it's going to be very taxing on
your body, but especially when you played against an SEC
opponent and probably two of the most physical SEC opponents
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that we've played all year, So it was really tough week.
We had some kids who are under the weather, but
they really all battled through and so yesterday was a
really good day for us to be able to get
a good win in front of a good, great crowd,
especially considering the circumstance, and then also some alums who
were in the buildings. So all around, good day and
kids are feeling good about themselves. We're looking forward to this.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Week offensively, coach, I thought your ball movement all game
yesterday was terrific. The way they just flowed, especially in transition.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Well, Darren, if you want to get in transition, you
gotta rebound bad basketball. And that's what's one thing we
did a lot better this uh this past game as
opposed to previous We rebounded the basketball. And when you
can rebound the basketball and you can get it clean,
it will it will spark your fast break. And we
got some easy opportunities. And that's when we're at our best,
when we can mix in some fast break points. But
(06:18):
if we have to just try to go toe to
toe with people, as we had to do with with
Ole Miss and as we had to do against Texas,
it's going to be a harder basketball game. So yesterday
we got out of transition. Amelia Hasset got us going
really early. It was really good to see her get
opportunities early and then she capitalized on them. Of Tiani
Key was really good in the first half. Georgia was Georgia,
(06:40):
and then I thought Clara Strat did a really good
job in the second half. But we got good production
from you know, Lexi Blue, who you know is just
you know, has never given up fighting all your long
lover attitude, and she gave us a very positive minutes yesterday.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I'm glad you brought up Amelia hass I was going
to ask about the fact she started the game for
the Wildcats with the first bucket so three, and then
from there she hit four of them in the game,
fourteen points. But that early on, was there a hope
or an emphasis of trying to help her maybe facilitate
or was that just a good point guard finding a shooter.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I think it's just kind of like, you know, if
a batter is in a slump, uh, you know, people
don't really talk to him about it, and so we
really weren't making it a known focus that we wanted
to try to get her going early, but it was
just it just happened that way organically, and I think
Clara Strake you know, found her open for a wide
open three to start the game, and we needed that
because Amelia had been struggling a little bit the last
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the last two games, I think even the last three games,
want to include the Oklahoma game, she only has seven
points total and U and when she's when she's only
getting seven points total in a three game stretch, you know,
that's gonna be a tough three game stretch for us.
And because she's valuable to us in many many ways.
But she's one of the kids that I'm talking about,
Like you and I have discussed it, you know, numerous times.
(07:52):
They're not robots, you know, they are human. And she
was she was battling some type of some type of
cold and just really really knocked her out. And the
fact that she was able and was available to us,
you know, it just shows her character and she's motoring
through it. And uh, but you know it was difficult
for her and for her to be able to come
out and have such a good game yesterday, I was
(08:14):
very very pleased. And hopefully this gets her own track.
She's got her she's got her family coming in town
here shortly, so we're excited about that.
Speaker 10 (08:21):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
In terms of you know, the players, some of them
being new to this league, even if if they have experience,
I guess with the new roles that come and being
on a new team sometimes you also have to get
used to those occasions where opponents kind of zero in
on you on scouting reports and you've got to learn
to adjust. It's that chess match within the season.
Speaker 11 (08:39):
Well, and that's yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
And you know this this day and age, the technology
is just unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Sure, we were playing.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Against Texas, uh the other day, and and I can
I can say it here. I don't know who's listening
to it, but you know, when we want to run
a certain type of screen, it's a called a ghost
screen and uh, and so we named it. And I
was so tickled. We named it cast because every everyone,
all of the kids knew who Casper the Friendly Ghost was.
I was so excited because when I make references back
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to my old days and they don't know any of them,
and so they knew that one. So if we want
to run a ghost screen, we'll call the play and
we'll call it a Casper. And so we played in
Texas and you know, we called the number out, we
call Casper, and immediately Texas was like, it's going to
be a ghost screen, you know. So you knew it,
you know, and that just you're at that point of
the season where you know there's such great coaches out
(09:31):
there and so much technology, you have the ability to
know what everyone is doing, and so when you go
and you play, there's a good chance that you know
the team is going to be able to take your
play away from you. And then after that you got
to learn how to play, you know, and that's where
great players shine, and that's where great teams shine because
there's no secrets out there. Everyone knows what you're gonna do.
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We're really good at taking away what people want to
do and putting them in compromising positions, and that's the
way that we survive. That's why we play good defense.
That's how we help hold Georgia to fifty five points
and hold Old Miss, you know, under their average hole
Texas twenty points, almost under their average, because we know
what they're going to do and we play we execute it.
So this time of the year, you just have to
really try to bear down, execute, tweak some things, and
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even if you can't, then then that's when you that's
when you're lucky that you have a Georgia a Moore
on your team. You know, someone who can go out
and create not only for herself but for others and uh,
and that and that's what it is this time of
the year. And as a veteran coach, I've I've learned that.
And this league is very good because they're great coaches
in this league.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
We're coming up on a break. But just to play
off what you were talking about, you and I have
talked and spoken about how deep your playbook runs, but
that includes not just different plays, but also wrinkles within
those plays.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Absolutely, and you know, we really we have a lot
and we've run a lot, but we haven't run it
a lot consistently and uh. And that's because you know,
we we have a team that is really good learned,
they've learned each other, they know where they're supposed to be,
they can play off of each other, they can create
for each other and uh. And so when you can
have that's what's hard to guard. That's what's hard to scout,
(11:02):
and the unpredictability. And we just we have a really
good chemist, good group with that and the chemistry is great.
And so that we haven't had to dip into my
playbook as much. Maybe that makes me a better coach
because I haven't had to.
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Welcome back into the Bluegrass Hearing Clinic Kenny Brooks show
here on the UK Sports Network, and we do have
a caller on our Clark's Pumping Shop phone line, so
let's go ahead and take that. As Joe joins the show, Joe,
thanks for being with us tonight.
Speaker 10 (14:44):
Yeah, thanks a lot, Hey, Coach Brooks, I really enjoyed
watching your OLS game down at Oxford. But I really
fell for you because Old Mills had a total of
nine ten fouls the entire game. Coach, I've just watched
the first half of the Irish Girls number one now
playing Duke CRUSARDA is the Mississippi of the a c C.
(15:06):
And they called a fouls on Duke in the first
half of this game against the Irish. Well, guess what
are happening, coach in the second half Duke game foulon
because they know they can't get away with it up
the South Bend and and Irish were up by eighteen
points right now against them. So I really fell for
you the other night down there in Oxford not getting
the whistle down there. I'm really proud of the team.
(15:28):
I hope y'all have a lot of success coming up
and you're doing a tremendous child.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Thanks for all my coach, goodbye, Well Joe, I really
appreciate the call. And uh, if it's or TV, you
would see the big smile I have on my face.
For the comments that you made about that, uh that
game down at Old miss I can't really make them,
but I really appreciate you. And you know, yelling and
scream and screaming loud from the from the mountain top,
and I'm okay with it, but it does it changes
the whole complexion of the game, and you know, sometimes
(15:55):
you get a little confused because you don't know, you know,
how the how it's going to go with what the
here I'm using air quotes, what the flow is going
to be like yeah, and it's actually, you know, it's
really confused a lot of our kids, you know, Claria
strike at five fouls the other day against Texas and
we looked at four of them and we were just
like scratching our head because we just don't understand sometimes
what the flow is. But that Old Miss game was
(16:17):
very eye opening. I think they took twenty two free
throws attempts two hour four or something like that, so
you know, it just definitely changes the whole complexion of
the game.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Thanks Joe for the call, And I was going to
ask you a little bit about the work that this
team is doing just continuing to improve. Obviously twenty wins,
but this team is hungry for more and watching your practices,
tell me a little bit about the individual workouts because
they seem just as important as the team drills. That
you do in practice.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
The cornerstone of my programs have always been player development.
And even though I was at James Madison, I think
we had about seven kids or seven or eight kids
who were players of the year. We get to Virginia Tech.
Obviously Elizabeth Kittley player three time ACC Player of the Year.
Her and Georgia were all Americans. And uh, you know,
this year is the very first year that I've ever
(17:07):
signed a McDonald's all American. And so we we've had
to we've had to build our kids up and so
but the other the other factor that helps in that
situation is you can't always train your body full, not
in not in a grueling season like this we we
have in in college athletics. I'm pretty sure we have
the longest season basketball does. And you know it starts
(17:29):
in in September, and you know you're not done to
hopefully you know, late March or early April, and so
you know, you have to find ways to train them
without taxing on their body. And uh, and we do
a lot of individual instruction. It gives kids a lot
of confidence, they understand, uh in those in those in
those sessions, they learn what's a good shot for them,
(17:49):
what's a bad shot. So when we get in the games,
they know exactly what a good shot is for them.
And I could probably count on you know, one hand
each game, uh, whether it's counting a bad shot. And
sometimes there's no time of that because they just understand
what they're supposed to do through the individual instruction and
it's something that will continue to do. But it is
a cornerstone of any program that I've ever had.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I think what amazes me about this particular group is
I'll get there sometimes early for a game day practice
and I'll see them sitting. It's almost like they're lined
up along the bench while one is getting her individual
drills done. There's some more waiting, or they're at least
watching and absorbing what you're teaching in.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
That moment, whatever saying you want to go irons sharpens
iron or whatever the case might be. I've been very
fortunate where my best players have always been the hardest
working players. And you know, and you know I've since
James Madison all the way to Virginia Tech when we
were successful and now here. When your best player is
(18:46):
your hardest working player, everyone's going to follow suit. You know,
when the kids see Georgia, you know, in the gym,
they're gonna be like, well, if Georgia is in the gym,
then I need to get in the gym. And you
look at Clara Strack. Clara Strack watched Liz Kitley and
she was like, Okay, well, Letz Kitley got extra shots in.
I'm going to get extra shots in. And it just
continues on and on and on. For me, A start
a way back when, and you know when I had
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Tamra Young at James Madison University and she was the
first WNBA draft pick I ever had. She went number
seven overall from James Madison, and it was because of
those kind of workouts.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
She does it.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
She did it, and you know, Don Evans saw her
do it, so many of the great players were doing
it that now it just becomes tradition and it's something
that we hang her hat on.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
You obviously enjoy the teaching and development part of it.
You'd have to, but I imagine it's a lot of
fun to work with somebody like Georgia Amore, who is
a polished product, so now you get to refine. And
I can also see where she probably says, hey, here's
something I want to work on, and then you go
to it.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
You know, it's it's morphed into okay, do what I
say and now, and it's all the way to a
point where okay, it's a conversation. Yeah, and you know,
she tells me what she likes. She and it's a
lot of the movements and that I'm teaching her our
shreaming advance. We have some workouts right now that are
for just to get her lose. We have some workouts
(20:02):
that are for the SEC and we have some workouts
that are for the w NBA. And it's just you know,
always working her and you know and teaching her angles.
So a lot of times we can go now and
we can have an hour workout but it's not taxing
on her body because we're talking about moves where where
we're walking through moves. You know, we're we're just we're
just letting her fell out the movements. And uh, that's
(20:23):
where our relationship has gone. When it comes to the
development part, it's at a very very high level now.
And that's why when you know, so many of the
hockey fans are so mad at her for leaving or
couldn't understand why she would want to follow me. You know,
we have a social relationship, but it's another year development
that she's getting and that she's going to be able
to take with her. So why wouldn't she follow her
(20:44):
coach who she's been working with. It would be like
Tiger Woods having a swing coach and you know, not
following him if he went somewhere. And and so it's
just been great. And you know, you watch Clara Strick
and she's she's become a student of the game. Tiani
Key wants it more and more and more. I just
watched Jordan Obi, who's out for US today, and I'm
I'm drooling at her workouts that she has with with
(21:06):
coaches and the way that she looks because she's gonna
be a phenomenal player for US next year.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
And communication wise, I feel like in the few practices
that I've I've been to, more and more players are
being vocal, whether it's asking questions or offering maybe an
idea during a scouting report.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
They're they're very good, and they're a lot better than
they were in the beginning. And I think if you remember,
I was asking for more personality, for them to talk
a little bit more Uh, and it's just it's just
happened organically and their personalities have grown together and to
to form a unit and to watch them go through situations. Uh,
when we put a lot of the onus back on them,
we we allow them to figure it out. It's not
(21:46):
always us, you know, screaming at them and say, hey,
you got to do this, here's a correction. You know,
I've we've been through a scout and they're waiting for
me to tell them what to do. And I'm just
watching them communicate because they're the ones on the court
and they can communicate and figure it out themselves. We're
going to be a lot better than them trying to
wait for me to bark out an instruction. While that's
all the game's going on.
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Speaker 3 (24:18):
Final segment of this week's Bluegrass here in Clinic Kenny
Brooks show here on the UK Sports Network. The Wildcats
will be at Missouri this Thursday. That's a seven thirty
Eastern time tip off at MISSOI Arena and uh coach,
I know you're I think you're a little bit familiar
with the Missouri team. You played them in the Bahamas
a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Right, we did the same uh, the same term eta
they can tun that's right. Yeah, yeah, we Uh we didn't.
We didn't ask for an SEC schedule. Wh we went
to the Bahamas. What they came on, Yeah with Kentucky
and in the Missouri the next game. So Robin does
a tremendous job, you know. And I told our team,
I said at the time, I think they were two
and nine and I don't know if they're two and
nine still in the conference where they're they're the best
(24:56):
two and nine conference team in the country.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah, they've played some teams tough, they have.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And it's going to be a battle for us, And
if we don't come in and on top of our game,
it could be a very disappointing outcome for us because
you throw away their record. They're very well coached, they're tough,
they're playing at home, they're hungry for win. So it's
gonna be a very tough challenge for us.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
And then you come home to play LSU and Tennessee.
How awesome those both are sold out. The last four
home games this year have been so.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That's tremendous, you know, and that's what we started, you know,
at the previous spot. You know, we had to build
it and we got to the point where they were
we were selling them out, and you know, I've been very,
very pleased with the crowds. You know, Memorial is a
special place. It's fun to be in, the acoustics, everything
about it is really good. And uh, you know, it's
funny because I didn't realize this Sunday was the was
Senior Day and and so George and I were talking
(25:44):
after the game and we're walking up through the tunnel
and she said, you and not gonna have to sit
down and do a lot of crying this week to
get our tear ducks empty. And I said why and
she said, because it's it's going to be Senior Day
on Sunday. And it hit me like a bag of
rocks there and I'm like, oh my gosh. And you know,
last year we went through Senior Day and I knew
that she was gonna come back and I was gonna
(26:05):
have her for another year. So it was it was
just a show. This one's gonna be for real. So yeah,
you might, you guys might have to come and get
me and pick me up off the floor after that hug.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah, it's it's hard to believe just four games left
in the regular season. It has been a fun ride
to this point and we look forward to what's coming
in the future. Coach, We just got about a minute
left in the program and I wanted to remind folks
as we wrap up about the recent flooding in Kentucky.
It's devastated part of the Commonwealth. It's impacted a lot
of members of the community. I know it's it's hit
(26:36):
home to one of your own players with Cassidy Rowe
and her hometown, and so our hearts go out to
those impacted, and if you would like to donate, please do.
There's there's different ways of doing it through UK Athletics
dot com slash flood Relief, but they need whatever supplies
you can give.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, our hearts go out to all those who are
been impacted by this flooding. I really didn't know the
you know, severity of it until you know, I went
on you saw National News and you talked about the
flooding and Governor Prisheer, and you know he's doing a
tremendous job of getting the word out there for relief,
teaching every one of these people who are affected. You know,
and sometimes we live in our own little bubble, a
bubble and everything is just wonderful, but you also know
(27:15):
that there are people out there suffering from different situations
and this is a this is a wonderful cause. We
can raise enough money to just help people out in
a time of need. It'd be a very very special
moment for Kentuckians.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
If you'd like to drop off supplies, you can do
so outside Repparena before Wednesday's game against Vanderbilt from four
thirty to seven thirty. Nonperishable food items, paper goods, it's
toilet paper, paper, towels, cleaning supplies, bottled water, especially if
if you can bring some of that on your way
to the men's game. But great cause here to help
out fellow Kentuckians. UK Athletics dot com slash flood Relief
(27:50):
and coach. That's our time for this week. But we
look forward to a trip to Missouri and then we'll talk.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
You've never been all right, first trip.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Out to Bazoo Arena and Columbia and it'll again it'll
be seven thirty eastern Thursday night, Kentucky and Missouri coach
will see.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
You then Coquettes.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
All right, that's head coach Kenny Brooks. This has been
the bluegrass here in Clinic Kenny Brooks Show. Stay tuned.
Coming up next, it's Clark's Pumping Shop BBN Radio with
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