Eaves 4/4/2024

Episode Transcript

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Good morning, Louisville. This isthe Jerry e Show, known as the
Brand. He will not be intoday. I've got the voice of the
family, mister Anthony Eaves. He'sgonna be sitting in with me for today.
Jerry's gone to the NCAA Basketball Championship. You know, I mean,
it should be a great one.But you're listening to us on Sports Talk

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Radio seven ninety. If you'd liketo call in and talk to us today,
you can reach us at five sevenone seventy nine hundred. Again,
this is Sports Talk Radio. You'relistening to the Brand. The brand is
out of town. He's at theNCAA Championships and I've got his number two
sons. Anthony E's here to cityin US this morning. Anthony. How
you doing, Hey, I'm doing. How you doing? Oh, I'm

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doing fantastic. I'm doing fantastic.Andy. But on this day, we
got to start out with something that'svery, very important in the great American
history, and everybody should be incelebration today. Today was fifty six years
ago Martin Luther King was assassinated atthe Lorraine Hotel. You know, he
is one of the more greater Americanicons because one thing that I loved that

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he did, you know, hisstruggle was a non violent struggle without violence,
and I just think that it isa hard way to you know,
to prove to change a culture thatwe had in our country at that time.
And I just want to reach outtoday and just honor him and let
everyone know today was it was theday that he was assassinated on and Anthony.

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One of the things that I thoughtthat made mister Martin Luther King one
of the greatest men that I've knownon earth. You know, two men
that I look at the known asnon vialent entities in this world. One
was Mohammed Gandhi and the other wasMartin Luther King. And the thing that
I think that separated the two tome that my Mohammed Gandhi did what he

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did in India with the majority.What Martin Luther King did was so amazing
and America and been hard to do, and especially without raising weaponry. It
was he took the minority minority andchange the majority of the world of how
America was cheating African Americans at thattime and people a minority, and not
only African American women. So Ijust think that that is such an impactful

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thing to take the majority and changetheir viewpoints, to see what was going
on in America with the minorities,and to change their laws and to make
it a better country. And Ijust want to reach out and just say,
what a great man, what agreat honor for him to be able
to represent our country. And I'mjust wanting to say today that I am
so proud to been here and toseeing this history past in America. To

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MLK, then I believe the samething as well. Honestly, I think
that's something that gets looked over quitea bit. Honestly, it sounds crazy
even on my part. I thinkif even if my father wouldn't have even
shared that piece of information with methis morning, I think I would have

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skipped right over as well myself.Such an influential person has changed our lives
drastically over the last you know,fifty to sixty years. Being able to,
you know, have racists interact witheach other and build communities and wealth
within not just the country alone,but the nation itself says a lot for

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what one person did and impacted ourcommunity as well as well as the fellow
followers that accepted and believed them aswell to be able to get to where
we are today. Yes, andyou know, and and just see for
a young man like yourself, youknow what I mean, it's just amazing
the things that you you you've gettento do that you would have never thought
that you would have never got todo as a young man. So you

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know, I just want to reachout and we won't go on for it
long because there's a lot we couldsay, but we're gonna move back into
the sports ram. But I justhope that the lawmakers and the people out
there who understand that this is aone country, not a divided country,
and let's bring it together. Isone and that's why i'd like to say
that with Martin Luther King would say, let's be one in one country,
and let's do it nonvioundly. Sowe're gonna move on from that. Thank

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you so much for bringing that toour attention, mister e he's out in
California, but we had to saythat this morning. And now we're behead
any oh the way, and thenwe're go ahead and move in. Just
as some of the stats and statisticsfrom the McDonald's All American Game, I
know a lot of people were kindof looking into a lot of the Kentucky
players that were playing in it yesterday. A couple of notable names guard Boogie

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Flynn that played as well Jayden Quinton'sand as well as former UK player Kevin
Knox his brother Carter Knox all participatedin the McDonald's All American Game yesterday.
Yeah, I like and got hisname though, mister, I didn't mean
to cut you out, but uh, I love the way biggot flee and
got that name. You know,think he gonna be boogeing up in a

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UK, lightening up them cardinals.We're gonna see. Honestly, I watched,
I watched glimpses and pieces of ityesterday and honestly I was I was
decently impressed with Billie Flann. Honestly, I think he showed great spacial awareness.
He finished well around the whims,He shot the shot the ball wells,
which is a big thing for Kentucky. Kentucky over the last couple of
seasons has always had players that havebeen good around the rim, but they

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struggled with on perimeter wise. Thisyear has been one of their better years
when it came to perimeter shooting.As you can see the numbers wise,
they're probably I think a top twoor top three team scoring in the nation
this year, right behind Bama,which is also another noble name. Bama
as well has also had two nobleplayers that played in the All American Game
as well. You see got cutyou off for God, cut you off

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just for a second. All right? Now? Can you think about this?
Now we're talking about Alabama, thefootball payer of school with Nick Saban
as the leader. Can you believethat they're now going to a Final four?
It'll be the first in the historyof the school. But can you
believe what's going on in Alabama andthat win in football championship, I mean
trying to win their first foot Imean basketball championship. Can you imagine what

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the people are saying in Alabama?Now? Oh, I've seen the posters
everyone you know down south have Ihad a few friends that you know,
were I'm not at Bama and theysaid, you know, Bama's just not
a football school anymore. You know, the Bamas is a school that's trying
to take over and run the SECyou know, for the next ten to
fifteen years. And honestly, Ican see a great competitive with Baman in

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the UK. In the last coupleof years, the UK's been getting their
money's worth out of Bama. Iwill say that much. Now everyone knows
the UK is being able to comeup as well for football in the last
five or six years as well,cracking the top twenty five, making different
different bowls in the playoffs. It'sbeen big for UK. Can you believe
how how good the SEC was inbasketball? Well, how good we thought

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the SEC was in basketball and turnedout that they were really what this devastatments
we thought they were. I can'tbe the only person because I was a
fan of SEC basketball. I wastoo. It hurt my feelings a little
bit to see so many SET teamsgetting knocked out in the first and second
round. Honestly, it caught meoff guard to even see four ACC teams

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in the Elite A sixteen. Iwas blown away Clemson in NC State I
think caught everyone by surprise. Icould have bet my life savings on Clemson
NC State tonight and make it passaround in thirty two. I agree with
you, Howard, I'd be broke. I agree with you wholehearted. I'm
glad I don't gamble because that's theway I would have went. I never
thought the SEC would be doing whatthey're doing in the tournament, and I

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thought the ACC would, I mean, the SEC would just be dominating at
this point. I was, like, I said, once again, what
you see in October, it changesby April, you know what I mean.
And that's what we got to seethis year. But like I said,
Alabama just stayed in that and coachoakes it. I mean, he's
just moving up the ram as anoutstanding coach, isn't it. Oh he

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is, he is, he is. He's making a noble name for himself
in the SEC. A lot ofcoaches in the SEC have been making big
jumps in the last three to fouryears, as well as a lot of
teams in the Big twelve. Youknow, everyone kind of right, right,
don't slip past the Big twelve.But the Big Twelve has kind of
been a strong comparison with the SECwhen it comes to basketball as well as
the football world. Obviously, Alabamaand Georgia has kind of been running college

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football for the last couple of years. You know, Clinton had its little
stint with Deshaun Watson, but theACC for football hasn't been the same since,
you know, the Lamar Jackson era. But you know, everybody's so
excited about you know, Peyton manningsonover at Texas, and obviously the big
merger of a lot of the Bigtwelve schools and the Pac twelve schools coming
to the East Coast is kind ofgetting more notoriety for those because West Coast

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football is just not the same asit is down south in the SEC.
Everyone knows it's not. But Ijust thought that SEC, I mean,
what, what do you think SouthCarolina was a contender? We did who
had started South Carolina as a basketballpower and they just came in that SEC
and they're making serious noise they have. You can't forget as South Carolina's Final

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four run that they had a fewyears ago, they made a bit.
I think it was maybe I wasin college. I know for a fact
it was between twenty fifteen to twentynineteen. South plan and made the Final
four that year. And the coachthat was there at the time, obviously
he has been released of his dutybecause of some scandals that had going on,
which is another topic that I'd liketo get to that. You know,

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everybody, you know loves Rick Patino. You know, he's a great
coach. I will not knock RickPtino's coaching, but he has been getting
caught in some of the life scandals. This is not this is not you
know, one hundred percent, youknow, setting stone, but obviously truck
going off for nil deals for playing. Okay, and hold it right there,
and let's do this. Let's goto break, and let's come back

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and touch that a little bit morewhen we get back to break, so
we don't have to rush off andyou have to go really fast on that
subject. Let's come back and we'lltalk about that. You're listening to Sports
Talk Radio seven ninety. You canreach us at five seven one seventy nine
hundred. You've got Anthony Ease withring you here on the Jerry E Show.
We've got rid of him today,so don't worry about the thing.

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He'll be back. Oh, welcomeback, Louisville. You're listening to the
brand the Jerry E Show here onSports Talk seven ninety. You can reach
us at five seven one seventy ninehundred. You have mister Anthony EA's on
the other line. Mister EA's.When we were leaving, you were mentioning

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Rick Patino, which is a veryvery inflammable thing around this area. So
many fans just love him, andyou were doing talk about Rick is doing
what Yep, so you know hesaid. The NCAA has launched an investigation
in the Saint John's head coach RickPatino for alleged tampering with players not yet
in the transfer portal. It saidthat untold Patino offered nil deal the multiple

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high profile Big East players while stillin their respective rosters. Now, with
that being said, you know,like I said before, I love Rick
Patino as a coach. Do Ithink some decision that he makes basketball wise
or was the smartest? No,We've we've seen that in the past.
This is our first, our firsttangle with coach Rick Patino. But at

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the same time, this is somethingthat we also discussed right before the show,
is how these mid major schools arecompeting with, you know, some
of the power FOP convererces. Whenit comes to nil deals, money,
distribution of players, and getting recruitsto come in. It's it's a little
bit harder for you know, schoolslike Shane Johns and we talking about Saint

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John's in New York City, theonly about hard to get people that want
to come to New York City toSaint John's We are we are you.
You'd be surprised, you know,at at this point age. You know,
from a from a younger mind's perspective, it's a lot easier for a
player to just kind of just youknow, chase the money more than you
know sometimes playing opportunity location. You'dbe surprised you'd have players to go out

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and play for in the middle ofnowhere in Iowa State, you know,
for a bigger nil than be like, I'm gonna play for a smaller amount
of money. So you're telling methat players are not playing for championships,
say this playing for nil money,because I'm looking at You've got the New
York Knicks, you have the NewJersey nets that's across the bridge, and
you're talking about that. You're notgoing to get yourself that kind of exposure.

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You know, always talk about peopletalk about their brand, But what
better brand can you get than tobe in New York City and play for
a team and bring them some prominenceto that area right there? And you
got two pro team, not one. Two pro team that not fifty miles
apart. I don't disagree with you. Honestly, from my time when I

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played just a few years ago,I don't disagree with I would have loved
to play in New York City.I wouldn't play this Chicago. I love
being in the atmosphere of Chicago,just the lifestyle, righthood, the people,
everything, food, atmosphere. It'sjust not the same anymore. And
okay, can you go into thata little bit. I mean, what
are the young people playing for then, Anthony, if you say that they're
not playing, you say they'll goout in anywhere. You said that the

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NID ever has taken over college basketball, so the teams are players are more
worried about that nil deal, thenthey bring the championships and programs. Am
I understanding that correctly? Yeah?Sure, are so true perspective. Every
player is not just chasing, youknow, the money and the benefits.
You know, car dealership endorsements.A lot of players go for try to

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get a fit, to try tomove up to the next level, to
try to get NBA looks. Buta lot of players, you know,
everybody kills Calip Perry at Kentucky.You know, Kentucky's not a championship winning
school. They just produce a lotof great pros and a lot of NBA
players, And that is fact Itold everyone over the last couple of years.
I said, UK's not a schoolyou're going to go to to win
a championship. Your kids going togo to a school where you develop and
becoming a young professional NBA player orpro overseas. They're going for long term

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money rather than instant gratification. Yeah, there's a lot of and a lot
of the young players that are goingfor the instant gratification are just going to
go places. Well, we canoffer you one hundred thousand dollars in the
car. Damn, they're gone.They're disappearing like that. They're out of
their old school onto the next one. A big name players and that's I'm
sorry, George las things And thatwas something that we also discussed too.

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And it's like the championship caliber teamYukon may be going for a back to
back championship. Ukon only had Ithink one or two players max from the
top one hundred. Yukon has notbrought in those big name players like the
Rob Billinghams, the Reed Shepherds,you know, the big names that UK
gets, even the Alabamas have gotten. Recently, they've been getting players outside
the top one hundred and they've beenbeating people by thirty in the tournament.

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Yeah, one thing that I dowant to address. So I can't get
away from the players, not becausesee you can come to Kentucky and I'll
say this, you may not winthe national championship, but those young men
had a good run this year.I mean you looked at them. They
were exciting to watch, They hada great feel for the game, and
they and they gave everybody a hardtime. And this is what I try
to tell a lot of people aboutwhen you watching UK. You know,

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most when you and and you cantestify that you just played recently, you
don't want eighteen years old coming intoyour building and beating you like those young
boys do. So I look atpeople talking about what calib Perry has done.
I think it is very very hardto take eighteen years old and go
out and be twenty two and twentythree year old guys who are looking like
you said, who might be lookingto go to play pro ball, I

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go overseas. So to me,I think what Kyle does is very difficult.
I think it's very exciting because youget to see these young men develop
in different ways that you don't seeother people develop, You know what I
mean? And what do you thinkabout that? I agree with you.
I think UK is always going tobe a top level team, regardless of

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Cali Perry being there or not rightnow now, after the cal Perry era,
whenever he resigns to retire he stepsdown, do I think UK will
be the same caliber team In myopinion, No, he has a lot
to do. It has a lotto do with coaching selections. But at
the same time, UK is alwaysgoing to be those teams that every year,
you're always going to be excited aboutthe Kentucky roster, You're always going

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to be excited about seeing the Dukeroster. Those teams like that. They
bring money to the table and that'swhat players like, their name their lifels.
Playing with other top players brings themmore revenue into their pocket, which
is what they like. Well,let's go back to what you just said
earlier. Your team to do BlueDevils this year. I mean, they're
exciting, they have young players,but you know, I think these coaches,

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they're only like one or two piecesfrom putting it all together. And
I think that if Kyle goes andgets some upper classmen, the mixing with
them freshmen. And we saw howthat worked this year, you know what
I mean. He was only acouple of players the way, and I
thought one of the biggest problems thathe had this going into the tournament was
he tried to change the way theyplayed the game. At the end of

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the well, in the tournament game, I don't the second tournament game,
go to the NCAA, I don'tthink you changed it. I thought they
wasn't looking for their shots. Ithought they passed about much too much.
When we were looking at them earlyin the season and they were coming down
and they were letting it fly,and they were playing loose. I thought
in the NCAA game, he hadthem looking for one more pass, one

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who gets the best shot, insteadof just playing freely and running. And
I thought that that kind of madethem think too much. And then you
know, in an NCAA you don'thave long to think. You make a
make a mistake and you're done.And I don't want to say that it's
all on the factor of coach Ki. I will say that it's different from
a player's perspective. That just comeswith just the pressure and you know,

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the high expectations that you have witha team of that caliber. Team I
played on if we lost, wewere like, no, we had fun.
We went out there, we played, we played our hardest. It
kind of is, it is whatit is type situation. UK is not
the same boat. There's a lotmore criticism, more critique that comes if
UK losing in the first round.They can't show their face on the week
for a campus. Everybody's gonna hatethem. They're gonna hate on Instagram,

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Twitter. Family members is gonna belike what happened, Like, dang,
y'all, y'all lost to a youknow, a fourteen seeded school, Like
we didn't expect that. It's justone of those things that you know when
you know that if you go outthere and you make a mistake or somebody
gets hot like the kids from Oaklanddoes, that's into the season. There
is no all we lost to Alabama, we can bounce back next week and

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beat Tennessee and then go into thetournament and try to ride some momentum.
They lost in the tournament and wentinto the next game after a loss.
People don't understand how hard that isto do. After you know, you
kind of get your I don't wantto say you got your face beat in,
but you know you took a drafticl and you have to go in
with a little bit morement in anotherconfidence was still how going into Oakland.

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I'm not gonna lie. I thinkthe kid from Oakland kind of took a
lot of confidence away from them.They saw somebody at a lower level caliber
making the same type of shots thatthey made throughout the season, and they're
like, hmm, everybody in thetournament can play, and they can.
Even the teams that come in atthe fifteen and sixteen seeds. They might
not be a physically gifted heighth wisespeed athleticism, but don't let the determination

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from a lower level school yeah foryou, they will knock you off.
I thought that was true too,But I thought that the one thing that
I didn't think. Kentucky played thatgame, and I thought the young man
that was extremely hot. I thoughtif Kentucky had well, it's not a
matter of what I thought they wouldhave done, but they didn't do it.
The moment I thought that moment,just for I thought it got too

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big for Cale. I thought Kylewas pressing in the end. I don't
really think the players were pressing.And I'll say this, I thought that
they had a good time. Ilove watching them in an act with one
another. But I only think thathe's one or two pieces, you know,
from this team being a fantastic team. And I think that. I
don't say that he can't win achampionship. It's more difficult by the way
he does it. But I thinka couple of bigs and you have one

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good shooting night liked did against them, and they can go a long way.
And you know, the first gameis the biggest game for everybody.
I don't care who you are,what team you plan for. When you
go to term of play, yourfirst game decides everything. After you get
that under your belt, you know, you're a lot more relaxed and you're
ready to play your game. Butnobody wants to get kicked out of that

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first game. And I think thatthe tightness just got a little bit more
overwhelming for them this year than mostbelieve. So as well too. You
know, the first game, youknow, like they say, the first
game Jedters is always It's always areal thing. You know, if you
come out that first game you winby thirty, it's a confidence booster for
me. You know, it boostsyour team morale at boost you know,

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decision making. You know, confidencelevel is a big thing. I always
say for people, confidence plays ahuge, huge factor. Yes, yes,
huge factory in the state away aroller coaster wave of confidence throughout the
year. But they're riding. They'reriding the high tide going into the final
four. And this is something elseI say for the UK fans, Jay,
we hear all the crazy Jerry Anthony, we hear all the crazy talk

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about the UK fans and how theydon't like the ball players and this and
that. Jerry. If a ballplayer walks up on a UK fan,
they will not be talking about thelast game that they played in. They
will be in awe of who thatplay is. A lot of people who
make the most noise we never getto see and they never come out behind
the covers. They just like tosit back and be wanting to be very
very critical. But what I'm goingto do and then we're going to get

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back on this a little bit moreand then we'll move on. But we're
gonna go to a break. We'rehere at Sports Talk seven ninety am.
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son. All right, we'll beback, take us away, Matt,

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Welcome back to Sports Talk seven ninetyam radio. You're listening to it at
five seven one seventy nine hundred.You have Anthony Eaves and ring you George
Williams here, and I'm gonna askyou a question you We're gonna talk about
let's let's flip it a little bitand talk about the incoming freshmen that's coming
in and how they'll fit into Kentucky'sseason next year. Can you give us

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so some insight on what you sawat the McDonald's game and how you like
the players or how you didn't likethe players, and how that's it would
be a Kentucky Yeah, for sure. In my opinion, I think a
lot. I think Boogie Flann willpack a big role for him Offensively,
he's the small guard. He's bysix two, one seventy five. I
think he's very explosive, he's quickaround the rim, makes decisive and energetic

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moves that I think reminds me,you know, smaller clips of Rob Dillingham,
but not as electrifying. Also,you got you got the wing as
well. You have also Carter Knox, which is Kevin Knox's brother, the
former UK star. I didn't getto see a lot of clips of him.
He only played about ten to twelveminutes in the All American Game.
The same as well with the otherhe only played about ten to twelve minutes.

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It's kind of hard to based offof All American Game. In my
opinion, most books kind of goout there. They just kind of shoot
the ball. They dribble around alittle bit. You know, it's almost
like an NBA All Star Game.If you don't see him play in high
school before that, you won't reallyknow what they're capable of, and you
know, kind of an All Stargame right field right right. So that's
something I think we'll be able tosay see later down the line. But

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something I did want to bring topeople's attention is the big transfer that Louisville
just landed for Pat Kelsey. SoLouisville just landed James Madison transfer Terrence Edwards
junior he's a player of the Yearthe Sun Belt last year average seventeen point
two points a game for him,four rebounds and three and a half assist.
Now everybody knows jam you for theteam that won, you know,
thirty two and four last year.They came out high. They knocked off

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the number five seed Wisconsin the firstround, lost in my blue doubles in
the second round. Unfortunately. Youknow, I don't know what to tell
you now when you know it wasit was a blowout everyone that didn't watch
the game. But I think hebrings a lot of Do we need to
send some napkins over, I meansomeses over? I can kind of feel
you choking up at talking about due. Don't don't worry about that. There's

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always hope. There's always hope.But I want to get you how long
are your follow up question? Andthen we'll go down to uh here in
Lieuisville and see what they did.I want to do a follow up.
Who do you think will come backto Kentucky and who do you think will
leave? Oh, that's that's atough one. I know for sure.
I gave it to you. Therecepherd or Rob Dylan hinter gone for sure.

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They're both lottery picks in the topfifteen. Antonio Reeves will also be
out. I think will be aswell. What do you think he's going
to be. I think he'll bea mid second rounder. Okay, okay,
mid second round. And now ifhe goes earlier, honestly, I
might be a little surprised. Theonly reason why I say a mid second
rounder is just because of age.But the crazy thing is his age.

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I don't think he plays a bigfactor because Dalton connect is also a junior
as well, and he's in thetop ten. Zach Edie is also a
senior as well. He's supposed tobe supposedly in the top fifteen as well.
Lottery pick people have bumped him upquite a bit. There's a lot
of older guys that are going higherin the year because yeah, yeah,
this year more than usual, whichis you know, it's not surprising on
my part. Honestly, I've seenit. I feel like I've seen it

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coming for a couple of years.Oh all right, let's look at it
this way. I think it's gonnabe older for the future. But for
the simple fact is, and we'regonna get into this a little bit later.
But because the way uh Division Ischools are rating the Division two schools
and the mid major schools, you'regonna almost have to be a little bit

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older because you're gonna probably play oneor two years so that schools can see
who you are before they bring youup to that program, you know.
And so I think that that's gonnamake the age limit get a lot older
in the future. But we'll talkabout that a little bit more, but
we can touch it now. No, for sure, I believe a lot
of the transfers that I think comefrom low level schools and mid majors are

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gonna have to play two to threeyears most likely to build a notoriety.
You'll have that one or two playerthat'll be he'll get freshman other year in
this conference, or he might comeout hot and be electric and be close
to the running of player of theyear, maybe in levels like some about
where the James Madisons are, oryou got like even the higher schools in
near IVY League, like the coleGates and like the Yales. Those all
have prolific players that can score theball as well. But most cases,

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the grad transfers that come into theseschools that like the Trey Mitchells that come
into UK, the Antonio Reeves fromIllinois State, are gonna be older players.
They're gonna bring that diversity that alot of these younger teams need.
UK needs transfers to come in tohelp them get over that hump, especially
in deep tournament runs. I've saidthis to my dad over the last probably
five to ten years, no teamin the NCAA tournament has ever came through

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and just ran through the tournament witha team full of freshmen. Oh,
it never happens. Every championship teamhas veteran leadership of some sort, either
a junior or a senior that hasa very important role. UK had those
pieces this year, it just didn'tcome together like they wanted to. They
had leadership with Antonio Reeves, withTrey Mitchell. They had young explosive guards
coming in. They had young bigmen. I think, honestly, the

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big thing for their downfall was justthe was their big man. It's a
crazy thing. Everyone was so starstudied when they found out, oh,
UK's got three seven footers. Iwas too. I was like, what
team can you name? Then?Nca basketballs have three seven footers in the
last twenty years. But mister East, one thing that we have learned,
especially and you're a lot younger here, but one thing that Coach Crumb,

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the legend here in the University Louisville, said, in order to win a
championship, it's not the big thatwins championships in the n say, hey,
it's the point guards. And we'veonly had one point guard they play
with Kamello Adne. I can't thinkof a young man named right off the
top of my head right now.There's probably you know, you can probably
think there's only been about five freshmanpoint guards that have ever won a championship.

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And that's where the difficulty comes in, you know, because most seven
foot especially when they're freshmen, they'renot physically enough to lead a team into
the championship. They don't have thebody to do that. But most championships
are won by the guard play.And we're getting ready to take a break,
and we're gonna come back and we'regonna talk about the guard play and

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the big men play in the NCAA, and then we'll address to women also.
So Matt, if you could wellwhat we're gonna do this. First,
we got to address that. Thisis Sports Talk seven ninety a m.
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hurt our feelings. Take us out. Met Oh, Welcome back to the
Jerry Eve Show. The brand youhave, Anthony E's you have ring you
George Williams sitting on the other side. We're discussing basketball. We're discussing who's
returning for Kentucky, who's gonna whatbig men should stay? I go,

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give me what do you think aboutthat? What should the big men?
Do you think niece is prepared togo to the NBA? Which big men
you think should come back and playone more year and up the stock to
go to the NBA? I wouldsay in the final four, I would
easily say he's ready to go.I was talking about in Kentucky. I'm
sorry, I'm sorry and apologize.We'll go there next. That's next up.

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Honestly for the UK big man inmy opinion, I don't think any
of them are really the ratest.Okay, if I had to take one
that a top candidate to go.I would say big Z one, just
because he's versatile and he can stretchthe floor and he has a little bit
better handle Bradshaw. I think onehundred percent needs to come back as well
as the other one. He hasto come back as well too, but
I think big Z would have thebest chance if any of them were going

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to go to the draft this year. Okay, well, and you you
talked about Louisville and they got arecruit coming in. Uh, I'm want
to talk about them a little bit. I was at the press conference and
I did not hear the coach talkabout the style of play he plays,
and I'm not familiar with his styleof play at Charleston. Now did I
hear about the defensive style that he'sgoing to play. But I do realize

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that coach Mack is going to goto Charleston, and I know when he
came here he had that pack linedefense, which was I thought was one
of the terriblest says we had.And then the way they moved about the
pace of the game was so slowthat it just wore me out. I
mean, it looked looked like watchingdrive paint paint draft. You know,
I just could not believe that Maxstyle is so slow. Do you think

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that Kelsey will bring an up tempoand have you? Are you for me?
With his style play I've seen,I've seen previous games of him playing.
Now, obviously I wasn't paying toomuch to the coach at the time,
but the style Tyl de Charlson isa little bit of a They were
a little bit of a slower pacedteam. They weren't. They were up
and down, just kind of likea run and gun type team. They
were more of a kind of runthe offense, kind of get things flowing,

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get things set, which, honestly, at that level I kind of
understand. I play kind of atthe mid mid major, low level division
in school. It's hard for youknow, I say, skilled caliboy players
at that level just go out thereand that we're just gonna running gun like
a UK or a Tennessee or Alabamaand beat teams. You're not going to
beat them like that. Okay,Well, let me ask you one question.

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I hate to cut you off,let me ask you one question.
And because she made a great point, Okay, then well, what makes
it us think that he's going tocome here, bring up our tempo.
I'll make this an exciting brand ofbasketball here at the University Lois when he's
not used to coaching that style ofbasketball. If you could answer that,
I feel like answered it. Ithink adaptation of a coach is a big

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thing. I think you could easilycome here and change your style play.
Coach Cali when he was at Memphisdidn't have the one hundred percent same place
style that he did at UK.When he was at Memphis, Derrick Rose
just kind of did his old thingeverybody else, kind of rebounded, passed
the ball, hit a shot whenyou're open. And when he got when
he came here and he got theJohn Walls, the Eric Bledsoe's, you

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know, the Michael K. Gilchrist, Andy Davis, that's when he started,
like back in twenty ten, twentyeleven, everyone was highly praised and
you know, kind of the fourout winning offense that he ran from time.
He's had adapt from that because youknow, everyone catches onto a scheme
over time. You know, youcan't just run the same thing over and
over and over if then you knowit's an old saying, if it's you

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know, but it's not broke,don't fix it right, which is as
Foldal lagreed. You know, thefour out one end was respective for a
few years. But at the sametime you got to see the caliber players
that he had running that offense.You know, he had John Wall the
most electrifying point guard that we've probablyseen in the last ten years at point
guard outside of maybe John Moran.You know, I was just thinking about
that though. That's one of thethings that I thought about, you know,

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in the replacement of Kenny Payne andBrandon the new coach Kelsey is the
thing that the fans never asked himwas the style of play, what kind
of defense he plays. I mean, it seemed like they just didn't care
what he was going to do.As long as Kenny Payne was out,
he could play any way he wantsto play, and we're going to be
accepted of it. And I thinkthat Louisville, I'm looking forward to get

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to up tempo play and we're talkingacc basketball here. We're talking about the
big boys play. We're not talkingabout the little Fellers plan. And I
thought the style we played only Virginiaplays that ugly pack line defense, and
that will hold the ball for fiveto six, well almost the whole shot
clock. I just don't think Ithink that's exciting, and I don't think
if you're trying to bring a programback, that should be the style that

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we're looking at. No, it'sand that's something too. Virginia has done
well success wise over the last coupleof years with their slow paced offense,
the pack line defense. You knowpretty much Suger live and rely on teams
just trying to hit jump shots onthem the entire game. It's for being
in a fan base, especially fora new coach that has a very boring
offense and defense to watch. Iwill say that nobody wants to sit there

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and watch them kind of play almostlike a like a man covered zone,
you know, go down there,they shoot one shot every twenty five seconds.
This is you know, it almostrocks you to sleep a little bit.
They like seeing people get into passinglanes, get deflections, get steals,
high intensity basketball. It gets thecrowd involved, It gets the pants
interacted, it gets the players moreinteracted as a player. Like, no

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player wants to sit there and justplay a little zone defense unless you're lazy.
And that's just the type of playeryou are. If he's that type
of player going to a Power fiveschool, No one wants to play like
that. Like, I don't careif you're tired as a player, That's
not what you want to do.You'd rather be tired getting into it.
Well, let's change the wheel alittle bit. Let's go to the big
men in the NCAA. We talkeda little bit about that the other Monday,

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about that, about the bigs makinga comeback. What do you think
about the excitement of the big mengonna be in the final four this year.
Oh, it's gonna be It's gonnabe exciting, it's gonna be different.
I think the biggest big men matchupin the final four is obviously between
Zach Edy and DJ Burns. Perdueand NC State is going to be the

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biggest one right now. I don'tthink Alabama's big men are going to be
able to really hold Donovan Clingan.I know they have Grant Nelson the transfer
in North Dakota State. He's avery versatile player. He can stretch the
floor, shoot the three, ButI think size wise, he's gonna get
overpowered. Right Cleaning seven to eightyhas great experience, great footwork, touch
on the basket. An excellent shotblocker that we saw in Latin last week's

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game. Phenomenal five blocks on TerryShannon Junior, who was probably one of
the most electrifying guards coming into thetournament. He was averaging thirty point two
points a game six games going intothe tournament. Most people, most guards
aren't doing that. Brand Nelson hadthe height. He six to eleven,
but he's only two thirty. Thatthat weight distribute basketball plays a huge factor.

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It's not like the NBA levels RaymondGreen can get away with it at
six eight two forty be able toguard seven footers that are to eighty.
College basketball is just not the same. Okay, and you made a strong
point. Though, you made astrong point, all right. You look
at Edie and you look at NorthCarolina State's big Do you think he'll be
able to keep Eady away from thebasket? I mean that, do you
think he has the physical strength tohold Edy out? He has the physical

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strength, yes, Does he havethe height and size? I don't think
so. But his style is sodifferent and so unique. You know,
Moost. People will be like,oh, he's only six nine, Zach
eighty seven four, he's not gonnaget a shot off. You gotta understand
Zach Randolph did it for a longtime in the NBA on professional players.
Very similar. Play style is verysimilar, bodybuilds. Now, am I
saying he's gonna be as efficient asgood as Zach Randolph? I don't know

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right now? And say no,no, no, we won't. Yeah,
obviously no, Zach Randols, youknow, almost a Hall of famer,
if not a Hall of famer,DJ Burns is just scraping college basketball,
getting his notoriety. Different world.Okay, if you're a coach,
let's let's do this. Let's putyour coach in hand out what would you
do with Burns? And then I'lltell you what I would do with him
if I was going to play againstEadie. Let's see what would you do

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to stop ead tonight if you wereNorth Carolina State, if I was in
he State. You have to doubleYou have to double dy in the post.
You have to double first. Youhave to send pressure to my first.
The one thing that people have killed, not int State but Purdue throughout
the tournament is they're kind of blackand kind of mediocre guard play, which
honestly, they can hit a shot. But if you put pressure on them.

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I've seen them fold and crumble manytimes this year and last year from
the same players that they had.You have you're talking about now? Yes,
now the first Now, i'd saythe first two or three possessions.
I let Dj Burns want to wanthim, just wall them up and see
if he can keep them away fromthe basket. Push him off the box
a little bit. He doesn't haveto front the post. You can let
him catch it. I catch itoutside the box, outside the lane,

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and make Die make a real move. Put the ball on the floor if
you want a hard hedge down andkind of dig a little bit. See
if you can rip the ball awayonce or twice. I would do so.
After the first of possessions. Doyou feel like Burns a struggling with
Eddie in the post? I woulddouble the post, double the post and
make make him throw the skip pastweek side, which you know. I
think he's capable of doing it,but what he doing efficiently I don't think

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so. I don't think he's notknown for being just an excellent passer.
Pass right now, this is whatI would change. I like what you
said. I would play him headsup probably the first half I watched him.
If he's able to physically keep himout of the lane, you know,
I mean, if he lets himjust post up deep in the lane,

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then I would double. But whatI've known is Edie a lot this
year, and I'm not sure didthis work. I just doing the eye
test, is that I would planuh individually at the beginning of the game.
Then I would double the second half, because it seems like if the
game goes on, Edie tires andyou know, and then he doesn't seem
to be strong. And if Iwouldn't let him get to the left side,
but if you could keep sending theright and doubling down, I think

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he would have a chance at that. And again, if you like I
said, the game has been wonmostly by guard guard play, And if
you could stop the little guard atPurdue, I think he's the head that
runs the show. And if wecould cut him off, I think the
North Carolina State could win this game. And the thing that makes Bonds a
lot better is he doesn't have toscore because he's a great passer. If

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they're able to cut out for him, you know, he'll find the open
man. So I think that makeshim a double threat over what Edie is,
because you know, he makes everybodyon his team a lot better.
No one I believe. So thebiggest thing I seem lacking and Purdue is
when Edie goes out of the game. They lacked defensively around the rim,

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they lack scoring, they lacked aflow offensive efficiency. There's a lot of
things with Purdue that I'm just notso super high about now in my opinion.
Do I think Purdue will still win? Honestly, I still think they
have a high chance of winning justbecause of Edie. The biggest thing I
said even I said over the lastfew days, I said it Burns can
get Edie and foul trouble in thefirst eight minutes, NC State can win

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that game. Has to be effectivein the post. If he can get
Edie off the floor, get himjumping, jumping to him like he uses
his body and his weight distribution verywell, he can get a ed in
two quick files to where they gotto bring them a little freshman off the
brinch, or they bring in asmaller size maybe a six' ten or
six eleven That is more doable forBrian. For DJ Burns, which he's
went through the entire tournament. That'sthe big thing of why they beat Duke

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too. He got Philipowski and foultrouble. So go ahead, are we
giving contic We're just gonna give Connecticutthat win out when when we've kind of
overlooked it at the Connecticut game.In my opinion, I think Alabama scores
the ball well, but Yukar isa top three defensive team in the SA
Basketball on paper and statistic wise,we've seen it. They've been holding people

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their best scores so under thirty percentshooting. They've been holding teams to under
thirty six point seven percent shooting.The Yukon's scoring offensive efficiency is easily number
one in the country right now.It's ahead of Bama's ninety one points a
game during the regular season. Itell regular season, it's almost like the
NFL regular season. Everybody looks gooduntil the playoffs come way. Dak Prescott
being the most current player to beable to play. Lastly, who do

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you think is gonna win this gamefor the Yukon Alabama? Yes, sir,
I have money on Uton. There'sno other way I could go against
them. I can't go against theteam that's physically imposed their will offensive and
defensively, and just the margin ofwin that they've blown out. Now,
Dan Hurley has said this in interviews. He said it twice. He said

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the only thing he said, Ilove our team. We're a great,
efficient team. We work well.Everyone co exists perfectly. But they've never
been in a tight situation game before, especially of this magnitude. That is
one thing he did bring to everyone'sattention even he said it. He said,
they haven't been in one close gamethis year, and not one game
within double figures in the tournaments.Well do you think that? What about

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the experience though he's not kinding onthat experience to be able to take him
over if they do get in aclose game, because they've been they've been
in these situations before, and youcan rely on what you did last year.
You don't have to always rely onwhat you did this year because they're
trying to do a back to backand that is almost unheard of. It
is, but they have experience withCam Spencer senior, Tristan Newton the senior,

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and they also have some young guys. In my opinion, you Thanas
is a national favorite. I thinkwe'll still roll through good well Anthony.
We're gonna have to wrap this up. Man, we have about thirty seconds
to go. Who you think gonnawin the Women's Anthony till my favorite player.
Okay, we're out of here.He's going to be back tomorrow.