October 8, 2025 • 42 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
Now here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Wednesday, October the eighth,
on an absolutely beautiful day here in Lexington. As bad
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Law Office called TJ. He'll make them Pay. It is
Wingsday here at ks Bar Dollar Wing's Best Deal you're
gonna get in town for the food you get and
we'll be open here to eleven. We got people here
from Lexington, we got people here from Franklin County, Shepherdsville,
and then a couple of big guests. Drew Franklin's dad
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is here for the first Yeah, Franco see Drew Franklin's dad.
And then a huge shock Hello, ks or Bob. That's
ninety two that has been calling the Bob that is
not from Jamestown, but the Bob. He is here for
the first time and didn't look like I thought he would,
did you.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
He walked in and says hello, and you're like, wait
a minute, I know who you are.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
He literally said hello, Ryan, and I Santon, I go
I know that boy. Yeah. I knew it immediately that
that was He didn't say hello to me or Drew,
but he did say hello to Ry.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
It was impressive. He said two words and you cut
him off from like, I know who you is.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I know that voice. You know, impressive I give people
by voice. He's probably the person I was sitting here
thinking that has called the show the most that I
had never seen until today.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Would you agree with that?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Have we ever seen the truth. We've seen a picture
of him, but I've never met.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
The truth, so I think the truth actually would hold that.
But but Bob might have been second.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Yeah, a great special guest here today. Sometimes I have
an image of callers and I almost don't want to
meet him, but then I'm actually glad to meet it.
But I always have an image of people, and then
it throws it out the window.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
You're two, but you don't look a day over eighty six.
He looks great for looks great for ninety two. And
I like your little beanie too. I would wear that
little beanie sometimes.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Drove himself there at the age of that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Now you can't talk all right because we got where
we got headsets on. But I would drove himself here
at ninety two.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Honor and a pleasure.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Serve you're You're still better driver than Ryan even right now.
So yesterday Lexington got the most rain in a day
he had ever gotten in October, and the fifth most
rain in the day had ever gotten in history.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Did you know that my basement flooded? So yes, I
absolutely know.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Their basement flooded. Yeah, since another free ad campaign served
pro going national.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I've never had water in my basement ever. Well I've
only lived there for six years, but my basement had
a layer of water all on it left all the way.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
It was wild. They're driving around yesterday, I mean there
were streets flooded all over Lexington, Louisville I think had
a lot of flooding. But uh, but it looks like
everything's okay. But just pounded rain all day until about
seven o'clock. Yeah, my crops needed it. I was glad
for that, But I had a lot of things around town.
I didn't have an umbrella, so I would just have
to step out and just accept that I'm soaked walking
around places. Yeah it was, but but now it's beautiful today,
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and uh, a lot of good stuff going on. I
just want to say I'm in I'm in a good mood,
like I'm in a really good movie. Yeah. Why, I
slept more last night continuously than I have in years.
I went like nine hours without waking up. Usually I
wake up at like five and a half six hours
and then I, you know, have to go to the
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restroom or something. Then I'm awake and I kind of
drift back and now this was just solid. Went to
bed at eleven thirty and did not move until eight thirty.
So I'm like, in, this is the most energy I've
had in forever. I don't know why, but but I did.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
But I bet you still woke up ten minutes for
your alarm as well. I know, mind, I never hear
my lot, it's amazing, but.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
This was like this. So just just so you know,
if you hear a lot of energy, that's why it's happening, Dreue.
I don't know why I slipped so well, but I'm in.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Probably need a little catch up sleep.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Maybe.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
I know you've been back a few days, but still
probably South Africa.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
The alarm would go off. We had to leave it
multiple days. We had to get on the Safari vehicle
at five point fifteen because that's when animals are out.
That's when they do there. Yeah, so when as the
sun comes up, that's when animals. I think that's when
they're I see these kids are here. I'm sorry. I
think that's when their hornyest is in the morning. So
like that's when they get up and they, uh, what
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do you living? I think it's it's just science.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I just give them a quick look to see if
they were.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
But that's why they're out.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
So that's what you were there to see. You're watching
grays like eating some grass.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I mean I didn't. I didn't go for that. It
wasn't like that's what I was. It's just there most
likely to come out in public so that they can
meet their their spouses during that time, and then when
it gets later in the day, they tend to like
blend into the the to the bush and it's harder
to see them. That's the thing.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
So if you had to say, did did the ladies
kind of hand lead you? Or did you hand lead
the ladies? I don't know what that means, like did
they were they taking care of you? Making sure you were.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Take care of me? You know I am I am
mid forties and have been by myself since I was eighteen.
I'm fine.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
We know you though out in the bush or were
they kind of handleading you around?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
They were left that it was a car. We got
in and then we would get out. There was no
we were not out. They hold your hands and you're
fighting rhinos. I was driving around. The hardest thing was
the sun because it was on my face the whole.
That was really the only the only problem that we
did have. I was so impressed with the two people
on the trip that were from South Africa, how good
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they were at spotting stuff. Like if we didn't have them,
I don't think I mean, maybe you know, we've seen
the elephants, but in general a lot of the other stuff.
They'd be like, you know, uh, leopard right, and you'd
go what and then there it was, which.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Was like actual tour guides or people on your Yeah,
there was that we had.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I had the whole trip, so he did all eleven days,
and then we had someone specifically for the Safari and
the woman for the Safari. She could see stuff just
it was unbelievable. She could would just be like, uh,
zebra right over there, and then you would see it
and it was time.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
That's not how we say it.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I'm saying the South Africa Now that fine, I'm all right,
I've been to South I've been to the Johannesburg soccer game.
I'm I'm I've been there. I'm good. But yeah, that
that's it was really cool and it's not like what
you think like you probably think of like this green,
lush land. This was like brown. So it wasn't the
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most beautiful landscape, but it made it easier to see
the animals because there weren't leaves and stuff everywhere, which
actually made it easy.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
So they're just like one person driving and one person watching,
like it.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Was one person. So it was a car and it
had like a high thing, you know, where people could
sit on the top, but I had to sit in
the bottom because there weren't enough seats, So it was
me and her sitting ground level and everybody else was
up top, and she would drive around and she could
just she could.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Just see uh everything, So it was it was awesome.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
We did it for two days, but that five fifteen,
those five fifteen wake up calls, there's a part of
me is like I've seen plenty of animals.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I skipped the third one. To be honest with you,
I can see you you're not a morning person. Don't
really care.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
When we did cover zero and it finished at like
one five in the morning, and I said, I'm not
going on the third day, and I'm sorry. So, uh,
yesterday Drew and I went to UK Pro Day and
I'm gonna go ahead and tell you now, like what
is it basket no offense to all things UK football
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and Mark, I'm basketball. All right, I'm all in. I'm basketball.
I watching that yesterday got me very very excited, like
very exciting. We I don't know how good will end
up being, like it depends on how they connect and
all that. But we got a squad. We got dudes
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upon dudes upon dude. We've got twelve guys that are
really good. Otega didn't play, so he would be the twelfth,
but he wasn't playing yesterday, And even the thirteenth, Reese
Potter could if you needed him to go in, he
could play. I mean, we got we got guys, and
they're fun to watch, and they're crazy athletic. And all
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I can do is compare it to last year. Drew
you and I sat there last year, I watched him.
My take last year was wow, they can shoot. They
can really shoot. But I did think I'm I might
be more athletic than a couple of weeks. That was
my take last year. This year, maybe you take a
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ten percent drop in shooting, not a huge drop, maybe
a ten percent drop in shooting. But we got some athletes,
and we got some dudes that are like Jalen Lowe,
I already had all the stock I bought, like, I
called my broker and bought even more. I mean, he's
so fast, he's so fast. We didn't have we didn't
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have that guy last year. We haven't had a dude
this fast off the bounce since Well dialing Ham was
like that, right, but we haven't had many of them
like that in the you know, Fox dialing Ham, wall
Low was probably not as fast as those guys, but
he'd be right behind them. Would you agree with that?
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Oh yeah, yeah, he looked great last night. And just
to be a proa, they're out there dipping on the floor.
He was yelling at people, getting up in their face
if they were if they made a mistake. It was
like I felt like they were getting ready to play
the tournament.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Such a contrast between the pro days of Cal and
this in terms of I mean they were practicing, and
I feel bad for y'all at home, cause it was
really it reminded me of when Cal Perry was here
the first few years. He would invite me to practice
every year and I would say, Man, I wish fans
could see this. I wish you could see how much
back then Cal and Roebrick were coaching. Because when if
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you went to practice, you'd be like, oh, this is
something that's what I felt like yesterday. I know it
was on, but I believe it didn't. They show just
poor Dick and Goose just talking the whole time.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Yeah, I'm good to hear you. Guys got to enjoy
it because I was sitting at home didn't get to enjoy.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
It very much.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
The reviews online are not good.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Do that?
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Why even bother showing it if you're not gonna show
it well? Like you and I said before the show,
show this you can talk, but show the scrimmage while
you're talking.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Shown practice. I wish fans. I wish fans could see it.
I wish you could see, Like, first of all, I
wish you could see how good a coach we have
and how good of assistance we have.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
They leaded just as much as Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Mean, Mark Fox is out there doing great stuff. Alvin Brooks,
the McClain guy, Jason Hard I wish we could wish
people could see and appreciate what they're doing. So here's
what stuck out to me. Jyalen Lowe stuck out the most.
I think Trent Noah is either grown or gotten stronger.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Would you agree with that. He looked like just a
bigger dude. That was my number one takeaway, just appearance.
Trent Noah looks completely different. He's I know, Pope wanted
to add eighteen pounds. He looked like he lost eighteen pounds.
He looks he's very lean, very.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Like like like he's skinny face gotten much skinnier.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
I mean, you know, you don't like to say somebody
has baby fat, but he probably had a little bit
of baby weight on him last year and that's completely gone.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I thought so so to me. Jyalen Lowe sticks out
the most Otaga wasn't on the floor, but if you
were watching, you would say, okay, that's our best player.
Trent Noah looked really good. Michael Moreno, mal excuse me.
I talked to his brother Michael during the who Just
Got Married? Malcolm Moreno, that kid. The difference between him
and when he was a junior in high school, which
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was the last time i'd seen him play, they're different kids.
Moreno's gonna play. Yeah, I didn't know if he would
after watching yesterday. He's gonna play, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Think, I mean, we thought, you know, he's a McGall's
all American. He's gonna be good, but maybe not quite ready.
They're pre stacked. Store them at the end of the bench.
Maybe you'll need him. He was just going up and
dunking on he's heads in a crowded paint last night. Yeah,
he's bulked up a lot too. I didn't watch a
lot in high school, but he looks college ready.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Uh. We A lot of guys can shoot. I mean,
Aberdeen makes like every shot he takes. Uh.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Did low shoot the ball well from pretty good?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah? I mean, but I mean Lowe's thing is the
way he takes people off the bounds. But yes, low
shot the ball with good to hear. Uh, you know, Noah,
it's one practice, so I'm not getting ahead of myself.
My only concern was, Uh, was our man Diabate shoots
not great?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
I don't know if that's he didn't take many last year.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, I think everybody thought he was gonna come in here.
I don't see him shooting a lot of threes.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
I think he took We looked at him, was it
like twenty five all of last year?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yeah, he didn't. He didn't look like he'd taken many.
So it'd be interesting to see because in Pope's system,
your four needs to shoot threes. So if he plays
the four, I'll be interested to see what what they do,
because because he's not gonna shoot much, I wouldn't think
maybe they play him at the four, but he's actually
playing five on offense because I think Moreno and and
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Garrison can shoot from outside. But uh, Jasper Johnson, Uh
you know, look good who whom I'm missing here?
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Well my king? Colin Chandler.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Colin Chandler. Dude, Drew's right, Like, if he doesn't start,
he may not start. He's a six man and he
will dunk on people so much belts. Yeah, I mean
he will dunk on.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Your face a couple last night.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
He can play the one, or the team can bring
him off the bench, six man, back up E, the
one guy, either of those guys.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
It's just the thing that strikes me about this is
how deep this team is. It's not twenty fifteen deep
because those were all pros, right so, but they were young,
but they were all pros. But you take that team out,
this is the deepest team we've had. I don't know
since win twenty fifteen was deeper. But you get beyond
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that Now, I don't know who's deeper than this when
you're twelfth man is Yellovich? Yeah, and he's the ty
Now how about him having to run to the top
of the Yes, so he got in trouble and he
had to run the steps. Yeah, So Pope told him
something like shoot the ball, and he kind of snapped
back at him and Pope goes, run this stay and
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so like in front of all of us, he had
to run this.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
He had to touch the very time.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
If Brandon Garrison got in trouble for something and he
did the worst punishment I've ever seen back, I would
just say to you, Yeah, So he had to take
a towel. Yeah, and he was on one end of
the floor Today show on the screen. He was on
one end of the floor and he had the towel
on the ground and he had to run with the
towel on the ground, like bent over like a triangle,
all the way up and all the way back. And
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I literally thought, if they did that to me, I'd quit.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
My back was hurting was watching him that. And before
they got into the scrimmages and drills, they did the
diving on the floor drill.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
That's the old Billy go.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
I don't think Caliver did that. They just roll the
ball out there and tell you to go dive. And
I was just like cringing every time they did it.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I only apparently would do that for like thirty minutes
did They only did it one time?
Speaker 6 (15:31):
And I think he did it on gravel, Yeah, shards
of glass.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
But I came away very, very excited. My take on
it is this team is deep, foul trouble. Not worried
about it unless it's the point guard. We're very deep.
My only question will be who are our stars. I
know Jaylen Lowe is going to be one, and I
assume O take is gonna be the second. You know,
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ja Billis always says you gotta have three. We'll see
who the third develops. But we got a lot of
choices in my opinion as to who that can be.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
The third game of being Jaden Layton's once he gets healthy.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Mate. Yes, he didn't do the he didn't do the
back and forth, so he did some workouts, but he
didn't do the five on five, so we didn't really
get to see him in that context.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
But he could shoot too. He was he was drained,
shot and well to the point of death. My other
big takeaway. We haven't named him yet. Braydon Hawthorne is
the best fifteenth man in the country. Sorry, it's not
even close.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
He's good.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Now he's got to put on weight, but.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
He's right author. Who was it that said he was Tayshaw?
I mean, just anyone, just look at him. If he's
left he's right handed. He looks like Braydon Author. I
don't know how much he'll play this year, but he's
playing at the school. Yeah, yes, for sure. That was
a great pickup for whatever he was right.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
I don't know, right around twenty five thirty. Yeah, he
can almost look at him because he won't play this year.
He's just too thin. It's almost like you've got a
five star locked in for next year.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
There's what he is. He reminds me of when cal
would bring in classes and then the last guy in
the class would be like our eighth and that's him.
It's just he's our thirteenth man this year.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
So he was hitting everything.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Yeah eight, I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.
We'll take a break, we'll talk more about it. We're
a little giddy because I we're gonna be good. This
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are they condition wise? Looked condition wise? Looked good to me?
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I mean didn't I didn't see anybody like tugging on
their shorts. They they go, they move constantly, like they
don't they don't ever stop, like it's constant movement. That
was something. Cow's practices were like that too. Like those
guys they they they they just like to keep them going,
don't really give them a chance to rest. And the
way they do it is they got like twenty guys. Yeah,
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they got like seven guys that are UH managers or
I guess they would call them what do they call
it analysts, And they're playing two some and so it
just makes it to where no one stops, like it's
just one group goes to the end of the court
and then they start the second one and they start
him back and like there's no there's no waiting, there's
no standing around.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
That was my big takeaway last season the first time
we saw practice. It's just there are so many people involved.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Yeah, they got a dude. It's same dude they had
last year. They got a dude that is thirty eight
with a mortgage out there playing bass. I'm telling you
there's a guy out there now. We looked up his
college guys. I'm to tell you what's his name, Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Yeah, he was the Patriot League Player of the Year.
He had like a ten year career overseas.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
I'm not I'm not mocking this dude.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
He's this dude.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
This dude would eat up the YMCA. He's he's got.
Last year, he wore two knee braces. This year now
he's wearing those pants like the white Titan sleeves, the
sleeves and and and he's a bucket. Yeah, but he
moves like I think he needs to go to hot
yoga because I mean he he moves less fluidly than me,
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but he still will give him the up and under
and the dipsy dude, you know, I mean, he's still
doing his he's still doing his thing. I don't know
where they got this guy, because he's in his mid thirties.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
I think thirty five.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
He played it five years old and he's like posting
up Brandon Garrison. What like it's it's it's fun to watch.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Can I tell the rumor of what he really did
to Brandon Garrison?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
What? Oh, yeah, there's going around. He say, good news,
though I be careful this.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
This says more about how good our gratist does anything else. Oh,
there's a rumor going around that he dunked on Brandon Garrison.
Not just that I've seen it and it happened last night.
Oh it happened, But I was talking about this guy
and how good he is when he got.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
A dipsy due on Brandon Garrison. His teammates all did
the thing where you dunk on people and like, so like,
clearly it's a running it's a running joke that he has. Uh,
I'm gonna have to believe that. I don't know if
that dude can get up and get it dunk. I
don't know if he could jump. But but he's fun to watch.
I mean, I will say, when you got a thirty
five year old out there running with him, it's kind
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of funny and.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
People would probably recognize them if we could share its radio.
But he's on the bench with the clipboard in a
suit like he's around, you would probably recognize his face,
but very unsuspecting at age thirty five. But a good
basketball player they have out there helping out makes me
want to see some video.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
I mean for sure, Well you could have watched the
yesterday if they would have.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Showed it, you know it.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Did they show any of it?
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Very very little. I got so frustrated. I was smopping
up water in my basement anyway when I had it
on soul. But again the only thing I really noticed
was that they seemed just more muscular, like thicker.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
There's so much more athletic. Yeah, and I don't think
you realized. I mean, you know how much more athletic
Away and Butler were than the other guys last year.
And it just really stuck out how much. Well, now
you got a team and everybody looks like everybody looks
like that, including like Trent Noah. I mean, Trent Noah
looks different than he did last year as well.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
And I just couldn't get over how like competitive they were.
Pope said it media day. Sometimes we have to stop
them from fighting each other because every practice they're going
to war. I kind of saw a little bit of that.
They're there to entertain scouts and just get some drills
and measurements out there. And like I said, they're treating
it like they're about to go play the tournament.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I also liked I was watching because this is the
worry people have about Jayal and Low, like will he
be selfish? Right? Will he share the ball? I like, again,
just practice feels like he gave up shots to share
the ball throughout the whole thing. Did you agree with that? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (21:31):
And that's the thing I think he's gonna do a
lot of. Pat Kelsey has a comment when they played
him last year, he was like Low would get ever
anywhere he wanted, and Raydy, he thought he was about
to lay it in. He's now kicked it out to
someone for an open three. It was like he just
finds the spots and then can distribute out to the
open man better than anyone he had.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Really, he's gonna like he can get a step. The
player reminds me the most of it, I'm sure, because
the whole left handed thing. But is dearon Fox not
as fast as dearon Fox. I mean, Dalon Fix is
like another level of fast, So I'm not saying he's
that fast. But when you're sitting there watching him, if
you were to say, like, what is the comparison, I
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would say, de Aaron Fox? Do you agree with that?
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Yeah, he would appreciate that too, because he knows Darren
Daron Fox recruited him to Kentucky. They're both Texas guys.
So but that's might be a little bit, might be
a little bit in how they play. Yeah, I mean
being from the same you know, Grassrooms best not.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I'm not trying to put the deeron Fox because deeron
Fox was like insanely quick. I'm not saying he's that,
but he's you know, a half step behind that quick
and and he'll he'll get to the ring. You know,
we didn't have dudes who could get to the rim
last year. At the end of the day, you know,
Away would muscle his way to the rim and Butler would.
But now we got a dude who can take you
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to the ring.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
That's good what you said earlier he was knocking down shot.
I think that was the big knock on him. He
was that good of a shooter.
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Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Welcome back, Tekey Sports Radio seven seven two seven to
seven four five two five four one person rights, Matt,
I haven't heard this kind of giddiness from you about
UK basketball in a long time. It makes me excited. Well,
I mean part of it was in the preseason. Cal
wasn't letting me come to anything since COVID, so I didn't.
And then I went last year and I was excited,
but I could tell the limitations of that team. I
(23:27):
think that team, by the way last year, when we
look back, really will have overperformed and we should be
really proud of the of the way they played all year.
I mean, I genuinely believe that, especially when you start
to see the teams that Pope will probably have going forward.
Do you agree with that?
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Yeah, definitely. I mean we loved a lot of those guys,
but like and Andrew Carr with back problems, it's not
half his athletic as what we saw last night.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Not even close. And then and then the second thing is,
you know, we've had a lot of elite talent here
and you can you can see it, like you can
see when guys and I love this is something we
didn't have under cal. I love watching guys improve. I
love seeing how much better Trent Noah is, and I
love seeing how much better Colin Chandler is. Like that
makes me, that just makes me excited. We don't we've
(24:14):
not gotten to do that in fifteen years, to watch
guys Ryan like, really improve?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Did you anybody say anything about what Otega's return is week?
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Now?
Speaker 6 (24:24):
He's back this week? Because I interviewed him Monday and
I was like, are you back practicing? He was like,
I'm back to full speed. Maybe he just didn't want
to do that in front of the pros. Your second
practice back and you've already done the NBA thing in May.
That was me speculating, But he did say he's back
this week.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yeah. I think I was told he will play in
the Blue White Game, which is a week from Saturday.
We'll see what he does with Big Blue Madness. One
person writes, Matt, you didn't mention Cam Williams. You guys
never talk about him, just because amongst the guys, he
didn't stand out as much as the others. But he
made every shot I saw him take, not necessarily and
(25:00):
say to me, Drew, he looked like a seventh, eighth,
ninth man.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
But he made every shot he took. I saw he
blocked a three pointer. That was one of those whoa like.
Not many people would go up and get a three
pointer like you did, and then hitting some threes. You
could see flashes. But as you said, I mean when
I'm writing down the people that jumped off the page,
he's a little farther down, but that you could see potential.
There were moments.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
One person writes, Ryan's assessment of you needing someone to
take care of yourself is correct. Most men in their
mid forties don't ruin their iPhone putting it in the
same pocket as a coke can, all right, First of all,
that's rude. Secondly, or go without an iPhone during a
once in a lifetrying trip in a foreign country that
could be dangerous, just to save money that would cost
(25:43):
what your shoes cost. All right. I don't need this
from you. No. The reason I didn't buy a new iPhone,
I thought, I said this, So in South Africa, everything
cost about a third of what it cost here. So like,
if you were to go to get McDonald's in South Africa,
what is McDonald's nine ten dollars per meal? There? It
would be like three. So like, so that's cool. I
(26:05):
mean food, you know, a diet coke, Like a bottle
of coke zero was like eighty four cents or something.
But now the opposite to that is luxury goods are
insanely expensive. So an iPhone, I think I got this iPhone.
I got the seven for like sixteen hundred dollars, and
in South Africa it's like forty three hundred dollars. Because
(26:29):
the disparity of wealth is so much that the rich
people are so rich they can just charge them anything,
and thus they do so like the like I don't
buy Rolex watches, but there was a Rolex store and
somebody in our group went and they were, like, the
Rolexes here are two and a half times as much
as they are in New York City in South Africa.
(26:49):
The other thing is if you get a phone in
South Africa, they can't give you an American phone number.
So I would have just had a South African phone
number for the rest of my life. And I was like,
what's that gonna do for me? So that's why I drew.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
I didn't that would have been funny. Well to the
counterpoint to the original text about not take care of yourself.
You're you're here right now. Have you seen fine? If
you made it, you did take care of yourself.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yeah. There was only one time, at one night that
I was a little nervous. I was at the mall
trying to get my phone fixed. They finished. It was
like three and a half hour walk and they tell
you do not take taxis on the street. They're like,
that's don't that's dangerous either getting an uber or call
a taxi company and have them come get you. Well,
I didn't have any way to call anybody, and I
(27:32):
wasn't gonna go up to people and go can go
taxi with your food like that. I would, you know
that makes me So I was like, look, i'll walk.
It's three and a half miles, it's on the beach, right,
I'll be fine. Well, it was day, but it was
turning into night and by the time I got the
last mile it was dark and it's just you know,
(27:56):
during the day, everyone's out, but it's like at night,
it's like they turned the lights off in the entire
city and everybody goes home or everybody gets inside. So
all of a sudden, these streets that were bustling with people,
there's nobody there. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean you don't.
You don't walk at night.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
And you're walking at night, I what.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
For the last half mile. So that was like a
little that was like a little like, all right, let's
speed up a little bit. I wasn't in the worst neighborhood.
It was fine, but like, but they just don't walk
at night in Johannesburg or Cape Town. We just do not.
Out in the rural areas. I think they do it more,
but just in Johannesburg and Cape Town, you do not
walk at night.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Drew did tell a story on you. You guys did cover
zero and you're in a tent and where everybody else
was trying to sleep. You're trying to whisper it because
you didn't want to wake everybody.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
I was in a tent and everybody else was in
the tent and they were asleep, and I was trying
not to love, trying not to wake them up, but
I'm sitting there going, you know, Joe Flacco and I
go sh because they loved you. It was one fifteen
in the morning out in the woods. So who's up next?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Let's go to Andrew.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Andrew? How are you, Andrew?
Speaker 7 (29:02):
Wonderful? Hey, Matt. I don't know if you heard yesterday,
but the tickets went on sale this morning at ten
o'clock for the uk U of L game. I've been
on hold for a few minutes and there were still,
I don't know, quite a few left.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
So there's tickets. Tickets for uk U of L at
the Young Center are on sale right now. Correct, they're
not sold out?
Speaker 7 (29:26):
With a buddy of mine, you got yeah, we uh wow,
ten o'clock they went on sale. I've been on hold.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Are you talking? Are you talking football or basketball?
Speaker 7 (29:37):
I'm talking basketball. I have faced the tickets released from
U of L. They're all up top, but uh ninety eight.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
That's amazing.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
One tweeted me that too, that they bought a buy.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
The uk U of L basketball tickets on a year
that their top fifteen they did not sell out.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
I'm about some right now.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Wow. Well, thank you for letting me knowpreciate the appreciate
the call. That's so. I actually had written down Ryan
that I'm I'm I'm kind of amazed about Louisville attendance
at things. So louill played Virginia in football Saturday was
at four o'clock, beautiful weather. Louisville is undefeated and Virginia
(30:20):
is right. Yeah, And if you look at their schedule,
you could have made a strong argument that if Louisville
wins that game, they have a path to the playoff.
Not I mean, not certain to make it, but they
have a path if you look at it. And yet
there were twenty five thousand empty seats or maybe twenty
thousand empty seats. I couldn't believe.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
It, which is kind of crazy. There was so much
excitement about this season. I think of Louislle football.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
FeAs what do you make of the fact that this
is that they cannot sell out the uk U of
L basketball game on a year they probably have the
best chance to win that they've had in forever.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
I said this year ago. They're broken and it's not
fixable like when Pat Kelsey.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
But they have two young, exciting coaches and look.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
At their I pulled up ticket Master. There are plenty
of upper level seats available for the Kentucky But.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
It's a Tuesday night, right Tuesday, what though, Yeah you.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Think Let me ask you if uk U of L
was here this year on a Tuesday night, you think
there'd be tickets. No, it's well, the first market games.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Of the season. Who cares if it's a week night,
But there's plenty online right now.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Is the Saint Andrew's Fair that week?
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Well? Now, last Saturday was the Saint James Art Fair. Yeah,
and I do wonder if they didn't sell out because
of the Saint James Art Fair because it was going
on last week.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
It happened last year. I remember the jokes. It's, well,
we couldn't possibly fill the stadium, you know the Saint
James Art Fair that's going on. Oh are bad?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Well, it was going on this week too, so that
might be. Here's what I think happened. I think two
things happened that really screwed up U of L football basketball.
I don't understand how their basketball's not sold out. That
arena is the same size it was before. The fact
that they're not selling out is really something that's got
to scare them. Football. What happened is Tom Jurch expanded
that stadium to make it bigger than Kroger Field, and
(32:07):
they don't have the fan base. I mean, we have
retracted our stadium. I think correctly. They expanded it, and
their fan base cannot support the expansion of what that.
They have sixty thousand seats there now they can't handle that.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
And you're right, though they have a path to ten wins.
I only have to play at Miami and they got
Clemson at home. But they might get to ten wins
this year. You think they'd be excited about that.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
I think they really screwed up with the expansion. And
then the other thing is, and I've been saying this
for fifteen years, Kentucky Athletics is a passion, all right.
Everybody in here that's here, you have that passion. Bob's
ninety two years old, drove from drove from louisll We
got here from Etown, Franklin County. You know, got people
here who come just to watch the show. In Lexington, Louisville,
(32:53):
fandom is a party. And there's a big difference between
passion and party. When the party's not fun, you don't
go oh right, when the passion's there, you're you're with it,
But when the party's not there, you don't go. And
it's not they haven't won at quite the level they did.
Tom Jertch created an atmosphere where going to uv L
stuff was cool, but it still wasn't kind of in
(33:16):
their blood drew like it is for us. And I
think you're seeing that now because they're they're good now
and they're still not getting the same support.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Yeah, and I don't I don't think it's coming back.
I think another part of it is just scandal exhaustion.
If you're a fan of that basketball team. I know
a lot of them kept talking theirselves into seasons, but
at some point you had to be like, I can't
just keep doing this. I mean, that was a brutal
patch from the end of Patino. You got Chris Mack
turning on his buddy with the FBI. I mean, their
stuff is truly unbelievable, and I could understand if some
(33:46):
of their basketball fans were like, I can't keep following, But.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
You do wonder at some point they've got one of
their own coaching. Football grew up in that city, right,
The Broms are like royalty in that city. He's coaching football.
Last year they won what nine or two games.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Then you have hot Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
You got basketball. They make the tournament. They got a
guy who whatever you think about how good he'll be,
he's exciting, he's brought it. They got a freshman, Michel Brown,
who's gonna be one of the best players in the
country this year as far as a freshman. And they
just they can't sell out the uk U.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Of L game broken.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
I tell me, word gets out, there's tickets available, There's
gonna be a lot of blue come in.
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are here at KOs bar grill. We are open, come
see us. One person rights. Where would Travis Perry be
on this team? Would he get to play? I lean
towards no, or if he did, he'd be like the
(35:25):
twelfth man. I mean he let's just look at the roster.
He's not playing over Jaalen low right, drew, not playing
over a Takeo way correct, not playing over Denzel aberdear correct. Uh.
Probably not playing over Jasper Johnson.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Or Colin Chandler or the other guard on the roster.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
So I mean he would be sixth man on just
in terms of guards. So what I mean is it
is it possible that he would play a little Yeah,
but he would not get significant minutes. I think Ryan
in this group.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
He's be one of those guys. I think we look
back wish he had to do over because he he
just wasn't ready to play point guard in the sec
last year, but at a necessity he had to because
of the injuries. I wish he could have had a
chance to maybe develop a little better, but it just
it was a good departure on both sides.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Of here's what will happen though, when we play them,
he'll score fifteenth.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
Yeah, he won't miss press spirit to.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
It like when we play them, it is one hundred
percent certain to me, Drew that he will have a
big game. That's just gonna happen.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
That's fine, as long as they don't win the game.
You know, Travis was putting a bad spot last year
when he committed to cal before Pope even got here,
and we all just assumed he'd be at the end
of the bench. If you told us he'd be guarding
Mark Sears at Alabama and his freshman season, we would say,
what in the hell happened to get to that point.
But that's what Kentucky was in last year. I think
he'll be a good player long term, but I don't
(36:45):
think he would have had a huge role this season
with what they have.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Can we talk about the latest on your boy, Bill Belichick?
Oh yeah, So right after the show, they announced canceling
the Hulu series the Hulu documentary about behind the scenes
with Bill and joy Ran canceled. Man, I was looking
forward to it. I think it would This is why
(37:08):
you want to watch it. Yes, absolutely, And now it
looks like they're not gonna have it. Uh. Things just
keep falling apart. They call the GM a jerk, and
now they canceled the Hulu series. Paul fine Baum, who
apparently is back on the air, UH, said yesterday Bill
Belichick is going to go down in history as the
worst college football coach of all time, the best pro
(37:30):
football coach of all time, and the worst college football
coach of all time.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Worse than that guy from Uclair.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
They can't be worse than the guy from UCLA who
won one game in two years. Is it possible he's
the worst college football coach of all time.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
He's got to be in the conversation to be as
successful as he was in the pro ranks. How can
you fail that miserably in the only played four games,
So it's not They got destroyed by Clemson last weekend destroyed.
Speaker 6 (37:58):
I don't think I'll call him the worst of all time,
but we are learning that there's a just completely different
skill set. The way you coach college in the NFL,
because it's very obvious he's gonna need a little time
to get acquainted. I don't know how much time he
has left in his coaching career.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
But you think about how good that show would have.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
Been great, awesome.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Doubled its ratings based on how I mean it would
have been awesome to watch because like apparently there are
fights in the locker room, Like if the cameras were
all there, that would have been the greatest. And I
want to know, what kind of reality show do you
just get to cancel?
Speaker 6 (38:31):
You got it? You agree to that?
Speaker 4 (38:32):
When when when we brought the cameras into ov W,
they didn't say, well, if you don't like what's going on,
I mean the sure on TV right, Like I didn't
you know, I mean there comes a point, Shandon, you
shouldn't be able to cancel it.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
I mean you I would think you would want drama,
you would want controversy. That's what makes the show good.
That's why people have to watch it.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
The guys two and three so far, he's not the
worst coach of all time in college.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
Nobody wants to watch a boring show, right, We want
to watch the drama. Watch that's the good show. So
I think, Uh, I don't understand why they canceled it.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
If they were four and one right now and that
documentary came out, no party he would care to watch it.
But if they released it right now with a bad
record and the Patriots drama and the Jordan drama, I'm
running to watch it.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
One person writes, Matt, do you think we have a
big man who can be like Amari Williams last year
handled the ball and pass. I don't think they'll be
as good as him at that. I mean, I think
he had a uniquely I mean, think about it. He
can't shoot, he's not much of an offensive player, and
he's gonna make an NBA team because of how good
a passer he is. So I think that's a rare skill.
(39:37):
You know, Brandon Garrison is gonna have to be better
at it. What do you think of him yesterday?
Speaker 6 (39:43):
Uh? He looked pretty good. I'm worried Brandon Garrison is
gonna try to be Amara Williams this year, and Amari
was kind of a unicorn. There's not many a Mario
Williams that can pass and bring it up like that
at his size.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
I hope.
Speaker 6 (39:57):
So I hope Brandon Garrison can do it a little bit.
I hope we don't get to remember he'd force turnovers.
We called a BG time where he call his own
number when we saw. I hope he doesn't try to
be a Mario because of Mario was his own thing.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
We saw the Brandon Garrison still does the all right
clear out here here it comes, although he does have
a weird way of like getting an open lay up
even though arms and limbs are going in seven different directions.
Speaker 6 (40:22):
And he'll have a green light to take some threes
this year, I think.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Because he's so big, there's something about his drives to
the basket that looked nothing like anyone I've ever seen,
because he'll shoot and he'll kick one leg up in
the air and then his arm's over here and he's shooting,
and he just looks like a praying mantis with with
just blims going in every direct and then he goes
in and.
Speaker 6 (40:44):
Then he looks the other bench and wants to fight
all of them. Looks like he's got a lot going
on there. Yeah, they'll need that intensity though that you know,
maybe a couple times last year had to reel him
in a little bit, didn't Mariy like physically carry him
off the court of all. Yeah, yeah, but what Pope
lacks in that fire, I think Garrison kind of helps
bring it out.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Athlete. He definitely has that.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
So it's the backup in the post right now, Marino.
Speaker 4 (41:06):
Diabatte at five some and Marino, I mean I think
yellowch is third of the three. Do you agree? Yeah,
he looks he looks a step slow to me. I
mean he's he made every shot. I just think the
same thing we saw with z. I just think he's
gotta have a hard time playing defense. I mean he's
a step slow to me, to everybody on the court.
Speaker 6 (41:25):
I still want to see what he has in him
because of media day, because some reports that came out
of his first practice they didn't look good, and many
day he was like, man, I sucked when I got here.
It was take it a little while and he's like,
figure it out now. But first few practices, I didn't
know what I was doing. And him being open about
that and almost laughing at it gives me a little
hope that he has he's confident that he's gonna get
a doll then.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Yeah, I mean skill wise, you can see how skilled
he is. It's just gonna be a matter of can
he guard anybody? Can he guard anybody? And that was
the same thing we have as Z. I mean Z,
he was very skilled. He just he couldn't guard people.
We'll have to see if he's gonna be able to
guard people. I don't know the answer.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
Yelovitch does the one thing at the four point once
and in the corner and hit shots.
Speaker 4 (42:03):
Yeah. I think he plays the five if we if
we play, he do yeah, I mean if we if
we play, But no, I mean he'll he'll play some.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
But there's enough pieces there they can figure out though.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
They'll figure something out. But I just you'll see like
he's he has a hard time staying in front of
people throughout the thing. We will take a break, come back.
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He walked in and says hello, and you're like, wait
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It was impressive. He said two words and you cut
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I know that voice. You know, impressive I give people
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Would you agree with that?
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Have we ever seen the truth. We've seen a picture
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The truth, so I think the truth actually would hold that.
But but Bob might have been second.
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Yeah, a great special guest here today. Sometimes I have
an image of callers and I almost don't want to
meet him, but then I'm actually glad to meet it.
But I always have an image of people, and then
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Speaker 4 (02:27):
You're two, but you don't look a day over eighty six.
He looks great for looks great for ninety two. And
I like your little beanie too. I would wear that
little beanie sometimes.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Drove himself there at the age of that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Now you can't talk all right because we got where
we got headsets on. But I would drove himself here
at ninety two.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Honor and a pleasure.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Serve you're You're still better driver than Ryan even right now.
So yesterday Lexington got the most rain in a day
he had ever gotten in October, and the fifth most
rain in the day had ever gotten in history.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Did you know that my basement flooded? So yes, I
absolutely know.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Their basement flooded. Yeah, since another free ad campaign served
pro going national.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I've never had water in my basement ever. Well I've
only lived there for six years, but my basement had
a layer of water all on it left all the way.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
It was wild. They're driving around yesterday, I mean there
were streets flooded all over Lexington, Louisville I think had
a lot of flooding. But uh, but it looks like
everything's okay. But just pounded rain all day until about
seven o'clock. Yeah, my crops needed it. I was glad
for that, But I had a lot of things around town.
I didn't have an umbrella, so I would just have
to step out and just accept that I'm soaked walking
around places. Yeah it was, but but now it's beautiful today,
(03:45):
and uh, a lot of good stuff going on. I
just want to say I'm in I'm in a good mood,
like I'm in a really good movie. Yeah. Why, I
slept more last night continuously than I have in years.
I went like nine hours without waking up. Usually I
wake up at like five and a half six hours
and then I, you know, have to go to the
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restroom or something. Then I'm awake and I kind of
drift back and now this was just solid. Went to
bed at eleven thirty and did not move until eight thirty.
So I'm like, in, this is the most energy I've
had in forever. I don't know why, but but I did.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
But I bet you still woke up ten minutes for
your alarm as well. I know, mind, I never hear
my lot, it's amazing, but.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
This was like this. So just just so you know,
if you hear a lot of energy, that's why it's happening, Dreue.
I don't know why I slipped so well, but I'm in.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Probably need a little catch up sleep.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Maybe.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
I know you've been back a few days, but still
probably South Africa.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
The alarm would go off. We had to leave it
multiple days. We had to get on the Safari vehicle
at five point fifteen because that's when animals are out.
That's when they do there. Yeah, so when as the
sun comes up, that's when animals. I think that's when
they're I see these kids are here. I'm sorry. I
think that's when their hornyest is in the morning. So
like that's when they get up and they, uh, what
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do you living? I think it's it's just science.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I just give them a quick look to see if
they were.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
But that's why they're out.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
So that's what you were there to see. You're watching
grays like eating some grass.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I mean I didn't. I didn't go for that. It
wasn't like that's what I was. It's just there most
likely to come out in public so that they can
meet their their spouses during that time, and then when
it gets later in the day, they tend to like
blend into the the to the bush and it's harder
to see them. That's the thing.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
So if you had to say, did did the ladies
kind of hand lead you? Or did you hand lead
the ladies? I don't know what that means, like did
they were they taking care of you? Making sure you were.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Take care of me? You know I am I am
mid forties and have been by myself since I was eighteen.
I'm fine.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
We know you though out in the bush or were
they kind of handleading you around?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
They were left that it was a car. We got
in and then we would get out. There was no
we were not out. They hold your hands and you're
fighting rhinos. I was driving around. The hardest thing was
the sun because it was on my face the whole.
That was really the only the only problem that we
did have. I was so impressed with the two people
on the trip that were from South Africa, how good
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they were at spotting stuff. Like if we didn't have them,
I don't think I mean, maybe you know, we've seen
the elephants, but in general a lot of the other stuff.
They'd be like, you know, uh, leopard right, and you'd
go what and then there it was, which.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Was like actual tour guides or people on your Yeah,
there was that we had.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I had the whole trip, so he did all eleven days,
and then we had someone specifically for the Safari and
the woman for the Safari. She could see stuff just
it was unbelievable. She could would just be like, uh,
zebra right over there, and then you would see it
and it was time.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
That's not how we say it.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I'm saying the South Africa Now that fine, I'm all right,
I've been to South I've been to the Johannesburg soccer game.
I'm I'm I've been there. I'm good. But yeah, that
that's it was really cool and it's not like what
you think like you probably think of like this green,
lush land. This was like brown. So it wasn't the
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most beautiful landscape, but it made it easier to see
the animals because there weren't leaves and stuff everywhere, which
actually made it easy.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
So they're just like one person driving and one person watching,
like it.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Was one person. So it was a car and it
had like a high thing, you know, where people could
sit on the top, but I had to sit in
the bottom because there weren't enough seats, So it was
me and her sitting ground level and everybody else was
up top, and she would drive around and she could
just she could.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Just see uh everything, So it was it was awesome.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
We did it for two days, but that five fifteen,
those five fifteen wake up calls, there's a part of
me is like I've seen plenty of animals.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I skipped the third one. To be honest with you,
I can see you you're not a morning person. Don't
really care.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
When we did cover zero and it finished at like
one five in the morning, and I said, I'm not
going on the third day, and I'm sorry. So, uh,
yesterday Drew and I went to UK Pro Day and
I'm gonna go ahead and tell you now, like what
is it basket no offense to all things UK football
(08:04):
and Mark, I'm basketball. All right, I'm all in. I'm basketball.
I watching that yesterday got me very very excited, like
very exciting. We I don't know how good will end
up being, like it depends on how they connect and
all that. But we got a squad. We got dudes
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upon dudes upon dude. We've got twelve guys that are
really good. Otega didn't play, so he would be the twelfth,
but he wasn't playing yesterday, And even the thirteenth, Reese
Potter could if you needed him to go in, he
could play. I mean, we got we got guys, and
they're fun to watch, and they're crazy athletic. And all
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I can do is compare it to last year. Drew
you and I sat there last year, I watched him.
My take last year was wow, they can shoot. They
can really shoot. But I did think I'm I might
be more athletic than a couple of weeks. That was
my take last year. This year, maybe you take a
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ten percent drop in shooting, not a huge drop, maybe
a ten percent drop in shooting. But we got some athletes,
and we got some dudes that are like Jalen Lowe,
I already had all the stock I bought, like, I
called my broker and bought even more. I mean, he's
so fast, he's so fast. We didn't have we didn't
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have that guy last year. We haven't had a dude
this fast off the bounce since Well dialing Ham was
like that, right, but we haven't had many of them
like that in the you know, Fox dialing Ham, wall
Low was probably not as fast as those guys, but
he'd be right behind them. Would you agree with that?
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Oh yeah, yeah, he looked great last night. And just
to be a proa, they're out there dipping on the floor.
He was yelling at people, getting up in their face
if they were if they made a mistake. It was
like I felt like they were getting ready to play
the tournament.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Such a contrast between the pro days of Cal and
this in terms of I mean they were practicing, and
I feel bad for y'all at home, cause it was
really it reminded me of when Cal Perry was here
the first few years. He would invite me to practice
every year and I would say, Man, I wish fans
could see this. I wish you could see how much
back then Cal and Roebrick were coaching. Because when if
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you went to practice, you'd be like, oh, this is
something that's what I felt like yesterday. I know it
was on, but I believe it didn't. They show just
poor Dick and Goose just talking the whole time.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Yeah, I'm good to hear you. Guys got to enjoy
it because I was sitting at home didn't get to enjoy.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
It very much.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
The reviews online are not good.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Do that?
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Why even bother showing it if you're not gonna show
it well? Like you and I said before the show,
show this you can talk, but show the scrimmage while
you're talking.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Shown practice. I wish fans. I wish fans could see it.
I wish you could see, Like, first of all, I
wish you could see how good a coach we have
and how good of assistance we have.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
They leaded just as much as Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Mean, Mark Fox is out there doing great stuff. Alvin Brooks,
the McClain guy, Jason Hard I wish we could wish
people could see and appreciate what they're doing. So here's
what stuck out to me. Jyalen Lowe stuck out the most.
I think Trent Noah is either grown or gotten stronger.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Would you agree with that. He looked like just a
bigger dude. That was my number one takeaway, just appearance.
Trent Noah looks completely different. He's I know, Pope wanted
to add eighteen pounds. He looked like he lost eighteen pounds.
He looks he's very lean, very.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Like like like he's skinny face gotten much skinnier.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
I mean, you know, you don't like to say somebody
has baby fat, but he probably had a little bit
of baby weight on him last year and that's completely gone.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I thought so so to me. Jyalen Lowe sticks out
the most Otaga wasn't on the floor, but if you
were watching, you would say, okay, that's our best player.
Trent Noah looked really good. Michael Moreno, mal excuse me.
I talked to his brother Michael during the who Just
Got Married? Malcolm Moreno, that kid. The difference between him
and when he was a junior in high school, which
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was the last time i'd seen him play, they're different kids.
Moreno's gonna play. Yeah, I didn't know if he would
after watching yesterday. He's gonna play, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Think, I mean, we thought, you know, he's a McGall's
all American. He's gonna be good, but maybe not quite ready.
They're pre stacked. Store them at the end of the bench.
Maybe you'll need him. He was just going up and
dunking on he's heads in a crowded paint last night. Yeah,
he's bulked up a lot too. I didn't watch a
lot in high school, but he looks college ready.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Uh. We A lot of guys can shoot. I mean,
Aberdeen makes like every shot he takes. Uh.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Did low shoot the ball well from pretty good?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah? I mean, but I mean Lowe's thing is the
way he takes people off the bounds. But yes, low
shot the ball with good to hear. Uh, you know, Noah,
it's one practice, so I'm not getting ahead of myself.
My only concern was, Uh, was our man Diabate shoots
not great?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
I don't know if that's he didn't take many last year.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, I think everybody thought he was gonna come in here.
I don't see him shooting a lot of threes.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
I think he took We looked at him, was it
like twenty five all of last year?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yeah, he didn't. He didn't look like he'd taken many.
So it'd be interesting to see because in Pope's system,
your four needs to shoot threes. So if he plays
the four, I'll be interested to see what what they do,
because because he's not gonna shoot much, I wouldn't think
maybe they play him at the four, but he's actually
playing five on offense because I think Moreno and and
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Garrison can shoot from outside. But uh, Jasper Johnson, Uh
you know, look good who whom I'm missing here?
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Well my king? Colin Chandler.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Colin Chandler. Dude, Drew's right, Like, if he doesn't start,
he may not start. He's a six man and he
will dunk on people so much belts. Yeah, I mean
he will dunk on.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Your face a couple last night.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
He can play the one, or the team can bring
him off the bench, six man, back up E, the
one guy, either of those guys.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
It's just the thing that strikes me about this is
how deep this team is. It's not twenty fifteen deep
because those were all pros, right so, but they were young,
but they were all pros. But you take that team out,
this is the deepest team we've had. I don't know
since win twenty fifteen was deeper. But you get beyond
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that Now, I don't know who's deeper than this when
you're twelfth man is Yellovich? Yeah, and he's the ty
Now how about him having to run to the top
of the Yes, so he got in trouble and he
had to run the steps. Yeah, So Pope told him
something like shoot the ball, and he kind of snapped
back at him and Pope goes, run this stay and
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so like in front of all of us, he had
to run this.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
He had to touch the very time.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
If Brandon Garrison got in trouble for something and he
did the worst punishment I've ever seen back, I would
just say to you, Yeah, So he had to take
a towel. Yeah, and he was on one end of
the floor Today show on the screen. He was on
one end of the floor and he had the towel
on the ground and he had to run with the
towel on the ground, like bent over like a triangle,
all the way up and all the way back. And
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I literally thought, if they did that to me, I'd quit.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
My back was hurting was watching him that. And before
they got into the scrimmages and drills, they did the
diving on the floor drill.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
That's the old Billy go.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
I don't think Caliver did that. They just roll the
ball out there and tell you to go dive. And
I was just like cringing every time they did it.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I only apparently would do that for like thirty minutes
did They only did it one time?
Speaker 6 (15:31):
And I think he did it on gravel, Yeah, shards
of glass.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
But I came away very, very excited. My take on
it is this team is deep, foul trouble. Not worried
about it unless it's the point guard. We're very deep.
My only question will be who are our stars. I
know Jaylen Lowe is going to be one, and I
assume O take is gonna be the second. You know,
(15:57):
ja Billis always says you gotta have three. We'll see
who the third develops. But we got a lot of
choices in my opinion as to who that can be.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
The third game of being Jaden Layton's once he gets healthy.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Mate. Yes, he didn't do the he didn't do the
back and forth, so he did some workouts, but he
didn't do the five on five, so we didn't really
get to see him in that context.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
But he could shoot too. He was he was drained,
shot and well to the point of death. My other
big takeaway. We haven't named him yet. Braydon Hawthorne is
the best fifteenth man in the country. Sorry, it's not
even close.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
He's good.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Now he's got to put on weight, but.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
He's right author. Who was it that said he was Tayshaw?
I mean, just anyone, just look at him. If he's
left he's right handed. He looks like Braydon Author. I
don't know how much he'll play this year, but he's
playing at the school. Yeah, yes, for sure. That was
a great pickup for whatever he was right.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
I don't know, right around twenty five thirty. Yeah, he
can almost look at him because he won't play this year.
He's just too thin. It's almost like you've got a
five star locked in for next year.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
There's what he is. He reminds me of when cal
would bring in classes and then the last guy in
the class would be like our eighth and that's him.
It's just he's our thirteenth man this year.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
So he was hitting everything.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Yeah eight, I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven.
We'll take a break, we'll talk more about it. We're
a little giddy because I we're gonna be good. This
Chasar walking back in his Kentucky sports radio eight five
nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven text machine
is seven seven two seven seven four five two five
four Here at UH Weingsday one person rights, Matt, how
are they condition wise? Looked condition wise? Looked good to me?
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I mean didn't I didn't see anybody like tugging on
their shorts. They they go, they move constantly, like they
don't they don't ever stop, like it's constant movement. That
was something. Cow's practices were like that too. Like those
guys they they they they just like to keep them going,
don't really give them a chance to rest. And the
way they do it is they got like twenty guys. Yeah,
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they got like seven guys that are UH managers or
I guess they would call them what do they call
it analysts, And they're playing two some and so it
just makes it to where no one stops, like it's
just one group goes to the end of the court
and then they start the second one and they start
him back and like there's no there's no waiting, there's
no standing around.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
That was my big takeaway last season the first time
we saw practice. It's just there are so many people involved.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Yeah, they got a dude. It's same dude they had
last year. They got a dude that is thirty eight
with a mortgage out there playing bass. I'm telling you
there's a guy out there now. We looked up his
college guys. I'm to tell you what's his name, Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Yeah, he was the Patriot League Player of the Year.
He had like a ten year career overseas.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
I'm not I'm not mocking this dude.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
He's this dude.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
This dude would eat up the YMCA. He's he's got.
Last year, he wore two knee braces. This year now
he's wearing those pants like the white Titan sleeves, the
sleeves and and and he's a bucket. Yeah, but he
moves like I think he needs to go to hot
yoga because I mean he he moves less fluidly than me,
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but he still will give him the up and under
and the dipsy dude, you know, I mean, he's still
doing his he's still doing his thing. I don't know
where they got this guy, because he's in his mid thirties.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
I think thirty five.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
He played it five years old and he's like posting
up Brandon Garrison. What like it's it's it's fun to watch.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Can I tell the rumor of what he really did
to Brandon Garrison?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
What? Oh, yeah, there's going around. He say, good news,
though I be careful this.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
This says more about how good our gratist does anything else. Oh,
there's a rumor going around that he dunked on Brandon Garrison.
Not just that I've seen it and it happened last night.
Oh it happened, But I was talking about this guy
and how good he is when he got.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
A dipsy due on Brandon Garrison. His teammates all did
the thing where you dunk on people and like, so like,
clearly it's a running it's a running joke that he has. Uh,
I'm gonna have to believe that. I don't know if
that dude can get up and get it dunk. I
don't know if he could jump. But but he's fun to watch.
I mean, I will say, when you got a thirty
five year old out there running with him, it's kind
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of funny and.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
People would probably recognize them if we could share its radio.
But he's on the bench with the clipboard in a
suit like he's around, you would probably recognize his face,
but very unsuspecting at age thirty five. But a good
basketball player they have out there helping out makes me
want to see some video.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
I mean for sure, Well you could have watched the
yesterday if they would have.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Showed it, you know it.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Did they show any of it?
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Very very little. I got so frustrated. I was smopping
up water in my basement anyway when I had it
on soul. But again the only thing I really noticed
was that they seemed just more muscular, like thicker.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
There's so much more athletic. Yeah, and I don't think
you realized. I mean, you know how much more athletic
Away and Butler were than the other guys last year.
And it just really stuck out how much. Well, now
you got a team and everybody looks like everybody looks
like that, including like Trent Noah. I mean, Trent Noah
looks different than he did last year as well.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
And I just couldn't get over how like competitive they were.
Pope said it media day. Sometimes we have to stop
them from fighting each other because every practice they're going
to war. I kind of saw a little bit of that.
They're there to entertain scouts and just get some drills
and measurements out there. And like I said, they're treating
it like they're about to go play the tournament.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I also liked I was watching because this is the
worry people have about Jayal and Low, like will he
be selfish? Right? Will he share the ball? I like, again,
just practice feels like he gave up shots to share
the ball throughout the whole thing. Did you agree with that? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (21:31):
And that's the thing I think he's gonna do a
lot of. Pat Kelsey has a comment when they played
him last year, he was like Low would get ever
anywhere he wanted, and Raydy, he thought he was about
to lay it in. He's now kicked it out to
someone for an open three. It was like he just
finds the spots and then can distribute out to the
open man better than anyone he had.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Really, he's gonna like he can get a step. The
player reminds me the most of it, I'm sure, because
the whole left handed thing. But is dearon Fox not
as fast as dearon Fox. I mean, Dalon Fix is
like another level of fast, So I'm not saying he's
that fast. But when you're sitting there watching him, if
you were to say, like, what is the comparison, I
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would say, de Aaron Fox? Do you agree with that?
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Yeah, he would appreciate that too, because he knows Darren
Daron Fox recruited him to Kentucky. They're both Texas guys.
So but that's might be a little bit, might be
a little bit in how they play. Yeah, I mean
being from the same you know, Grassrooms best not.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I'm not trying to put the deeron Fox because deeron
Fox was like insanely quick. I'm not saying he's that,
but he's you know, a half step behind that quick
and and he'll he'll get to the ring. You know,
we didn't have dudes who could get to the rim
last year. At the end of the day, you know,
Away would muscle his way to the rim and Butler would.
But now we got a dude who can take you
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to the ring.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
That's good what you said earlier he was knocking down shot.
I think that was the big knock on him. He
was that good of a shooter.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
If I'm nine two twenty two eighty sent we will
take your calls. There's a lot of news to go
go around. It's wings day. We'll be right back to KSR.
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TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
He'll make them pay.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
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Speaker 3 (23:05):
Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Welcome back, Tekey Sports Radio seven seven two seven to
seven four five two five four one person rights, Matt,
I haven't heard this kind of giddiness from you about
UK basketball in a long time. It makes me excited. Well,
I mean part of it was in the preseason. Cal
wasn't letting me come to anything since COVID, so I didn't.
And then I went last year and I was excited,
but I could tell the limitations of that team. I
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think that team, by the way last year, when we
look back, really will have overperformed and we should be
really proud of the of the way they played all year.
I mean, I genuinely believe that, especially when you start
to see the teams that Pope will probably have going forward.
Do you agree with that?
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Yeah, definitely. I mean we loved a lot of those guys,
but like and Andrew Carr with back problems, it's not
half his athletic as what we saw last night.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Not even close. And then and then the second thing is,
you know, we've had a lot of elite talent here
and you can you can see it, like you can
see when guys and I love this is something we
didn't have under cal. I love watching guys improve. I
love seeing how much better Trent Noah is, and I
love seeing how much better Colin Chandler is. Like that
makes me, that just makes me excited. We don't we've
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not gotten to do that in fifteen years, to watch
guys Ryan like, really improve?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Did you anybody say anything about what Otega's return is week?
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Now?
Speaker 6 (24:24):
He's back this week? Because I interviewed him Monday and
I was like, are you back practicing? He was like,
I'm back to full speed. Maybe he just didn't want
to do that in front of the pros. Your second
practice back and you've already done the NBA thing in May.
That was me speculating, But he did say he's back
this week.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yeah. I think I was told he will play in
the Blue White Game, which is a week from Saturday.
We'll see what he does with Big Blue Madness. One
person writes, Matt, you didn't mention Cam Williams. You guys
never talk about him, just because amongst the guys, he
didn't stand out as much as the others. But he
made every shot I saw him take, not necessarily and
(25:00):
say to me, Drew, he looked like a seventh, eighth,
ninth man.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
But he made every shot he took. I saw he
blocked a three pointer. That was one of those whoa like.
Not many people would go up and get a three
pointer like you did, and then hitting some threes. You
could see flashes. But as you said, I mean when
I'm writing down the people that jumped off the page,
he's a little farther down, but that you could see potential.
There were moments.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
One person writes, Ryan's assessment of you needing someone to
take care of yourself is correct. Most men in their
mid forties don't ruin their iPhone putting it in the
same pocket as a coke can, all right, First of all,
that's rude. Secondly, or go without an iPhone during a
once in a lifetrying trip in a foreign country that
could be dangerous, just to save money that would cost
(25:43):
what your shoes cost. All right. I don't need this
from you. No. The reason I didn't buy a new iPhone,
I thought, I said this, So in South Africa, everything
cost about a third of what it cost here. So like,
if you were to go to get McDonald's in South Africa,
what is McDonald's nine ten dollars per meal? There? It
would be like three. So like, so that's cool. I
(26:05):
mean food, you know, a diet coke, Like a bottle
of coke zero was like eighty four cents or something.
But now the opposite to that is luxury goods are
insanely expensive. So an iPhone, I think I got this iPhone.
I got the seven for like sixteen hundred dollars, and
in South Africa it's like forty three hundred dollars. Because
(26:29):
the disparity of wealth is so much that the rich
people are so rich they can just charge them anything,
and thus they do so like the like I don't
buy Rolex watches, but there was a Rolex store and
somebody in our group went and they were, like, the
Rolexes here are two and a half times as much
as they are in New York City in South Africa.
(26:49):
The other thing is if you get a phone in
South Africa, they can't give you an American phone number.
So I would have just had a South African phone
number for the rest of my life. And I was like,
what's that gonna do for me? So that's why I drew.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
I didn't that would have been funny. Well to the
counterpoint to the original text about not take care of yourself.
You're you're here right now. Have you seen fine? If
you made it, you did take care of yourself.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yeah. There was only one time, at one night that
I was a little nervous. I was at the mall
trying to get my phone fixed. They finished. It was
like three and a half hour walk and they tell
you do not take taxis on the street. They're like,
that's don't that's dangerous either getting an uber or call
a taxi company and have them come get you. Well,
I didn't have any way to call anybody, and I
(27:32):
wasn't gonna go up to people and go can go
taxi with your food like that. I would, you know
that makes me So I was like, look, i'll walk.
It's three and a half miles, it's on the beach, right,
I'll be fine. Well, it was day, but it was
turning into night and by the time I got the
last mile it was dark and it's just you know,
(27:56):
during the day, everyone's out, but it's like at night,
it's like they turned the lights off in the entire
city and everybody goes home or everybody gets inside. So
all of a sudden, these streets that were bustling with people,
there's nobody there. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean you don't.
You don't walk at night.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
And you're walking at night, I what.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
For the last half mile. So that was like a
little that was like a little like, all right, let's
speed up a little bit. I wasn't in the worst neighborhood.
It was fine, but like, but they just don't walk
at night in Johannesburg or Cape Town. We just do not.
Out in the rural areas. I think they do it more,
but just in Johannesburg and Cape Town, you do not
walk at night.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Drew did tell a story on you. You guys did cover
zero and you're in a tent and where everybody else
was trying to sleep. You're trying to whisper it because
you didn't want to wake everybody.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
I was in a tent and everybody else was in
the tent and they were asleep, and I was trying
not to love, trying not to wake them up, but
I'm sitting there going, you know, Joe Flacco and I
go sh because they loved you. It was one fifteen
in the morning out in the woods. So who's up next?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Let's go to Andrew.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Andrew? How are you, Andrew?
Speaker 7 (29:02):
Wonderful? Hey, Matt. I don't know if you heard yesterday,
but the tickets went on sale this morning at ten
o'clock for the uk U of L game. I've been
on hold for a few minutes and there were still,
I don't know, quite a few left.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
So there's tickets. Tickets for uk U of L at
the Young Center are on sale right now. Correct, they're
not sold out?
Speaker 7 (29:26):
With a buddy of mine, you got yeah, we uh wow,
ten o'clock they went on sale. I've been on hold.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Are you talking? Are you talking football or basketball?
Speaker 7 (29:37):
I'm talking basketball. I have faced the tickets released from
U of L. They're all up top, but uh ninety eight.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
That's amazing.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
One tweeted me that too, that they bought a buy.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
The uk U of L basketball tickets on a year
that their top fifteen they did not sell out.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
I'm about some right now.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Wow. Well, thank you for letting me knowpreciate the appreciate
the call. That's so. I actually had written down Ryan
that I'm I'm I'm kind of amazed about Louisville attendance
at things. So louill played Virginia in football Saturday was
at four o'clock, beautiful weather. Louisville is undefeated and Virginia
(30:20):
is right. Yeah, And if you look at their schedule,
you could have made a strong argument that if Louisville
wins that game, they have a path to the playoff.
Not I mean, not certain to make it, but they
have a path if you look at it. And yet
there were twenty five thousand empty seats or maybe twenty
thousand empty seats. I couldn't believe.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
It, which is kind of crazy. There was so much
excitement about this season. I think of Louislle football.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
FeAs what do you make of the fact that this
is that they cannot sell out the uk U of
L basketball game on a year they probably have the
best chance to win that they've had in forever.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
I said this year ago. They're broken and it's not
fixable like when Pat Kelsey.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
But they have two young, exciting coaches and look.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
At their I pulled up ticket Master. There are plenty
of upper level seats available for the Kentucky But.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
It's a Tuesday night, right Tuesday, what though, Yeah you.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Think Let me ask you if uk U of L
was here this year on a Tuesday night, you think
there'd be tickets. No, it's well, the first market games.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
Of the season. Who cares if it's a week night,
But there's plenty online right now.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Is the Saint Andrew's Fair that week?
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Well? Now, last Saturday was the Saint James Art Fair. Yeah,
and I do wonder if they didn't sell out because
of the Saint James Art Fair because it was going
on last week.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
It happened last year. I remember the jokes. It's, well,
we couldn't possibly fill the stadium, you know the Saint
James Art Fair that's going on. Oh are bad?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Well, it was going on this week too, so that
might be. Here's what I think happened. I think two
things happened that really screwed up U of L football basketball.
I don't understand how their basketball's not sold out. That
arena is the same size it was before. The fact
that they're not selling out is really something that's got
to scare them. Football. What happened is Tom Jurch expanded
that stadium to make it bigger than Kroger Field, and
(32:07):
they don't have the fan base. I mean, we have
retracted our stadium. I think correctly. They expanded it, and
their fan base cannot support the expansion of what that.
They have sixty thousand seats there now they can't handle that.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
And you're right, though they have a path to ten wins.
I only have to play at Miami and they got
Clemson at home. But they might get to ten wins
this year. You think they'd be excited about that.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
I think they really screwed up with the expansion. And
then the other thing is, and I've been saying this
for fifteen years, Kentucky Athletics is a passion, all right.
Everybody in here that's here, you have that passion. Bob's
ninety two years old, drove from drove from louisll We
got here from Etown, Franklin County. You know, got people
here who come just to watch the show. In Lexington, Louisville,
(32:53):
fandom is a party. And there's a big difference between
passion and party. When the party's not fun, you don't
go oh right, when the passion's there, you're you're with it,
But when the party's not there, you don't go. And
it's not they haven't won at quite the level they did.
Tom Jertch created an atmosphere where going to uv L
stuff was cool, but it still wasn't kind of in
(33:16):
their blood drew like it is for us. And I
think you're seeing that now because they're they're good now
and they're still not getting the same support.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Yeah, and I don't I don't think it's coming back.
I think another part of it is just scandal exhaustion.
If you're a fan of that basketball team. I know
a lot of them kept talking theirselves into seasons, but
at some point you had to be like, I can't
just keep doing this. I mean, that was a brutal
patch from the end of Patino. You got Chris Mack
turning on his buddy with the FBI. I mean, their
stuff is truly unbelievable, and I could understand if some
(33:46):
of their basketball fans were like, I can't keep following, But.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
You do wonder at some point they've got one of
their own coaching. Football grew up in that city, right,
The Broms are like royalty in that city. He's coaching football.
Last year they won what nine or two games.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Then you have hot Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
You got basketball. They make the tournament. They got a
guy who whatever you think about how good he'll be,
he's exciting, he's brought it. They got a freshman, Michel Brown,
who's gonna be one of the best players in the
country this year as far as a freshman. And they
just they can't sell out the uk U.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Of L game broken.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
I tell me, word gets out, there's tickets available, There's
gonna be a lot of blue come in.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
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at this Kentucky Sports Radio. If I'm nine two eight
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are here at KOs bar grill. We are open, come
see us. One person rights. Where would Travis Perry be
on this team? Would he get to play? I lean
towards no, or if he did, he'd be like the
(35:25):
twelfth man. I mean he let's just look at the roster.
He's not playing over Jaalen low right, drew, not playing
over a Takeo way correct, not playing over Denzel aberdear correct. Uh.
Probably not playing over Jasper Johnson.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Or Colin Chandler or the other guard on the roster.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
So I mean he would be sixth man on just
in terms of guards. So what I mean is it
is it possible that he would play a little Yeah,
but he would not get significant minutes. I think Ryan
in this group.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
He's be one of those guys. I think we look
back wish he had to do over because he he
just wasn't ready to play point guard in the sec
last year, but at a necessity he had to because
of the injuries. I wish he could have had a
chance to maybe develop a little better, but it just
it was a good departure on both sides.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Of here's what will happen though, when we play them,
he'll score fifteenth.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
Yeah, he won't miss press spirit to.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
It like when we play them, it is one hundred
percent certain to me, Drew that he will have a
big game. That's just gonna happen.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
That's fine, as long as they don't win the game.
You know, Travis was putting a bad spot last year
when he committed to cal before Pope even got here,
and we all just assumed he'd be at the end
of the bench. If you told us he'd be guarding
Mark Sears at Alabama and his freshman season, we would say,
what in the hell happened to get to that point.
But that's what Kentucky was in last year. I think
he'll be a good player long term, but I don't
(36:45):
think he would have had a huge role this season
with what they have.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Can we talk about the latest on your boy, Bill Belichick?
Oh yeah, So right after the show, they announced canceling
the Hulu series the Hulu documentary about behind the scenes
with Bill and joy Ran canceled. Man, I was looking
forward to it. I think it would This is why
(37:08):
you want to watch it. Yes, absolutely, And now it
looks like they're not gonna have it. Uh. Things just
keep falling apart. They call the GM a jerk, and
now they canceled the Hulu series. Paul fine Baum, who
apparently is back on the air, UH, said yesterday Bill
Belichick is going to go down in history as the
worst college football coach of all time, the best pro
(37:30):
football coach of all time, and the worst college football
coach of all time.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Worse than that guy from Uclair.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
They can't be worse than the guy from UCLA who
won one game in two years. Is it possible he's
the worst college football coach of all time.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
He's got to be in the conversation to be as
successful as he was in the pro ranks. How can
you fail that miserably in the only played four games,
So it's not They got destroyed by Clemson last weekend destroyed.
Speaker 6 (37:58):
I don't think I'll call him the worst of all time,
but we are learning that there's a just completely different
skill set. The way you coach college in the NFL,
because it's very obvious he's gonna need a little time
to get acquainted. I don't know how much time he
has left in his coaching career.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
But you think about how good that show would have.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
Been great, awesome.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Doubled its ratings based on how I mean it would
have been awesome to watch because like apparently there are
fights in the locker room, Like if the cameras were
all there, that would have been the greatest. And I
want to know, what kind of reality show do you
just get to cancel?
Speaker 6 (38:31):
You got it? You agree to that?
Speaker 4 (38:32):
When when when we brought the cameras into ov W,
they didn't say, well, if you don't like what's going on,
I mean the sure on TV right, Like I didn't
you know, I mean there comes a point, Shandon, you
shouldn't be able to cancel it.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
I mean you I would think you would want drama,
you would want controversy. That's what makes the show good.
That's why people have to watch it.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
The guys two and three so far, he's not the
worst coach of all time in college.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
Nobody wants to watch a boring show, right, We want
to watch the drama. Watch that's the good show. So
I think, Uh, I don't understand why they canceled it.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
If they were four and one right now and that
documentary came out, no party he would care to watch it.
But if they released it right now with a bad
record and the Patriots drama and the Jordan drama, I'm
running to watch it.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
One person writes, Matt, do you think we have a
big man who can be like Amari Williams last year
handled the ball and pass. I don't think they'll be
as good as him at that. I mean, I think
he had a uniquely I mean, think about it. He
can't shoot, he's not much of an offensive player, and
he's gonna make an NBA team because of how good
a passer he is. So I think that's a rare skill.
(39:37):
You know, Brandon Garrison is gonna have to be better
at it. What do you think of him yesterday?
Speaker 6 (39:43):
Uh? He looked pretty good. I'm worried Brandon Garrison is
gonna try to be Amara Williams this year, and Amari
was kind of a unicorn. There's not many a Mario
Williams that can pass and bring it up like that
at his size.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
I hope.
Speaker 6 (39:57):
So I hope Brandon Garrison can do it a little bit.
I hope we don't get to remember he'd force turnovers.
We called a BG time where he call his own
number when we saw. I hope he doesn't try to
be a Mario because of Mario was his own thing.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
We saw the Brandon Garrison still does the all right
clear out here here it comes, although he does have
a weird way of like getting an open lay up
even though arms and limbs are going in seven different directions.
Speaker 6 (40:22):
And he'll have a green light to take some threes
this year, I think.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Because he's so big, there's something about his drives to
the basket that looked nothing like anyone I've ever seen,
because he'll shoot and he'll kick one leg up in
the air and then his arm's over here and he's shooting,
and he just looks like a praying mantis with with
just blims going in every direct and then he goes
in and.
Speaker 6 (40:44):
Then he looks the other bench and wants to fight
all of them. Looks like he's got a lot going
on there. Yeah, they'll need that intensity though that you know,
maybe a couple times last year had to reel him
in a little bit, didn't Mariy like physically carry him
off the court of all. Yeah, yeah, but what Pope
lacks in that fire, I think Garrison kind of helps
bring it out.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Athlete. He definitely has that.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
So it's the backup in the post right now, Marino.
Speaker 4 (41:06):
Diabatte at five some and Marino, I mean I think
yellowch is third of the three. Do you agree? Yeah,
he looks he looks a step slow to me. I
mean he's he made every shot. I just think the
same thing we saw with z. I just think he's
gotta have a hard time playing defense. I mean he's
a step slow to me, to everybody on the court.
Speaker 6 (41:25):
I still want to see what he has in him
because of media day, because some reports that came out
of his first practice they didn't look good, and many
day he was like, man, I sucked when I got here.
It was take it a little while and he's like,
figure it out now. But first few practices, I didn't
know what I was doing. And him being open about
that and almost laughing at it gives me a little
hope that he has he's confident that he's gonna get
a doll then.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Yeah, I mean skill wise, you can see how skilled
he is. It's just gonna be a matter of can
he guard anybody? Can he guard anybody? And that was
the same thing we have as Z. I mean Z,
he was very skilled. He just he couldn't guard people.
We'll have to see if he's gonna be able to
guard people. I don't know the answer.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
Yelovitch does the one thing at the four point once
and in the corner and hit shots.
Speaker 4 (42:03):
Yeah. I think he plays the five if we if
we play, he do yeah, I mean if we if
we play, But no, I mean he'll he'll play some.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
But there's enough pieces there they can figure out though.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
They'll figure something out. But I just you'll see like
he's he has a hard time staying in front of
people throughout the thing. We will take a break, come back.
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