December 3, 2025 • 42 mins
Ryan, Drew, and Shannon talk Kentucky Basketball's loss to North Carolina and take your calls.
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Speaker 4 (01:05):
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Speaker 3 (01:10):
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Speaker 4 (01:12):
Listen, It's been a long night. Drew and I were
up doing the postgame show till two in the morning.
Drew had to do blogging till four in the morning.
And to start the show, I'm going to steal in
line from a great philosopher.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Who's that the Grinch?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Okay, stink stink stunk. That's how I felt about last
night's game. For those who weren't up for the postgame
show last night, Kentucky loses sixty seven sixty four to
North Carolina. Uh So, for those who were who threw
the remote control of the TV and went to bed
after the game, well, rehash what we said last night. Drew,
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your thoughts about what you saw last night at Roparina
just so disappointed.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I mean, I don't even know where to begin. It's
so disappointing. Everything was disappointing. I could start by saying
it was a great atmosphere and they wasted that, Yes,
really great environment. Ropa nine thirty You kidding me? Be
By on fire. There was a moment as it was
tied or maybe a one point game and just a
little bit left, and I just kind of looked around
and they were going crazy, and I looked down at
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my watch and it's midnight, and I was like, this
is special. We gotta finish it. But he had the
will Stein pop rondo, Tayshawn volleyball, uh Scooby the little dog.
Everything was perfect to just finish the job. But that
scoring drought in the second half, I mean I saw
it was like the longest scoring drought, like eight years.
They went ten minutes for Pope, an offensive coach that
(02:34):
you know, we're supposed to be getting ninety points a
game and talked taking thirty three is a game. That
was just so disappointing, watching them sit around and look
at each other on offense, not able to score.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
That was the killer. Ten minutes without a field goal,
ten minutes without a bucket. And they finished the second
half two of their last sixteen, all of thirteen I
think during that stretch awful. I can't believe they didn't
get blown out. They were getting remounted like crazy.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
I'm shocked it's a three point loss.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I am too when you look at the numbers, how
did they keep it to a three point game?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Defense? Defense kept them in the game.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
That was as you hold the team shouting, you're right
to sixty seven points in the especially in this day
and age, you think you're gonna win the game.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, you would think so.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
But this team seems like they have some sort of
identity crisis. You know, they only take thirteen threes last night.
Game before that, they're taking thirty. And I know you
got three guys that are projected to be your starters
or are your starters and are out and that that's
a big part of this too. But last night, you
can't go ten minutes without scoring.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
A fetal goal. You're not going to be anybody that way.
And it's concerning.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
It is because now you got Gonzaga coming up this
Friday night, and that's not going to be pretty either
if you play it that way.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
So the big question is, you know, what what happened?
What's going on? And I'll give my just say what
I had said last time the postgame show. I felt
like they got to a point where they had the lead,
yet they were playing like they were behind. They were
coming down jack up shots early in the shot clock,
jacking up bad shots when they had the lead. They
like their the basketball smarts left their body or something,
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because they were playing like they were trailing the whole time.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
The basketball smarts they they did leave though. It's just
an effort too. I mean, twenty offensive rebounds is outrageous.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
That's ridiculous, and they converted most of those into the
second chance points.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Twenty two to five second chance points.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Well, there's a huge I think that's gonna win you
a game when you do something like that.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
And sure they're tall. I mean they got the big
seven footer who was pretty unstoppable. Caleb Wilson can rebound,
but u K wasn't even trying. I mean they were
sitting around and just watching them grab their own missus.
There was a stretch there at the end where Yellowvich
made a good defensive stand yes, and they get two
straight offensive rebounds and hit a go ahead three. If
you just get that ball, maybe you hang on and
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win the game. I think they were up one at
that point, but it was just offensive rebound after offensive
rebound after offensive rebounds.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
That's the series. I think was the difference. Malachi had
just hit two free throws and giving us a one
point lead.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Those were big, by the way, I'll be honest, when
he stepped up, it's a little nervous. I'm not gonna
say I didn't believe in him, but Wink wink might
not have thought he had two in him. So that
was huge that he knock those down on that kid.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
From Georgetown knocks him both down and against North Carolina
Rush Street, and then Yellovich makes a stop on Caleb Wilson.
You get that rebound maybe game over, and they couldn't
get it twice.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
It's sometimes I think they don't know that they're allowed
to jump. I mean it's like their feet are glued
to the floor and they just watched the Vaull go.
I mean, Yellovich, actually, if we can pay some compliments,
played great defense, especially there. Wilson was like five of
eighteen or five for nineteen. He didn't really kill you,
you know, he got a double double, but it wasn't
like some you know, huge performance. Yellovich defended well, but
Kentucky just couldn't score. This is a Mark Mark Pope team.
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Once thirty three is a game spacing let it fly,
and they went one for thirteen. And you're one was
probably the worst shot of the thirteen.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yes, Shannon what you're you're oh for your first eight
in the first half of free point Land and the
guy who hits the first one in the second half,
Brandon Garrison, have.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Been one of the last guys on the flooride with
even one taking that shot to begin with.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Good point.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
But again, though, if that's.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Who you are, if you are the team that's going
to take thirty threes even when they're not going down,
I think you still have to try it. I'd rather
have a miss three than I miss two. At least
you're trying to get a three. So I mean, if
that's what you are and that's what you do, you
can't have a game where you're only attempting a thirteen threes.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
They were getting open looks soon, yeah, right. There's been
some games where the offense just dies and they take
turns shooting over the top of somebody. This one, they
were actually getting decent looks and they just couldn't shoot.
I don't mean to call them out, but I've never
seen someone airball threes as much as then celebrity does
airballl threes this year. It is truly remarkable how many
threes he's air bolt.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
And he's supposed to be, you know, one of your
leaders with Jalen Low out, and he just took some
bad shots at some bad times and missed them badly.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Yeah, and you alway kind of had it going if
he did another compliment. That's the first time he's played
with the energy you want to see out of him.
Had some tough finishes at the rim. Uh one of
them late in the second half he turned and flexed.
He kind of thought he should have gotten fouled. I
think you should have two, but you know, he was.
That was the way we've kind of been wanting to
see break out, but it was just completely wasted when
the offense, you know, had that scoring drought and couldn't
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make a three pointer or get an offensive rebound, or
play with energy or really show up when the Whites turn.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
On Shannon Drew's right as. We saw some shades of
the old Otega Oway last night, don't you think.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And I think that that's probably what we're gonna see,
at least I hope we aren't gonna see moving forward.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Otherwise we're gonna have a lot of problems.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
But yeah, it felt like he was just pressing too much,
you know, trying to do things again that wasn't really
the strength of his game.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Shooting too many threes, you know, his game is dribbled drive.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
So hopefully we we'll get to see more of what
we saw from last year from Oway, because especially with
these injuries, they're gonna have to have him have a
big game every night.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
So the big stats we've already talked about a one
of thirteen from three, it's gonna had twenty offensive rebounds.
The other stat I think is very tailing for Kentucky
eight assists, nine turnovers. Again, it goes back to not
having your point guard out there. The offense just looks
out of sync. You're turning the ball over. Is Jalen
Lowell return the only way to save what's going on
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right now?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
I mean, he would definitely help, but I can't. I'm
not blaming injuries. I know it's fluky, but we've made
a big deal of this roster and how it's built.
You should have enough depth to be playing better than
you are right now, so not get killed by Louisville
Michigan State and then just let one slip away and
Lexton I hope he comes back and he will definitely help,
but the other guys still are far beneath what they
should be even without him. Right now, Yeah, Shannon, I
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think maybe Quainton shows up and he's the Anthony Davis
reincartcarnated and changes everything. But right now, what's been out
there has not given me much faith in anything.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
And Jack Gibbon said last night he still think Quayton
is probably three weeks out.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
And even then he's slow coming back. I mean, he's
not just gonna show up and automatically be at full
speed one hundred percent even when he is ready to go.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
So that was a big question on the postgame show
last night, Stanning, And how do you fix it? How
do you try to right, you know, get the train
back on the tracks a little bit?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, get healthy, And that's just a waiting game at
this point. I think that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I mean, because if you trot the same lineup out
there Friday against Gonzaga, I think they're gonna get murdered.
I think it's gonna be ugly. So I don't know
that there's a fix to it. I mean, maybe shoot
more threes, But do you have any guys that can
knock down threes? What happened all these guys that we heard,
you know before the season started, we're knocking down ninety
out of one hundred and three pointers in practice. They're
(09:20):
great at knocking down shots, I guess when they're in practice,
but in a game situation, they're not.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
You're right, all summer long we heard how Trent Noah
hit one hundred in a row, Cam Williams hit one
hundred in a row. These two guys cannot miss their
knockdown shooters. And yet out of the thirteen three pointers
you shot last night, your best three point shoot on
the floor, Colin Channer only took two. He's he's got
to take more shots.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah, no, that finish at the end, I thought he
had it. It was a good look. Yeah, tough shot
is a little bit of a reverse, but it was
right there and I thought it was going down. I mean,
that was that was bad. I thought he had it then,
not that it mattered, but with two seconds left, I mean,
it's throw in the towel where they had him in
bound the ball and he just right threw it to
the other free throw line. I mean sure, they probably
weren't going to get a three with two seconds left,
(10:04):
down three, but maybe try.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Maybe put one of our guys. And he threw it
right to a North Carolina player.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
That's how they game.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I mean, you know the game if he.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Threw it to all five of them just standing there
in a huddle.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Got called in last night. He said, well, why was
he even taking the ball out to begin with? It
should have been somebody else to get the ball to
him so he can shoot the last three point of
the game.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Yeah, there wasn't like enough time to get you a
Bryce Drew situation there. I didn't know why he was
inbounding it and just no chance. It was unlikely anyway,
but they just meiled it in on that last uh
try too.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
So Kentucky now falls to five and three uh their
first three big non conference games. They're an er fer.
You got waxed by Michigan State, you got waxed by Louisville,
and you played awful last night against North Carolina at
home at Rupp Arena. Dick Fatal was there for crying
out loud, Tayshawn Prince Rondo, they were all there, and
(10:57):
you stunk it up last night.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Drew one of the better rough crowds I've seen I
go to. I rarely miss a home game. I've been
to about every one of them for sixteen years. And
that was some of Rupp's best stuff there throughout the game.
I mean, they'd get disappointed at times, really disappointing the referees.
I don't know if the refuse suck chance made it
to TV, but that was some of their best refuse
sucks chanting in a while too, but just completely blown opportunity.
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Kentucky led for most of the game, led for close
to thirty minutes, but they just went completely cold and
gave it away.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Will Steine, your new football coach, had a big pop
at the first TV timeout, still didn't help. He had, well,
how do you go?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
How can you play like that when you knew football
coach is sitting at courtside mid court watching the game,
and you stink it up like you did.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
And your offensive all things feed the studs, but these
are studs. That was really cool when they introduced him.
That was a loud pop and then kind of like
when Dirk Minifield went even higher on his dunk, when
he started pumping his arms and yelling let's go Rupp
went even louder. I mean it truly blew the roof
off there, off the play when he came in early
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in the game. I almost wish they just bring him
out over and over, like, hey, can you do that
again here in the second half. But that was a
disappointing night. But that was a cool moment him coming
out and crowd clearly supports the football man.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Shannon, and I want to ask you to did you
happen to catch did dick bytal cover any of Jason Williams'
games when Jakeson Williams at.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Duke once or twice on there? Yeah? Yeah, I think
I saw some of that.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
I I kept thinking they might want to talk about
that during the course of our game last night, but
they didn't seem to come up.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
No, No, they did, They definitely did.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I guess I missed it.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I didn't know how you missed that. Yeah, there was
plenty of that last night.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
So today's gonna be a gooday for calls. I know
a lot of people are frustrated. We had some great
calls last night. On the post game show. We had
Big Don and Big Dan that called in and it
was gott in tears when he's riding home on ice
ready to go again. He's on he's on hold already.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
He kind of became a star last night. I'm glad,
glad he's back on the line.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I'm hoping he's feeling better because he was in a
rough condition last night. So as we go to break
eight five nine two eight h two two, we do
want to mention why Matt is not here. His dad,
Larry had a preceigde couple procedures this week, so Matt,
doing the right thing, went there to be with his dad,
with his mom, kind of be just be with him
during this time. Larry's fine, he's recovering. Chance of Matt
(13:15):
City may even get to come home today, So all
good news on that front. But that's obviously why he's
not here today.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Yeah, it popped up on him yesterday. Went straight there
down there to be with them, and glad it's gone
well so far. We'll be thinking about Larry as he recovers.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Larry is one tough old dude, man. I mean that
whole guy is as tough and as young as they come.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
That's right. He would have wanted more from Trento last
night though.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
We got to talk about that something's not there's some
issues with this team, and there's some issues going on
with some of our guys.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
But there's not enough hours on this show to talk
about issues with this basketball team.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
So we'll take our break. Eight five nine two eight
h two two eight seven. Ryan Drew and Shannon were
right back. This is Kentucky's Ports Radio. True words never
spoken by the great philosopher of the Grinch about Kentucky's
plate Last night, Ryan Drew and Shannon here takes Port
Tradio eight five nine two eight h two two eight seven.
Phone lines are full right now, and I expect they
will be the whole shows. We'll try to get as
many colors as we can. But before we go to
the phone lines, one more thing I want to touch on.
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You know, the second half, he pretty much went with
those five guys, Aberdeen, Otega, Chandler, Yellovich, and Marino. They
pretty much played the entire second half. No Brandon Garrison,
no Trent, Noah, no Cam Williams the second half. And
then after the game he was talking about how he
got fatigued. Well, he substitutes a lot. Why do you
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think he decided just to run with those guys at
that point in the game.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
I guess it had just gotten so bad. A lot
of those guys off the bench did not look good
last night. I mean, you knew the moment they were
in h right, go sit back down.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
I was pretty frustrated though early in the game when
the first unit was working and he.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Did his big early sub yep always does.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Tucky had a big lead. Now he did shorten the
bench in the second half. I think five guys played
more than thirty minutes. I would know Pope's teams have
ever done that. Did that happen one time last year?
I don't think so. Yeah, I just I know I'm
down on all things here, but I hate hearing the fatigue.
I mean, played thirty minutes. Come oneh weren't you a
Patino guy?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
You're twenty one years old?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Did Patino even know the word fatigue back in the day?
We know all know the stories like I can't get behind.
Oh no, they played thirty minutes. What are we gonna do?
I mean, there are guys that do that nightly across
the country.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
And Shannon, he made that quote something about, you know,
we have to learn to play for each other. Yeah,
what do you think.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
That was directed at Well, it sounds like there was
some selfish ball being played out there, But I mean
I with them. I think at some point you got
to stick with your five guys, your best five that
you feel like is gonna give you the best chance
to winning. I mean they did play well defensively if
you're looking for a silver lining. But if you're just
going out and just you know, going deep into your
benge and throwing random guys out there, random lineups, I
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feel like we've already gone through that. So at some
point you got to hone in on your top five guys,
you're best available, they're gonna give you a chance to win.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
And that's what he did. It just didn't work out
last night.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Bigger picture, I don't think this everybody's gonna get to
play a little bit is helping and recruiting. He keeps
missing on these big players. No five star wants to
come and play twenty four minutes when they could go
play thirty five and take all the shots somewhere. That's
going to catch up to him if he keeps doing this.
I know that's what he likes, but this is Kentucky.
We like to get stars and stars like the ball.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
In minutes eight two two eighty seven, phone lines are
lit up. So let's get to him, Shannon, who we got?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
All right, let's go back to him and get big done.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Big yeah. The call of the night last night in
the postgame show, Are you feeling any better? Big Don?
Speaker 8 (16:26):
To be honest, I thought I would be feeling better
after not sleep, but I'm not. Hey. I do want
to say I'm praying for Matt and his family. Hope
everything goes well.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
To top it off, last night, listen to this, I
get off the phone. I sixty four. I get a
dag on ticket another two hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Oh, Big Don, what a night you're having.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
I got home about four am, id to get back
up at six thirty and go to work. And I'm
still aggravated over what I went and watched. Spent Like
I said, I spent my money, I went and watch
that crap. It's just it's aggravating. That's that's as bad
as the Billy gere right there. I'm not kidding. Sixty points,
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Mark Pope supposed to be this offensive mine. You can't
score more than seventy seventy points. I don't know. I
just I don't know where he goes. I mean, I
want to say we've got answers on the bench, but
I don't know who. I mean, can those guys shoot?
Speaker 6 (17:26):
No?
Speaker 8 (17:27):
I mean low treat, but heck he can't. He ain't
that good of a shooter. Mob a body that looks
like my grandma's shooting. It's just it's aggravating and I
don't know what to do. I mean, I want to
go to more games supporting, but I'm sick of mister
nice guy and the analytics stuff. That's way too much.
I mean, I get it, it's it's how he coaches,
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but it's way too much. I mean, it's analyticist analytics
that sometimes you've got to roll the basketball out there
to play your best guys and quit with the minute crap.
I mean, they're what twenty twenty two years old playing
thirty five minutes or that. I appreciate you guys. I'm
sorry to get worked back, but one of two days.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Appreciate it big time.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Anytime. Yeah, he just call me if we're not on
the air, just we'll just talk.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I'm glad.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
I'm gonna start calling anymore.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Come glad. He made it home glad He uh, well,
I'm not glad he got a ticket, but slow down
out there, yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Buckle up, put your phone down. It's like we're going
back at time. He's like, we just need to roll
the ball out there next one be like we need
somebody to just yo go.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah, but you know, he went, Hey, that.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Looked like a Cal team without NBA players on it
last night. That playing defense, missing threes and.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
So out of sync. I mean we've said it three
or four times, and I think it goes back to
not having Jalen Lowell out there. They just need somebody
to be a strong point guard because Aberdeen's not that guy.
He's not a point guard. He plays better off the
ball a little bit. And he he he hurt you
last night. There's no doubt he did.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
I mean, Lowe's hurt. Not much you can do about it.
Can Zagg has come up. You got a deep roster,
you know. The injury stink. I'm sorry it happened, but
that can't be an excused for being oh and three
in these games. What did the analytics say about making
the tournament if they go oh to four after Friday?
I mean that's a legit concern because Gonzaga is tough.
That's probably the hard maybe not as tough at true Louisville,
(19:18):
true road atmosphere. But I mean, you were just an
eight and a half point favorite home and lost to Carolina,
and you're gonna be an underdog to Gonzaga here in
a few days. I don't know if anything I saw
last night is getting fixed in just a couple of
practices before they go to Nashville.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
See, that's the big question. How do you fix this?
How do you turn it around? When I think the
answers are the guy sitting on the bench hurt, they're
not if they're not ready, how do you how do
you fix it for Gonzagon on Friday?
Speaker 5 (19:41):
There's there's enough guys that are healthy to be better
than this. I'm just terrified how this is gonna look
after this coming weekend. Our pregame show listeners know that
me and Jack, even you Mario over here, we weren't
the most excited about the game to begin with because
we're kind of terrified of what this team might actually
look like a couple of weeks from now.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Well, it's been a rough stretch. If you go back
to the Louisville basketball game, the Vanderbilt football game, the
Michigan State basketball game, the Louisville football game, now North
Carolina here. All of our high profile games in the
last couple weeks have been disasters.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
That and then just a roller coaster promotions. Lately. We
got so excited for will Stein for twenty four hours
watching the flights, just the message board. There's like old
school KSR tracking everything. Everyone was so happy for a
day and then you just go lose to North Carolina
at home with a great atmosphere. Everything should have was
in place for you to get a win, and you
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just couldn't score.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
That's a great point. Channing yesterday, at this time yesterday,
this fire alarms are going off, We're laughing, We're getting
we got a new coach, can't wait for him to
get here, tracking his flight, calling his mom and sissy cakes.
Now today we're like gloom and doom and throwing stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I kind of felt like though we saw this coming, right,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Well I did. I thought they would. I dot to
be close, but I ultimately thought being at home. Ye,
North Carolina's got a lot of new trends. The headn't
played an environment like that. The environment showed up. I
thought that would put Kentucky over the top and we'll
figure out the rest later.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
They get another punk call who we got.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
And big bro clak, I mean big picture though.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You know again talking about the schedule, you still got
number twenty two Indiana coming in, you still got Saint John's,
you still got Gonzaga coming up on Friday.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
You gotta get at least one of those.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Right, Gotta build your resume somewhere, can't You can't.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Go into the SEC with the six losses, agree, because
they were talking about the possibility of not making the tournament.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
And there's one team tucked into there. And I hate
how we're playing all these top three hundred teams. N
C Central is ranked outside of the top three hundred
and fifty.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Oh yep, and you're gonna get no credit.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
They're not even the three fifty. That's not gonna do anything.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Bellerman's not probably any better.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
I mean, I'm looking there, they're to eighty two.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Okay, so you're beating up on teams that are ranked
around three hundred nationally. You're not getting any credit with
this election committee when it comes to Marrow.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
No, you got to get one of these big, high
profile game.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yeah, let's go to Braiden.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Braiden, go ahead, Braiden.
Speaker 9 (22:06):
Twenty two million, and this is what we get. This
is what we get. I'll tell you what, boys, I
do a little bit research the teams that we already played,
and we'll be playing. They spend about eight and fifteen million,
eight and fifteen millions.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
They're doing great.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
We're playing terrible.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
But I got I said, I gotta say something to
Mark Pope.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
You go about thirty seconds.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
Mark Pope, what are you doing? You spend about twenty
two million dollars.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I think you spent twenty two million Braidon. We appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Think I've still got nineteen seconds left.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Oh, we got to play the sad and happy song
to get us out of here. It's not supposed to
be like this run. This is Kentucky basketball. We're supposed
to be happy today. We just hired a new coach.
Will Stein was there, got the crowd pumped up.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
We got volleyball.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
TJ Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them
pay now.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
More of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Perfect song, Shannon, because they could use somebody. They could
use Jalen Lowell. I think the answer is the dude
sitting over there on street clothes. They need a good leader,
they need a good point guard. He's the answer if
we're looking for an answer, He's the guy. Ryan Leman, Drew, Franklin,
Chan and the dude back on Kentucky's Ports Radio. We
I know we got people on hold. We've already talked
about of basketball. We do need to hit on football
because today at four o'clock, our new football coach will
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be officially introduced Will Stein at a press conference. Drew
your going He introduced him last night at a Ropperena
place exploded. Obviously, the as unexcited as we are about basketball,
we're overly excited I think about football.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to getting over there seeing that.
You know, as I mentioned, the pop was great last night.
I think the fans loved the hire. That was clear
by the reception online and in person last night. And
I'm just excited to hear from his first press conference.
He uh, you know, for years we had and he
had one way of doing it. It was a little
more quiet, a little more keep your head down, pick
up your lunch pedal, go to work. With the way
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Stein was pumping his fist and all that, we haven't
really seen fire like that in a long time. I'm
not like outside of a game now we see angry
stoops in the game, as as far as like in
a media and in that kind of setting, we haven't
seen someone with that kind of juice to him. So
I'm looking forward to hearing from him today and what
else he has next as they get settled in here.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
And then on our basketball pre show, you broke a
little news about his staff yesterday.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Yeah, I was just telling everybody to watch out her name,
and then the name happened to arrive on a.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Plane and was that name at rubs the.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Oregon director of recruiting, Pat Beyondo. And we'll see he's
still building this staff. You know, he's got a lot
going on over there. By just telling y'all to watch
that one, and then you know, playing door opens and
he happen to step off.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
On the plane. So what a coincidence he's gonna be
on the staff. Then it came out last night that
Justin Burke, former Lexington Catholic quarterback, former Louisville quarterback is
expected to join will Stein's staff here at Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Also, we're getting a lot of Louisville influence over there.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
How about two former Louisville quarterbacks leading our football team
next year.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
That's fine Matt and Ryan. As I said yesterday, we
don't look backwards, we look forwards, and they're gonna be
wearing blue. He's he's a big up and comer with
a long history with Stein. But Stein's gonna be calling plays.
I would suspect when this gets here, but you know,
we'll trust whatever staff he wants to come in and
help him. It's for him. I want to see what
he does in recruiting. That's what the name I mentioned.
I'm keeping an eye on because we know he wants
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to feed the studs. But let's go get some studs justin.
But today's signing day. By the way, he signs signed,
he has already signed. He signed, so that was uh.
I didn't have to wait long for him to make
his decision to stick around in the class.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Before he will Stein was hired, Ponatowski had already said
I'm not gonna sign.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
He's gonna wait till the spring.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
And wait till the spree. He's you know, he's a
baseball guy. A lot of people think he may get
drafted so high in the baseball draft he may never
even be on campus here because he may go baseball.
But at least he is signed. I think that's a
for perception purposes. Now they can go sell him when
they go with these other recruits. Hey, come play with
this guy, you know, come be apart of what we're
rebuilding here.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Definitely, the portal is so big now that this high
school recruiting doesn't matter as much, but it is very
important to have him as your centerpiece for everything else. Yeah,
sure the MLB could still take him away, but the
fact that he just needed you know, forty eight hours
to lock in. If they went through everything and made
the right higher and then now Stein can go out
and sell everything around him, that was huge to lock
that in.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
You know, Justin Burke was a quarterback at Lexton Catholic.
He was our l e X eighteen high School Sports
one Player of the Year his senior years.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I thought, you're gonna say it was like an intern
and you know him or something.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
I do know him and he's dad Greg, but there
was a little back and forth with him and KSR
when he was at Louisville, and there's some more things
we need to scrub off the internet before he gets here.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
I do know in this, I don't think it was
just KSR. I mean, I don't want to call the guy.
I don't think in high school he was the biggest
fan of the local team here in Lexington. I think
I've heard from some of his teammates. But whatever, Like
I said, the windshield is bigger than the Wait, is it,
the windshield's bigger than the Yeah, there we go. So
whatever he thought back then, he'll be wearing the emblem
and working for us now, so hopefully it all goes
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good going forward. It is a little weird with the
Louisville influence, I'll admit.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
So how did the basketball team play so bad right
in front of our new football coach who had front
court mid court seats.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
I don't know. It was just so disappointing, so disappointing. Yeah,
so I forgot the caller or one of you talking
about leadership and low would probably be that gay guys
that got. But there are other people with voices that
can speak up. Maybe an SEC preseason player of the Year.
Even Colin Chandler, who's back and starting Aberdeen has a
ring on his finger. It doesn't just have to be
Jayleen Lowe. Someone needs to step up. I mean, all
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good teams. We could name all the good point guards
from Kentucky where you knew, you know, if something going wrong,
they were gonna get up in somebody. You know you
could see their leadership. I just don't know if Kentucky
has anyone right now that's doing that.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
And we were just told that Brian Hartline took the
job at South Florida, who was probably second choice for
this job. And I do need to mention Neil brown
boyle counted native UK alumnus, was just hired as the
North Texas head coach and they're rank in the top
twenty five right now.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Yeah, I'm glad he's getting a good start. I'll be
a nice spot for him in a group of five team.
He had done a little time that I think it
was with with sark at Texas in one of those
roles for a little bit since leaving West Virginia. So
good to see he gets a reset and hopefully he
has a quick climb.
Speaker 11 (28:14):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
I mean that's a good spot itself. But I can
climb the ranks get back to a big time program.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
All right, Shan, let's go back to the phone lines. Who
we got next?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Go to Isaiah?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Isaiah, Go ahead, Isaiah.
Speaker 12 (28:24):
Hey, guys, I'm gonna go on a little bit of
a positive rant here, so right, And I know the
UK fans might be wrong in my eyes and everything,
and I totally get it. I'm just as frustrated as
everybody else, don't get me wrong. And I think with
the twenty two million dollars, everybody expected to win, now,
you know, but as you have said, this is a
team of six men, people who have come off the
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bench and haven't really been asked to play that role
to start and everything. So just I think with our defense,
you know, we had him to sixty seven points. That's disappointing.
We lost, don't get me wrong, But our defense is
coming together. Okay. We approved can shoot, right, I mean,
we went fifty percent against nobody. I get that, But
the pieces are potentially there. So I'm just asking the
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UK fans just to be optimistic with this. With this
team eight games in, it's only December. Third, guys, It's
like I said, I'm frustrated. I am. I am frustrated.
Mark is a smart guy, and all the changes he
made last year, middle of the game, halftime, everything like that.
He's smart. He will figure it out. I truly believe that.
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I think I think this rosters. But we expected thirty threes,
and maybe this team isn't quite what we expected as
far as that goes. But I think this team is
more of a project than a final final piece, right
we kind of expected.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Okay, appreciate it. Appreciate funk Ondrew, what do you think
about that?
Speaker 5 (29:52):
I don't disagree, but you do have to win some games.
If you keep pushing it down the road, your resume
can get so bad that. I mean, you gotta remember
we have National Championship x specs to.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Three in our big games.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
So yeah, sure, I mean when low comes back that'll
help quite and hopefully and too far away. But I
mean if we get to the beginning of January and
you'll win some of these games, that's gonna be a
huge problem, even if you are healthy.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Drew H. Shannon, what do you think a guy says
we need to preach patients right now? It is just December,
the third.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
But as I was saying on the pre show, every
time you lose one of these games, that puts even
more pressure on winning the next game. So when you
lost the first game to Louisville, there was a little
bit of added pressure to beat Michigan State. Then you
lose that game, Now there's more added pressure to.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Beat you know.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
So it just keeps adding on and at some.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Point you got to get the monkey off your back
and win against the team that matters. So top twenty
five team, you've got some opportunities to do it. But
every time you lose, it just adds more pressure to
the next game.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
I heard you and Billy you blamed Annabelle. You had
to steal Annabelle's.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Oh no, that wasn't me, that was that was a
caller for somebody. But yeah, things haven't been right since
annabel came to town.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
There's no doubt. And Matt made fun of it. Yeah,
I think everything kind of kind of turns south in yep.
Who's our next caller.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
To a fault? Kentucky Joe, Kentucky Joe.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
How are you, Kentucky Joe?
Speaker 10 (31:01):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (31:02):
Pretty good, I'm I'm very I'm very excited.
Speaker 9 (31:05):
About actually around four o'clock today.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Now you know you've been requested to make a new
Willie Stein song. Willie stein Man, can you redo your
old classic hit and redo it?
Speaker 7 (31:18):
I might do that.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Excuse me, I'm thinking about doing something right now.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Roll tape, Shannon. I didn't know we were got about
to get a new top.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Ten Wait wait, wait a minute, I'm on.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Wait wait wait, he's got getting you to beat.
Speaker 9 (31:32):
Wait wait, I'm gonna turn me up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Here about it.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Okay, yeah, I'm about ready to go. Ahead, Well go
it's called royer roor royer roar, mister wildcare roor alright, mister.
Speaker 13 (31:56):
Hardy.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
If you go.
Speaker 13 (32:00):
For mister Walker, the things that come to elect.
Speaker 11 (32:06):
And you know whoa.
Speaker 13 (32:12):
Mister walk At packing to them matter for mister Walka.
Oh yeah, roll.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
For boebe for baby.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Here we go, all right, ducky Joe, Oh maybe we
just stuck with Willie call stein Man. Worry do you.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Even remember Willie Cauley Steinman?
Speaker 12 (32:45):
Oh yeah, you want me to do it now?
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah, that's kind of think what we were going for
the first time.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
Okay, hey, hey, hey, Willie, I do it for you again?
All right, all right, WILLI call stam Man a willing,
coldly dumb. I've got to see you got to love. Oh,
I'm so so.
Speaker 13 (33:12):
Oh, I'm a Willie Holly. Damn man, all this, damn
I've got I've got to see you got the love.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I'm so so.
Speaker 13 (33:26):
I'm a Willie Holly.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
I heard that song ten years there we go, brought
it here to my classic I like those are Those
are the classic hits that Shannon plays on his Double
Q show in the afternoon.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
Hey hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey hey hey listen,
hey Ryan, Hey, thank you, Doug.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Joe, Hey, all right, thank you, buddy, have a good holid,
have a good have a good holiday joke? Do you Joe?
Speaker 8 (33:52):
Here?
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Uh, playing reliving one of our classic hits over the years.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
I'm worried Will Stott might be on the flight back
to Eugene.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
If you're listening, Roar, Kentucky fan, Roar, I do love
a good.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Kentucky Joe phone call, I love you know. I don't
know that the songs as he's singing them, he was ready.
I don't know if that was pre written or if
that was off the fly, a little bit of through something.
They're all off the FI.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
I do enjoy it though, but I don't know if
that was the one. Maybe we'll we'll try again tomorrow
if Matt's back. Matt always likes to hear from him,
so we'll get back in the lab.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
That's true. We need him to replay that. When Matt
comes back tomorrow. He'd love that. All right, Well, take
our break, come back, go back to the phone lines
eight five nine two, eight oh two to eighty seven.
It's eight five nine tweto cat. It is wings day
here at Chaos Bar and Grill. We got the folks
in here already. Doors will open about fifteen minutes, so
come and eat your sorrows away, get some wings. I'll
make you feel a lot better right here at Chaos
Bar and Grill. Ryan Drew and Channing will be back.
(34:42):
This is Kentucky's Ports Radio. Definitely had a bad day
and a bad night. Well, we had a good day
with the will Stein announcement, but then had a bad
night as Kentucky got beat at home by North Carolina
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Speaker 4 (35:36):
In my December at I think it's called Don Franklin
tweeted the day, isn't it Shannon That who sponsors our
tweet of the day. Yes, we got this from Jane Lyndon,
our new cup Beat reporter today he had a big day.
Yes to go into Sissy's cake, Jaane Lindon. Last night
was the first time in UK history that we had
more y's in a game than threes made in a game.
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What a fun fact too, Why won three and of
all people, it was Brandon Garrison who hit the three.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
I can't remember a double why. You've been doing this
a long time. We had two I mean we've had
two people be the why. Yeah, but this was a
first half why and a second half why.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
I've I've I don't remember it ever happening before. I'm
sure they already had Tashawan scheduled and lined up to
do the wide it's regular spot in the first TV timeout. Well,
you got introduced Steyne early in the game. First first
why the first TV time out of the second half,
So you bring out why the first TV time out
of the first half. Just that's the way it worked out.
Got the big pop. Well, they were tired at halftime.
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There was no problem with with the first half. Is
that second half late in the game.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Uh yeah. That's a horrible stat that there were more
wise than three pointers made, especially for a Mark Pope team.
I gotta I don't remember what the record was, but
we went like seventy four years without missing the three,
and then it broke in the tournament a few years though,
We're about to have another game without a three here.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Thanks thanks to Sharpshooter Brandon Garrison and a knock down
that three the no no, no, no yes shot. Here's
another stat from Cody Couch we read last night. In
their last eight ranked matchups, Kentucky is one and seven
one three this year and one in four of their
last five SEC games last year. That's ugly, but one
in seven against ranked opponents.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
There's another stat that I think is even worse that
Corey Price put out than you shared on the post game.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
And what the power four games are now? Fourteen and fifteen,
A losing record, losing four teams.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
I thinks he's been here.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Unacceptable, it really is. It's got to be turned around.
But I don't know what the answer is until you
get everybody healthy. All right, eight five nine two eight
h two two eight seven. Who's next, Shannon, Let's go
to DG. DG, Go ahead, DG.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Guys?
Speaker 11 (37:44):
Two quick points? Uh, respectfully disagree with the previous caller
about optimism. Uh, you know, moving forward, I don't see
how you're optimistic about this team for many a reason.
When you look at this team, good teams find different
ways to win, and whenever we've played good teams this year,
we have showed we cannot shoot, we cannot out physical
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a team. We don't have the heart to outheart a team.
So I don't even know where we begin to find
a way to win.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (38:14):
And then my second point is what has happened to
home court advantage at Reparena? How many blue butt bloods
do you seek? And Kansas Duke in Gonzaga Houston like,
they don't lose these games at home, and we played
against a mediocre team in North Carolina. We the fans
done their part. They showed up and showed out for
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a nine to thirty time. I mean, we've done our part.
We got to win these games because our quad one
wins for the rest of the season are not going
to be there. They're they're bare minimum. So we got
we gotta change something, all right.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
We do.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
You need to point out Kansas lost at home last
night to of course they're Yukon, a good Yukon team.
They did lose at home. Uh, North Carolina not any
just off the bottom of the floor type of team.
They're still a really good team. But yes, the caller's right,
you should win your non conference games at Rupperina. That's
a w that's what was so bad when we lost
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him Evansville and North Carolina Wilmington at Ropperena. You just
don't lose at Rupperina.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
It's really a bad night overall for the sec It
was challenge right Syracuse, be Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
That surprised me.
Speaker 5 (39:22):
That one really surprised me about that, Go Orange, Well,
how do we say that? Go Syracuse. I love that
South Carolina lost. I mean, I think we see did
Oklahoma and we had a couple wins, but it's it
was an ugly first day of the sec ACS Challenge.
Not that we care about the rest of the conference,
but it might show you what the competition level will
be like when we get to that part of the schedule.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Shannon, who's next, Let's go to Daniel. Daniel, go ahead, Daniel, No, Yeah, Hi.
Speaker 10 (39:48):
Guys, I just wanted to Tommins first. I don't agree
with the caller, don I don't know how quick I'm
going to be to spend my money to keep supporting
this program right now. You know, every year and a
lot of money to go see a game in Madison
Square Garden, and I just I'm not sure I'm going
to do it next year anyway. I don't doubt the
coach that the guys can shoot three pointers well in practice.
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Tack anyone, any Division one basketball player can shoot the
ball well in practice. I think that's squarely on the
coach that he can't get these players to trance, to
move from practice to game time to still be able
to shoot the ball well. I think that is one
hundred percent responsibility the coaches, and the coaches aren't getting
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the job done right now, Thank you very much, guys,
have a good day.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Appreciate, don you know. That's what we were hearing on
the football front, that fans were not going to renew
their season tickets, not donate the nil and that can
get a coach fired faster than anything. We're hearing me
that's a second call, Like, man, I'm not going to
spend my money to come into town and buy a
hotel room and go to dinner and go to that
game to see this kind of performance on the floor.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
Yeah, and I wonder the big spenders who really help
Pope starting off in nil. It's no secret what we
spent and how it's the most of the country. If
you know, this team doesn't have a good year and
it's not fun I mean, are the are the big
donors gonna be like, yeah, let me just keep piling
money into this. I mean, that's why this needs to work.
This was a very big investment that we're watching. I
know I always play up not my money, I don't care,
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but I do want Kentucky to continue to have support
moving forward. And if you're you know, you're trotting out
a team that plays like that, fans boosters, everybody's gonna
wonder how much they want to give.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
You know, I give Mario credit. Matt kind of gave
him a hard time yesterday, but he said weeks ago,
there's something wrong with this team. They're just out of
something's not right.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
I still, I don't know. I don't have the answer.
I'm just a fan wondering like everyone else. But something's
off with the chemistry going. I hate to bring up,
you know, the thing from weeks ago. I'm not trying
to do that, but something's going on. I don't know
what it is, but something's going on still, not just
the basketball.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Yeah, there's issues.
Speaker 5 (41:50):
There has to be.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
I don't know what it is, but there are issues.
And I don't know what's going on with Diabata. Yeah,
what's his injury? I mean, I thought he just kind
of rolled his ankle, even walked off the court that game.
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Speaker 4 (01:05):
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Speaker 3 (01:10):
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Speaker 4 (01:12):
Listen, It's been a long night. Drew and I were
up doing the postgame show till two in the morning.
Drew had to do blogging till four in the morning.
And to start the show, I'm going to steal in
line from a great philosopher.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Who's that the Grinch?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Okay, stink stink stunk. That's how I felt about last
night's game. For those who weren't up for the postgame
show last night, Kentucky loses sixty seven sixty four to
North Carolina. Uh So, for those who were who threw
the remote control of the TV and went to bed
after the game, well, rehash what we said last night. Drew,
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your thoughts about what you saw last night at Roparina
just so disappointed.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I mean, I don't even know where to begin. It's
so disappointing. Everything was disappointing. I could start by saying
it was a great atmosphere and they wasted that, Yes,
really great environment. Ropa nine thirty You kidding me? Be
By on fire. There was a moment as it was
tied or maybe a one point game and just a
little bit left, and I just kind of looked around
and they were going crazy, and I looked down at
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my watch and it's midnight, and I was like, this
is special. We gotta finish it. But he had the
will Stein pop rondo, Tayshawn volleyball, uh Scooby the little dog.
Everything was perfect to just finish the job. But that
scoring drought in the second half, I mean I saw
it was like the longest scoring drought, like eight years.
They went ten minutes for Pope, an offensive coach that
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you know, we're supposed to be getting ninety points a
game and talked taking thirty three is a game. That
was just so disappointing, watching them sit around and look
at each other on offense, not able to score.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
That was the killer. Ten minutes without a field goal,
ten minutes without a bucket. And they finished the second
half two of their last sixteen, all of thirteen I
think during that stretch awful. I can't believe they didn't
get blown out. They were getting remounted like crazy.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
I'm shocked it's a three point loss.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I am too when you look at the numbers, how
did they keep it to a three point game?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Defense? Defense kept them in the game.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
That was as you hold the team shouting, you're right
to sixty seven points in the especially in this day
and age, you think you're gonna win the game.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, you would think so.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
But this team seems like they have some sort of
identity crisis. You know, they only take thirteen threes last night.
Game before that, they're taking thirty. And I know you
got three guys that are projected to be your starters
or are your starters and are out and that that's
a big part of this too. But last night, you
can't go ten minutes without scoring.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
A fetal goal. You're not going to be anybody that way.
And it's concerning.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
It is because now you got Gonzaga coming up this
Friday night, and that's not going to be pretty either
if you play it that way.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
So the big question is, you know, what what happened?
What's going on? And I'll give my just say what
I had said last time the postgame show. I felt
like they got to a point where they had the lead,
yet they were playing like they were behind. They were
coming down jack up shots early in the shot clock,
jacking up bad shots when they had the lead. They
like their the basketball smarts left their body or something,
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because they were playing like they were trailing the whole time.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
The basketball smarts they they did leave though. It's just
an effort too. I mean, twenty offensive rebounds is outrageous.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
That's ridiculous, and they converted most of those into the
second chance points.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Twenty two to five second chance points.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Well, there's a huge I think that's gonna win you
a game when you do something like that.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
And sure they're tall. I mean they got the big
seven footer who was pretty unstoppable. Caleb Wilson can rebound,
but u K wasn't even trying. I mean they were
sitting around and just watching them grab their own missus.
There was a stretch there at the end where Yellowvich
made a good defensive stand yes, and they get two
straight offensive rebounds and hit a go ahead three. If
you just get that ball, maybe you hang on and
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win the game. I think they were up one at
that point, but it was just offensive rebound after offensive
rebound after offensive rebounds.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
That's the series. I think was the difference. Malachi had
just hit two free throws and giving us a one
point lead.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Those were big, by the way, I'll be honest, when
he stepped up, it's a little nervous. I'm not gonna
say I didn't believe in him, but Wink wink might
not have thought he had two in him. So that
was huge that he knock those down on that kid.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
From Georgetown knocks him both down and against North Carolina
Rush Street, and then Yellovich makes a stop on Caleb Wilson.
You get that rebound maybe game over, and they couldn't
get it twice.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
It's sometimes I think they don't know that they're allowed
to jump. I mean it's like their feet are glued
to the floor and they just watched the Vaull go.
I mean, Yellovich, actually, if we can pay some compliments,
played great defense, especially there. Wilson was like five of
eighteen or five for nineteen. He didn't really kill you,
you know, he got a double double, but it wasn't
like some you know, huge performance. Yellovich defended well, but
Kentucky just couldn't score. This is a Mark Mark Pope team.
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Once thirty three is a game spacing let it fly,
and they went one for thirteen. And you're one was
probably the worst shot of the thirteen.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yes, Shannon what you're you're oh for your first eight
in the first half of free point Land and the
guy who hits the first one in the second half,
Brandon Garrison, have.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Been one of the last guys on the flooride with
even one taking that shot to begin with.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Good point.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
But again, though, if that's.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Who you are, if you are the team that's going
to take thirty threes even when they're not going down,
I think you still have to try it. I'd rather
have a miss three than I miss two. At least
you're trying to get a three. So I mean, if
that's what you are and that's what you do, you
can't have a game where you're only attempting a thirteen threes.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
They were getting open looks soon, yeah, right. There's been
some games where the offense just dies and they take
turns shooting over the top of somebody. This one, they
were actually getting decent looks and they just couldn't shoot.
I don't mean to call them out, but I've never
seen someone airball threes as much as then celebrity does
airballl threes this year. It is truly remarkable how many
threes he's air bolt.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
And he's supposed to be, you know, one of your
leaders with Jalen Low out, and he just took some
bad shots at some bad times and missed them badly.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Yeah, and you alway kind of had it going if
he did another compliment. That's the first time he's played
with the energy you want to see out of him.
Had some tough finishes at the rim. Uh one of
them late in the second half he turned and flexed.
He kind of thought he should have gotten fouled. I
think you should have two, but you know, he was.
That was the way we've kind of been wanting to
see break out, but it was just completely wasted when
the offense, you know, had that scoring drought and couldn't
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make a three pointer or get an offensive rebound, or
play with energy or really show up when the Whites turn.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
On Shannon Drew's right as. We saw some shades of
the old Otega Oway last night, don't you think.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And I think that that's probably what we're gonna see,
at least I hope we aren't gonna see moving forward.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Otherwise we're gonna have a lot of problems.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
But yeah, it felt like he was just pressing too much,
you know, trying to do things again that wasn't really
the strength of his game.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Shooting too many threes, you know, his game is dribbled drive.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
So hopefully we we'll get to see more of what
we saw from last year from Oway, because especially with
these injuries, they're gonna have to have him have a
big game every night.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
So the big stats we've already talked about a one
of thirteen from three, it's gonna had twenty offensive rebounds.
The other stat I think is very tailing for Kentucky
eight assists, nine turnovers. Again, it goes back to not
having your point guard out there. The offense just looks
out of sync. You're turning the ball over. Is Jalen
Lowell return the only way to save what's going on
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right now?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
I mean, he would definitely help, but I can't. I'm
not blaming injuries. I know it's fluky, but we've made
a big deal of this roster and how it's built.
You should have enough depth to be playing better than
you are right now, so not get killed by Louisville
Michigan State and then just let one slip away and
Lexton I hope he comes back and he will definitely help,
but the other guys still are far beneath what they
should be even without him. Right now, Yeah, Shannon, I
(08:30):
think maybe Quainton shows up and he's the Anthony Davis
reincartcarnated and changes everything. But right now, what's been out
there has not given me much faith in anything.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
And Jack Gibbon said last night he still think Quayton
is probably three weeks out.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
And even then he's slow coming back. I mean, he's
not just gonna show up and automatically be at full
speed one hundred percent even when he is ready to go.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
So that was a big question on the postgame show
last night, Stanning, And how do you fix it? How
do you try to right, you know, get the train
back on the tracks a little bit?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, get healthy, And that's just a waiting game at
this point. I think that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I mean, because if you trot the same lineup out
there Friday against Gonzaga, I think they're gonna get murdered.
I think it's gonna be ugly. So I don't know
that there's a fix to it. I mean, maybe shoot
more threes, But do you have any guys that can
knock down threes? What happened all these guys that we heard,
you know before the season started, we're knocking down ninety
out of one hundred and three pointers in practice. They're
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great at knocking down shots, I guess when they're in practice,
but in a game situation, they're not.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
You're right, all summer long we heard how Trent Noah
hit one hundred in a row, Cam Williams hit one
hundred in a row. These two guys cannot miss their
knockdown shooters. And yet out of the thirteen three pointers
you shot last night, your best three point shoot on
the floor, Colin Channer only took two. He's he's got
to take more shots.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah, no, that finish at the end, I thought he
had it. It was a good look. Yeah, tough shot
is a little bit of a reverse, but it was
right there and I thought it was going down. I mean,
that was that was bad. I thought he had it then,
not that it mattered, but with two seconds left, I mean,
it's throw in the towel where they had him in
bound the ball and he just right threw it to
the other free throw line. I mean sure, they probably
weren't going to get a three with two seconds left,
(10:04):
down three, but maybe try.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Maybe put one of our guys. And he threw it
right to a North Carolina player.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
That's how they game.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I mean, you know the game if he.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Threw it to all five of them just standing there
in a huddle.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Got called in last night. He said, well, why was
he even taking the ball out to begin with? It
should have been somebody else to get the ball to
him so he can shoot the last three point of
the game.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Yeah, there wasn't like enough time to get you a
Bryce Drew situation there. I didn't know why he was
inbounding it and just no chance. It was unlikely anyway,
but they just meiled it in on that last uh
try too.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
So Kentucky now falls to five and three uh their
first three big non conference games. They're an er fer.
You got waxed by Michigan State, you got waxed by Louisville,
and you played awful last night against North Carolina at
home at Rupp Arena. Dick Fatal was there for crying
out loud, Tayshawn Prince Rondo, they were all there, and
(10:57):
you stunk it up last night.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Drew one of the better rough crowds I've seen I
go to. I rarely miss a home game. I've been
to about every one of them for sixteen years. And
that was some of Rupp's best stuff there throughout the game.
I mean, they'd get disappointed at times, really disappointing the referees.
I don't know if the refuse suck chance made it
to TV, but that was some of their best refuse
sucks chanting in a while too, but just completely blown opportunity.
(11:19):
Kentucky led for most of the game, led for close
to thirty minutes, but they just went completely cold and
gave it away.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Will Steine, your new football coach, had a big pop
at the first TV timeout, still didn't help. He had, well,
how do you go?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
How can you play like that when you knew football
coach is sitting at courtside mid court watching the game,
and you stink it up like you did.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
And your offensive all things feed the studs, but these
are studs. That was really cool when they introduced him.
That was a loud pop and then kind of like
when Dirk Minifield went even higher on his dunk, when
he started pumping his arms and yelling let's go Rupp
went even louder. I mean it truly blew the roof
off there, off the play when he came in early
(12:01):
in the game. I almost wish they just bring him
out over and over, like, hey, can you do that
again here in the second half. But that was a
disappointing night. But that was a cool moment him coming
out and crowd clearly supports the football man.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Shannon, and I want to ask you to did you
happen to catch did dick bytal cover any of Jason Williams'
games when Jakeson Williams at.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Duke once or twice on there? Yeah? Yeah, I think
I saw some of that.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
I I kept thinking they might want to talk about
that during the course of our game last night, but
they didn't seem to come up.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
No, No, they did, They definitely did.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I guess I missed it.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I didn't know how you missed that. Yeah, there was
plenty of that last night.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
So today's gonna be a gooday for calls. I know
a lot of people are frustrated. We had some great
calls last night. On the post game show. We had
Big Don and Big Dan that called in and it
was gott in tears when he's riding home on ice
ready to go again. He's on he's on hold already.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
He kind of became a star last night. I'm glad,
glad he's back on the line.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I'm hoping he's feeling better because he was in a
rough condition last night. So as we go to break
eight five nine two eight h two two, we do
want to mention why Matt is not here. His dad,
Larry had a preceigde couple procedures this week, so Matt,
doing the right thing, went there to be with his dad,
with his mom, kind of be just be with him
during this time. Larry's fine, he's recovering. Chance of Matt
(13:15):
City may even get to come home today, So all
good news on that front. But that's obviously why he's
not here today.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Yeah, it popped up on him yesterday. Went straight there
down there to be with them, and glad it's gone
well so far. We'll be thinking about Larry as he recovers.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Larry is one tough old dude, man. I mean that
whole guy is as tough and as young as they come.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
That's right. He would have wanted more from Trento last
night though.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
We got to talk about that something's not there's some
issues with this team, and there's some issues going on
with some of our guys.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
But there's not enough hours on this show to talk
about issues with this basketball team.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
So we'll take our break. Eight five nine two eight
h two two eight seven. Ryan Drew and Shannon were
right back. This is Kentucky's Ports Radio. True words never
spoken by the great philosopher of the Grinch about Kentucky's
plate Last night, Ryan Drew and Shannon here takes Port
Tradio eight five nine two eight h two two eight seven.
Phone lines are full right now, and I expect they
will be the whole shows. We'll try to get as
many colors as we can. But before we go to
the phone lines, one more thing I want to touch on.
(14:10):
You know, the second half, he pretty much went with
those five guys, Aberdeen, Otega, Chandler, Yellovich, and Marino. They
pretty much played the entire second half. No Brandon Garrison,
no Trent, Noah, no Cam Williams the second half. And
then after the game he was talking about how he
got fatigued. Well, he substitutes a lot. Why do you
(14:31):
think he decided just to run with those guys at
that point in the game.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
I guess it had just gotten so bad. A lot
of those guys off the bench did not look good
last night. I mean, you knew the moment they were
in h right, go sit back down.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
I was pretty frustrated though early in the game when
the first unit was working and he.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Did his big early sub yep always does.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Tucky had a big lead. Now he did shorten the
bench in the second half. I think five guys played
more than thirty minutes. I would know Pope's teams have
ever done that. Did that happen one time last year?
I don't think so. Yeah, I just I know I'm
down on all things here, but I hate hearing the fatigue.
I mean, played thirty minutes. Come oneh weren't you a
Patino guy?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
You're twenty one years old?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Did Patino even know the word fatigue back in the day?
We know all know the stories like I can't get behind.
Oh no, they played thirty minutes. What are we gonna do?
I mean, there are guys that do that nightly across
the country.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
And Shannon, he made that quote something about, you know,
we have to learn to play for each other. Yeah,
what do you think.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
That was directed at Well, it sounds like there was
some selfish ball being played out there, But I mean
I with them. I think at some point you got
to stick with your five guys, your best five that
you feel like is gonna give you the best chance
to winning. I mean they did play well defensively if
you're looking for a silver lining. But if you're just
going out and just you know, going deep into your
benge and throwing random guys out there, random lineups, I
(15:43):
feel like we've already gone through that. So at some
point you got to hone in on your top five guys,
you're best available, they're gonna give you a chance to win.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
And that's what he did. It just didn't work out
last night.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Bigger picture, I don't think this everybody's gonna get to
play a little bit is helping and recruiting. He keeps
missing on these big players. No five star wants to
come and play twenty four minutes when they could go
play thirty five and take all the shots somewhere. That's
going to catch up to him if he keeps doing this.
I know that's what he likes, but this is Kentucky.
We like to get stars and stars like the ball.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
In minutes eight two two eighty seven, phone lines are
lit up. So let's get to him, Shannon, who we got?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
All right, let's go back to him and get big done.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Big yeah. The call of the night last night in
the postgame show, Are you feeling any better? Big Don?
Speaker 8 (16:26):
To be honest, I thought I would be feeling better
after not sleep, but I'm not. Hey. I do want
to say I'm praying for Matt and his family. Hope
everything goes well.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
To top it off, last night, listen to this, I
get off the phone. I sixty four. I get a
dag on ticket another two hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Oh, Big Don, what a night you're having.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
I got home about four am, id to get back
up at six thirty and go to work. And I'm
still aggravated over what I went and watched. Spent Like
I said, I spent my money, I went and watch
that crap. It's just it's aggravating. That's that's as bad
as the Billy gere right there. I'm not kidding. Sixty points,
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Mark Pope supposed to be this offensive mine. You can't
score more than seventy seventy points. I don't know. I
just I don't know where he goes. I mean, I
want to say we've got answers on the bench, but
I don't know who. I mean, can those guys shoot?
Speaker 6 (17:26):
No?
Speaker 8 (17:27):
I mean low treat, but heck he can't. He ain't
that good of a shooter. Mob a body that looks
like my grandma's shooting. It's just it's aggravating and I
don't know what to do. I mean, I want to
go to more games supporting, but I'm sick of mister
nice guy and the analytics stuff. That's way too much.
I mean, I get it, it's it's how he coaches,
(17:49):
but it's way too much. I mean, it's analyticist analytics
that sometimes you've got to roll the basketball out there
to play your best guys and quit with the minute crap.
I mean, they're what twenty twenty two years old playing
thirty five minutes or that. I appreciate you guys. I'm
sorry to get worked back, but one of two days.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Appreciate it big time.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Anytime. Yeah, he just call me if we're not on
the air, just we'll just talk.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
I'm glad.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
I'm gonna start calling anymore.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Come glad. He made it home glad He uh, well,
I'm not glad he got a ticket, but slow down
out there, yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Buckle up, put your phone down. It's like we're going
back at time. He's like, we just need to roll
the ball out there next one be like we need
somebody to just yo go.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah, but you know, he went, Hey, that.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Looked like a Cal team without NBA players on it
last night. That playing defense, missing threes and.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
So out of sync. I mean we've said it three
or four times, and I think it goes back to
not having Jalen Lowell out there. They just need somebody
to be a strong point guard because Aberdeen's not that guy.
He's not a point guard. He plays better off the
ball a little bit. And he he he hurt you
last night. There's no doubt he did.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
I mean, Lowe's hurt. Not much you can do about it.
Can Zagg has come up. You got a deep roster,
you know. The injury stink. I'm sorry it happened, but
that can't be an excused for being oh and three
in these games. What did the analytics say about making
the tournament if they go oh to four after Friday?
I mean that's a legit concern because Gonzaga is tough.
That's probably the hard maybe not as tough at true Louisville,
(19:18):
true road atmosphere. But I mean, you were just an
eight and a half point favorite home and lost to Carolina,
and you're gonna be an underdog to Gonzaga here in
a few days. I don't know if anything I saw
last night is getting fixed in just a couple of
practices before they go to Nashville.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
See, that's the big question. How do you fix this?
How do you turn it around? When I think the
answers are the guy sitting on the bench hurt, they're
not if they're not ready, how do you how do
you fix it for Gonzagon on Friday?
Speaker 5 (19:41):
There's there's enough guys that are healthy to be better
than this. I'm just terrified how this is gonna look
after this coming weekend. Our pregame show listeners know that
me and Jack, even you Mario over here, we weren't
the most excited about the game to begin with because
we're kind of terrified of what this team might actually
look like a couple of weeks from now.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Well, it's been a rough stretch. If you go back
to the Louisville basketball game, the Vanderbilt football game, the
Michigan State basketball game, the Louisville football game, now North
Carolina here. All of our high profile games in the
last couple weeks have been disasters.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
That and then just a roller coaster promotions. Lately. We
got so excited for will Stein for twenty four hours
watching the flights, just the message board. There's like old
school KSR tracking everything. Everyone was so happy for a
day and then you just go lose to North Carolina
at home with a great atmosphere. Everything should have was
in place for you to get a win, and you
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just couldn't score.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
That's a great point. Channing yesterday, at this time yesterday,
this fire alarms are going off, We're laughing, We're getting
we got a new coach, can't wait for him to
get here, tracking his flight, calling his mom and sissy cakes.
Now today we're like gloom and doom and throwing stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I kind of felt like though we saw this coming, right,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Well I did. I thought they would. I dot to
be close, but I ultimately thought being at home. Ye,
North Carolina's got a lot of new trends. The headn't
played an environment like that. The environment showed up. I
thought that would put Kentucky over the top and we'll
figure out the rest later.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
They get another punk call who we got.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
And big bro clak, I mean big picture though.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You know again talking about the schedule, you still got
number twenty two Indiana coming in, you still got Saint John's,
you still got Gonzaga coming up on Friday.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
You gotta get at least one of those.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Right, Gotta build your resume somewhere, can't You can't.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Go into the SEC with the six losses, agree, because
they were talking about the possibility of not making the tournament.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
And there's one team tucked into there. And I hate
how we're playing all these top three hundred teams. N
C Central is ranked outside of the top three hundred
and fifty.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Oh yep, and you're gonna get no credit.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
They're not even the three fifty. That's not gonna do anything.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Bellerman's not probably any better.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
I mean, I'm looking there, they're to eighty two.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Okay, so you're beating up on teams that are ranked
around three hundred nationally. You're not getting any credit with
this election committee when it comes to Marrow.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
No, you got to get one of these big, high
profile game.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yeah, let's go to Braiden.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Braiden, go ahead, Braiden.
Speaker 9 (22:06):
Twenty two million, and this is what we get. This
is what we get. I'll tell you what, boys, I
do a little bit research the teams that we already played,
and we'll be playing. They spend about eight and fifteen million,
eight and fifteen millions.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
They're doing great.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
We're playing terrible.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
But I got I said, I gotta say something to
Mark Pope.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
You go about thirty seconds.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
Mark Pope, what are you doing? You spend about twenty
two million dollars.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I think you spent twenty two million Braidon. We appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Think I've still got nineteen seconds left.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Oh, we got to play the sad and happy song
to get us out of here. It's not supposed to
be like this run. This is Kentucky basketball. We're supposed
to be happy today. We just hired a new coach.
Will Stein was there, got the crowd pumped up.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
We got volleyball.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
TJ Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ. He'll make them
pay now.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
More of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Here's Matt Jones.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Perfect song, Shannon, because they could use somebody. They could
use Jalen Lowell. I think the answer is the dude
sitting over there on street clothes. They need a good leader,
they need a good point guard. He's the answer if
we're looking for an answer, He's the guy. Ryan Leman, Drew, Franklin,
Chan and the dude back on Kentucky's Ports Radio. We
I know we got people on hold. We've already talked
about of basketball. We do need to hit on football
because today at four o'clock, our new football coach will
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be officially introduced Will Stein at a press conference. Drew
your going He introduced him last night at a Ropperena
place exploded. Obviously, the as unexcited as we are about basketball,
we're overly excited I think about football.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to getting over there seeing that.
You know, as I mentioned, the pop was great last night.
I think the fans loved the hire. That was clear
by the reception online and in person last night. And
I'm just excited to hear from his first press conference.
He uh, you know, for years we had and he
had one way of doing it. It was a little
more quiet, a little more keep your head down, pick
up your lunch pedal, go to work. With the way
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Stein was pumping his fist and all that, we haven't
really seen fire like that in a long time. I'm
not like outside of a game now we see angry
stoops in the game, as as far as like in
a media and in that kind of setting, we haven't
seen someone with that kind of juice to him. So
I'm looking forward to hearing from him today and what
else he has next as they get settled in here.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
And then on our basketball pre show, you broke a
little news about his staff yesterday.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Yeah, I was just telling everybody to watch out her name,
and then the name happened to arrive on a.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Plane and was that name at rubs the.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Oregon director of recruiting, Pat Beyondo. And we'll see he's
still building this staff. You know, he's got a lot
going on over there. By just telling y'all to watch
that one, and then you know, playing door opens and
he happen to step off.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
On the plane. So what a coincidence he's gonna be
on the staff. Then it came out last night that
Justin Burke, former Lexington Catholic quarterback, former Louisville quarterback is
expected to join will Stein's staff here at Kentucky.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Also, we're getting a lot of Louisville influence over there.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
How about two former Louisville quarterbacks leading our football team
next year.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
That's fine Matt and Ryan. As I said yesterday, we
don't look backwards, we look forwards, and they're gonna be
wearing blue. He's he's a big up and comer with
a long history with Stein. But Stein's gonna be calling plays.
I would suspect when this gets here, but you know,
we'll trust whatever staff he wants to come in and
help him. It's for him. I want to see what
he does in recruiting. That's what the name I mentioned.
I'm keeping an eye on because we know he wants
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to feed the studs. But let's go get some studs justin.
But today's signing day. By the way, he signs signed,
he has already signed. He signed, so that was uh.
I didn't have to wait long for him to make
his decision to stick around in the class.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Before he will Stein was hired, Ponatowski had already said
I'm not gonna sign.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
He's gonna wait till the spring.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
And wait till the spree. He's you know, he's a
baseball guy. A lot of people think he may get
drafted so high in the baseball draft he may never
even be on campus here because he may go baseball.
But at least he is signed. I think that's a
for perception purposes. Now they can go sell him when
they go with these other recruits. Hey, come play with
this guy, you know, come be apart of what we're
rebuilding here.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Definitely, the portal is so big now that this high
school recruiting doesn't matter as much, but it is very
important to have him as your centerpiece for everything else. Yeah,
sure the MLB could still take him away, but the
fact that he just needed you know, forty eight hours
to lock in. If they went through everything and made
the right higher and then now Stein can go out
and sell everything around him, that was huge to lock
that in.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
You know, Justin Burke was a quarterback at Lexton Catholic.
He was our l e X eighteen high School Sports
one Player of the Year his senior years.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I thought, you're gonna say it was like an intern
and you know him or something.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
I do know him and he's dad Greg, but there
was a little back and forth with him and KSR
when he was at Louisville, and there's some more things
we need to scrub off the internet before he gets here.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
I do know in this, I don't think it was
just KSR. I mean, I don't want to call the guy.
I don't think in high school he was the biggest
fan of the local team here in Lexington. I think
I've heard from some of his teammates. But whatever, Like
I said, the windshield is bigger than the Wait, is it,
the windshield's bigger than the Yeah, there we go. So
whatever he thought back then, he'll be wearing the emblem
and working for us now, so hopefully it all goes
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good going forward. It is a little weird with the
Louisville influence, I'll admit.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
So how did the basketball team play so bad right
in front of our new football coach who had front
court mid court seats.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
I don't know. It was just so disappointing, so disappointing. Yeah,
so I forgot the caller or one of you talking
about leadership and low would probably be that gay guys
that got. But there are other people with voices that
can speak up. Maybe an SEC preseason player of the Year.
Even Colin Chandler, who's back and starting Aberdeen has a
ring on his finger. It doesn't just have to be
Jayleen Lowe. Someone needs to step up. I mean, all
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good teams. We could name all the good point guards
from Kentucky where you knew, you know, if something going wrong,
they were gonna get up in somebody. You know you
could see their leadership. I just don't know if Kentucky
has anyone right now that's doing that.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
And we were just told that Brian Hartline took the
job at South Florida, who was probably second choice for
this job. And I do need to mention Neil brown
boyle counted native UK alumnus, was just hired as the
North Texas head coach and they're rank in the top
twenty five right now.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Yeah, I'm glad he's getting a good start. I'll be
a nice spot for him in a group of five team.
He had done a little time that I think it
was with with sark at Texas in one of those
roles for a little bit since leaving West Virginia. So
good to see he gets a reset and hopefully he
has a quick climb.
Speaker 11 (28:14):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
I mean that's a good spot itself. But I can
climb the ranks get back to a big time program.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
All right, Shan, let's go back to the phone lines. Who
we got next?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Go to Isaiah?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Isaiah, Go ahead, Isaiah.
Speaker 12 (28:24):
Hey, guys, I'm gonna go on a little bit of
a positive rant here, so right, And I know the
UK fans might be wrong in my eyes and everything,
and I totally get it. I'm just as frustrated as
everybody else, don't get me wrong. And I think with
the twenty two million dollars, everybody expected to win, now,
you know, but as you have said, this is a
team of six men, people who have come off the
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bench and haven't really been asked to play that role
to start and everything. So just I think with our defense,
you know, we had him to sixty seven points. That's disappointing.
We lost, don't get me wrong, But our defense is
coming together. Okay. We approved can shoot, right, I mean,
we went fifty percent against nobody. I get that, But
the pieces are potentially there. So I'm just asking the
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UK fans just to be optimistic with this. With this
team eight games in, it's only December. Third, guys, It's
like I said, I'm frustrated. I am. I am frustrated.
Mark is a smart guy, and all the changes he
made last year, middle of the game, halftime, everything like that.
He's smart. He will figure it out. I truly believe that.
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I think I think this rosters. But we expected thirty threes,
and maybe this team isn't quite what we expected as
far as that goes. But I think this team is
more of a project than a final final piece, right
we kind of expected.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Okay, appreciate it. Appreciate funk Ondrew, what do you think
about that?
Speaker 5 (29:52):
I don't disagree, but you do have to win some games.
If you keep pushing it down the road, your resume
can get so bad that. I mean, you gotta remember
we have National Championship x specs to.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Three in our big games.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
So yeah, sure, I mean when low comes back that'll
help quite and hopefully and too far away. But I
mean if we get to the beginning of January and
you'll win some of these games, that's gonna be a
huge problem, even if you are healthy.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Drew H. Shannon, what do you think a guy says
we need to preach patients right now? It is just December,
the third.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
But as I was saying on the pre show, every
time you lose one of these games, that puts even
more pressure on winning the next game. So when you
lost the first game to Louisville, there was a little
bit of added pressure to beat Michigan State. Then you
lose that game, Now there's more added pressure to.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Beat you know.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
So it just keeps adding on and at some.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Point you got to get the monkey off your back
and win against the team that matters. So top twenty
five team, you've got some opportunities to do it. But
every time you lose, it just adds more pressure to
the next game.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
I heard you and Billy you blamed Annabelle. You had
to steal Annabelle's.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Oh no, that wasn't me, that was that was a
caller for somebody. But yeah, things haven't been right since
annabel came to town.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
There's no doubt. And Matt made fun of it. Yeah,
I think everything kind of kind of turns south in yep.
Who's our next caller.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
To a fault? Kentucky Joe, Kentucky Joe.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
How are you, Kentucky Joe?
Speaker 10 (31:01):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (31:02):
Pretty good, I'm I'm very I'm very excited.
Speaker 9 (31:05):
About actually around four o'clock today.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Now you know you've been requested to make a new
Willie Stein song. Willie stein Man, can you redo your
old classic hit and redo it?
Speaker 7 (31:18):
I might do that.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Excuse me, I'm thinking about doing something right now.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Roll tape, Shannon. I didn't know we were got about
to get a new top.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Ten Wait wait, wait a minute, I'm on.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Wait wait wait, he's got getting you to beat.
Speaker 9 (31:32):
Wait wait, I'm gonna turn me up a little bit.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Here about it.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Okay, yeah, I'm about ready to go. Ahead, Well go
it's called royer roor royer roar, mister wildcare roor alright, mister.
Speaker 13 (31:56):
Hardy.
Speaker 7 (31:57):
If you go.
Speaker 13 (32:00):
For mister Walker, the things that come to elect.
Speaker 11 (32:06):
And you know whoa.
Speaker 13 (32:12):
Mister walk At packing to them matter for mister Walka.
Oh yeah, roll.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
For boebe for baby.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Here we go, all right, ducky Joe, Oh maybe we
just stuck with Willie call stein Man. Worry do you.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Even remember Willie Cauley Steinman?
Speaker 12 (32:45):
Oh yeah, you want me to do it now?
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Yeah, that's kind of think what we were going for
the first time.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
Okay, hey, hey, hey, Willie, I do it for you again?
All right, all right, WILLI call stam Man a willing,
coldly dumb. I've got to see you got to love. Oh,
I'm so so.
Speaker 13 (33:12):
Oh, I'm a Willie Holly. Damn man, all this, damn
I've got I've got to see you got the love.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I'm so so.
Speaker 13 (33:26):
I'm a Willie Holly.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
I heard that song ten years there we go, brought
it here to my classic I like those are Those
are the classic hits that Shannon plays on his Double
Q show in the afternoon.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
Hey hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey hey hey listen,
hey Ryan, Hey, thank you, Doug.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Joe, Hey, all right, thank you, buddy, have a good holid,
have a good have a good holiday joke? Do you Joe?
Speaker 8 (33:52):
Here?
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Uh, playing reliving one of our classic hits over the years.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
I'm worried Will Stott might be on the flight back
to Eugene.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
If you're listening, Roar, Kentucky fan, Roar, I do love
a good.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Kentucky Joe phone call, I love you know. I don't
know that the songs as he's singing them, he was ready.
I don't know if that was pre written or if
that was off the fly, a little bit of through something.
They're all off the FI.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
I do enjoy it though, but I don't know if
that was the one. Maybe we'll we'll try again tomorrow
if Matt's back. Matt always likes to hear from him,
so we'll get back in the lab.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
That's true. We need him to replay that. When Matt
comes back tomorrow. He'd love that. All right, Well, take
our break, come back, go back to the phone lines
eight five nine two, eight oh two to eighty seven.
It's eight five nine tweto cat. It is wings day
here at Chaos Bar and Grill. We got the folks
in here already. Doors will open about fifteen minutes, so
come and eat your sorrows away, get some wings. I'll
make you feel a lot better right here at Chaos
Bar and Grill. Ryan Drew and Channing will be back.
(34:42):
This is Kentucky's Ports Radio. Definitely had a bad day
and a bad night. Well, we had a good day
with the will Stein announcement, but then had a bad
night as Kentucky got beat at home by North Carolina
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Speaker 4 (35:36):
In my December at I think it's called Don Franklin
tweeted the day, isn't it Shannon That who sponsors our
tweet of the day. Yes, we got this from Jane Lyndon,
our new cup Beat reporter today he had a big day.
Yes to go into Sissy's cake, Jaane Lindon. Last night
was the first time in UK history that we had
more y's in a game than threes made in a game.
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What a fun fact too, Why won three and of
all people, it was Brandon Garrison who hit the three.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
I can't remember a double why. You've been doing this
a long time. We had two I mean we've had
two people be the why. Yeah, but this was a
first half why and a second half why.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
I've I've I don't remember it ever happening before. I'm
sure they already had Tashawan scheduled and lined up to
do the wide it's regular spot in the first TV timeout. Well,
you got introduced Steyne early in the game. First first
why the first TV time out of the second half,
So you bring out why the first TV time out
of the first half. Just that's the way it worked out.
Got the big pop. Well, they were tired at halftime.
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There was no problem with with the first half. Is
that second half late in the game.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Uh yeah. That's a horrible stat that there were more
wise than three pointers made, especially for a Mark Pope team.
I gotta I don't remember what the record was, but
we went like seventy four years without missing the three,
and then it broke in the tournament a few years though,
We're about to have another game without a three here.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Thanks thanks to Sharpshooter Brandon Garrison and a knock down
that three the no no, no, no yes shot. Here's
another stat from Cody Couch we read last night. In
their last eight ranked matchups, Kentucky is one and seven
one three this year and one in four of their
last five SEC games last year. That's ugly, but one
in seven against ranked opponents.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
There's another stat that I think is even worse that
Corey Price put out than you shared on the post game.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
And what the power four games are now? Fourteen and fifteen,
A losing record, losing four teams.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
I thinks he's been here.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Unacceptable, it really is. It's got to be turned around.
But I don't know what the answer is until you
get everybody healthy. All right, eight five nine two eight
h two two eight seven. Who's next, Shannon, Let's go
to DG. DG, Go ahead, DG.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Guys?
Speaker 11 (37:44):
Two quick points? Uh, respectfully disagree with the previous caller
about optimism. Uh, you know, moving forward, I don't see
how you're optimistic about this team for many a reason.
When you look at this team, good teams find different
ways to win, and whenever we've played good teams this year,
we have showed we cannot shoot, we cannot out physical
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a team. We don't have the heart to outheart a team.
So I don't even know where we begin to find
a way to win.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (38:14):
And then my second point is what has happened to
home court advantage at Reparena? How many blue butt bloods
do you seek? And Kansas Duke in Gonzaga Houston like,
they don't lose these games at home, and we played
against a mediocre team in North Carolina. We the fans
done their part. They showed up and showed out for
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a nine to thirty time. I mean, we've done our part.
We got to win these games because our quad one
wins for the rest of the season are not going
to be there. They're they're bare minimum. So we got
we gotta change something, all right.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
We do.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
You need to point out Kansas lost at home last
night to of course they're Yukon, a good Yukon team.
They did lose at home. Uh, North Carolina not any
just off the bottom of the floor type of team.
They're still a really good team. But yes, the caller's right,
you should win your non conference games at Rupperina. That's
a w that's what was so bad when we lost
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him Evansville and North Carolina Wilmington at Ropperena. You just
don't lose at Rupperina.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
It's really a bad night overall for the sec It
was challenge right Syracuse, be Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
That surprised me.
Speaker 5 (39:22):
That one really surprised me about that, Go Orange, Well,
how do we say that? Go Syracuse. I love that
South Carolina lost. I mean, I think we see did
Oklahoma and we had a couple wins, but it's it
was an ugly first day of the sec ACS Challenge.
Not that we care about the rest of the conference,
but it might show you what the competition level will
be like when we get to that part of the schedule.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Shannon, who's next, Let's go to Daniel. Daniel, go ahead, Daniel, No, Yeah, Hi.
Speaker 10 (39:48):
Guys, I just wanted to Tommins first. I don't agree
with the caller, don I don't know how quick I'm
going to be to spend my money to keep supporting
this program right now. You know, every year and a
lot of money to go see a game in Madison
Square Garden, and I just I'm not sure I'm going
to do it next year anyway. I don't doubt the
coach that the guys can shoot three pointers well in practice.
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Tack anyone, any Division one basketball player can shoot the
ball well in practice. I think that's squarely on the
coach that he can't get these players to trance, to
move from practice to game time to still be able
to shoot the ball well. I think that is one
hundred percent responsibility the coaches, and the coaches aren't getting
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the job done right now, Thank you very much, guys,
have a good day.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Appreciate, don you know. That's what we were hearing on
the football front, that fans were not going to renew
their season tickets, not donate the nil and that can
get a coach fired faster than anything. We're hearing me
that's a second call, Like, man, I'm not going to
spend my money to come into town and buy a
hotel room and go to dinner and go to that
game to see this kind of performance on the floor.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
Yeah, and I wonder the big spenders who really help
Pope starting off in nil. It's no secret what we
spent and how it's the most of the country. If
you know, this team doesn't have a good year and
it's not fun I mean, are the are the big
donors gonna be like, yeah, let me just keep piling
money into this. I mean, that's why this needs to work.
This was a very big investment that we're watching. I
know I always play up not my money, I don't care,
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but I do want Kentucky to continue to have support
moving forward. And if you're you know, you're trotting out
a team that plays like that, fans boosters, everybody's gonna
wonder how much they want to give.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
You know, I give Mario credit. Matt kind of gave
him a hard time yesterday, but he said weeks ago,
there's something wrong with this team. They're just out of
something's not right.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
I still, I don't know. I don't have the answer.
I'm just a fan wondering like everyone else. But something's
off with the chemistry going. I hate to bring up,
you know, the thing from weeks ago. I'm not trying
to do that, but something's going on. I don't know
what it is, but something's going on still, not just
the basketball.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Yeah, there's issues.
Speaker 5 (41:50):
There has to be.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
I don't know what it is, but there are issues.
And I don't know what's going on with Diabata. Yeah,
what's his injury? I mean, I thought he just kind
of rolled his ankle, even walked off the court that game.
They're saying he hadn't even practiced, and how long is
he gonna be out? So the doors are open down
here at Chaos Bar and Grill. Come on in. It's
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