KSR Postgame UK MBB at Georgia 01/07/25

Matt and Billy recap the Cats' 82-69 loss at UGA.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everyone.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show. Kentucky
takes a disappointing loss on the road at Georgia eighty
two sixty nine A not the not the kind of
game you want in Athens. Ugly game took two and
a half hours and unfortunately gets the loss. It is late,

(00:24):
probably later than I thought we'd end up on this game.
So I hope we can hear from you eight five
nine two eight ho twenty two eighty seven, Like to
hear what you thought about the game.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
I mean, I think there's probably three.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Things you can you can focus on. I think the
one that seems to be getting the most attention online
is the one I'll do second. But for me, the
main part of this of this game was Kentucky just
out physical again. And you know, I think this has

(01:00):
been a recurring issue for Kentucky since the Western Kentucky game.
And the good thing is they're such a good shooting
team and they play together so well that sometimes they
can overcome this. But they've been out physicaled really in
the Ohio State game, even in the Louisville game, even
in the Florida game, even games we won they just

(01:22):
continue to physical play. They don't like it. They run
away from it, and they've given up. They've had fifteen
offensive rebounds given up in the last two games back
to back, at least fifteen offensive rebounds, and it crushed them.
I mean, I heard Mark Pope. I listened to his
comments to the press, not on the radio, and he said,

(01:43):
and I think this is right. I actually think Kentucky
played some of its best defense of the year in
guarding the first shot or the initial movement of Georgia.
They I think Georgia took a lot of bad shots.
I think some of the shots if they took our shots,
that Kentucky would have wanted them to. But the offensive

(02:04):
rebounds crushed them. The loose balls, I thought, fifty to
fifty balls I heard the announcer say at one point
were an issue, and I thought that too. They just
were a step quicker and tougher to all loose balls,
and you know, and then in the second half, as
things got difficult, I thought we got way out of rhythm.

(02:25):
I mean, just Lamont Butler, who I thought played great.
I can't criticize Lamont Butler. I thought he probably had
the best game of any of our guys. But there
were three straight possessions where he basically tried to take
it one on one. He wasn't able to finish in
any of them. And that's really not Kentucky's game. Is
taking people off the dribble. That's not what this team
is good at. And it's just it was a bad performance.

(02:49):
And you know, the biggest disappointment to me is I
think Kentucky could have won this game, you know, if
they if they shot a little bit better, if they
were able to be a little bit more physical. This
was a game that was there for the taking because
I don't think Georgia played particularly great, but it didn't happen.

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And you know, we're gonna have to see toughness from
this team on the road. If you look at the
games that have been the most disappointing from a toughness situation,
it's been the three losses and then I you know,
maybe maybe the Louisville game as well, even though we
won that game, but they just this team does not

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like contact.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
And you know which gets me the second point. The officiating.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I know people are frustrated and I'm fraid it was
not well officiated.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Matter of fact, it was officiated really poorly in two ways.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
One they call way too many fouls, and they also
went how many times did they go to the review,
like nine times. There's gotta be some kind of thing
that makes it every single time a person might have
gotten hit in the face. I don't think we have
to go look at it, but they tonight. But and
it was inconsistent. I mean, I do think that, you know, Georgia,

(04:06):
Georgia got more free throws.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
I think a couple of the calls were particularly egregious.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
But at the same time, I also agree with Jack Gibbons,
which is if you want to draw fouls, you have
to play aggressive. You have to get into guys, and
we just don't. Really when you watch these players, our
guys go to the basket, they avoid contact, and Georgia
initiates contact. And when you have a game like today

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where the referees are whistle happy, you want to initiate
contacts so that they call fouls and our guys. I
noticed this with Jackson Robinson especially, but oh way does it?

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Butler does it? Car does it?

Speaker 2 (04:46):
They try to pull back and almost shoot over the
foul instead of going into it, and it causes us
to have very few and ones because we rarely draw
the foul and we miss a lot of layups. And
I think that in a game like this where the
referees are whistle happy, it hurts you. And then you know, third,

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there's an athleticism issue with this team that is not
going to go away. I mean, we just aren't that athletic.
We watch us when we go up for dunks, we
either don't dunk or I think Butler had won the
first half where he was barely able to dunk, and
because of that, in order for us to win, our
offensive flow has to be good, and it just wasn't.

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For thirty minutes of the game. There was a little
period where we started doing the back door cuts.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
We cut the.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Game to five at one point, and I really thought
we were starting to get a rhythm. And then there
was a sequence that I think was ultimately kind of
the defining sequence of the game where we came down
and it was it was a five point game, and
they came down and they we had the Andrew Carr

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where they called it a flagrant. You know, I don't
know if it was a flagrant or not. It probably
was by the rule, but Carr gave him that rebound.
I mean Carr did not box out. He gets the rebound,
then he grabs him. Now sim too missed those free throws.
So while it was a big.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Call, they actually only got.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
The original two points. So it went from a five
point game to a seven point game. Then we come
down o Way gets a wide open three. I mean
he had two back to back wide open looks. He
misses it. They call the foul on Robinson on the rebound.
That was a flop by Blue Caine or whatever his

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name was. That was a flop. But they call it
and it goes to a nine point game. And I
really thought that if either we could have gotten that stop,
if Carr could have gotten that rebound before he flagrant foul,
which he should have, he got out tough, and we
had the ball down five, or even if Oway hits

(07:04):
that three down seven, I think we had a shot
to win the game. And neither of those things happened.
And you know, it's just tough. This was an ugly game.
It was a game that you know, the reality is
in the SEC this year, it's not gonna be easy

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to win on the road in any of these games.
I mean, Tennessee lost by thirty tonight at Florida. Auburn's
gonna win at Texas. Auburn's probably the best team in
the league. Auburn might be the best team in the country.
But in general, for Kentucky, winning on the road is
gonna be very tough, and we're not gonna do it

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unless we're either hitting shots or playing tough or both.
And if you look at Kentucky's losses this year, take
the three losses, we have been out physical in every
game by a lot Clemson, Ohio State, and Georgia. And
we've also shot eighteen of seventy two from three in

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those games, which is twenty five percent. That combination, this
team's just not good enough. We're gonna lose if those
two things happen. If we give up offensive rebounds and
we shoot twenty five percent from three, we're not gonna win.
So I understand the frustration about the officiating. I don't

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think it was good, But to be honest with you,
I don't think we were winning that game either way.
They got rattled on the road. Pope talked about focus
and toughness. He used a bunch of words. I thought
his comments were actually really really intelligent, But it just
we're gonna have to be better on the road or

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we're gonna have a lot of nights like this. You know, Saturday,
at Mississippi State, you're gonna play a team that is
just as tough and probably a little bit more talented.
I think they're winning at Vanderbilt right now. It's a
big game. This kind of reminds me of the Clemson
Gonzaga one two, where we said, let's get one of

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these two, and the Clemson one was easier, and then
we lost, but then we went and beat Gonzaga. It's
kind of how I felt about this. I thought Georgia
would be the easier one, but now you've got Mississippi State.
I think you gotta win one of these two. So
I think Saturday night at eight thirty becomes pretty important
if I'm nine, two eighth, twenty two eighty seven. All

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across college basketball, been a weird night. I feel like
there's a lot of these. The Tennessee Florida score was bizarre,
but I think you're starting to see tears in the
sec which is that Auburn's the best and everybody else
he's gonna have a hard hard time winning on the road,
and I think we're in that group as well. If

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I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, we
will take your calls and hopefully get through this together.
Kats lose at Georgia eighty two sixty nine, We'll be
right back. It's a Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show.
Welcome back. It is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Eight.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
I'm nine two eight twenty two eighty seven, one person
rights on the text machine. Matt, I don't understand how
we beat good teams but lose handily to three bad teams.
I mean that's a fair question. I think it's a
style of plaything, right. I mean, I think Duke, Gonzaga
and Florida are all offensively skilled, decent, defensively pretty good actually,

(10:29):
but they don't play that physicality defense. They just try
to pressure you a little more, and Georgia, Clemson, and
Ohio State try to muck it up. And that is
working against us right now. And I think if we
were hitting shots, I don't think it would work as well.
And I think these guys, I think these teams are

(10:51):
saying beat us at the rim. All right, beat us
at the rim. We're not giving you threes. Beat us
at the rim, and we are soft at the rim.
We miss layups, we don't our big guys, don't take
it up.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
And dunk.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
I mean we had four dunks tonight by my cat,
by my count where we got either blocked or on
Butler's it barely went in. Like, you know, we're just
not strong taking it to the rim. And these teams
are saying, beat us at the rim, and we're just
not able to do it. Another person, rights, Matt, is

(11:26):
it time to talk about Robinson?

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Only three points?

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, I mean, he was bad tonight, and he looks scared,
especially in the first half. He looks scared and and
and you know that's another thing everybody's got to have,
every team's got to have, like a star, and he
needs to be our star, and too often he's just not.
And again, I think if you go look at the
games that we've lost, he has not played well in

(11:53):
any of them. And that's that's that's definitely gonna be
a problem. Now, Billy, this one, okay, this was an
actual comment.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
I got a All right, let's hear it.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Pope is saying the right things tonight, but we can't
allow a world where boosters could give officials high sums
of money to have a bad night on the job.
If this happens again, he needs to be more forceful
with his criticism. Stop it, just stop it, like stop.
I mean, you grasp you think these refs, I mean

(12:23):
that those are that's a federal crime. So I think
you're gonna need some evidence before you accuse the refs
of federal crimes. Listen, when you go on the road
in conference play, especially in the SEC, you're giving away
six to eight points in calls. That's just how it is. Okay,
That's just how it is. And I've said this for

(12:45):
years and I'm gonna continue to say it. Anybody that
thinks that Kentucky that refs intentionally want Kentucky to lose,
are insane. The SEC needs Kentucky to be good, so
if the SEC was going to cheat, it would be
on our side. But I don't think that's what happens.

(13:05):
I think what happens is refs get caught up in
the flow and they call a style of game, and
when they call it physical, that's not what we're good at.
And Georgia flops and the refs fell for it, right,
the rest fell for.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
But they also were more physical than us.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
I mean, at the end of the day, Listen, I
didn't like the officiating, but they called five more fouls
on Georgia or on US than Georgia. The difference is
their fouls were shooting because they take it to the
rim and initiate contact, and we don't. We avoid contact
they initiated. And when you're playing against it with a
group of officials where they're calling everything, you got to

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initiate contact and we didn't. And so that's I think
a big reason why they had a lot more free
throws than we did.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
All right, who's up first?

Speaker 3 (13:53):
I will say Cal would have gotten ejected from that game.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Cal would have gotten ejected. There's no doubt Cal would
have got You're exactly right. That is a game where
Cal would have got ejected. But we probably would have
lost the exact same way because last year's team had
these same problems, right like last year's team had. Last
year's team had games like this where we just weren't
tough enough. And I you know, I used to always

(14:17):
roll my eyes at Cal always said tough but there
is something too, the idea that you have to go
up with two hands and get the rebound.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
I mean, I like Andrew Carr a lot.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
He's been great, but he doesn't box out anybody ever
like that. That that possession where I think car actually
got choked. And you know, but part of the reason
that happened is did you see how.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
He tried to rebound. He tried to rebound by facing
him and pushing him.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Not a great strategy.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
That's not how you box out. Now.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
That ended up to where they fell on each other,
and you know, maybe there I don't know what they
could have called a foul on I guess it was zero,
but that's not You don't box out by looking at
a guy in his face and pushing me like, that's
not gonna work. So so I didn't like the calls,
but I don't have a ton of sympathy for us
because the game A really wasn't that close, and B

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we didn't do the stuff we needed to do to
draw the calls.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
In my opinion, who's up the first? Kenny, Kenny, go ahead, kiddy.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
Hey, what's up?

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Matt?

Speaker 5 (15:22):
Just looking at the box score?

Speaker 6 (15:23):
Man?

Speaker 5 (15:24):
Our two starting bigs Karin Williams. They combined for eight
points and eight fouls together, which then which forces Garrison
to you know, to play most of the minute. I
think he put in twenty seven minutes tonight.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah, alright. I mean he's still too confident.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
He's too confident for me, he and Williams both. But
he actually played all right. I think he played decently well.

Speaker 5 (15:51):
For games like this, which are going to be most
of our conference games. He unfortunately not to crush the
kid because he seems like a good kid. But he
might be our best option as he is the most physical, gritty.

Speaker 6 (16:03):
Big that we have.

Speaker 5 (16:04):
And you would think that Amari Williams, for his size
and his athleticism, he should be the answer. But he
just can't stay out of foul trouble. I think, yeah,
he can't. He can't thirty minutes tonight.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
No, you're right, he uh, And I appreciate the call.
He he can't stay out of foul trouble. And and
Carr doesn't like the physicality. I mean, it's clear, you know, Butler,
Butler doesn't seem I don't feel I feel like Robinson
and Carr and Williams do not like physicality.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
And I don't. Oh way.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
It kind of he plays like like he goes strong,
but he also still will avoid contact. I just man,
I wish our guys would like go at it and
go with the rim hard.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
And did you see this?

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Auburn player just missed his first free that he'd made
seventy one straight free throws, Billy, and he just missed one.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
No, that's tough break. I've been watching the TGL.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Do you like that? I watched that though it's.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Pretty hard, and I'm a big golf fan and they
need they need some work.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah, I didn't. I didn't enjoy the few minutes I
watched Who's Up Next?

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Christian?

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Christian, go ahead, Christian?

Speaker 7 (17:12):
And Matt's Up. I was there tonight and two things
I noticed.

Speaker 6 (17:16):
I was actually on.

Speaker 7 (17:17):
The front row, like in the corner across from Georgia's bench,
which is the closest I've ever been, And you notice
like a lot of different things when you're that close. Ye,
and Jackson was in my corner the entire second half,
like that was the corner that he was defending in.
And then we gotta figure him out, like he's just
not He looked like a zombie guard and his guy

(17:40):
the entire second half and it just up close like that.
It was really concerning. And then secondly, seeing our guys
are big guys, specifically down low they Williams and Carr
both reached with their arms to get rebounds. Yeah, the
guy's point earlier, I think it was, and he said

(18:00):
it like Garrison at least uses his butt to box out,
which he does. He can get the rebounds against athletic
guys like that dude, I forget his name. He's the
lottery pick of theirs. Like he was just able to
go right over Williams and in Car, Like those guys
have to get their butts in into them.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
Or they don't box out. I mean, they do not
box out.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
I'm really surprised how little and I appreciate the call
those two guys specifically, they do not box guys out
most of the time when they get beaten on rebounds,
they're just not in position like the other guy has
better or equal position. You know, I'm not trying to

(18:43):
pick on Car because we wouldn't be good without Car.
He's he has played well. He's an offensive option. I
almost wish he would shoot more, but he never.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Puts his butt to use your phrase.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
He does not put his butt into a guy and
find a body and it and it and it kills
us on the glass. And Amari's the same way. It's
really strange. I don't think I've ever seen big.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Guys whoo who do that.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
As far as Robinson, you know, he did seem out
of it and and and Pope almost acknowledged that in
the post game and he said, we got to figure
out how to get him focused. But they do, I mean,
because that was a major major issue.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Who's next?

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, he was putting up shots after the Florida game too,
so he must be in I don't.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Know, I mean he you know, he didn't.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
It's like he missed three threes early in the game,
all of which were relatively open, and it was like
from that moment on he was just out of it.
And you know, I don't know, man, I don't. I
hope he's not one of these guys like if you
don't hit your first shot or two, it's just not happening.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
So we'll see big W is next? Big W? How
are you, big W?

Speaker 4 (19:52):
How are we doing?

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (19:56):
First and foremost, how pathetic is Tennessee doing that?

Speaker 8 (20:00):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (20:03):
See? They only make ten the game or something.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
Like that, and I could be a lot worse, right.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, I mean that's that I didn't watch, but that's
an amazingly bad performance.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
But go ahead, Cope as a coach, as a leader.
You know, we took the last night. But what I
mean he is, he's ten out of ten we're in.
We're in very good hands with him and what he's
doing with his roster right now. And uh, they're gonna
be learning from every loss. Will be just fine. But

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he's he's a great coach, and we're gonna have a tough,
tough road with the SEC and Jackson Robinson. You know,
Mark Hope's pumping his tires. He doesn't seem like a
negative coach, right. It's almost like we need the fan
base to like tweet at him or something. I mean,
just get a tires goal. He looks like not confident
out there.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, he doesn't agree with you. He he does look lost,
and that's unfortunate. I mean, I Hope. You know, Pope's
known that kid longer than he's known anybody on the team.
So I mean, presumably he'll he's got the best chance
to kind of get his buttons pushed.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
But you know, I will say this too.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
This is how Pope's teams at BYU were though. Remember
we've talked about this, like they beat they beat Kansas.
They beat Kansas by like twenty in Lawrence, and then
lost by fifteen at home to Central Florida the next game,
Like this is just they throw up some duds. And
I think we're seeing that right now. Played a great

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game Saturday and kind of threw up a dud tonight.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yeah, we'll see against Mississippi State.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Thanks for all you guys do all right, appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
This Texas trying to make a comeback here against Auburn.
Did you see this play right here? This is a
wild play. Guy tried to throw it off of off
of the Auburn player and then it went off his
own foot. That was a tough break for him right there.
But Auburn had a twenty point lead and it's down
to five. Who's next?

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Clay is next?

Speaker 1 (22:01):
Clay? Go ahead, Clay.

Speaker 9 (22:05):
I was at the game tonight, Matt. The the body
language of everybody playing tonight, it just it wasn't there.
We weren't moving around like like we have been in
the past. I mean it's a lot of the times
we were just standing around majority of the time and
and well, well on well we had a defender just

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standing on top of us that we couldn't pass. The
ball rooms.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yeah, there.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
At the end of the first half, there were three
possessions in a row I saw where Kentucky didn't get
the ball inside the three point line until either didn't
get it at all or didn't get it all until
under five seconds on the shot clock. You know, that's
a little bit of an example of what you're talking about.

Speaker 9 (22:50):
So one one thing that I mean, it was their
Super Bowl. Of course, you know, everybody was there. The
student section was packed out, and then they were act
when they couldn't find a seat down below, they were
actually going all the way up to the unsold seats
at the top. So I mean, it was just it

(23:10):
just didn't feel like we had the effort that we
needed that we've had in the past.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Totally agree with you. I appreciate the call. It it
feels like to me, this team plays off the positive
energy of our fans, but the great teams have to
play off the negative energy of the other teams fans,
and this team so far this year hasn't done a
great job with that eight. I'm nine two twenty two

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eighty seven. Let's do one more and we'll take a break.
Who's next, Todd, Todd, go ahead, Todd.

Speaker 6 (23:45):
Hello, Matt. I'm ridly disheartened in this team. From beating
Duke and then Gonzaga. I was just really had high
expect expectations on this team. But tonight it appeared to

(24:05):
me that Jackson Robins just looked like eould have soon
been anywhere and after on that floor.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Well, wait, say you had high expectations. I mean you're
not giving up, are you? I mean that clar Look,
we just beat Florida Saturday and they beat the number
one team in the country by thirty five points tonight,
Like you can't give up.

Speaker 6 (24:28):
Well, I'm not giving up. I'm just really disheartened with
the way we play. We've been playing lately. You know
it's well, we played.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Really well Saturday.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
I mean, look, I'm down on this game too, But
let's put in perspective, right, like we.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
We did not play well tonight.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
I think we and I think there are issues with
this team that are going to continue to happen. But
when you say like you're disheartened in the way we're playing.
We just played one of the best games we've played
in forever on Saturday.

Speaker 6 (24:58):
Well that's true, that's yes, That's that's true. But I've
just I just thought we might not lose but four
or five games this year.

Speaker 10 (25:09):
Two.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Yeah, maybe, But this is the best SEC probably in
the history of the conference, right, Like, this is probably
the best SEC ever we're gonna be playing. You know,
we're on the road in these games, Like I expected
us to lose. I mean, I didn't necessarily expect us

(25:30):
to lose tonight, but I still think we're going twelve
and six, eleven and seven in conference, so there's gonna
be more of these.

Speaker 6 (25:39):
Yeah. And I thought that Georgia wasn't that good a team,
you know, And I'm thinking about Georgia. Vandy's liable to
be this is Vandy too this year.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Well, I mean, look, I think we can lose any
road game. I appreciate the call. I think we could
lose any one of them.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
I also think that we could pull an upset in
any of them. So, you know, we lost tonight, I
think we could win Assissippi State. We also could lose
by twenty if we're not careful, like you know, we
we can't take anything for granted with this group because
it's you know, these games are going to be really,

(26:18):
really hard.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Oh that's a tough break. Last ten seconds. The Arkansas
got it.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
The Auburn guy.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
Oh yeah, Auburn guy. I hope that dude's not. I mean,
they're really good, like this impressive performance at Texas and
even the one game they lost at Duke they could
have won, Like, yeah, this is I mean, they're good.
All right, we'll take a break. Eight five nine, Oh,
I just hit an the ease. He's okay A five
nine two eight twenty two eighty seven. We'll take a break.
We'll be right back. This is the Local Toy Dealers

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KSR postgame show.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
What I'm back?

Speaker 2 (26:49):
This is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show. You know,
going into this game and the Kimpom, we were still
like nineteenth in the country, and you know, there's a
part of me that still thinks that might be kind
of where we are. But I don't know because as
soon as I think that, then we do a thing
like we beat Florida. But I just think this is

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gonna be our year.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
I really do.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
I just think we're gonna kind of be up and
down and up and down and up and down. I
just I kind of feel like that's gonna be what
this season. What this season is. We'll see, you know,
Saturday will be an interesting test. If you win Saturday,
then this game doesn't really matter, and then you get
to remember after Saturday, we got two important home games
in a row. We got A and M in Alabama,

(27:33):
both in in rub Like, you can't, you can't let
stuff slip. If you're gonna lose this one, you need
you gotta get it back here somewhere. Now, did you
say you broke the phones?

Speaker 6 (27:44):
Billy?

Speaker 3 (27:46):
They're working for the most part, but it's like once
every four or five callers is just complete static and
it keeps happening to the same people.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
So I don't know if it's a So maybe it's
their phone.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Maybe I just blame myself before I blame our beautiful callers.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
But I think usually you don't. Usually you always blame.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
Not today, Matt, you know we got to move up today.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Thanks to the people by the way who came to
the bar to watch the game. We had a pretty
good crowd considering the weather. Uh everybody kind of deserted
to understand is the thing went on? But it was
nice to see people out and uh yeah, so it
was good.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Who's up next?

Speaker 3 (28:20):
Chili Chili?

Speaker 1 (28:21):
How are you Chili?

Speaker 6 (28:24):
I'm doing great? How you doing, Matt?

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Doing good? What's up?

Speaker 8 (28:28):
So you you already answered a bunch of my questions
about the physicality and play on the road. So like,
one of the big things that I was worried about was
Mark Poke coming in. Was howdy respond to like, you know,
some random Tuesday in January February loss. I think this
Mississippi taken can really define the season. How do you
think this team will come out this week or this Saturday?

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Well, I mean I think they'll come out and play well.
I mean I or you know, play hard. I look,
I don't think any I don't think this team.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
I'm not worried about any point them giving up. I mean.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
The good thing about beating a duke and a Gonzaga
Florida that tells you you can beat anybody, right, Like,
so you you can go into any game and think
you have a chance to win, but.

Speaker 8 (29:10):
You don't think there's a there's kind of a blueprint
to beat us in terms of physical.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
Yeah, there is, but there is well, first of all,
not everybody can do it right, So like, yes there's
a blueprint, but not everybody has the dudes they have, right,
Like they have a six Georgia has a six eleven
top ten draft pick and they have.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Excuse me, what do you say, should have been a
cat sho.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
You're talking about Cyril, I'm talking about Asa newle So
they got two of those guys, right, So they got
two dudes who are big studs down low, and then
they had some guys outside and then the first half
got hot and hit threes. So like, not every team
has that, So start with that. Now we're gonna see
more than our fair share of them in the se see,

(30:01):
and I appreciate the call. The SEC unfortunately has a
lot of those teams, but then you get in the tournament,
a lot of these other leagues they don't have teams
like that, So we'll see. I think Mississippi State is
built like that. I want to see us beat a
team like that.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
That's the thing. I want to see us go beat
a physical team.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
You know, we we we've beaten teams that aren't really
all that athletic that play physical, like Western and Louisville.
We've beaten teams that are really talented but not necessarily
all that physical, like Duke, Gonzaga and Florida.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Now I want to see US go.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Beat a team that is physical and talented, and Mississippi
State gives you a chance. But there's not a whole
lot of teams in the SEC that aren't physical. Interesting enough,
Arkansas is a team that's not fits, but like, think
about how physical Tennessee is now.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Alabama, on the other hand, plays a lot like US.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
So Alabama is a team that will probably have a
game that's a lot more like the Florida game when
we play them than the game tonight was.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Who's next?

Speaker 3 (31:10):
Sosa?

Speaker 2 (31:12):
By the way, I'm really worried when we play Auburn,
Johnny Brown might score fifty.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
That dude's great. Sosa go ahead, Sosa?

Speaker 11 (31:22):
Yeah, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (31:23):
Guys?

Speaker 11 (31:23):
Thanks Billy for a technical call. I was wondering if
you are are getting some bruck Banner Grift vibes with
Jack Robinson and what I mean, what what?

Speaker 12 (31:39):
What?

Speaker 11 (31:39):
What?

Speaker 2 (31:40):
Some good games though, I mean Robinson's had some good games,
It's not I mean he's he's had he's had three
I mean, he's averaging in double figures. He's had three
or four really good games. So I'm not I don't
think it's like we haven't seen the.

Speaker 6 (31:53):
Talent a right, right.

Speaker 11 (31:55):
But what I mean is I assume he took the
bag at you know, M But do you think we're
getting no more? And I'm not trying to beat up
the kids. I mean I think we're getting.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
I don't think you can look at it like that, Okay.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
I mean, first of all, they're not spending your money, right,
so like, what are you?

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, so what do you care? I mean, uh?

Speaker 2 (32:26):
But now, I mean when we get to the point
that there's revenue sharing and stuff, that might be a
different conversation. But but you know, it's I think your
point which is valid, and I appreciate the call, which
is we thought he'd be our best player and he
hasn't been our best player. And that's a problem because
I think this team and I bet if Pope was honest,

(32:49):
he would say he built this team around Jackson Robinson
will be the dude, and he hasn't been the dude
in very many games. And for this team to be
a Final four contender. He's got to be the dude.
So yeah, I mean it's a little disappointing.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
But now he's had some big games. Don't forget that.
I mean he played he won us the Gonzaga game, right.
I think I'm trying to think he played well.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
He played well against Florida, but his bad games have
coincided with our bad games, and I don't think that's
I don't think that's a surprise. I mean, you look
at the three games we've lost. There's been a handful
of common denominators. We have not shot the ball well
from three. Jackson Robinson has not played very well, and

(33:41):
Kobe Bray has only made four threes combined.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
In those games. I mean, there you go, four, right,
I think that's right. He made two tonight he.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Made uh, I mean, what the look?

Speaker 1 (33:57):
But I think I think I saw that.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
I think he's think he only has four in the
three games total, and two of them were tonied, So
I don't know if he didn't get one in the
in the I'm not sure what happened in the other
two games, but that's I saw that stat.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
He don't have four. Who's next? Michael Michael go ahead, Michael.

Speaker 12 (34:16):
Hey, Matt, this is the first time for me calling
this year, and it was funny because I thought I
was watching a bunch of kids who stayed too late
at the Applebee's having a strip club thing going on.
I was twelve, but I was frustrated by them how

(34:36):
they were playing. But I was also frustrated by the
refs going we'll let you play, but then we won't
let you play. But we're gonna let you play, but
then we're not gonna let you play, and calling all
the tiki tack fouls and things like that, like the
one diving the one Georgia guy diving for the ball
and slid like seven feet across the court and they

(34:57):
didn't call it a walk.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yeah, I mean, I think I'm saying I think it
got wrong. I think they were pretty consistent though, and
calling everything. I mean, in terms of fouls, I think
the I think they called and they saw forty five
fouls in that game, so I don't know how much more.

Speaker 12 (35:15):
They can yet. It also looked like to me that
Georgia just noticed that they were like watching the physical
play very very closely, and then they played it to
their advantage. They were all up underneath they were that's
what you should do.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
That's what you should do. Yeah, that's that. That's the thing.
You have to adjust to the whistle and that. You know,
we used to all like like Cal used to always
say that. Now he would complain about reffs all the time,
but he he used to always say, you have to
adjust to the whistle and the moment you see they're
calling like that, then you got to jump into the shooter.

(35:54):
And I'm not saying you gotta flop, because I don't
like when guys flop, but when you get fouled, you
got to make sure people know your fouls. You gotta
like yell and do that. I remember I went to
a Cal Perry practice once and he would have them
practice basically yelling when they got hit on.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
And over the back right like that.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
When you have officials officiating like they are tonight, you
got to play to it.

Speaker 12 (36:19):
I feel like they also had a lot of like
a sloppy dribbling and things like that. But on a
good note, though, I thought Garrison played good for extended minutes.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
I think Butler and Garrison maybe yeah, Butler and Garrison
both played pretty well. Butler, I thought appreciate the call.
I thought he struggled some down stretch, but I thought
for thirty minutes, certainly in the first half, he kept
us in the game, And then I thought Garrison was good.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
I still billy.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
I wish our three point shooters had the confidence our
big men half. I wish our big men would give
a little bit of their offensive confidence to our three
point shooters.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Just keeps making threes, Matt.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
You may not like that three.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
He keeps making them.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Come on. That was not that.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
That's about how they all go into the kind of
die off the back of the.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
All kind of die. You're right, who's up there?

Speaker 3 (37:12):
Tracy?

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Tracy? How are you? Tracy?

Speaker 13 (37:16):
Hey, Matt, how are you doing?

Speaker 1 (37:19):
I'm good? How are you well?

Speaker 10 (37:22):
I mean a.

Speaker 13 (37:23):
Long time, first time, so I'm glad. Here's the thing.
I was really pleased to keep my husband under wraps because,
I mean, the whole game it was well, I mean
as it was. But then I found myself.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Keep I will keep your husband under wraps, like like
were you like you didn't want people to know you
had a husband or what are you talking about?

Speaker 13 (37:50):
No, no, no, no. In my family, there is no
like way to control yourself in these games. Okay, So
being being a a student at ninety six, ninety seven,
ninety eight, I mean, I know what what amazing is.
So anyway, I'm just saying that tonight I was it

(38:15):
was wild because I always feel like he over hypes
things or gets you know, he's way too into it.
But I wasn't pleased because I felt like things were
just on the on the on the negative from the beginning.
And I appreciate you, as i've listened tonight, for getting

(38:39):
me back back on the level to kind of have
some some sense about things, if that makes any sense.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Well, I mean, look, we lost and it was bad,
and we lost Ohio State and it was bad, but
we beat Florida and it was good. And I just
think we have to accept we have a team that
is not super talent to Okay, these are not I've
said this over and over and people get bad at me.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
But these dudes are not playing in the NBA. I
hope I'm wrong.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
And so I don't think any of these dudes are
playing in the NBA unless you know, they get a
contract for ten days or whatever.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
But that's okay.

Speaker 9 (39:18):
So here's my quay.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
But I think.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Because of that, we're going to have really inconsistent performances
and we just are gonna have to accept that this
year because that's what this team is.

Speaker 13 (39:30):
So ultimately, I appreciate you giving me some sense of
balance because I was so irritated when I find myself
irritated when I have to go okay, calm down, quit it, stop, whatever,
and whatnot to hear you tonight giving some level of
sense about the play, the calls, all the things that

(39:53):
were good and bad. I mean, I appreciate that because,
to be fair, I thought I was gonna listen in
tonight and here you just be over the top in
terms of some of the calls and some of the things.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
And yeah, to me, the calls, that's too easy, okay
you know, yeah, no agree, people think I just said.
And it's nice to talk to you tell your husband
to calm down. I appreciate the appreciate the call. But
it's too easy to just say we lost because of
the call. We lost by thirteen points. Okay, you we

(40:28):
didn't lose because of the calls. I listen, I've been
sued by a referee, so I'm clearly not against complaining
about calls. But there's a difference between this game was
called physically, we didn't give as many free throws as them.
And here's a handful of calls that made me. I
think they got wrong in saying we lost because of

(40:50):
the refs. We did not lose this game because of
the refs. We did not play well enough to win. Now,
the officials didn't help, but we didn't play well enough
to So I'll blame a call when I think it
cost us a game, But what call cost us the
game tonight? I think the biggest call of the game

(41:10):
was probably the push off they called on Jackson Robinson
on that rebound where that dude flocked. Yeah, because when
you look at the time and the score, I actually
think that because we didn't really we didn't make another
run after that, and that was a bad call. But
right before that, Oway had a wide open three and
he missed it. Like the reason Robinson had to go
for that rebound is always missed the open three. If

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we make the open three, that call doesn't matter. So
that's why I can't we there's only one game, Billy,
we lost because of the refs. Two actually that I
can think of. One was the game that got me
sued that game.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
A certain referee cost us that game.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
And then the Texas A and M when they called
Isaac Humphrey's for the technical that was ridiculous, for slamming
the ball. That was ridiculous, and that cost us the game.
The rest of them you had chances, and tonight was
one of those games. All right, we got one more break?

Speaker 14 (42:12):
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (42:13):
Yep?

Speaker 3 (42:13):
One more break.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
Let's take it right now. We'll take a break. We'll
be right back. This is the Local Toy Dealers KSR
postgame Show. Welcome Back. Final segment is a Local Toy
Dealers KSR postgame show. Matt Jones here late at night.
You know, Michigan is playing UCLA right now. Top twenty
five matchup and Billy, did you know that game was on?

Speaker 3 (42:36):
No, I've got LMU Saint Mary here and you.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Didn't know it because it's on Peacock. Oh that's a
that's a tough thing for the Big Ten. The Big
Ten is gonna have some of its best games this
year on Peacock and people won't even know they're going on. Like,
I don't think like this is a top twenty five matchup.
It's a one point game sixty three sixty two, and
I don't think most people belie, even though it's on

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the Big Tens TV deal. You know, they do get
games like on NBC and Fox, you know, regular TV.
But then you get a game like this on Peacock
and you gotta be like, come on, now, why are
we on Peacock?

Speaker 3 (43:13):
At least it's the bad games on ESPN Plus, not
the Yeah, I mean, this is.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
The Marquee matchup on a Tuesday night in there, it's
on Peacock.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
So if I'm nine two eighty seven, who's up next?

Speaker 3 (43:25):
Our friend Madison is on Madison?

Speaker 1 (43:27):
How are you doing, Madison?

Speaker 6 (43:29):
How you doing? Like?

Speaker 15 (43:30):
Man, I'm amazing concerned about you. I didn't know if
you made it, went to Assons or not.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Why why did you get concerned about me?

Speaker 15 (43:40):
How I thought you'd gone to ass and Georgia.

Speaker 11 (43:43):
I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
Oh no, I didn't go to Athens. I stayed here
in the snow.

Speaker 15 (43:49):
Oh I feel sorry for you.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
Aren't you in Henderson? Don't you live in Henderson?

Speaker 6 (43:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (43:57):
Do you have power? I guess you do.

Speaker 6 (44:00):
Yeah, I do have.

Speaker 15 (44:01):
We had two inches there for a while.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
I didn't have it, but I do now okay, good,
go ahead.

Speaker 15 (44:07):
You would talk you were talking about being more physical.
What's it gonna take for us to get more physical
because I know we went up against Georgia and went
up against Ohio State and they wall fiscal.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
But I mean they're gonna have to. They're gonna have
to not be scared of contact. I mean, you saw
when that sum Too guy was in our dudes like
just got away from him. They're gonna have to embrace it.
And you know, I don't know that's you could kind
of hear Pope talk about we got to figure out
how to do that because they they have to because
they are just kind of getting pushed around down low,

(44:43):
and you know, these other teams are seeing it and
they're gonna keep doing it.

Speaker 15 (44:48):
And then too, you were mentioning that you thought we'd
finish twelve and six in the conference. Do you think
that's good enough for a bid an NJA tournament or mine?

Speaker 1 (44:57):
Yeah, I think that'll be good enough for the NCAA tournament. Yeah,
I appreciate you call.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
I think I think Kentucky will be in the NCAA
tournament as long as they go you know, eight and
ten in the conference. They probably still be in the
tournament nine and nine for sure, but they probably with
their strength to schedule, they probably get in at eight
and ten.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
So yeah, I'm not but you know, the thing is, Billy, Like.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
It sounds crazy, Oh eight and ten, that's terrible, but
like you could be decent and go eight and ten
if you're not careful.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Yeah you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (45:35):
Oh yeah, I mean you could. How many teams are
gonna get into the tournament? I think there are records
eleven for one conference?

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Do you think that's yeah, we're gonna beat that. There's
gonna be at least twelve. But I'm saying to you,
like you, there's gonna be a team in the SEC
go like eight and ten. There's definitely gonna be a
team go eight and ten in the conference and make
the tournament.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
Is it Kentucky?

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Well, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
We'll lose ten because I think we'll win most of
our home games, maybe all of them. But yeah, I
mean we're going like, I mean, there's a world where
like that's plausible. So that's why we've got That's why
the Florida game was so important, And I think the
Mississippi State game would really make me take a deep
breath because there's hard games coming. Like, none of these

(46:18):
road games are gimmes, none of them. Vandy and Missouri
are probably the too easiest one that we don't play
those till the end of the year, so you know
it's not gonna be easy. Who's next, Let's do four more?

Speaker 3 (46:32):
Now their celebrity, Heather is on the line.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
Heather, how are you, Heather.

Speaker 14 (46:38):
I'm doing very good. I just felt like that tonight
was a good night. I was supposed to call because
of this morning show. They were some things that you
talked about. So instead of talking about this crappy ball

(46:59):
game tonight, okay, you brought up the name Amos. That
was my papa's name.

Speaker 13 (47:06):
Oh okay, actually actually.

Speaker 14 (47:09):
My dad's name that he has went by Casey his
whole life for some reason, so that it also leaves
my dad's name. Then y'all talks about the vanilla wafers.

Speaker 6 (47:22):
Yes, my nanny.

Speaker 14 (47:24):
My nanny, she's ninety four. She always has the vanilla
wafers on him.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
I don't think anyone under sixty has vanilla wafers on
hand like I think. I think you get that when
you're sixty years old. Then they immediately start delivering it
to your house, so it's always on hand because there's
nobody right now under sixty who in there who has
vanilla wafers at their disposal. They might buyd for banana pudding,

(47:55):
but they don't have them had They're just there unless
you're sixty years old.

Speaker 14 (48:01):
Okay, and speaking of deliveries, I don't know if you've
seen my tweet. I tagged you in but Life Monday
on December thirtieth, so it had been up like a
month since.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
Oh you got the Mountain dewe delivery.

Speaker 14 (48:18):
Yes, I saw that, Yeah, and so they sent me.
I guess it was a fangi or package that had
a hoodie, a hat, a tote bag, one of those
big like insulated cups that you know you can put
you hot or cold drink.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Yeah, we don't have to go over all of it,
but I saw you got a big old thing for
Mountain dew So congratulations.

Speaker 14 (48:44):
Sure, diod and one other thing.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
Okay, you only get two things. You don't get four,
but I'll let you do one more.

Speaker 14 (48:53):
Well, this was just an update about Reed Shepherd you
were talking about.

Speaker 7 (48:58):
This morning about him going league.

Speaker 14 (49:01):
He got player of the game tonight.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
He had forty nine, right, and.

Speaker 14 (49:06):
They asked him afterwards and when he would be going
back to the Rocket, and he said by Sunday, so
he'll be going back at well.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Good, Well, I appreciate the call. Now, thank you. Good
to hear from you. Appreciate the call.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
The Rio Grande Vipers he played for forty nine points tonight.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
Billy very impressive. The second leading scorer on his team
had fourteen.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
Forty nine is pretty good. I mean, like, I don't
care what you're playing, what level? Forty nine points is
pretty good?

Speaker 1 (49:36):
Three more? Who's next?

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Pickleball?

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Paul is on the line.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
My goodness, you're just trying to give people that, all right,
So Paul, don't talk about pickleball.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
What do you got?

Speaker 10 (49:46):
I'm not gonna do that, man. I will say. Since
we got snowed in, I got back on net Flicks
and I hate to admit it, but I did watch
your show Wrestlers, and I have to admit it. I
really enjoyed it, y'all.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
Why'd you hate to admit it? Why would you not
want to admit it? Like that's something that's wh show.
I think you would want to admit it.

Speaker 10 (50:03):
Well, Matt, kind of where I'm going to now, Like
it's still Tuesday night, it hadn't hit midnight yet, and
you would argue with me that it was Wednesday. You
never will agree with me, So I hate to admit it.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
Eve.

Speaker 9 (50:12):
They're good about you.

Speaker 10 (50:14):
That's going to next point about this basketball team. But
I did like it, man, it was really good.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Well, thank you.

Speaker 10 (50:20):
I listened to you and you said from day one
without even knowing all these guys, and you just said
it a minute ago. And I'm not saying you're crazy,
but you keep saying that Jackson Robinson has to be
the man for this team. I totally totally disagree with you.
I think Jackson Robinson needs to be a good player
for this team.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
So who needs to be the man for us to
be good?

Speaker 10 (50:41):
Lamont Butler and I'll take away are the men on
this team.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
But they played, but they've played but what they've played well,
and we've still lost.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
If you look at that, if you look at if
you look.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
At whose success most correlates to our team success, it
tends to be Jackson Robinson.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
I'm giving you that. Lamont Butler's gonna bring it every night.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
I feel like his effort is consistent and excellent, and
I'm gonna give.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
You that otega Oway.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
While he may not make threes every night because he
didn't hit any Tony, he's gonna bring it and play
hard every night.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
But this team is gonna succeed.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Or fail in my opinion, based on how good Jackson
Robinson ends up being. You may remember last year I
used to say that about DJ Wagner that I thought
if DJ Wagner played well, we could be good. And
then he did some, but then he never really became
a star and we ended up losing to Oakland in
the tournament. I feel like this team can't be great

(51:46):
unless Jackson Robinson is really good.

Speaker 10 (51:50):
Well good good doesn't mean you're the man. In my opinion,
I think I agree with you, man, Jackson Robinson needs
to be good. But if Jackson Robinson is great and
old but don't show up lights out, Yeah, but.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
They're gonna show up. I mean, they're good.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Here's the good thing about those guys and the good
thing and I appreciate the call. What those guys do.
They don't have to play well to do. Like Butler
is a defensive minutes, he's gonna be that every night.
I'm not worried about him not being that always gonna
bring that energy. He leads a team in scoring. But
you know, I don't know, Billy. What how was o

(52:25):
Way fourth on Oklahoma.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
In points last year? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (52:28):
Something like that.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
I mean, you're not gonna win a national championship with
the guy that was fourth in points for Oklahoma being
your leading scorer. You're gonna have to get a dude.
It's gonna have to be Robinson. If he doesn't get there,
then we can still be really good, but we're not
gonna be like really good if you go back and

(52:51):
look at the games where we've been really really good,
with the exception of Duke, where even Jackson hit a
couple of shots there, but like lights with how he
plays most of the time. So that's why I'm saying
that is I just don't he We gotta have him
play well because we just don't have enough pieces without it,

(53:14):
and then we need Bray and hit threes, which he
hasn't done in our three losses. Two more, Who's next, Trey?

Speaker 1 (53:20):
What's up? Tray?

Speaker 16 (53:22):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Fell Us? What's up?

Speaker 12 (53:26):
Well?

Speaker 1 (53:27):
Matt?

Speaker 16 (53:28):
I completely agree with with what you're saying, uh, Bill Pickles,
I don't know what he's thinking about Jackson Robinson, but anyways,
let's just move on. Hey, I you know this this
league this year, the SEC double edged sword, you know.

(53:49):
But in a way I kind of like it because, well,
you know, you're gonna you're gonna get your chance to
figure out as a coach, Mark Poe, because most of
these teams are gonna play you physical. Yes, we're gonna
have a chance to over you know, week after week,

(54:09):
over and over and over again. Figure out how to
play through this physicality and win ball games that way,
You're right and not in the have to live and
die by the three.

Speaker 6 (54:21):
What do you think?

Speaker 2 (54:23):
Well, I think we're gonna have I don't think this
team's good enough not to win unless they're hitting threes.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
That's just my opinion.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
I don't think you're gonna be This team is not
gonna beat anybody good win it with twos because first
of all, I think we've talked about I think we
got to score eighty to win. I don't think we're
gonna win any games this year where we don't score
eighty against good teams. So if that's the case, it's
gonna be hard to score eighty and not hit threes.
I mean, you could do it, but you better be

(54:49):
pretty efficient. I think we had a game, I can't
remember which one it was where we shot crazy efficient
from two.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
But like you, you're gonna have to be pretty efficient.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
But I do agree with your point about we're gonna
get a lot of prize this at this and so
we're gonna find out if we can figure out how
to do it, because you know, the SEC is so physical,
and our weakness this year is physicality.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
So we'll know.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
And then if we get in the tournament and we
play these teams that are less physical, we can beat them.
Georgia is the kind of team that we would draw.
Let's say we're a four seed and we play a thirteam.
Georgia is the kind of team that probably has that

(55:34):
same amount of talent, maybe a little bit more.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
I want to see us. It's weird.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
I'm almost more worried in the tournament about the first
and second round games because I think when we get
after that, we're gonna be playing these teams that are
really talented, and we'll be able to hang with those guys.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
It'll just be how good we play? Does that make sense?

Speaker 4 (55:53):
No?

Speaker 6 (55:54):
No, no, it does.

Speaker 16 (55:55):
And that's exactly my thought. I thought about that tonight.
I thought, you can get through those first two rounds
and once you start getting in the later rounds, you
have similar teams.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
You're right, You're exactly right. You're exactly right. Like I
could see Georgia being I could see Georgia.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
Being like, I don't know a ten seed and you're
a two, and you play them in the second round, right, Like,
I could see that, And that's the kind of.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
Team that I worry about.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
And we're going to get a lot of practice against
those teams.

Speaker 16 (56:30):
No, And that's exactly why I say double edged sword.
I think it could be ugly and bloody or it
could be glorious and you just you, you know, you
slam the thing in the ground.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Yeah, we'll find out.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
We'll get another good chance at it Saturday, because we're
about to play another one of those teams.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
Zactly.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
I appreciate, appreciate the call. Thank you, let's do one more.
Michigan pulling away from you said Michigan's good.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
They're four and oh.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
Now if they in the night in a big ten Uh,
I think did they.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
I think Arkans did. Colt, did they beat them? I
think they did, didn't they? Or yeah? I think Arkansas
beat michign this year. Who's next, Todd, Todd?

Speaker 17 (57:13):
Go ahead, Todd, hey Man, thanks for taking my call
not to beat a dead horse, but I think it's
time for bere to start over.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
Robinson.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
Well, you know, Robinson came off the bench at at
by you and and was their leading scorer. So you know,
maybe maybe you know, I don't know, I mean, whatever
can get.

Speaker 17 (57:34):
Him gone, if it hurts his confidence for what, but
he just he's been so lackluster and nonchalan out there.
It's it's hard to watch.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
You know.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
Yeah, Well tonight was hard to watch because you could
you could see him not being confident and you could
see him kind of I don't want to say wilting,
but kind of, And it was hard to watch.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
You're right, it was.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Those first three threes were not close, and that's and
they were all open and you kind of knew what
was going to happen after that.

Speaker 17 (58:07):
Yeah, and uh, just one thing about the toughness and
physicality when we give up offensive rebounds when they shoot
free throws about.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
I agree and we've done it in the last couple
of games. Yeah, I mean, you're exactly right, and we've
had another three or four where they should have like
the rebound, we should they should have gotten it and
then they fumble it off their hands or something that.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Could have been.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
We had three free throw misses tonight that honestly Georgia
should have rebounded and then something would happen.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
So you're exactly right. Oh, yeah, that's just boxing out.

Speaker 12 (58:43):
We are.

Speaker 17 (58:44):
It's just three guys, you're boxing out, not five.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
And I mean you're exactly right.

Speaker 17 (58:48):
Stand and expect because we're tall, that we're going to
get a rebound. I mean, that's just not how this
played in this league at all.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
You're exactly right. I appreciate the call.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
We we got to box out more. But you know
they used to tell me when I played Billy finger elbow.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
Butt, right, Is that is that it? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (59:07):
You would you take a finger, find your man elbow
to get space, and then butt to box him out.
And I feel like our guys only do the finger part.
They never get to the elbow in the butt, and
in Andrew Carr's case, he just takes him and looks
at it. You can't do that. You gotta put this,
the guy caller said earlier. You gotta put the butt

(59:28):
into it. You can do it. You gotta put your
back into it. Thank you allthor That's right, we will there.
You go, finish strong. We will see you tomorrow. We'll
be at KS Bar tomorrow morning. This has been the
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