KSR Postgame UK MBB at Louisville 11/11/25

Matt and Billy recap the Cats' 96-88 loss at Louisville.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everyone.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is the local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show. The
Cats go down in a disappointing loss in the Young
Center ninety six eighty eight to Louisville. You can give
the shout. We'll take your calls beyond till probably about
twelve thirty, maybe a little later. A five, nine, two eighth,
twenty two eighty seven. It was a game that that

(00:24):
Kentucky obviously at one point was down twenty, came back,
cut it to a four, had free throws to cut
it to a one possession game, end up losing by eight.
It's like Vegas may have known something with that move
to six and a half on the spread. But there
are really two ways to look at this game. You
can look at the first thirty minutes, so you could
look at the last ten. I'm gonna spend I think

(00:47):
most of the time talking about the first thirty because
that was really what made the game. But I will
say in the last ten Kentucky showed a lot. One
thing I am positive about is that they made that
a game down the stretch, and they made it the
game when I think mostly I thought we were about
to get lose by twenty five, and they made a
game and you know, with three minutes to go, had

(01:08):
a shot. So I like the heart. I thought the
team played with effort all night. I mean, I billy
I stayed in the gym for the first half and
then left.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Left and half left before halftime a couple of minutes
before halftime.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
That was because you know, you get a sense and
the arena there was super loud. I mean, that was
that was a heck of an environment. But I did
think Kentucky played with effort. I agree with what Mark
Pope said. They played with a lot of dumb effort,
a lot of it. But the problem occurred really for
me in on offense in two stretches. There's a period

(01:46):
I think we went up like thirteen to eight maybe,
and then we were down, I don't know, twenty seven
to ten. So there was a run there where I
think they maybe went on like a nineteen to two run,
and Kentucky shots selection on offense was so terrible during
that period, I mean, very little movement, bad decisions, wrong

(02:08):
guys taking shots at wrong spots. And during that period,
Louisville's getting out in transition and Kentucky had no chance.
The transition defense for Kentucky tonight was about as bad
as I've ever seen Kentucky do it, especially in those
first thirty minutes. I mean, they would get they would

(02:28):
get back on defense in transition, and they would get
out of sorts. And then one louisll didn't necessarily get
a ton of layups or you know, off transition, but
like one or two passes in Kentucky would be completely
discombobulated and you'd get a wide open three. And that
happened over and over and over. And the stat that

(02:49):
decides the game is Louisville has twenty assists and six turnovers, which,
considering the pace they play to only have six turnovers
and scored ninety six. It's pretty amazing, and two of
them more offensive fouls. So like four turnovers is I mean,
kudos to them, that's pretty impressive. But we had, you know,

(03:12):
we had fourteen, and then they have twenty assists and
we have fourteen. So you're losing right there. You don't
have to tell me any other stat. If you tell
me that one team has twenty assists and six turnovers
and the other one is fourteen and fourteen, I mean,
you know who wins the game right there. But I
was really disappointed with the defense. Honestly, thirty two minutes,

(03:35):
last eight minutes, they played pretty good defense. We got
some help with all the free throws they missed at
the end, but just terrible wrong guy. I mean, guys
got switched and either A they went under the screens.
You gave these great shooters open looks going under the screens.
That's just a work hard thing. Switches were late, two

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guys going with one player leaving a guy open. I
mean they did not communicate well, they let themselves and
most of that I put on the players. Now, one
thing I would put on Pope is that. And they
changed this in the last eight or ten minutes. But
they let them switch Michel Brown and the kid from
Xavier on to Low play after play, and I like Low.

(04:22):
I think Low's good. We'll talk about him in a minute.
But his weakness is defense, and it's gonna be defense.
It's gonna be all year like. He's not a great defender,
and you gotta scheme around that. You cannot let Michel Brown,
who is awesome, who is going to be an NBA star,
in my opinion, you cannot let him get switched off

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on Low over and over and over. That's what Chucky
Hepburn did to Low last year when he was at
pitt So. I mean, Louisville knew what they were doing,
and we stopped that in the last eight minutes by
not by you know, basically saying Low would always take
the switcher. But I don't know how it took so
long for that to happen. That was a real that
was a real issue throughout the game. Mckel Brown's first

(05:06):
half was unbelievable, but as good as he was, that's
not why we lost. We lost because we gave other
guys open looks and they knocked him down.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Fundamentally.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Going forward, I'm a little concerned about the makeup of
the team.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
And here's why.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
For Kentucky to be good this year, I mean, like
really good. I think they're good now, but to be
really good, they got to get great play from the
point guard. I think that's gonna be mostly Low, but
Aberdeen can do it too, and I thought in general
they gave that until the final three and a half minutes,
when I do not think Low was good. Aberdeen was great.
Aberdeen was great the entire game. Most of the time

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playing off the ball, but even on the ball, he
was excellent. He's he's better than I thought, and so
he's gonna be a rock. So you got to get
really good point guard play. I think Kentucky got that.
Eighty percent of the game. You've got to get Oway
has got to be oh Way always got to give
you fourteen to seventeen every night, rebound play defense.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oway just does not look right to me. Now. I
know he still had what twelve points, but he shot
the ball poorly.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
He's taken different shots. He's not going to the basket,
he's not doing the things drawing contact the things he
did last year. And I know his shots never been great,
but it looks off off. I watched the team warm
up shooting threes. I got there really early, so I said,
and watched them, and they didn't shoot well during warm ups,

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and Ohway, in particularly, I mean with no one on him,
was shooting poorly, and I thought, man, I hope he
doesn't shoot like that during the game. He just doesn't
look right to me. Now he's coming off an injury.
Maybe that is part of it, but I don't know.
He just doesn't look like the way we had last year.
And I've said this a lot, he cannot be our

(06:59):
best offensive player. If he is our best offensive player,
we're not going.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
To be very good.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
But he has to at least do his thing every game,
and it just he just hasn't looked right to me
at the start of this season. But more fundamentally, when
we play teams like Louisville, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
About the Bigs how we're doing it right now.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Our starting lineup, in my opinion, might be the worst
lineup that we put out there some because we put
three guys on the floor right now who can't shoot.
When you put Oway, Diabate and Garrison on the floor together,
I mean, you can tell me all you want. Oway
and Garrison can shoot, but unless always making them, Diabate

(07:45):
cannot shoot.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
And I worry. Listen, Diabate is a great player. He hustles.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
He is a good defender, but I don't know if
he's a Mark Pope four because he gets that open
look in the corner and it I don't know who
it feels like that's going in. And I will note,
as much as I love the kid, when we made
the run at the end of the game, he wasn't
really in. He didn't really play those last eight minutes.

(08:11):
And I think it cause it's hard to score with
him on the floor if you're gonna put Garrison on
with him. So I don't think you can play those
guys together. I think they're gonna have to figure out
a different rotation. Maybe you played Diabate with Moreno, or
you play I think we're gonna have to play four
shooters in a big sum and I don't think that's
how this roster is built.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
But that's when we look the best.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
We looked the best when Cam Williams came in and
you were running three of Low, Aberdeen, Oway, and Chandler.
Cam at the four, Moreno or Garrison at the five.
That's when we look the best. That's when we made
a run. And I don't know what that means for
some of these other guys. I thought Yellovich played well

(08:55):
in the first half. Maybe he could have played a
little more in a second. I'm not sure, but you
just right now, it feels like a lot of pieces
that just don't really fit.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
And we do not have a great player. I don't
think we have a great player.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
I think we got a lot of really good players,
but I don't know if we have a great player,
And in a situation like that, it becomes imperative that
you have the right guys end in the right sequences,
and it just didn't feel like we had that for
a lot of the game. So going forward, we're not
gonna play too many teams that are as efficient offensively

(09:36):
as Louisville. I look at our schedule, probably Alabama's the
only one we're gonna play that'll be as efficient offensively
as them. And it was an amazing environment. I mean
it was that is one of the better non conference
road environments I've been to, So kudos to them for that.
I've been in that arena a lot, not in the

(09:58):
last few years, but even back in the old day,
like they would have good environments, but I thought, for
whatever reason, they seemed particularly amped tonight. But our defense
has to be better, and our shot selection in periods
of time has to be better. And I do think
Mark's gotta be better in figure in like game planning

(10:20):
and stuff.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Kelsey. Kelsey was better prepared for thirty minutes. Now.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
I do think Mark adjusted, and I actually think Mark
he got low to where he didn't have to guard
these penetrators. At the end, he took out Diabaatee. I
thought in the last ten minutes, but it took too long.
That took too long, And for moment one, it was
clear what Kelsey's game plan was, get in transition, get
low isolated, and make Kentucky's bigs have to guard their guards.

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And we weren't able to do any of those three things.
And it feels like it took Pope a long time
to counter all that. And then when we did, we
played pretty well, but by that point it was too late.
A couple things down the stretch, low was not good
down the stretch. I still like him being in there.
I mean, I think sometimes we take for granted with

(11:13):
him in Aberdeen, how much movement they create. Lowe's gotta
be bet he can't like jump up and then not
having one to pass too. And you know, he took
a couple four shots. I didn't like his transition three,
but go back and look at the plays when he
wasn't in and look how stagnant we look. So I
still like him, but he's got a at the end

(11:34):
of games. He can't just hitting pit where you have
to take every shot at the end of games, create
the shots.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
And then kick out.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
And if you go back and look at the play
where he got fouled when it was a four point game, Billy,
I don't know if you saw, well, you're you're listening
on the radio, but they called the foul, but he
was kicking it out to a wide open Collin Chandler
in the corner.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
I wish they hadn't called that foul.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, Chandler was hot.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Chandler was open when the corner and he was passing
to him. And if they don't call that foul, Chandler
has a wide up in three. Maybe it's a one
point game. Lowe's got to make that. He's got to
be smarter down to stretch. But I need more from
O Way, I need more from Garrison, and I also
need like better decision making because Kelsey's a good coach.

(12:19):
He out smart at us for a lot of the game.
And you know, Pope got there, but it just took
too long. A five nine twenty two eighty seven. We
will take your calls. Congrats to the Cards on the win.
Big shout out to the BBN that was there. There
wasn't a lot of BBN in the lower level, but
if you went up top, there was a lot of

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Kentucky fans, which means a lot of y'all bought tickets,
some of you probably driving home. Uh, it's a shame
we didn't get to win, but you guys definitely definitely
showed out. We'll take a break, take your calls, cards,
get one in the rivalry and it's frustrating. We'll be
right back. It's the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show.
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(13:03):
If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven
on the text machine, one person rights, Matt, why do
you sound concerned about lineups now when after Purdue we
thought we were gonna be elite. Well, it's a matchup thing.
I mean, we don't have we have a lot of
really good players. I'm not sure we have a great one.
We'll see, but I kinda don't. I think we have

(13:24):
a lot of really good ones, and I think we
have a couple that are really really good college players.
But matchups are gonna matter with this team because we
don't have a dude like McHale Brown. They got a
guy that even if nothing else is going right. And
for tonight they had other things going right too, But
if nothing else is going right, you can give the

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ball to him and he can go get you buckets.
I don't know that we got that guy. Although Aberdeen
played really well tonight. I'm not sure that we've got
that guy. So matchups are gonna matter, and we match
up really well with teams like Purdue. I think eventually
we'll figure out how to play against teams like Georgetown
as well.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
But you know, remember last year, teams have played like Louisville.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
We couldn't beat We could not beat Alabama, we could
not beat Auburn, and we couldn't we beat Tennessee, but
we struggled with Tennessee.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
I kind of wonder like, is this gonna be like
this too? And it shouldn't be, because we're very athletic, But.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
I just Pope seems to have built this roster around
having two bigs, And I think when you play teams
like Louisville, if our two bigs are not I AM be.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Able to shoot, then you can't play two bigs.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Maybe Malachi we talked about somebody said the best lineup
might be O Way Aberdeen, Lowe moreno Diabate, I could
see that. I just somebody just sent me Billy. That
lineup played seventy seconds together tonight.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
I would have been interested to see if they had
played the More together, and maybe even you substitute Diabate
for Cam willi Iams or Colin Taylor.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
But I don't think we got a lot of that lineup.
I just I'm.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Unless always starts hitting shots consistently.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
I don't think you can play dabout Dating Garrison together.
I just don't. I don't. I just don't think.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
I don't think you can get the offense, and I
don't know if you can even get the defense against
the team of guards.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
All right, who's up first, Edward, go ahead, Edward?

Speaker 4 (15:23):
Hey, Matt, I was at the game tonight. Shout out
Cam Williams and Denzel Aberdeen for a really solid game.
First of y'all, wouldn't it be all right if I
gave like just two small quick thoughts in a vacuum
about the cot I mean, I'm I'm very appreciative of him.
I think he's a great coach. I think he's the
coach for us. But here's where I get concerned. Last year,

(15:43):
I called into his postgame show with Tom Leach and asked, Mark,
you've coached for fifteen years, what makes a good defensive team, Because,
you know, a knock on him besides the tournament stuff
going back to last year was he's never really built
an elite defensive unit. Main points were versatility and playing
connectively or just playing together communication all that. I just

(16:06):
nothing I've seen so far, even though we built this
roster around some of those physical attributes. I'm just a
little concerned watching the ball stream defense.

Speaker 5 (16:14):
And I understand that's.

Speaker 4 (16:15):
A very elite backcourt one will probably we won't face
too many of those, probably right, But just being at
the game and watching some of those flare screens and
how they're wide open, missed assignments trying to go over
and letting McNeeley, Comwell or Michel get a free shot,
it was just frustrating.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
I mean, I think that's a great analysis.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
I'll let you do your second win in the second,
but I think that's a great announces I think he's
right that's the way to be elite defensively is to
have length, communication and athleticism. He clearly built this roster
trying to do that every player on this roster, especially
the ones he brought in except Low. That's what they are, right,

(16:55):
but they didn't look like it. And I guess what
I would say is, if you're gonna sacrifice what is
your and by your I mean Pope's signature kind of player,
which is a guy who could knock down threes regularly,
If you're going to sacrifice that to get these defensive guys,
I understand that decision, but they better communicate well and
they better play defense. And that didn't happen tonight. So

(17:19):
you sacrifice some of the shooting and you're not making
up for it on the other end.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
That's a recipe to lose.

Speaker 6 (17:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
No, I think you're spot on, And I mean I
think louisvill was doing, especially in the first half, something,
especially when we went in that little lull of offense
that you were describing in the middle of the first half,
they were doing something that we should have been doing.
They were blitzing Low every time he came off the screen,
and they would essentially have a double for about a
second or two and the roller would be open every time.

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So we kind of played into their game. We're jacking
up threes, taking some some weird mid ranges, like forcing things.
And I don't think offense is the problem here. I
think it's mainly a defensive thing.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
I agree, we scored eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
I mean, it's to forget we scored eighty eight, and
against most teams, when you score eighty eight, y'ata win.
So I now, granty we hit threes at the end,
but you know what that we missed a bunch earlier,
so it was time for us to hit some. You
score eighty eight y'all to win, And I appreciate the call.
That was a good call. The the defense is the

(18:20):
issue for me. I mean, it's just it's so bad,
and it was so bad, and I'm really disappointed in
I thought our bigs were particularly bad defensively. I mean,
you're just gonna you have to know that if Jalen
Lowe's playing, you're gonna have a defensive weakness. But I

(18:40):
think he makes up for it on the offensive end.
But you have to cover up that weakness. And not
only did they not cover it up, some of our
guys played even worse defense than him. It felt like,
I mean, I say, I hate to keep picking on him,
but I don't know what Oway was doing.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
A lot of the game.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
I was like, I think that's the worst I've seen
him play, And I don't know why that should have
been like his he loves these environments. It was it
was really odd to me. That's the worst I've seen
him play. I really do think that's the case.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Who's next, Skyler? Skyler?

Speaker 6 (19:13):
Go ahead, Yeah, I get to talk to you again, Matt.
Picking up on what you just said, I think Otega
plays with, as the kids would say, a nonchalant nature
right now, and we really need him to wake up
and and and dial it in.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
I wonder why that is.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
I agree with you, Skyler, but I wonder why that
is because I would have never said that about him
last year one time, right, And I felt like that
in that.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
In the in the Georgetown game.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
I think that was the Georgetown game, and I felt
like that now he does that is a good way
to put it, and it just doesn't really seem like him.

Speaker 6 (19:53):
Yeah. Yeah, he had a drive and an edge and
a chip on his shoulder last year that I hope
I hope returns. Maybe preseason SEC Player of the Year
kind of can linger in the back of your mind, madam.
I'll just say this to I'll just say too, I
was I have not thought about Louisville for years and
didn't didn't know what team they were even bringing in.
I was actually impressed a little bit with the intensity

(20:16):
that they brought to the game. They fought really hard,
So kudos to them. I think I don't know if
our guys were prepared for that or not or surprised
by that.

Speaker 7 (20:24):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (20:24):
That nonchalant nature by.

Speaker 6 (20:26):
Otega, even in his response to the prior comment, kind
of bled into that first twenty thirty minutes, and maybe
the question I have is where do you see Trent
Noah fitting into this? Yeah, I did miss some key,
some key rebounds at the end of the game.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
We did that.

Speaker 6 (20:42):
I'm hoping Jaden can can pick up where Malachi kind
of got bullied around a little bit.

Speaker 9 (20:47):
I'll hang up and listen a little bit.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Some of those appreciate that. I thought some of those
rebounds at the end were just like Louisville actually shot
bad threes and the shot was so bad that they
got their own rebounds. Sometimes you can't really help that.
I think that happened a couple times on those possessions. Yeah,
I think nonchalance the word. Also, by the way, the
best our offense looked except at the end when we

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started running and hitting threes, was at the beginning when
Lowe and Aberdeen were in there together and they were
penetrating and giving it to the bigs for dunks, and
I thought they did a great job. And then Louisville
basically they they started doing what the callers said. They
blitzed low he did. He would get the ball, he

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wasn't able to pass to the bigs, and then we
would get to the secondary guys and again not to
keep picking on him, but o Way would get the
ball and it would be just like would die.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
In his hands. And I don't really know why that happened.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Colin Chandler, by the way, becomes the first Kentucky player
to hit four threes billy in his first three games.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Of the season.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
Huh Is that right?

Speaker 1 (21:51):
That's according to Corey Price. I think that's what the
stat said.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Well, they needed him. He hit that one.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Big ones. He hit some big ones. I wish he'd
gotten to take that one in the corner. Who's next, Michael, Michael?

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Go ahead? Michael.

Speaker 10 (22:03):
Yeah, I I just have two quick things for you, Matt.
I think number one and again, you know, this seems
to be obviously we only have last season and now
predicated this season, but it is clear again that we
do not have just that player like a like a
Walter Clayton, like a Makiah Brown, like a you know,

(22:25):
Shabatz Naprien, like a Kimba like that can just go
and just take over a game. In college basketball, you
need that.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
And but I don't know how you can't just well, Okay,
everybody's gonna keep bring up the twenty two million dollars.
But what I would ask you is, who is in
the portal that's that guy? Okay, I think there was, they.

Speaker 10 (22:43):
Got him and they lost them. Who the guy that
went to the one they lost that? Where do you
go to Indiana or Labar Wilkerson went, yeah, whichever?

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Is not that we Really he's not that dude. I mean,
he's a great shooter. I'd love to have him, but
he's not that dude. The only dude that was in
the portal, the guard that was like that to me
is Donovan Dent and we just got out bit by UCLA.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
I mean they came in at the last minute. He
was that dude.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
But I actually think after him, there wasn't one of
those guys. And so one of the things about living
by the Portal is there's gonna be in the portal.
There's gonna be a lot of guys like Denzel Aberdeen
or Diabate who are gonna be great players to bring
in who can be parts of your roster.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
But you're you're right.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
I think most teams need that guy, and the problem
is we don't have that guy. But they also don't
grow on trees, which means you probably have to go
get them in recruiting or develop them. Now, think about
Pope's first class. There wasn't that guy to develop. Maybe

(23:50):
one day Colin Chandler will be that. I don't know,
maybe Jasper Johnson will be that, but we did we
have not been able to get that guy in recruiting. Y. Yeah,
you hear me talk about a lot. When's he gonna
get his elite God, I'm kind of talking about wins again.
Is Mikhale Brown? Maybe it's uh, maybe it's Stokes this year. Right,
Maybe we'll see, But you're right, we don't have that guy.

(24:12):
But you Also, those guys don't grow on trees.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
That's true.

Speaker 10 (24:16):
And then just the last thing I have is, like
you said, like you said already, just to reiterate and
to bring it home, is this team is not like
I think last year's team would outshoot this team blindfolded.
And if if you're going to sacrifice the shooting, then
you're better well again, not to bring up the twenty

(24:37):
two million dollars, but you better well have a defense.
And I know you built this defense to face to
face the gauntlet of the SEC season.

Speaker 4 (24:45):
But you built this.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Defense for tonight. Just to be clear, you built this
defense for teams like this. Okay, this is why you
built this defense, Like like I do, like take last
year's team. Last year's team would have beaten like Georgetown better,
they wouldn't have lost to a team like that. But
last year's team would have had a real hard time

(25:07):
with this Louisville team, like because they wouldn't have been
able to guard anybody on the team. So you built
this team to kind of beat teams like this Louisville team,
But you gotta go do it right, Like, you can't
build a team to play defense like that and then
not switch and do all the things.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
They did tonight. I agree, thanks, appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
He's right, if you're gonna sacrifice the shooting, then you
can't give up all the open.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Looks we gave tonight, because we gave a lot of
open looks, and to be fair, we gave a lot
of open looks in some of these other games. I'm
really surprised.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Like they were so good defensively against Purdue, but maybe
that's just because Purdue can't beat them off the dribble.
These teams that are they're doing these high ball screams
like we're struggling. Last year's guys weren't athletic enough to
do it. Shoes guys are athletic enough.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
They're just making terrible decisions. Who's next?

Speaker 3 (26:04):
Todd is next?

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Todd? Go ahead, Todd? Oh, Matt.

Speaker 9 (26:10):
I thought Louisville was the best team.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
To I hate for sure that for sure, they.

Speaker 9 (26:16):
Definitely looked like the best team, and we did make
a couple of wonderful comebacks. But have you looked at
the full box score yet?

Speaker 1 (26:26):
I did. But what are you talking about specifically?

Speaker 9 (26:29):
Well, it's just it seems so even I think we outreach.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
It, except the turnovers to assists, that's the different, right,
you're right, everything else like like like just to your point,
like if you look at everything else, Okay, rebounds forty two,
they had forty. Assists is twenty to fourteen. But the
turnovers is a big difference. Field goal three point percentage
they were thirty five percent. Uh we were let's see, we.

Speaker 9 (26:59):
Were over We were thirty five, I think.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, exactly, we were thirty five.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
They were thirty two forty seven percent phil goal forty
five for them. So you're right, but that assist to
turnover ends up being the big difference.

Speaker 9 (27:13):
Yes, And I was trying to find points off turnovers
to see if they don't.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Put that in the box score, but I saw that
on social media.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Here what is he had ten points off turnovers and
what Louisville nineteen?

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah, I mean that's and guess what we lost by eight?
So right, you know, there you go.

Speaker 9 (27:34):
They shot. They shot nine more. They hit nine more
free throws I think than we did. The fouls were
about the same, but they shot like thirty one free
throws were we shot uh what sixteen? Yeah, we was
twelve us sixteen.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Uh yeah, they missed a lot well, some of that
skewed because we were found them at the end, right,
So like some of that's that they had more free
throws in part because.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
We kept found them at the end. Yeah, yeah, but yeah,
I appreciate the call.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
I think. I think the assist to turnover is a
big deal. But early in the game, the problem was
they'd made a bunch of threes and we didn't. Now,
we kind of caught up to that at the end,
and so the disparity doesn't look as bad as it
did with ten minutes left. What's interesting, Billy, is we
got down eighteen in the first half, came back cut

(28:23):
it to five, I think, and then we got down
twenty in the second half because we made two big runs, yeah,
in the first half and the second.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
And Louisville scored on all three of their first possessions
in the second half. I mean, your hair out, you
think the game's over.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
And that was a huge I mean the two there
were five minute stretches that caused us to lose that game.
That stretch I mentioned where it was thirteen to eight
and then it became twenty seven to whatever, and then
the stretch there in the second half where they went
from I think the went from up eight to twenty

(29:01):
in about a minute and a half.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
But still we had a shot. We had a shot,
but they were the better team.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Had we won, we would have stolen it. Basically, let's
do one more, We'll take it.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
And where off Kentucky would have been without Aberdeen tonight.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
I mean he was well.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Aberdeen had twenty six, but in my mind I would
say he was made like what Aberdeen did is what
I just think Lowsher or excuse me, Oways should have
been doing.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Right.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
I'm not saying he should have had twenty six, but
I'm saying like Aberdeen played like the player that I
am hoping Oway is.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
And Low.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
I mean, I'm gonna be an apologies for Low because
I just think when he's not playing, this team really
struggles on offense. But he's got to be better down
to stretch. He was pit low the last three and
a half minutes and we don't need that. He I
think he did it because he was such a big
part of us coming back, but then once it was
a four point game, now we need you to be
the point guard that we brought you.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
We don't need you to be pitlow.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
We kind of needed you to be pitlow when we
were down twenty, but once we cut it the foe,
now we need you to be That free throw was big.
I mean, listen, man, point guards. You gotta hit free throws.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
One more. Who's next, Dave, Dave, go ahead, Dave.

Speaker 8 (30:19):
Hey Matt as a UK fans who lives in louis
it's a brutal night. Just I would everywhere. I wore
my Kentucky shirt today, gas station, everywhere I were in,
everybody's like go cards and it was just like, gosh,
you guys are being chesty, and you know they have
a good team.

Speaker 7 (30:36):
But I guess I'll just say.

Speaker 8 (30:37):
You know, it's been a long time. You guys, welcome
back to the robbery and uh, you've been gone a
long time. So I just need some advice on how
to deal with these Louisville fans that I work with
and then they get surrounded by they're gonna.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Be They're gonna be brutal.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
I mean, they're gonna be brutal because this is like, uh,
you know, I mean, this is their biggest win in
a long time, certainly since COVID, but it's it's probably
one of their biggest wins since before that. You know,
you're just gonna have to take it like we I
means a lot we can do about it. I mean,
they beat us, and uh, they were better, and you

(31:16):
know they have They're gonna be excited about Michael Brown.
He's gonna be explosive for them, and they're really good now.
I think they're they're gonna have a problem later. I
don't think their bigs are very good. Okay, so I
do think they're gonna have some problems when they play
physical teams, like really physical teams. I think they're gonna
have some problems because I don't think their bigs are
very good, although they do pass well. Yeah, their guard

(31:39):
their guards are their guards are great. I mean Cromwell
and and McHale Brown are great. And the third kid,
the kid from Virginia, is a good shooter. So they're
they're they're good. I mean they're good and we but
but we we are built to win games like this.
He constructed this roster for games like this, and it's disappointing.
I think the reason he sounded so sad in the

(32:01):
post game is in part we lost to Louis, but.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
In part he really created.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
A team to win games like this, and not only
did not did we not win, we kind of got
run most of the game.

Speaker 8 (32:14):
Yeah, well it's still early, so you know, let's see
what happens. Got along season ahead of us, and we'll
maybe see them in a toument. Yeah, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Call.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
It'll be interesting to see what happens with Michigan State
because I think Michigan State will play a lot like
Georgetown played this. They're gonna be physical, so we're gonna
need I mean, we're that's a different set of weaknesses.
So it'll be interesting to see what happens in that game.
But we won't get another team like Louisville until well,
Saint John's a little bit like that.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
We'll get another kind of test like that with Saint John's.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
We'll take a break A five nine uh two eight
oh twenty two eighty seven.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
We'll take a break right back. Local Toy Dealers KSR
Post game Show.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Welcome back in his Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show
AF I'm nine two eight to zero twenty two eighty seven.
When person rights, Matt, you sound way too negative. We're
gonna be fine. Well, I mean, we can be fine.
I still think this team has a roster to be
really good. But some things will have to change, obviously,

(33:16):
and we'll see if they do. You know, Kentucky did
have a chance. People reminded me of getting Caleb Wilson
who went to Carolina. He could have been that guy.
He's got to get one of those guys in the
recruiting class. He's got a chance at two or three
of them this year. He needs to close on one
and it hasn't happened yet. Stokes would obviously be one,
but there are others. Christian Collins, the I think his

(33:38):
last name is Holt. I don't know the recruiting class
as well as I used to, but they got to
get one of those guys. Pat Kelsey dislocated his finger celebrating.
He was giving high fives and got it stuck on
a curtain and he said it bent ninety degrees.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Oh wow, So he's such a doing. But but he
did a good job. I mean he did. He had
a great game plan tonight and they executed it. Well.
Who's up next, Jordan? Jordan? Go ahead, Jordan. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (34:10):
Of all the things I'm disappointed with, I have to
be honest, Brandon Garrison probably tops the list. Defensively, he
is It's like he's lost on everything is his efense
on the pick and Rally's always in the round spot
a lot of those flower screens as you watch a
lot of the times because Garrison is kind of getting
out of position, and when they kick it over the wing,

(34:31):
our guy from the corners come up in health.

Speaker 12 (34:33):
And I'll just throw everything up with you.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
I think I thought he in the first half he
was really bad defensively.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
He got a little better in the second half, but
in that first half, you're right, he was. I would
say three or four of their open looks are directly
attributable to his screwing up something on a on a switch.

Speaker 11 (34:57):
And it's almost like, I know, we wait. You guys
are talking a lot about that second year leaf with Pope,
but it's almost seems like Garrison's kind of regressed or
or at least stayed the same, because a lot of
the mistakes he was making last year, it's like he's
making him this year.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
And colle you would have hoped to have seen improvement
from Oway and Garrison, right and and and because those
are our two main returning guys that got a lot
of minutes, and so yeah, it is a little disappointed.

Speaker 11 (35:24):
I just, you know, with Louisville's big I know you'd
mentioned that they're not very good, and unfortunately Garrison and
a lot of White made them look very good. I
just don't know this team. Hopefully Quainton comes back and
is okay, but if we're having to rely on Garrison
for a lot of minutes, I just don't know if
we can reach that potential that winning too.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah, I agree, I think moreno, I appreciate the call
is potentially more of a starter. And you know, the
probably the person that stayed in front of Michale Brown
the most were on two plays Yellowvich got switched on him.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
He actually he didn't look bad, he actually.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
Played stayed in front of him both times. I was like, well,
I'm surprised Yellowvitch didn't get a few more minutes in
the second half. But I do think Pope was I mean,
Kim Williams didn't even get in a game until eight
minutes to go, so Pope was currently trying to find
what is gonna work, and it just it just wasn't.

(36:21):
Garrison defensively, though, in that first half the tape is
not gonna be kind to him when they look at
that in practice.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
What's next, Aaron, go ahead.

Speaker 13 (36:28):
Aaron, hey man.

Speaker 14 (36:32):
You know, I was at the game tonight and I
thought that's probably gonna be the most electric that the
Young Center has seen in quite some time.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Oh for sure, sure, for sure.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
I mean they had hemispheres in the last few years,
but then like they get killed at the beginning and
it goes away like against Duke. But tonight was great.
I mean I was there the whole first half and
it was as loud as I've seen it in a decade.

Speaker 14 (36:57):
Yeah, it was crazy, and I know that was This
is kind of our first room test, so I feel
like maybe that was a part of it. But it
also doesn't help that it felt like in the first
half they were Louisville was shooting like you know, NBA
two K shots from free It felt like they could
not miss. I'm not super worried about this game, but

(37:19):
at the same time, I did feel like, was this
the game to for Pope to really kind of play around.
I don't really think that he was playing around totally
with lineups, but it felt like he had a lineup
at the end of the game that they could have worked,
and I'm kind of like, why did we wait that?

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Well, I mean, it took him a long long time,
not just to put in Cam Williams, but to decide
to go with one big, and I don't I don't know.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
I think we're gonna have to do that a lot
this year. I think I.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
Think the the strength of this team is on the perimeter,
and but we got a lot of big guys, and
I part of me wishes we could trade one of
those big guys for a Dan I three point shooter,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
I kind of liked it.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
This would be if it was the NBA, maybe you'd
make a trade for one of our bigs for a guy,
you know, for a dude like Kobe Brayer.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
So that would be nice to have.

Speaker 14 (38:19):
It felt like some of our Sharks lineups were a
little bit of a small ball, you know, with one big,
and I'm like, why didn't we do that a little more?
But I get it, it's still early in the season.
But it's also it's Louisville. Come on, let's let's play.
Let's play our best line up here. But it's pretty
still early, so it is early.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
It is early. I appreciate the call.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
It is early, and he got there just kind of
maybe he took him a little bit longer than than
maybe we would have hoped.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Who's next, Patrick, Patrick? Go ahead?

Speaker 5 (38:47):
Patrick, first time? Long term? Who he Just one thing
I kind of really noticed is paint touches. I just
want to get more paint touches. And I didn't find
myself kind of yelling run on some of those. So

(39:08):
shout out to coach cal I guess.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
But oh you mean, oh I see what you're saying. Okay,
got you. I wasn't sure what you were saying, but
go ahead.

Speaker 5 (39:15):
Yeah, just more paint touches. I think the same will
be fine as third game. Man, we'll be fine. We'll
get some more paint touches. We'll figure it all out.
We'll be fine. Go Cats, win them nine.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Appreciate the appreciate the call.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Yeah, we uh, we didn't do a ton of but
you know we did early in the game. We had
a lot of good I mean, we kind of went
away from going to the you know, penetrating and kicking
lobb into our bigs. Yeah, they changed the way they
defended it, and that's just why we got more three
point looks. I think they were daring us to make them,

(39:51):
and we really didn't make them until the end of
the game.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Who's next, Hunter, Hunter, Go ahead, Hunter, Billy Matt.

Speaker 7 (40:00):
That's good to talk to you guys. Hopefully you is
having a great night tonight. There's a lot of a
lot of thoughts that about this game that I want
to reflect on. I mean, it just it just seemed
like we were just disorganized and we were almost rattled,
and it kind of gave me deja vous of the
Clemson game last year. And okay, I almost feel very
deja vu of it with how we played and everything,

(40:22):
and Mike and I think now that this makes the
Michigan State game more important because it's you know, we
got to bounce back. We gotta win this. We gotta
win Michigan State now. Especially well, all.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
Of our games, all of our games in some ways
look harder if you think about it.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
I mean, uh, Indiana might be a little better than
we thought.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
North Carolina might be a little better than we thought.
You know, Saint John's I knew would be good. Uh,
Michigan State beat Arkansas. I mean, in these non comp
Gonzaga beats Creighton by thirty. So in these non conference games,
there were a couple of games that I think in
my mind I was just it's like.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Well, we'll win that.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
You know, none of these are assured in the non conference,
So you're right, we kind of need to go get
there With a Michigan State. You could make an argument
that of all those five teams I just mentioned, Michigan
State might be the worst of the five, and so
we do need to beat them.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (41:19):
No, it's much more important though, because we have to
bounce back and we've got to answer this and like
we're just go in it all right.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
I appreciate the call. Apparently there's people online saying, Billy,
a G five solar storm was reached tonight. It's the
highest geomagnetic storm level that.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Can be reached.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
Is that the northern light pictures that I've been seeing
that people across the country or Kentucky have been posting.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
Oh, is that what that is?

Speaker 5 (41:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Something's going on right now. Yeah, that may be it. Okay,
I don't know what those words mean, but sounds.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
Like pink and the sky.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Okay, gotcha pinking? This guy who's next to Jamie Jamie
go ahead, Jamie.

Speaker 13 (42:05):
Hey, Matt, we were at the game, and to say
it was electric was an understatement. That place was rocking.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Yeah, well, I mean we.

Speaker 13 (42:14):
Had Garrett references. There was a guy named Garrett that
did a golf shot and someone said, Garrett, get your
money up. It was it was great. What what do
you think about the rebounding because we out rebounded them
on paper, but I just feel like at the times
of the rebounds, they were just so critical and they
came at the worst time.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
And yeah, they were, I mean there were, but I
actually thought we actually thought we were pretty good on
the glass for most of the game. You are right
that at the end they got some big ones, but
as I said, I think it was in part because
we kind of forced Louisville into bad shots and then
there'd be like a long rebound.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
There wasn't a lot. I felt like we got out
fought for.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
It's just sometimes you know, when when guys are shooting
long threes, the balls just gonna fall in weird spots.
And so I actually thought they did a pretty good
job rebounding most of the night.

Speaker 13 (43:03):
Yeah, and then earlier guy said something about paint touches.
I agree I mean the foul. The free throw account
was thirty one to sixteen. I mean, I feel like
that's gonna be high. I know we're not a great
shooting team, and we're not a great shooting team. We
got to be a great drama team.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
I agree appreciate the call. I mean, we're.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
You know, everybody. I feel like it could be a good,
really good shooting team. But Aberdeen can shoot. Lowe's gonna
be somewhat inconsistent, but he can shoot.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
Noah can shoot. Cam Williams made a couple shots tonight.
I don't know. I'm worried about our way in shooting.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Chandler obviously can shoot, but our bigs, you know, last
year car was a big.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
That could shoot.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
I don't know can these. I mean, Yellovich can shoot,
but I don't know how much he's gonna get to play.
But like I will tell you, every time Diabat shoots
the three, I don't like it. But I know he's
made a couple in the early games with that form.
I mean they Louisville left him why open. I think

(44:11):
he took two and they weren't even contemplating gardening. Stew Moore,
We'll take a break that.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
Speaking of shooters, it's time for our Johnny Rocker personal
injury attorney, moneymaker of the game.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
Matt all Right, who is that injured?

Speaker 3 (44:24):
Get small town compassion with big city results when you
call the Rocker at two seven oh three two one
four four two nine, And he didn't play till late.
But I'm giving it to Cam Williams five points, two
to two from the field, four rebounds, one block, and
twelve minutes. He had a team high plus eleven. Uh,
he is our moneymaker of the night.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
All right, I like that. Uh.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
Jason Riley's listening, He's a Louisville fan, says, sound that
I sound sad, like I know it's over.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
It's not over at all. I mean, the game's over,
Season's not over. No.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Now, if we had lost this game by twenty five,
if we hadn't come back, I think I would have
been pretty desponded. But I saw a lot of good
things in the comeback, So I'm no, I'm not sad,
but I am a little concerned about we get the defense.
The offense I think will be better, but the defense,
I'm a.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
Little How much of this is j Qusolf very little?

Speaker 2 (45:19):
I don't think our problem. Yeah, I mean, I say
very little. He will protect the rim. But we didn't
lose to Louisville because.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
We weren't protecting the rim.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
We lost because we gave him open shots and we
couldn't guard guys. So he will help, don't get me wrong.
He'll if he plays, and I'm assuming he will, he'll
help against a lot of teams. I'm not sure this
game was the game that it would have made a
huge difference. It'll make a huge difference, Like I think
he would have helped against Georgetown, for instance, But this

(45:52):
one we'll see. I don't know we're gonna if we
see if we were to see them again in the tournament,
we're gonna have to be We're gonna have to be
a lot better defensively if we're gonna win eighty seven.
We're gonna take a break and be right back. It's
a Local Toy Dealers KSR post game show.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Welcome back.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
It is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show. One
person writes, Matt, do you still after this game believe
Jalen Lowe is the key to the season. Yes, because
when he was good tonight, that's when we played our best,
and when he was bad, we didn't. I mean, you
go look at the moments where we were rolling the best.

(46:32):
He was in there with usually with Aberdeen.

Speaker 9 (46:36):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
I mean our big runs came with him and Aberdeen
on the floor together and then other guys. But they
were the two consistent ones in there most of the time.
So yes, Now, him being the most important doesn't mean
he's always gonna be good, right, I mean, he's good.
But when he was good tonight, we were good. When

(46:58):
he struggled, we kind of struggle. He played twenty nine
minutes plus minus. I'm not sure what it was our
worst plus minus. It looks like Billy was. Uh it
was Garrison, is that right?

Speaker 1 (47:13):
I know?

Speaker 3 (47:13):
It was oh Way at minus sixty.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
Mean you're see, oh like you? Oh oh Way was
minus sixteen.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
Yeah see that.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
I mean, if you're O take Away, you cannot be
the worst plus minus.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
On the team.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
Second was Diabate minus fifteen.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Yeah. So think about that. Those are supposed to be
your two rocks.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
Yeah right, those are supposed to be your two rocks,
and they are your two biggest plus minus. And I
have to tell you, to be honest with you, it
felt like to.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
Me they were the two worst moans minus it really did.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
I'm not I It felt like to me that when
they were in there, we just looked lost, whereas even
though the other guys made mistakes, we just felt a
lot more free. And like, hu, that's interesting. Let me
get who is the best? I mean, is it Cam?

Speaker 1 (48:04):
I guess? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (48:05):
It was our moneymaker Cam and he was going to come.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Back, okay, and who else? Then? What? Maybe?

Speaker 3 (48:11):
Then it's a drop off to plus three and that's Jasper.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Yeah, he only played like five minutes. Yeah, so that
six minutes. Yeah, so that's not really.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
And then it was Aberdeen with a plus one and
that makes sense?

Speaker 1 (48:26):
All right, who's up next? Him? Tim? Go ahead?

Speaker 9 (48:29):
Tim?

Speaker 15 (48:31):
Hey, what's up, mister Matt?

Speaker 5 (48:32):
What's up, mister Billy?

Speaker 15 (48:33):
Thanks for having me. I was just thinking before I
called in, I was talking to my buddy Hollywood, and
I was like, it's funny how things are completely opposite
from last season. I called in last season about this time,
and I was, you know, I think we had won.
Everybody was excited, and I was kind of critiquing and
kind of worried because I was just not used to it.
You know because we went from cows a completely different

(48:53):
way we play. Yeah, and anyway, so now fastward to
now I'm talking to him, but I'm the one being like,
it's gonna be all right, man. This is a completely
different team than last year. Last year we got one
guy that can drive in four shooters. This year we
got four guys that can drive in one shooter and
they're just gonna have to figure that out. So anyway,
I just think that's funny.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
But you're right about that.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
In some ways, you're right about that, and they're gonna
have to figure it out. And I guess what I
wonder is, I don't know if Mark Pope's ever coached
a team like that, and so he's gonna have to
figure that out because this team.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
I understand why he built the team.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
I know he If you want to know why we
have this roster, you go back and watch those three
games against Alabama last year.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
We really didn't have a chance to win any of them.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
And I think Mark Pope was like, I gotta be
produce a team that can win those games. Well maybe
he has, but now they actually have to play the
defense he recruited him to play.

Speaker 15 (49:54):
I totally agree with that, and I think that's the
statement of the night. I mean, I was saying last year,
I mean, I love that team, how exciting was it?
But like, I don't think anybody really ever thought that
was a national championship win team because of the defense.
And like this year, he built a team based because
Bark Postmark and he's like, we got to win a title,
so I got to get some players, and I think

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they did that. So that's what I was telling everybody
in BBN just hanging there. I mean, I was you
last year, and I didn't believe in it, and I
saw the team change and I understood, and it's just
your own stuff. But anyways, I wanted to also say
that I thought it was hilarious that ESPN announcers really
emphasized how Louisville had only had one sellout in the

(50:36):
last six years.

Speaker 5 (50:37):
They did that.

Speaker 15 (50:38):
Several times for the game. It was very gratifying to me.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Yeah, that really surprised me. I appreciate the call. I
didn't know that stat until.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
I mean, you know, they've played US, they've played Duke,
they've played North Carolina and their only sellout was this game,
which tells you how broken they were, but this is
going to reignite them.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
You can just feel it. You can just feel that,
like this is gonna be what.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
That program needed. They've needed a win like this for
a while. Let's do four more. Who's next, Brennan? Go ahead, Brennan.

Speaker 12 (51:15):
And that first time a long time?

Speaker 1 (51:16):
Who What's up?

Speaker 16 (51:20):
So?

Speaker 12 (51:20):
I've been listening to you since I'm twenty nine years old.
I've been listening to you since I was seventeen. And
I have to say I'm from northern Kentucky. So this
one really stings because it's like half of every bit
that I go to high school with either goes to

(51:43):
the UK or U of L. And we've kind of
owned them, yeah, since I went to high school or
since I went to college. But I do think with
this the Michael Brown junior, you know you you can't

(52:06):
allow him to score twenty points in the first half.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
I agree, But I don't know, like sometimes dudes like
that are just gonna do that, you know what I mean?
Like sometimes sometimes a guy that talented there's I'm was
less upset by the but Michale Brown's twenty than the other.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Dude's points, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Like you can't let McGraw Brown score twenty and then
let all the other guys score too.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
That's the my thing. You got to stop somebody.

Speaker 12 (52:34):
Yeah, I one hundred agree. But and that that leads
to Denzel Aberdeen. You know, he had what like twenty
six or something at the at the end of the game,
twenty six and seven or something like that.

Speaker 9 (52:50):
But I don't know, is do.

Speaker 12 (52:53):
You think Jalen Lowe is that guy? Like for us,
like is is Poope's offense? Like is way is?

Speaker 2 (53:07):
I don't think we have one. We don't have that game.
We don't have that guy. And that, Yeah, we don't
have that guy. And I appreciate car. We don't have it.
That's the that's the problem is we do not have him.
So because we don't have him, we have to you know,
we're gonna have to find other ways to win, because no,
we don't. We don't have that guy. So you know,

(53:31):
there's not anybody as good as him. Michail Brown is
the kind of dude you don't. Louis has not had
a guy that good since Donovan Mitchell.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
So that's the way it is. Who's next? Uh? Monk three?

Speaker 2 (53:44):
More?

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Go ahead, monk Hey, what's what's up? Is this a
Louisville fan?

Speaker 16 (53:52):
No, not at all, buddy, But Michail Brown is real
bill like he is. I don't know if we've had
a guy like that at all.

Speaker 12 (54:01):
Yeah, I mean the last guy about Louisville or us Louisville,
Michail Brown.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
So you are a Louisville fan.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
You just said we You said, you said we haven't
had a guy like that, which means louis.

Speaker 16 (54:15):
Kentucky hasn't had a guy like that, Billy, Cail Brown.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
Billy, I think he told himself.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
I think you told on yourself. You gave me the nickname.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
You called me the nickname that Louisville fans like to do,
especially old.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
School Louisville fans. You just said, you just said we
about Louisville.

Speaker 16 (54:35):
No, I said we, as in Kentucky haven't had a
guy like Michael Brown. That that's a baller, like he
went off like for a reason because he is a baller.
He's real deal. Okay, true and true cal Macy is
my favorite numbers four just saying though, like, okay anyway,
Brad and uh Jordan Lowele, he is our right, Jaden Well.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Okay, I appreciate the call. You don't even know the
guy's name.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
He's a Louisville fan, and I listen, it's been a
while since you all have have decided that you had
the nerve to call the show.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
But remember, I sniff you all out like a disease.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
I could tell when you said we First of all,
I could tell when you said, Maddie Bank, nobody.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Calls me to accept Louisvill fans. I don't even have
that hair anymore. Wish I did.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
And then when you say Jalen Low, come on, you're
a little fans.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
All right, you won, but we called him before he
was about to say something bad, Billy, I can.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
Yeah, we've done pretty good. I mean, this is the
last segment.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Two more. Who's next? Tate? Tate? What's up? Tate?

Speaker 17 (55:44):
I mean, I think these Louisvill fans are bad liars.

Speaker 7 (55:47):
First off, Okay, I just want to I just.

Speaker 17 (55:52):
Want to call in and say or ask y'all what
y'all think about the Mark Pope kind of overthinking these
big games because I mean we've seen last year, like
with the Arkansas game, and now this year with the
Louisville game. It feels like since he like used to
kind of play for Kentucky, he might kind of overthink
these games. Like I'm a high school golfer myself, and
I feel like if I look forward to a tournament

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so much, it feels like he kind of just makes
me underperform a lot of times.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
I used to say that Rick Patino wanted to win
the game against cal so much that he would actually
not do a good job. I think that's possible in games,
and we don't have a huge sample size, right we
have the Arkansas game last year, we have this, but
remember he also he beat Duke last year. He really
wanted to win that. You know, he beat Illinois in
the second round of the tournament, which I think was

(56:39):
a huge win for him. So I mean, I can't
say that's always the case. But tonight I appreciate the call.
They got out game planned. They did, and it took
him too long to adjust. And I think he would
say that. I think he would. I think he would
completely acknowledge that. You know, sometimes sometimes you just get
you get out out funk. I think he got out

(57:03):
funk tonight by Kelsey. And then we just had guys
who also played really poorly, especially on defense. Let's do
one more. Who's next?

Speaker 3 (57:12):
Doing good?

Speaker 1 (57:13):
All right, go ahead, doing good.

Speaker 18 (57:16):
Matt, I'm doing good. Hope you're doing well. Not real
happy over the lost to night. However, we'll remind a
lot of Kentucky's hands. We have a lot of good
things to look forward to. Number one, we have an
incredible top five NBA talent waiting in the wings. Then,
as he was present tonight, let's say, you know, in March,

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a tournament scenario completely changes the outcome of this game.
We did come back from a twenty point deficit on
a very hostile twice away court twice. Yes, yes, made
it very close. So really happy about that. So let's
not get you know, I give him some Louisville played

(58:01):
really well. They're a lot better than I thought they were.
I don't want to really give them much more positives
more than that. And yeah, I just sometimes it happened exactly.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
The season is so early in the year, is so
early in the year you couldn't really know about either team.
I mean, louisll had not played, neither of us had
played anybody good. Both of us had had what turns
out to maybe be misleading preseason games there's against Kansas
and ours against Purdue, and so like, you didn't really.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
Know anything about them.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
So part of what made it so weird is that
it was so early in the year. If the game
was in mid to late December, we know more about
both teams. But that was kind of why it was
such an awkward odd things. You didn't know what was
gonna happen, and then we saw what happened.

Speaker 18 (58:52):
It was And here's the thing going forward. Who do
you think will make the best adjustment for the team, Basically,
who was the who is the most intellectual coach? I
I think they're both pretty money on Hope all all day,
every day.

Speaker 16 (59:07):
Man.

Speaker 18 (59:08):
I think we're.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
Gonna actually think oddly, I think Pope has more work
to do, not just because I appreciate the call, not
just because Louisville's better, but I think Louisville is what
they are. Louisville knows exactly how they want to play.
They've got a superstar young guy. They've got another, uh
sort of really good secondary player in Cromwell or what

(59:31):
is his name, Cromwell, the kid from Xavier.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
I was seeing them all, yeah, Conwell, Conwell.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
And then they've got a great shooter and McNeely and
then they've got some decent that they know who they are.
So I think Pat Kelsey's just going to be trying
to make the most efficient version of his team possible.

Speaker 1 (59:49):
For Mark Pope, I don't know that we still.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
Know what we are yet, and so I actually think
Mark Pope has a lot more work to do, not
just because we lost, but because he probably had a
vision of this.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
Team that I kind of I'm not sure it's gonna work.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
I don't know if you're gonna be able to put
O Way, Diabate Garrison out there at the same time
in crunch time and win games. So you're gonna have
to figure out a different way to do it. And
he likes the challenge. I think he's up for it.
But I think we saw tonight that probably what we
all thought this team was gonna look like they might

(01:00:28):
not be elite doing that. So they're gonna have to
do something probably a little bit different. Thank you all
very much for staying up. We'll be back on the
air here in just a few hours, so we'll see
it then. We'll see it then at cans Far at
ten am tomorrow. This has been the local toy dealers
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