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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
Everybody, Welcome into the Leach Reports, presented by Bobcat Enterprises
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of the tape each Kentucky Ben's basketball game, so we'll
get his take on what's going on with the Wildcats
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and what they can do to get it turned around.
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by the way to Dick Gabriel for subbing last couple
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a cold, of a little froggy, so I appreciate Gabe
Pinch hitting the last couple of days. First Availability report
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is out for Kentucky football ahead of the matchup with
Vandy on Saturday, and for the Wildcats, there are a
lot of names on there. Some of them have been
on there for a while though, and guys that you know,
we already knew were out, but you can add a
new name to the out list this week, and that's
Jansen Dunne. So the secondary continues to get hit hardest
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by injuries. He's the backup to Quashed Scott at the nickel,
so it's another body they lose in the back end
of the defense. Also Nasir Addison, who did a nice
job pinch hitting for to Ryan Nichols when to Ryan
was injured. Who was pinch hitting for DJ Waller when
he was injured. Well, the Sir is doubtful for this
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week to return. Maybe they'll get him back for the
Louisville game. We would hope. Malick high Wood has added
to the doubtful list, so Ducky loose little depth on
the offense line there. And then players listed as questionable
are Alex Safari, to Ryan Nichols, and Khalil Saunders, So
it's an upgrade for to Ryan that could be good.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
These are guys that are got a.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Fifty to fifty at this point to play, so we'll
see how it goes for the injury list for the
Wildcats once the game rolls around. On Saturday and the
final reports come out basketball recruiting for the man, Christian
Collins reportedly is going to wait until the spring to
make his decision on where to sign to play college basketball.
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That's according to zagsblog dot com. Now he could make
an announcement between now and then, but he can't make
it official. Now that the signing period's over, he can't
make it official until the spring. Kentucky's one of the
three finalists at this point, along with two schools out
on the West Coast where Collins is five star wing
players also considering UCLA and Southern cal And coach Greig
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Skinner and his volleyball team racking up a bunch of
awards yesterday from the SEC and why not for the
undefeated run through conference play ahead of the start of
the conference tournament. Eva Hudson has been named Player of
the Year and Newcomer of the Year transferring in from Purdue.
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Four players were voted to the All Conference team. Cassie
O'Brien won Freshman of the Year, and Craig Skinner won
his seventh SEC Coach of the Year title, third straight
year he has taken down that award. Hudson's the seventh
different player to win Player of the Year, following Brooklyn
Delay last year, and O'Brien is the seventh different player
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in UK history to be the Freshman of the Year
in the conference. With thinking football Cutter Bowley might be
a contender for that given how he has won that
award three weeks in a row for the Wildcats. And
we'll get to all of this conversation when we come
right back. Brandon Ramsey's going to join us. We'll start
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breaking down issues for Kentucky basketball to deal with when
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Hour coming to you from the Clark's Pumping Shop studio, Return,
Refresh and Refuel at Clark's. Joined now by Brandon Ramsey,
the former coach does the breakdowns of Kentucky men's basketball
games for on three Sports and KSR and Brandon. As
you went through the tape for Michigan State, there had
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to be a lot to a lot of critique. You're coach,
you're breaking down the tape and issues where you know
your team needs to get better. Had to be a
little more extensive than it's been at sometimes in the past.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Right, Yeah, it certainly was that that. There are definitely,
I guess to put a little bit of a positive
spin on it, There are plenty of teaching points coming
out of that Mission State game. I found myself, I
always go through and kind of clip up some different,
you know, different clips I want to talk about or
things we went to write about. I founded myself it
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was it was taking me a lot longer to get
through the film because I kept stopping the clip seemingly
almost every possession of something that I felt like needed
to needed to be discussed. But yeah, it was. Certainly
it was not a good performance really on on either
side of the floor, offensively or defensively for Kentucky. It
was probably as as close to all systems failure as
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we've maybe seen since the last time Kentucky you played
at Madison Square Garden unfortunately against Ohio State last year.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You know the points of the big points of emphasis
going in. I know at the top of the scouting
report was rebounding, and they just got whipped on the
boards by Michigan State by fourteen. I don't have the
box score in front of me, but let's start on
the defensive end then, and rebounding factors into that. This
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was a team designed to be significantly better on defense. Defenses,
I think you tell me if you agree, as a
former coacher or somewhat like offensive lines in football, it's
five working as one and you've got to be all
connected and you have to communicate. Assuming that's true, what
are you seeing in terms of the breakdowns?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, I think you're you're seeing a group that isn't
very connected right now, You're seeing guys kind of get
lost off of the other team's good shooters. Like I
was disappointed in the fact that number two Kurtang and
then number nine four to from from Michigan State, like that,
that's a team that really only has two high level
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shooters and Kentucky allowed those two guys to get fifteen
attempts and they made six of them. Like that to
me that that was a much bigger issue than some
of the quote unquote other guys who happened to make
a few of their shots, Like, yeah, if you leave
Colan car open and he makes water, Jackson Coler makes water, mccaullus,
who's off the bench if he makes a couple, like
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sometimes you have to tip your cap and say, Okay,
those things happen. But when you let they're really good
shooters get fifteen of them off, I think that shows
that you know that there's communication issues, there's concentration issues,
there's urgency issues. That I saw that so many times,
whether it was getting lost in the ball screens, I mean,
Jeremy Fears was picking Kentucky apart in ball screen situations,
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and whether it was on ball off ball. It just
kind of seemed like everybody was kind of hesitant, and
it's sort of second guessing themselves as to where they
needed to be moving or what they needed to be doing.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
In both games that Kentucky lost, the opponent had twenty
or more assists, which suggests that they're running their offense
without feeling too much discomfort. Kentucky on the other end,
We'll get to the offense in a minute, but they
don't look comfortable. And you know, over a forty minute game,
the most comfortable team is usually going to shoot better
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and win. And that's kind of what's happening in these
two losses. How do they need What can they do
to make teams uncomfortable?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I think you just got to get to a point
where you're flying around a little bit more. Like I
literally two minutes before I came on the radio, I
was looking at Kimpom and I noticed how Kentucky is
allowing as many assists as almost anybody in the country.
Opponent's sistrate is like the sixteenth highest in the country
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against Kentucky, and Kentucky's turnover rates so like forcing turnovers
is about the same in the lowest category. So when
you're allowing a bunch of assists and you're not forcing turnovers.
I mean, think about a point guard. Like we talked
about assist a turnover ratio, and if you're assist a
turnover ratio is really high, you'd say that's a really dark,
good point guard. Well, it's kind of the opposite for
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the defense, and right now Kentucky's defensive turnover ratio sticks
and it's allowing but like you said, it's allowing offenses
to be comfortable, it's allowing them to get good shots.
It's a sign that they're getting good shots, that they're
assisting on them and we're not forcing any turnovers. So
to me, when you went out and you recruited a
group that's supposed to be stronger sop was before athletics,
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was before physical I would think that part of that
was was allowing your group to kind of be more
aggressive and force the more turnovers. And right now we
obviously just haven't seen that.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That With Brandon Ramsey, the former coach, breaks down the
tapes of Kentucky games for on three Sports and KSR,
It's at b Ramsey KSR on X and where else
can people find your your work to see the breakdowns
and hear your analysis.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, all the written work is on Techy Sports Radio
dot com. And then also just from the Michigan State
game alone, but from from a lot of college basketball
landscapes across the whole sport. You can go subscribe to
the Grand Ramsey College Basketball Show on YouTube. And then again,
as you said, that's at b Ramsey KSR on Twitter.
We're not promote all my work.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
As we look at Kentucky defensively, I would think there
it seems like for the way Mark has described his
defensive approach, it's all about, you know, contest legally, contest shots.
They talk about a lot and then uh, you know wedging.
They is the phrase they use a lot or put
a body, putting a body on somebody to get the rebound.
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So they want to contest shots. Have you shoot a
low percentage of at the three point line and also
twos a gleisvill shot almost sixty three percent on Tues.
And then go get those rebounds. And in this game
they were really poor in terms of limiting second chances
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and uh you know, contesting shots and then when they
did get a miss, not letting the other team get
a second chance.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, that was disappointing to see because going into that
that that game on Tuesday night, obviously in a relatively
small sample size, but even going back to like the
Purdue exhibition game, I was really impressed with Kentucky on
the defensive glass. I mean that they were one of
the leaders in the country in defensive rebounding percentage going
into Tuesday night's game. That obviously even included the loss
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to Louisville. But but but yeah, they got whipped on
the glass in Michigan State. I think was siss going
into that game and offensive rebounding percentage, so it was
sort of a strength versus strength and unfortunately for Kentucky,
Michigan State certainly certainly won that battle with their with
their big men around the glass that were just you know,
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kind of more physical, more athletic, and and that was
surprising and disappointing to see it. I think it had
a lot to do with, you know, the outcome of
the game.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Start a little bit on the offensive end. There was
one of the clips you put on x dot com
about Kentucky play a sequence where Kentucky's offense works like
it's supposed to, and I think Chandler makes a back
door cut off the left wing gets the pass and
then immediately leaps and throws an overhead pass to the
right corner wide open. Otega oway that catch and shoot
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three that he makes, and that is we the way
this offense is supposed to work. That kind of side
to side ball movement, make the defense move That kind
of three is exactly what you're find with Otega taking.
There are other times and the plays breaking down and
you're not getting anything, and the shot clock's winding down
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and you have to take something. There was one of
those little later in the game that he was near
the end of the shot clock and he just did
a you know, shaking bake step back three, didn't hit it.
That's not a high percentage shot for him, I would think.
And what you're looking for is, you know, to shoot
the shots that you hit any high percentage. What are
you seeing in terms of the offensive breakdown right now?
Because when I look at box score, like the first half,
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Modiabate took four threes out of five shots, that's not
the percentage you want. Otega took five threes and seven twos.
That seems to me is not the percentage.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
You want, right, Yeah, you're absolutely right. One of the
things I said, you know that, just after sort of
sitting down and breaking down the game as a whole,
I felt like that the offense that Kentucky was running
largely on Tuesday night, it felt like one that was
still centered around Jalen Lowe being the point guard. And
obviously he wasn't out there on Tuesday other there's a
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lot of high little balls, there's a lot of stuff
where it feels like that what they're looking for is
for the guard to playmake and create something as opposed
to like what we saw last year where it was
sort of the it was the entity of the offense
that was creating a lot of the baskets and you
saw all the passing and cutting and spacing. And I
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think when you go get somebody like Jalen Lowe, obviously
you're gonna give it. Give him the keys to the
car a little bit more, let him playmate as opposed
to just the kind of that the offense as a whole.
But obviously when he's not out there, I think you
need to get back to some more of that zoom
action and some of the stuff we saw last year.
And as you said, I posted maybe two or three
clips from Tuesday night where Kentucky did that and it
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worked really darn well and they scored. And there's a
lot of other possession where you just get no penetration
because guys like oh Way Aberdeen, Jasper Johnson, whoever it
may be there is not as comfortable breaking the man
down one on one. So they kind of need some
of that help from the spacing, passing, cutting, all that
sort of stuff, and we didn't see that enough on
Tuesday night.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, would see.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
On the defensive end, it's maybe just a more focus
on being you know, wedded to that scouting report and
getting where you need to be and communicating in.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Those things that that can be fixed.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Offensively, maybe they tweak the approach you're talking about, and
maybe you have to change the way you're doing it.
We've seen it in football with the you know, the
way the change the passing attack works very well. So
that kind of thing can change and it doesn't take
a month to do it right.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Absolutely, Yeah, And I think that's why, you know, really
I'm probably more concerned about the offense of the defense
because I think that you could play at the Michigan
State game again, and just in terms of shooting variants
and some different things, I think the defense would end
up coming out looking better. But yeah, on the offensive end,
I think it's going to take a structural change from
what we saw against Michigan State. Now. Is that possible? Absolutely,
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because the structural change is just something that I think
at least some of the teams should be very comfortable with.
And it's something that they're still clearly doing. Some of
that zoom action and things like that that I'm talking about,
it's clearly been installed, so I think they can. I
think the guys know how to run it, they know
they're comfortable, and then I think you just need to
see more of that and less of kind of relying
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on the individual playmaking. So is it possible, Absolutely, but
it will take some sort of a kind of structural
change to what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
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Speaker 2 (16:24):
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in about a minute, so we'll get into this more
after the break. But just as a player, it's kind
of you kind of have to have your own bit
of soul searching at that point, don't you.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
When you get beat as Kentucky did in that game,
every phase of the game was going to the other team.
Anytime that happens, it makes you as a player want
to correct it as soon as possible, and the only
way you can do that is to get on the
same page. So hopefully the guys will get together. Sometimes
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you have to discuss these kinds of things in a
close meeting away from the coaches. I hope that that happened.
Then we see a little bit better result, not just
the next game, but every game from here on out.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
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refuel at Clark's and we're chatting with the Goose. Jack
Gibbons got a question from a listener, Vinnie, and he says,
are you seeing the same things in practice that fans
are seeing in games or are the good things in
practice just not making it to the big games As
of yet, it's been the two Power Conference opponents that
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they've played, where those kinds of games tell you the
most about your team, and what they've told us so
far has not been good. So what about Vinni's question
their goose.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Well, the thing that is most obvious to me that
it's happening in practice but not translating over to the game.
If making shots, I mean, it's amazing to me how
guys like Trent Noah, I mean, it's rare when he
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misses a shot and Cam Williams, I mean, it's amazing,
and that is the main thing. And even the other
guys around them. Of course, we've seen Denzel make shots
but at times in games, but he didn't make them
it and that is the thing that is most obvious
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to me when it comes to something that's happening in
practice now, I guess in a backhanded way, Tom, and
why are they making shots in practice and not in games?
Is the reason why? Because they're not working as hard
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on the defensive end in practice and guys are wide open,
like we've seen in games the Louisville the game the
other night. Are we not working us hard so that
the guys who are had been making shots they get
the same kind of pressure that they get in games.
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I think the answer to that is probably they are
not getting the same kind of pressure on the perimeter
that they get in the games. So it kind of
kind of forces you to look at the thing that
I think is the biggest problem for this team right now,
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and that is what's happening on defense. You know, the
really really good defensive teams Michigan State, for instance, they
come into that game shooting twenty two from behind, the
three point line. The one thing you cannot afford and
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was talked about in practice. It's not like they didn't know.
The one thing you cannot allow to happen is for
them to start making shots because they have guys who
can shoot it. So you know, I get it. The
first couple of trips down, you might want to see
if they make it, but man, you have to make
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sure if they do make a couple of early shots
as they did, you got to take that away. And
Kentucky never did that, never made the adjustment. So maybe
the reason guys are making shots in practice so regularly
is that they're not getting the same kind of pressure
on them that they see from a really good Louisville
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team or a really good defensive Michigan State team. Maybe
they're not getting that same kind of pressure. So the
comfort that you get in practice that I had in
practice is kind of falls if you will, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I mean Trent and Cam in games are combined six
of twenty two. Those are two of your best shooters,
and you know they're shooting probably sixty percent in practices.
Now that's not you know, that's not always all. When
you hear those stats not all scrimmaging. That could be
just drills and stuff too, But you know it to me,
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not having not played at this level, you have you
can speak to this. It's just what I see is
this one team looks comfortable and the other team doesn't.
And defensively, you have to get you know, make the
other guy uncomfortable. In football, they called it affecting the quarterback.
You've got to the quarterback for the offense. So the
other team is the point guard, and both point guards
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in the Michigan State and Louisville games really kind of
just control the game.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Right, Oh my goodness, Yeah, I mean, I mean I
have to really set down, sit down, maybe go back
to the video and watch those two games to see
if I can come up with two, maybe three times
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those point guards and those two games looked as though
they didn't know what they were supposed to be doing,
where they get uncomfortable, where they have to struggle to
get the ball up the floor and get the get
their offense started. I don't know, Tom that I know
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in the Michigan State game because it's so fresh in
my mind, I don't remember a time when that happened.
And yet if and then I flipped the coin and
then I say, well, shoot, they're not stopping me either,
you know. But the fact is they are stopping you,
and they are making you look uncomfortable and the disrupting
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the offense, and they are making you second guess yourself,
and it just affects the flow of the game. Now
here's here's the thing. As I'm as I think Tom
about one thing that Kentucky's been talking a lot about.
You know, we talked about it, you and I those
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first three steps Okay, getting back on defense. Uh, I see,
you gotta have one or the other. Okay, if you're
not getting back on defense, you better go and attack
the offensive glass and man, that were times when I
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thought Kentucky had a path to an offensive rebound. But
instead of making that, they're already getting back on defense.
And there's a confusion because see, those first three steps
that we have been talking about comes after you make
an effort to get the rebound. Okay, it doesn't come
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after the ball leaves your hand going towards the rim
and you turn and go. It comes after you make
a hard effort to get an offensive rebound. Man, that
was bread and butterfoot some of the guys that I
played with and some of the teams I've played on,
we go get to get an offensive rebound. But even
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when you think about some of the shots, I heard
you talking with your previous guest, Mo, and I kind of,
I kind of forgive Mo. Okay, I kind of I'm
going to be easy on Mo because this was his
first time going back to the Apple to going back
to New York to play. All of his family was there,
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folks who had not seen him play a college game.
So one of my goose is givens. You know, it's
a given that this must happened. One of them was
questioning how Moe was going to approach this. Fortunately for Mo,
he came to lights, came back to himself. Yes, and
he started doing the second half what I wanted him
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to do from the beginning, and that is be the
Mo that is down and dirty and doing stuff. You know,
but that first three steps, man, that starts after you
go for an offensive rebound, Now I'm met. It's harder, Tom,
It's harder that way. But I saw Louisville doing it.
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I saw, you know, I saw Michigan State doing it,
going for the offensive glass and then getting back on defense.
So it's little things like that that make a difference
in winning and losing. So Kentucky just has to figure
some of that stuff out.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I look at Otega's breakdown of shots. He's attempted thirty
four to two's and seventeen to three so far, so
you know, yeah, and last year he attempted three hundred
and thirty nine two point shots and seventy six threes
and ye's. It's not always just about well, he's trying
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to show the NBA scouts he can make a three.
That stuff can certainly get into a player's head. But
sometimes I know, there's a play the other night he
had the catch and shoot when you commented on during
the broadcast how Chandler made the pass across court caught
and Otaka catches that in rhythm, wide opens, just catch
and shoot three knocks it down. There was a play
a little later where the shot clock's winding down, nothing's happening,
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and so he makes a little crossover dribble and steps
back and shoots a three. You got to shoot something
if the time's running out. So sometimes you get caught
in that spot. That's where they've they've got to avoid
taking as is, making that as the option as few
times as possible, where you're just kind of having to
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do something you want it to be more like that
play where Chandler got the pass and then fired it
over to Oway and the offense clicks like it's supposed to.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah, I call that settling Tom. You know you settle
for that shot. Yeah. My thing is, you get the
ball in that situation. Guess what. The other team knows
that you're in that situation. They know that you're gonna
have to shoot. My thing is to dribble one time
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closer to the basket. Now, pump fake, get the defense
up in the air, jump into that player so that
at least if I missed the shot, I'm gonna get
two free throws. But if I'm playing Oway, I'm saying, man,
i am not gonna guard you at the three point line.
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I'm telling them I'm not gonna guard you. So you
shoot all of those you want. I'm gonna give you that.
I'm gonna give you that. I'm not even going to
guard you. He doesn't need to do that. I would
love his numbers to be exactly the same as they were,
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but make a higher percentage of the threes you made
last year by waiting for that shot to come to
you as opposed to you going to get the shot.
There's so many ways that he could take advantage of
the talent he has, but he's just trying to figure
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out who he is. And all I want is for
you to be who you were last year.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
And a big part of that was getting to the line.
We talked during a broadcast at the Guarded. Last year,
he shot thirteen free throws, made them all. He's a
high percentage free throw shoots, shooting eighty eight percent this year,
seventy eight last year. He got there an average of
almost five and a half times a game last season.
He's averaged three a game this season.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
And yeah, that.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Sounds like a much, but that's you know, that's a
significant drop percentage wise over the course of a season.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
No, I think you're absolutely right. And what that does,
what going to the basket does, makes it easier for
you to get open for the three point shot because
guys now know they have to play you going to
the basket, You're making it easy on them. If you don't,
I'm going to tell them, I'm gonna say, oh way,
you shoot as many threes as you want. My man,
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I'm not even going to guard you out there. Let's
see if you can make them.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
No, you're defending him. That's exactly what you could do.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
And you're and again, as a player, you never want
to be in a position where you're doing what the
defense wants you to do.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Right.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
No, oh, man, what a great point that is, Tom.
That's just like those four or five shots that uh
mogat in the first half was behind the three point line.
There's a reason you're open. There's a reason that's because
I want you shooting there. There's no way I can
stop Mo dia batte when he goes to the to
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the basket as aggressively as he does when he gets
an offensive rebound, goes back up and dunks. So I'm
going to leave you open out there, Mo Mo listen, man,
I'm not even gonna guard you out there. I mean,
I'm telling him because it makes my job easier. So yeah,
you're absolutely right, man. You know it makes it so
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much easier on the defense. And then last point, when
he misses that shot, Okay, now I'm going to get
the long rebound and I'm beating them down the floor
and getting the layup. See because as I said during
the game the other night, sometimes those long shots, when
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it's coming from guys who shouldn't make a living try
to make a living out there shooting a three, sometimes
it's just like a turnover because I'm going to get
an easy rebound, as if I was picking off pass.
I'm going to get that and now I'm starting to
fast break. So it doesn't only hurt you on offense.
(32:06):
Now it's hurting you on the other end of the
floor when you should be on defense. But you can't
get back in that situation. So one bad shot leads
to a really good situation for the good teams on
the other end of the floor. So this team just
has to figure out who they are, what is my
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role with this team? And for those who say they
should know that by now, to some extent, I agree
with you they should, but they haven't seemed to figure
it out yet.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
It's good stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
We'll talk more about it tomorrow ahead of Kentucky returning
to the court against Loyola.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Thank you, thanks so much, Tom.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
That's the goose. Jackibbitts will be right back with Justin Rowland.
Not able to connect with Justin Rowland, and we've got
just a short segment here, so we'll see maybe we
get on tomorrow. So we brought the gooseback since he's
still available there. The arms arms loose already, so we'll
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give Yeah, I'm warmed up.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
I'm warmed up, man. I'm ready to I'm ready to
go again, have no question about that.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
It's been a couple more minutes of this one guy
that wish. You know, there's a lot to critique, but
one positive I think is how well Malachi Moreno's playing.
I was impressed, you know the other Tuesday night, made
a couple of mistakes, but you know, when you look
at his stat line, you can certainly tell he's been
in the game. He's he's getting to the line, and
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he made six of seven free throws, so he's improving
his free throw shooting and nice a beautiful pass dropped
one off to Johnson. So we're seeing him just get
more and more comfortable with each game.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Yeah, and I want to start with what you said,
he made a couple of mistakes, Okay, I want to
start there, because their mistakes and then their mistakes. His
mistakes were out of trying, really really hard, I mean,
and for me, for young guy like him, that's not
(34:10):
a mistake, that's a learning opportunity. Okay, And yeah, he
has played so well. He's he and you look at
him and when he works in practice. One of the
guy asked about things that I see that are done
(34:31):
in practice that may or may not be translated over
into the game. His play translates over to the game
into the game because everything he's done, and I've watched
a number of practices, as you know, everything he's done
starts with effort. Frankly, I got to tell you, I'm
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really really surprised about that because I watched him a
lot in high school and it it just seemed like
it was coming too easy for him, and I thought,
he needs to play harder, play harder, man, so you
can be there on the next level. Well, he's played
harder and he's played well, and it's grate for to
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see that. I'm telling you, he's putting a lot of
pressure on those other guys, those other bigs because he
has to get minutes. With the way he's playing. Somebody,
when Jaq comes back, somebody's going to lose some time.
And I don't think it's going to be him because
he's proven that he deserves to be out there.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Absolutely correct, Goose. I appreciate you jumping back on with
us to feel a little more of the content up here,
and we will see you tomorrow night down a rut.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Thanks Tom. Five o'clock arriving home yesterday morning was it
was tough to get over. I know it was for
you so as well. So I'm glad to be able
to sleep in my own bed, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
We got that right, thank you, Goose.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
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Pinch hitting the last couple of days. First Availability report
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is out for Kentucky football ahead of the matchup with
Vandy on Saturday, and for the Wildcats, there are a
lot of names on there. Some of them have been
on there for a while though, and guys that you know,
we already knew were out, but you can add a
new name to the out list this week, and that's
Jansen Dunne. So the secondary continues to get hit hardest
(01:28):
by injuries. He's the backup to Quashed Scott at the nickel,
so it's another body they lose in the back end
of the defense. Also Nasir Addison, who did a nice
job pinch hitting for to Ryan Nichols when to Ryan
was injured. Who was pinch hitting for DJ Waller when
he was injured. Well, the Sir is doubtful for this
(01:50):
week to return. Maybe they'll get him back for the
Louisville game. We would hope. Malick high Wood has added
to the doubtful list, so Ducky loose little depth on
the offense line there. And then players listed as questionable
are Alex Safari, to Ryan Nichols, and Khalil Saunders, So
it's an upgrade for to Ryan that could be good.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
These are guys that are got a.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Fifty to fifty at this point to play, so we'll
see how it goes for the injury list for the
Wildcats once the game rolls around. On Saturday and the
final reports come out basketball recruiting for the man, Christian
Collins reportedly is going to wait until the spring to
make his decision on where to sign to play college basketball.
(02:33):
That's according to zagsblog dot com. Now he could make
an announcement between now and then, but he can't make
it official. Now that the signing period's over, he can't
make it official until the spring. Kentucky's one of the
three finalists at this point, along with two schools out
on the West Coast where Collins is five star wing
players also considering UCLA and Southern cal And coach Greig
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Skinner and his volleyball team racking up a bunch of
awards yesterday from the SEC and why not for the
undefeated run through conference play ahead of the start of
the conference tournament. Eva Hudson has been named Player of
the Year and Newcomer of the Year transferring in from Purdue.
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Four players were voted to the All Conference team. Cassie
O'Brien won Freshman of the Year, and Craig Skinner won
his seventh SEC Coach of the Year title, third straight
year he has taken down that award. Hudson's the seventh
different player to win Player of the Year, following Brooklyn
Delay last year, and O'Brien is the seventh different player
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in UK history to be the Freshman of the Year
in the conference. With thinking football Cutter Bowley might be
a contender for that given how he has won that
award three weeks in a row for the Wildcats. And
we'll get to all of this conversation when we come
right back. Brandon Ramsey's going to join us. We'll start
(04:00):
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Hour coming to you from the Clark's Pumping Shop studio, Return,
Refresh and Refuel at Clark's. Joined now by Brandon Ramsey,
the former coach does the breakdowns of Kentucky men's basketball
games for on three Sports and KSR and Brandon. As
you went through the tape for Michigan State, there had
(05:08):
to be a lot to a lot of critique. You're coach,
you're breaking down the tape and issues where you know
your team needs to get better. Had to be a
little more extensive than it's been at sometimes in the past.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Right, Yeah, it certainly was that that. There are definitely,
I guess to put a little bit of a positive
spin on it, There are plenty of teaching points coming
out of that Mission State game. I found myself, I
always go through and kind of clip up some different,
you know, different clips I want to talk about or
things we went to write about. I founded myself it
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was it was taking me a lot longer to get
through the film because I kept stopping the clip seemingly
almost every possession of something that I felt like needed
to needed to be discussed. But yeah, it was. Certainly
it was not a good performance really on on either
side of the floor, offensively or defensively for Kentucky. It
was probably as as close to all systems failure as
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we've maybe seen since the last time Kentucky you played
at Madison Square Garden unfortunately against Ohio State last year.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You know the points of the big points of emphasis
going in. I know at the top of the scouting
report was rebounding, and they just got whipped on the
boards by Michigan State by fourteen. I don't have the
box score in front of me, but let's start on
the defensive end then, and rebounding factors into that. This
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was a team designed to be significantly better on defense. Defenses,
I think you tell me if you agree, as a
former coacher or somewhat like offensive lines in football, it's
five working as one and you've got to be all
connected and you have to communicate. Assuming that's true, what
are you seeing in terms of the breakdowns?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, I think you're you're seeing a group that isn't
very connected right now, You're seeing guys kind of get
lost off of the other team's good shooters. Like I
was disappointed in the fact that number two Kurtang and
then number nine four to from from Michigan State, like that,
that's a team that really only has two high level
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shooters and Kentucky allowed those two guys to get fifteen
attempts and they made six of them. Like that to
me that that was a much bigger issue than some
of the quote unquote other guys who happened to make
a few of their shots, Like, yeah, if you leave
Colan car open and he makes water, Jackson Coler makes water, mccaullus,
who's off the bench if he makes a couple, like
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sometimes you have to tip your cap and say, Okay,
those things happen. But when you let they're really good
shooters get fifteen of them off, I think that shows
that you know that there's communication issues, there's concentration issues,
there's urgency issues. That I saw that so many times,
whether it was getting lost in the ball screens, I mean,
Jeremy Fears was picking Kentucky apart in ball screen situations,
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and whether it was on ball off ball. It just
kind of seemed like everybody was kind of hesitant, and
it's sort of second guessing themselves as to where they
needed to be moving or what they needed to be doing.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
In both games that Kentucky lost, the opponent had twenty
or more assists, which suggests that they're running their offense
without feeling too much discomfort. Kentucky on the other end,
We'll get to the offense in a minute, but they
don't look comfortable. And you know, over a forty minute game,
the most comfortable team is usually going to shoot better
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and win. And that's kind of what's happening in these
two losses. How do they need What can they do
to make teams uncomfortable?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I think you just got to get to a point
where you're flying around a little bit more. Like I
literally two minutes before I came on the radio, I
was looking at Kimpom and I noticed how Kentucky is
allowing as many assists as almost anybody in the country.
Opponent's sistrate is like the sixteenth highest in the country
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against Kentucky, and Kentucky's turnover rates so like forcing turnovers
is about the same in the lowest category. So when
you're allowing a bunch of assists and you're not forcing turnovers.
I mean, think about a point guard. Like we talked
about assist a turnover ratio, and if you're assist a
turnover ratio is really high, you'd say that's a really dark,
good point guard. Well, it's kind of the opposite for
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the defense, and right now Kentucky's defensive turnover ratio sticks
and it's allowing but like you said, it's allowing offenses
to be comfortable, it's allowing them to get good shots.
It's a sign that they're getting good shots, that they're
assisting on them and we're not forcing any turnovers. So
to me, when you went out and you recruited a
group that's supposed to be stronger sop was before athletics,
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was before physical I would think that part of that
was was allowing your group to kind of be more
aggressive and force the more turnovers. And right now we
obviously just haven't seen that.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That With Brandon Ramsey, the former coach, breaks down the
tapes of Kentucky games for on three Sports and KSR,
It's at b Ramsey KSR on X and where else
can people find your your work to see the breakdowns
and hear your analysis.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, all the written work is on Techy Sports Radio
dot com. And then also just from the Michigan State
game alone, but from from a lot of college basketball
landscapes across the whole sport. You can go subscribe to
the Grand Ramsey College Basketball Show on YouTube. And then again,
as you said, that's at b Ramsey KSR on Twitter.
We're not promote all my work.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
As we look at Kentucky defensively, I would think there
it seems like for the way Mark has described his
defensive approach, it's all about, you know, contest legally, contest shots.
They talk about a lot and then uh, you know wedging.
They is the phrase they use a lot or put
a body, putting a body on somebody to get the rebound.
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So they want to contest shots. Have you shoot a
low percentage of at the three point line and also
twos a gleisvill shot almost sixty three percent on Tues.
And then go get those rebounds. And in this game
they were really poor in terms of limiting second chances
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and uh you know, contesting shots and then when they
did get a miss, not letting the other team get
a second chance.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, that was disappointing to see because going into that
that that game on Tuesday night, obviously in a relatively
small sample size, but even going back to like the
Purdue exhibition game, I was really impressed with Kentucky on
the defensive glass. I mean that they were one of
the leaders in the country in defensive rebounding percentage going
into Tuesday night's game. That obviously even included the loss
(11:51):
to Louisville. But but but yeah, they got whipped on
the glass in Michigan State. I think was siss going
into that game and offensive rebounding percentage, so it was
sort of a strength versus strength and unfortunately for Kentucky,
Michigan State certainly certainly won that battle with their with
their big men around the glass that were just you know,
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kind of more physical, more athletic, and and that was
surprising and disappointing to see it. I think it had
a lot to do with, you know, the outcome of
the game.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Start a little bit on the offensive end. There was
one of the clips you put on x dot com
about Kentucky play a sequence where Kentucky's offense works like
it's supposed to, and I think Chandler makes a back
door cut off the left wing gets the pass and
then immediately leaps and throws an overhead pass to the
right corner wide open. Otega oway that catch and shoot
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three that he makes, and that is we the way
this offense is supposed to work. That kind of side
to side ball movement, make the defense move That kind
of three is exactly what you're find with Otega taking.
There are other times and the plays breaking down and
you're not getting anything, and the shot clock's winding down
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and you have to take something. There was one of
those little later in the game that he was near
the end of the shot clock and he just did
a you know, shaking bake step back three, didn't hit it.
That's not a high percentage shot for him, I would think.
And what you're looking for is, you know, to shoot
the shots that you hit any high percentage. What are
you seeing in terms of the offensive breakdown right now?
Because when I look at box score, like the first half,
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Modiabate took four threes out of five shots, that's not
the percentage you want. Otega took five threes and seven twos.
That seems to me is not the percentage.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
You want, right, Yeah, you're absolutely right. One of the
things I said, you know that, just after sort of
sitting down and breaking down the game as a whole,
I felt like that the offense that Kentucky was running
largely on Tuesday night, it felt like one that was
still centered around Jalen Lowe being the point guard. And
obviously he wasn't out there on Tuesday other there's a
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lot of high little balls, there's a lot of stuff
where it feels like that what they're looking for is
for the guard to playmake and create something as opposed
to like what we saw last year where it was
sort of the it was the entity of the offense
that was creating a lot of the baskets and you
saw all the passing and cutting and spacing. And I
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think when you go get somebody like Jalen Lowe, obviously
you're gonna give it. Give him the keys to the
car a little bit more, let him playmate as opposed
to just the kind of that the offense as a whole.
But obviously when he's not out there, I think you
need to get back to some more of that zoom
action and some of the stuff we saw last year.
And as you said, I posted maybe two or three
clips from Tuesday night where Kentucky did that and it
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worked really darn well and they scored. And there's a
lot of other possession where you just get no penetration
because guys like oh Way Aberdeen, Jasper Johnson, whoever it
may be there is not as comfortable breaking the man
down one on one. So they kind of need some
of that help from the spacing, passing, cutting, all that
sort of stuff, and we didn't see that enough on
Tuesday night.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, would see.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
On the defensive end, it's maybe just a more focus
on being you know, wedded to that scouting report and
getting where you need to be and communicating in.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Those things that that can be fixed.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Offensively, maybe they tweak the approach you're talking about, and
maybe you have to change the way you're doing it.
We've seen it in football with the you know, the
way the change the passing attack works very well. So
that kind of thing can change and it doesn't take
a month to do it right.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Absolutely, Yeah, And I think that's why, you know, really
I'm probably more concerned about the offense of the defense
because I think that you could play at the Michigan
State game again, and just in terms of shooting variants
and some different things, I think the defense would end
up coming out looking better. But yeah, on the offensive end,
I think it's going to take a structural change from
what we saw against Michigan State. Now. Is that possible? Absolutely,
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because the structural change is just something that I think
at least some of the teams should be very comfortable with.
And it's something that they're still clearly doing. Some of
that zoom action and things like that that I'm talking about,
it's clearly been installed, so I think they can. I
think the guys know how to run it, they know
they're comfortable, and then I think you just need to
see more of that and less of kind of relying
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on the individual playmaking. So is it possible, Absolutely, but
it will take some sort of a kind of structural
change to what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
At b Ramsey ksr Ow.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
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It's the Lead's.
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against Michigan State. We'll got a heartbreak coming up here
(16:56):
in about a minute, so we'll get into this more
after the break. But just as a player, it's kind
of you kind of have to have your own bit
of soul searching at that point, don't you.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
When you get beat as Kentucky did in that game,
every phase of the game was going to the other team.
Anytime that happens, it makes you as a player want
to correct it as soon as possible, and the only
way you can do that is to get on the
same page. So hopefully the guys will get together. Sometimes
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you have to discuss these kinds of things in a
close meeting away from the coaches. I hope that that happened.
Then we see a little bit better result, not just
the next game, but every game from here on out.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
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refuel at Clark's and we're chatting with the Goose. Jack
Gibbons got a question from a listener, Vinnie, and he says,
are you seeing the same things in practice that fans
are seeing in games or are the good things in
practice just not making it to the big games As
of yet, it's been the two Power Conference opponents that
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they've played, where those kinds of games tell you the
most about your team, and what they've told us so
far has not been good. So what about Vinni's question
their goose.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Well, the thing that is most obvious to me that
it's happening in practice but not translating over to the game.
If making shots, I mean, it's amazing to me how
guys like Trent Noah, I mean, it's rare when he
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misses a shot and Cam Williams, I mean, it's amazing,
and that is the main thing. And even the other
guys around them. Of course, we've seen Denzel make shots
but at times in games, but he didn't make them
it and that is the thing that is most obvious
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to me when it comes to something that's happening in
practice now, I guess in a backhanded way, Tom, and
why are they making shots in practice and not in games?
Is the reason why? Because they're not working as hard
(19:54):
on the defensive end in practice and guys are wide open,
like we've seen in games the Louisville the game the
other night. Are we not working us hard so that
the guys who are had been making shots they get
the same kind of pressure that they get in games.
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I think the answer to that is probably they are
not getting the same kind of pressure on the perimeter
that they get in the games. So it kind of
kind of forces you to look at the thing that
I think is the biggest problem for this team right now,
(20:38):
and that is what's happening on defense. You know, the
really really good defensive teams Michigan State, for instance, they
come into that game shooting twenty two from behind, the
three point line. The one thing you cannot afford and
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was talked about in practice. It's not like they didn't know.
The one thing you cannot allow to happen is for
them to start making shots because they have guys who
can shoot it. So you know, I get it. The
first couple of trips down, you might want to see
if they make it, but man, you have to make
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sure if they do make a couple of early shots
as they did, you got to take that away. And
Kentucky never did that, never made the adjustment. So maybe
the reason guys are making shots in practice so regularly
is that they're not getting the same kind of pressure
on them that they see from a really good Louisville
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team or a really good defensive Michigan State team. Maybe
they're not getting that same kind of pressure. So the
comfort that you get in practice that I had in
practice is kind of falls if you will, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I get that.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I mean Trent and Cam in games are combined six
of twenty two. Those are two of your best shooters,
and you know they're shooting probably sixty percent in practices.
Now that's not you know, that's not always all. When
you hear those stats not all scrimmaging. That could be
just drills and stuff too, But you know it to me,
(22:26):
not having not played at this level, you have you
can speak to this. It's just what I see is
this one team looks comfortable and the other team doesn't.
And defensively, you have to get you know, make the
other guy uncomfortable. In football, they called it affecting the quarterback.
You've got to the quarterback for the offense. So the
other team is the point guard, and both point guards
(22:47):
in the Michigan State and Louisville games really kind of
just control the game.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Right, Oh my goodness, Yeah, I mean, I mean I
have to really set down, sit down, maybe go back
to the video and watch those two games to see
if I can come up with two, maybe three times
(23:14):
those point guards and those two games looked as though
they didn't know what they were supposed to be doing,
where they get uncomfortable, where they have to struggle to
get the ball up the floor and get the get
their offense started. I don't know, Tom that I know
(23:36):
in the Michigan State game because it's so fresh in
my mind, I don't remember a time when that happened.
And yet if and then I flipped the coin and
then I say, well, shoot, they're not stopping me either,
you know. But the fact is they are stopping you,
and they are making you look uncomfortable and the disrupting
(23:59):
the offense, and they are making you second guess yourself,
and it just affects the flow of the game. Now
here's here's the thing. As I'm as I think Tom
about one thing that Kentucky's been talking a lot about.
You know, we talked about it, you and I those
(24:21):
first three steps Okay, getting back on defense. Uh, I see,
you gotta have one or the other. Okay, if you're
not getting back on defense, you better go and attack
the offensive glass and man, that were times when I
(24:42):
thought Kentucky had a path to an offensive rebound. But
instead of making that, they're already getting back on defense.
And there's a confusion because see, those first three steps
that we have been talking about comes after you make
an effort to get the rebound. Okay, it doesn't come
(25:08):
after the ball leaves your hand going towards the rim
and you turn and go. It comes after you make
a hard effort to get an offensive rebound. Man, that
was bread and butterfoot some of the guys that I
played with and some of the teams I've played on,
we go get to get an offensive rebound. But even
(25:28):
when you think about some of the shots, I heard
you talking with your previous guest, Mo, and I kind of,
I kind of forgive Mo. Okay, I kind of I'm
going to be easy on Mo because this was his
first time going back to the Apple to going back
to New York to play. All of his family was there,
(25:51):
folks who had not seen him play a college game.
So one of my goose is givens. You know, it's
a given that this must happened. One of them was
questioning how Moe was going to approach this. Fortunately for Mo,
he came to lights, came back to himself. Yes, and
he started doing the second half what I wanted him
(26:13):
to do from the beginning, and that is be the
Mo that is down and dirty and doing stuff. You know,
but that first three steps, man, that starts after you
go for an offensive rebound, Now I'm met. It's harder, Tom,
It's harder that way. But I saw Louisville doing it.
(26:35):
I saw, you know, I saw Michigan State doing it,
going for the offensive glass and then getting back on defense.
So it's little things like that that make a difference
in winning and losing. So Kentucky just has to figure
some of that stuff out.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I look at Otega's breakdown of shots. He's attempted thirty
four to two's and seventeen to three so far, so
you know, yeah, and last year he attempted three hundred
and thirty nine two point shots and seventy six threes
and ye's. It's not always just about well, he's trying
(27:13):
to show the NBA scouts he can make a three.
That stuff can certainly get into a player's head. But
sometimes I know, there's a play the other night he
had the catch and shoot when you commented on during
the broadcast how Chandler made the pass across court caught
and Otaka catches that in rhythm, wide opens, just catch
and shoot three knocks it down. There was a play
a little later where the shot clock's winding down, nothing's happening,
(27:36):
and so he makes a little crossover dribble and steps
back and shoots a three. You got to shoot something
if the time's running out. So sometimes you get caught
in that spot. That's where they've they've got to avoid
taking as is, making that as the option as few
times as possible, where you're just kind of having to
(27:56):
do something you want it to be more like that
play where Chandler got the pass and then fired it
over to Oway and the offense clicks like it's supposed to.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah, I call that settling Tom. You know you settle
for that shot. Yeah. My thing is, you get the
ball in that situation. Guess what. The other team knows
that you're in that situation. They know that you're gonna
have to shoot. My thing is to dribble one time
(28:29):
closer to the basket. Now, pump fake, get the defense
up in the air, jump into that player so that
at least if I missed the shot, I'm gonna get
two free throws. But if I'm playing Oway, I'm saying, man,
i am not gonna guard you at the three point line.
(28:50):
I'm telling them I'm not gonna guard you. So you
shoot all of those you want. I'm gonna give you that.
I'm gonna give you that. I'm not even going to
guard you. He doesn't need to do that. I would
love his numbers to be exactly the same as they were,
(29:11):
but make a higher percentage of the threes you made
last year by waiting for that shot to come to
you as opposed to you going to get the shot.
There's so many ways that he could take advantage of
the talent he has, but he's just trying to figure
(29:33):
out who he is. And all I want is for
you to be who you were last year.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
And a big part of that was getting to the line.
We talked during a broadcast at the Guarded. Last year,
he shot thirteen free throws, made them all. He's a
high percentage free throw shoots, shooting eighty eight percent this year,
seventy eight last year. He got there an average of
almost five and a half times a game last season.
He's averaged three a game this season.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
And yeah, that.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Sounds like a much, but that's you know, that's a
significant drop percentage wise over the course of a season.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
No, I think you're absolutely right. And what that does,
what going to the basket does, makes it easier for
you to get open for the three point shot because
guys now know they have to play you going to
the basket, You're making it easy on them. If you don't,
I'm going to tell them, I'm gonna say, oh way,
you shoot as many threes as you want. My man,
(30:26):
I'm not even going to guard you out there. Let's
see if you can make them.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
No, you're defending him. That's exactly what you could do.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
And you're and again, as a player, you never want
to be in a position where you're doing what the
defense wants you to do.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Right.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
No, oh, man, what a great point that is, Tom.
That's just like those four or five shots that uh
mogat in the first half was behind the three point line.
There's a reason you're open. There's a reason that's because
I want you shooting there. There's no way I can
stop Mo dia batte when he goes to the to
(31:03):
the basket as aggressively as he does when he gets
an offensive rebound, goes back up and dunks. So I'm
going to leave you open out there, Mo Mo listen, man,
I'm not even gonna guard you out there. I mean,
I'm telling him because it makes my job easier. So yeah,
you're absolutely right, man. You know it makes it so
(31:26):
much easier on the defense. And then last point, when
he misses that shot, Okay, now I'm going to get
the long rebound and I'm beating them down the floor
and getting the layup. See because as I said during
the game the other night, sometimes those long shots, when
(31:46):
it's coming from guys who shouldn't make a living try
to make a living out there shooting a three, sometimes
it's just like a turnover because I'm going to get
an easy rebound, as if I was picking off pass.
I'm going to get that and now I'm starting to
fast break. So it doesn't only hurt you on offense.
(32:06):
Now it's hurting you on the other end of the
floor when you should be on defense. But you can't
get back in that situation. So one bad shot leads
to a really good situation for the good teams on
the other end of the floor. So this team just
has to figure out who they are, what is my
(32:26):
role with this team? And for those who say they
should know that by now, to some extent, I agree
with you they should, but they haven't seemed to figure
it out yet.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
It's good stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
We'll talk more about it tomorrow ahead of Kentucky returning
to the court against Loyola.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Thank you, thanks so much, Tom.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
That's the goose. Jackibbitts will be right back with Justin Rowland.
Not able to connect with Justin Rowland, and we've got
just a short segment here, so we'll see maybe we
get on tomorrow. So we brought the gooseback since he's
still available there. The arms arms loose already, so we'll
(33:08):
give Yeah, I'm warmed up.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
I'm warmed up, man. I'm ready to I'm ready to
go again, have no question about that.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
It's been a couple more minutes of this one guy
that wish. You know, there's a lot to critique, but
one positive I think is how well Malachi Moreno's playing.
I was impressed, you know the other Tuesday night, made
a couple of mistakes, but you know, when you look
at his stat line, you can certainly tell he's been
in the game. He's he's getting to the line, and
(33:36):
he made six of seven free throws, so he's improving
his free throw shooting and nice a beautiful pass dropped
one off to Johnson. So we're seeing him just get
more and more comfortable with each game.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Yeah, and I want to start with what you said,
he made a couple of mistakes, Okay, I want to
start there, because their mistakes and then their mistakes. His
mistakes were out of trying, really really hard, I mean,
and for me, for young guy like him, that's not
(34:10):
a mistake, that's a learning opportunity. Okay, And yeah, he
has played so well. He's he and you look at
him and when he works in practice. One of the
guy asked about things that I see that are done
(34:31):
in practice that may or may not be translated over
into the game. His play translates over to the game
into the game because everything he's done, and I've watched
a number of practices, as you know, everything he's done
starts with effort. Frankly, I got to tell you, I'm
(34:53):
really really surprised about that because I watched him a
lot in high school and it it just seemed like
it was coming too easy for him, and I thought,
he needs to play harder, play harder, man, so you
can be there on the next level. Well, he's played
harder and he's played well, and it's grate for to
(35:14):
see that. I'm telling you, he's putting a lot of
pressure on those other guys, those other bigs because he
has to get minutes. With the way he's playing. Somebody,
when Jaq comes back, somebody's going to lose some time.
And I don't think it's going to be him because
he's proven that he deserves to be out there.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Absolutely correct, Goose. I appreciate you jumping back on with
us to feel a little more of the content up here,
and we will see you tomorrow night down a rut.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Thanks Tom. Five o'clock arriving home yesterday morning was it
was tough to get over. I know it was for
you so as well. So I'm glad to be able
to sleep in my own bed, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
We got that right, thank you, Goose.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
And the airport was fogged in in Lexington, so they
had to reroute and read for a long, long trip
back home. We'll be right back with our final segment
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