Sunday Morning Sports Talk - January 26, 2025 - Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk on Anthony
White along with Jack Pilgrim and Larry Vaughugh coming to
you from Clark's Main Street Market Studios and beautiful, beautiful, beautiful,
beautiful downtown les To Kentucky. If you like to join
the show, you can join the show eight five nine
to eight zero to eight seven.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
That's eight five nine to eight.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Zero cats, Jack Well, Larry Vaught. There's talk on the
Twitter machine X machine about our roster at this point,
the way the roster is constructing. We were talking about
we were talking about that before we went to break that.
Trent was the minutes here. Is it because of his

(00:45):
hustle or is it just the lack And I'm gonna
say this, Larry Vaught, before you answered this question, and
you've heard me say this for years on this show,
and Jack Pilgrim said, when you come from an a
smaller school or a smaller level of competition where any
any player like who Elm that played defensive line for UK,

(01:09):
I was told that he could dominate a game at
any point, but he only does when he feels like
doing it, which I'm not certain why he would be
in a competitive match and decide to not give one
hundred percent or not dominate your opponent. I want to
dominate my opponent early so they'll you know, shut down
and I could just coast the rest of the way.
I don't give the I don't push a little bit,

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then let them push me. Then you push back, and
all of a sudden, you know at the end of
the game, you got to use all your energy. No,
deplete all their energy early and just coast if that's
how you want to coast. But I was told and
that's kind of what we witnessed that universe Hipskuky Kentucky.
Why matt Elam did not probably reach his full potential

(01:50):
is maybe because the effort wasn't there. But I think
he had the effort and may not have given it.
And that's no knock on the young man, that's just
human nature. Now we have a foster full of guys
who hasn't played at this level and you're asked to
play for forty minutes where everybody's not Georgia aymore, but
play forty minutes and give maximum effort and when you

(02:13):
get tired. We this is this is a blue blood
like there are guys you can put in. If you
have to use Trent or Travis some of those guys
to give you minutes to get your win back, that's
a completely different story. But to rely on you, that's
just kind of not the standard of University of Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Larry.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Uh, Yeah, that's an interesting dilemma right now for this team.
And I don't know exactly what Mark is going to do,
but he's got to kind of find some right buttons
to push and get the energy level back going. And
maybe it's just a I mean, maybe gays are just tired.

(02:59):
Maybe it's what you said. Maybe they're just not quite
used to having to play that hard every minute of
every game. And I don't know what it is. And
sometimes even Jack, I think there might be a few
guys and I don't want to use the word panic,
but they're so so competitive that when things kind of

(03:20):
get out of sync, just their natural inclination it's just
let me go take care of this right now, and
that just doesn't always work out. Sometimes there may be
a tendency to try to do too much, and that
gets them almost in as much trouble, maybe more trouble
than it does when you don't do enough if that
makes sense. Maybe that makes sense, Anthony, That's just what

(03:41):
I see sometimes.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Jack Pouvem, you got a response to that.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
You think maybe his panic mode at some point, I
thought earlier in the season, I think they got that point.
I thought Mark Pope was the guy to have them
relax and just stick to the script, and he put
them in positions where they don't have to exerge much energy.
Just do it they do for speed to the best,
not try and play outside of their games.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yet I think panic is the perfect way to describe it.
I think the twenty to four run to close out
the first half with panic, I think they were just,
you know, once thing's unraveled, it just kind of like
got away from them and they didn't really know what
the answers were going to look like. That's when the
turnover started piling up. That's when you started seeing the

(04:26):
you know kind of all right, well, I'll I'll take
the game over myself and you know, play my way.
And the reality is this team is just not talented
enough to play that way. Like the difference, you know,
when we the dribble drive system under cow that prioritize
athletes and skill and athleticism where guys like John wall

(04:48):
and go down the list of the best one on
one guys that just say, hey, I'm better than you,
I'm more athletic than you, I'm faster than you. It
worked for those those guys. When you have a team
built the way Pope built this team that you have
to rely on execution and shot making and you know,
creativity to create open looks because they're not talented enough.

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And it's not a flight against them, it's just you know,
they're more skilled and you know, better shooters than what
you know Calis teams were. They're just different, you know,
different identities. It's not a shot or you know, saying
one is better than the other. It's just you can't
play one way. You're built to play one way. You
can't you can't try another when things go south, And

(05:34):
that's where the panic comes from. You get you know,
Otega is probably the only guy good enough to do that,
and really he's not the guy to do that. Like
I just think, yeah, I agree. I do think that
there is kind of this panic of uh oh that
you know, we didn't get into our first set, our
first action didn't work. You didn't create the wide open

(05:55):
for Kobe Brea. Uh So, I'm gonna go do this myself.
So I think they just have to trust the process
and be it through every single time to trust that
that third look is going to create the clean shot
that I would rather have that than you know, even
Wieman Butler or Otaga or you know, Jackson or anybody
to get downhill and try to finish through contact at

(06:17):
the rent.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
I agree with you.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
The big Ass Fans Hotline is lit up, are lit up?
Is are lit up? Either way, We're gonna head to
the big Ass Faans Hotline to see what Mike has
to say. Good morning, Mike, what do you got for us?

Speaker 4 (06:31):
Right?

Speaker 5 (06:31):
Guys? I was trying to say earlier, you know, like
sometimes I think Mark's a little too smart for his
own good. Like seemed like information overload to me. Like
they've been studying the officials, and you can't study the
officials in this league. They're so inconsistent. I mean that
decided not to call anything else this coach offensive defense.
I mean, I get what he was trying to do,

(06:53):
But like I said, if you watch that Auburn game
and all the rest of the games yesterday, officials are
all over the So I think they called two fouls
in the first half on the Kentucky game, and it's
just there's no way, there's no lay to get on
top of that because it's just too inconsistent. It seems
like that's why they were a step slow. They were
trying not to foul in the first half, and then

(07:15):
they got it together finally, and then I do think
it was fatigue. You can kind of tell Butler's not
practicing because I think it's a little bit out of
shape at the end of the game. So he's not
better self ley, and I know he's injured and that's
probably why he's not practice. Say what y'all, Hey.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Mike, I do want to ask you this before you go.
Last week was a topic because you brought that up.
Last week was a topic that they were saying that
Pope isn't on the referees enough and you and I'm
I don't have a disagreement with your point. There's that
you're saying, don't worry about the ref just coaching team
and do what you got to do. But there were people,
quite a few people saying that they want to see

(07:52):
Pope get on the ref's tail and pressure to rest,
and I'm going to assume you don't think that's the case. Okay,
Well Mike left Jack Pilgrim. He made some great points
and the fact that and I've said this for years,
when you're coaching kids, and it came from me playing

(08:14):
at every level of football you can play. Come back
to Lexington and coach a pee Wee's team of kids
eleven to twelve year olds that had never played. There
was no team at the park, so I was asked
by a friend to help coach. So most kids started
six years old or something like that. These were eleven
to twelve year old who had never played, and I
had to try to get them to understand how to execute.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Now. It took a whole season.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
We lost every game by forty points, but it did
resemble football what we were doing the last probably six
seven games, but it was it was so the point
I do kind of agree with Mike a little bit
that Mark is very smart. But if what you are
trying to translate to the kids isn't getting through to

(09:01):
the kids, then it's it's more detrimental than it is
a growth because if you continue to play games, and
you've got to keep playing these guys and they're getting
creating bad habits and they're not picking up what you're saying.
You have to dumb me down your information that you
are provide to them more than at this point in
the season, halfway through the season, because like you said,

(09:23):
it looks like panic mode or lack of effort when
you're trying to figure things out and not just going
full bore on the On the athletic.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
Side, I wouldn't say the system itself is too complex
or he you know, it puts too much on the players.
I wouldn't necessarily say that, but I do think there
is a lot of truth to Pope's like just overconfidence

(09:54):
and just unwavering trust in his guys. Is where when
there is a sense of panic, when it does, things
are kind of unraveling. And it's a beautiful quality in
a person, just like, Hey, I believe in you more
than you believe in yourself. I'll go to the ends
of the earth for you, and I trust you. I
believe Like it's awesome. I love that about Mark Pope.

(10:18):
But I do wonder if there are you know, times
that like hey, the players need you to be their voice,
they need you to kind of write the ship and hey,
we're kind of panicking over here. We're kind of struggling,
we're drowning, and we need a life raft. Draw us up,
a play, draw us up. You know, let's get kind
of our feetback under us so we can find our

(10:39):
momentum again. And Pope, I think at times just kind
of sits and watches and it's like, hey, they'll figure
it out. I trust them to figure it out. And
that's where we kind of get into those twenty to
four runs where like whoa, hey call it time out,
Like let's hit reseat, let's you know, kind of regroup
a little bit. So I don't think it has anything
to do with the complexity. I just do think that

(11:00):
there is something to be said about being able to
hit reset and giving his guys a chance to catch
their breath and you know, paint the picture for him again.
If you're a little confused, if we're you know, not
getting where we need to be able, we need to
try something different here, let me help you. I think
that's kind of the disconnected times.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Unfortunately, Jack and Almanor had played twenty four minutes, gave
us twelve points, twelve points, four rebounds, Omari gave us
six points, five rebounds, four assists. He's an assist person,
he does get a lot of assists. Otaga gave us

(11:40):
thirty two minutes thirty three minutes twenty one points, twelve
rebounds to assist, two blocks, one steal, which sounds like
a good game. Jackson gave us thirty one minutes as well,
eleven points, three rebounds, one block, one assist, and Lemont

(12:06):
gave us twenty seven minutes only gave us six points
to assist, two blocks.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
One steal.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
And then the next person was Kobe bren who gave
us twenty one minutes, three points, four rebounds, one steal.
Larry Vault says, and like I said, for some of
the minutes that some of these guys put in, I
don't know if that.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Is a trend.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Like you said, the roster is set up the way
it is set up. You know, we have to deal
with the people that are not be able to play.
But I do I do find fault. What Larry Vault
says that Kobe bread And needs to find hisself a shot, Whinnie,
if you are the best shooter, so basically, if I
am Sam Benny Snell, and they put ten people in

(12:55):
the box, you probably shouldn't expect me to get three
yards on that carry. I think people don't want Kobe
Bread to score and they're they're tied on them. Larry
Vault feels that he needs to find a way to
get a shot off. I think if a man is
veil Crow, to me, there's that means there are other
four on four matchups that somebody else has to win.

(13:16):
I don't think that Kobe should take the team's responsibility
on itself to find itself a shot. You agree or
you do you think Kobe needs to find a shot.
I feel like if you are taking somebody else out
of the equation, now you have four on four matchups
with everybody else and somebody else because as you and
I will have stated quite often that Otega and Lamont

(13:37):
can create, you know, get down here. They probably can
beat their person in a one on one situation, and
that's what we're providing as long as Kobe takes his
man out of.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
The year to be able to help.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
Was that question director to, Yeah, yeah, you I think
I think this team in general, Pat, I think you
watch the Alabama game and you watch them, I mean
pull up from the logo you see them. I mean,
just hey, we're once we cross, once we cross mid court,
I mean it is there is a chance that we're

(14:13):
going to fire away. And I think this team has
become just obsessed with finding the perfect shot, and like
if if this, you know, if if you know a
guy is closing out on me, I'm you know, I'm
gonna pass it up, and you know, have Amari Williams back,
you know, back back a guy down into the post
from seventeen feet out. I would rather them, you know,

(14:37):
fire away and hurt the efficiency if it meant the
volume got up, because I just don't think that there
is a fear of Kobe Brea every time he touches
the ball and he's gonna launch, and and the way
it would open up for everybody else to you know,
have that those four on four opportunities. I just think
they're they're so calculated with the shots that they're trying

(14:57):
to get. I mean, twenty three attempts from last night
is not good enough. I know they made nine, but
if you're you've got to keep firing away, you got
to keep having you know, getting getting the volume up.
If the team is gonna have this identity of of
you know, mediocre defense but pretty solid offense. They're gonna

(15:18):
have to beat teams ninety to eighty five to win
games in this league. If they get into rock fights
seleuxes where it turns in a half core battle, they're
not gonna win many games. So I just think they
got to find ways to launch at a higher rate
and be comfortable being being uncomfortable taking shots. And I
think Kobe is a bit, you know, one of those
guys that if he's not wide stinking open, he's kind

(15:40):
of passing enough on shots. And I just think it
hurts opportunities for offensive rebounds, second chance, you know, opportunities
to get clean looks elsewhere. And you know that that
has been really frustrating for me to see. So I
do think it's not just Kobe. I think everybody is
kind of guilty of this. But I think they are
passing up on way too many shots and they got
to get that's all you.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
That is Jack Pilgrim. We will be back after this.

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before we let you go, we ain't got a whole
lot of time. We took last second a little bit longer.
What happened with Caleb Wilson, you'll get. You led me
to believe in most of Big Blue Nation that he
was going to be in the blue, the real blue
and white, not the not the baby blue and white.

(16:48):
He was going to be in the blue and white.
He's going to be in blue and white somewhere or other.
But is there anything that happened or you think is
becoming a bidding war for these guys?

Speaker 4 (16:59):
I think in il is you know, whether they will
admit it publicly or not, is priority number one, two, three, seven,
ten for a lot of these guys, and knowing the
Wilsons and how they operate, I can say with pretty
darn good confidence that nil was you know, very very

(17:20):
very big priority for them. But I do think I
just got to give credit to Hubert Davis and the
North Carolina staff. It is my understanding that they really
just kind of isolated the Wilson's there at the very
end of the process and just said, hey, what's it
going to take. What can I do to get you
in the powder blue and white, and just kind of

(17:41):
kept chipping and chipping and chipping and chipping and chipping,
and that it worked. It They Kentucky had a pretty
firm lead there, you know, fall going into the winter,
and then here the last couple of weeks, from the
last month or two, Hubert Davis just did a bang
up job, just you know, trying to close and saying, hey,
whatever it, we're going to get this done. You're my guy.

(18:02):
We're gonna we're gonna make sure that you are the
foundational piece for us next season. And you know, no
matter how this season goes again they're kind of a
train wreck right now. But however the season goes, you're
our guy. We're going to build around you. You're our
future here here in Chapel Hill. So it's a it's
a pitch that worked and resonated extremely well with the Wilsons,

(18:23):
and it's my understanding. It was just a flat out
win for UNC over Kentucky. So you know, it sucks.
Kentucky's gonna have to regroup, figure out what a replacement
looks like, who they're going to go after. You know,
I think for the money that it's gonna it costs
to get Caleb Wilson, I think you could get two
absolute premiere talents out of the portal. And you know,

(18:43):
I'm taking a you know that fifty year rule passes,
I'm taking two fiftyar studs over you know, an eighteen
year old you know, all day every day. So might
be a blessing in disguise that are unfolded that way.
But yeah, a pretty pretty significant pr hit, at least
in the short term.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Jack Boom five seconds, Yes or no?

Speaker 1 (19:03):
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Speaker 4 (19:09):
Absolutely positively would not miss it.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Me, you and Billy and Larry will all be there.
We will be back after this year. Listening to Stockyards
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Speaker 2 (19:37):
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Speaker 1 (19:39):
This has been a rough week for UK basketball and
I did not state a men's or women's. It has
been not a good week. Our female team only mustered
up fifty what was it, fifty five points fifty two

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and we had our first SEC loss. Are we trending?
And we did miss a lot of shots. I don't,
And it kind of reminds me of the male team.
It's fatigued starting to set in. Uh. We were back
and forth, we go down by a bunch, we come back,
and it just seemed it just seemed like Texas A

(20:22):
and M kind of kept finding ways to get buckets
and we didn't.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
Hopefully we're not getting laxed or we're getting over confidence
or cocky because we've had such an easy schedule, because
as you stated earlier with the men's, especially the women,
after watching that South Carolina LSU game, that the tough
part of the schedules ahead of us, So losing that
one of Texas A and M down there in.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Texas is.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Don't really bother me a whole lot, but I don't
want it to trend that way.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yeah, I think it was just, hopefully just a night
that they didn't just didn't make shots. Got a lot
of open looks and just did not make them. I mean,
they couldn't buy a three pointer. They missed some of
the fourteen fifteen foot jump shots that Claire Strack sent
so good don she just couldn't make any of them.
And it was just one of those games where it
seemed like their energy was down, their shots were off,

(21:18):
and Texas A and M just kind of hung around
and got controlled there at the end and won the game.
So big bounce back game today against Arkansas, a team
that you would think Kentucky should be, especially playing at home,
and then a big game on Thursday and Memorial also
with Alabama, ranked team that will kind of start the

(21:38):
tough part of the toughest part of the SEC schedule
for Kentucky. So this is one today they really really
need to win.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
And against Arkansas today, do you want them? Like I said,
the season's not getting any younger, the games are not
going to get any easier. The effort is going to
be there, and as I've told you for years as
a college athlete, after week one or two you are struggling.
You are You remember in gym when you had to
do that test. I don't even know if they do

(22:05):
it anymore. I haven't seen anybody do it where there
is a rope at the top of the gym and
you had to climb up this thing to get to
get your physical fitness awards, you had to climb up
this rope, which I mean, I was pretty athletic, but
everybody gets probably what the four five six feet man.
Once you start having a muscles start to get tight

(22:28):
and everything starts.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Some people just.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Slide all the way down, burn their hands, burn their thighs,
and their clothes, rip their clothes up. But that's just
kind of that's just kind of the nature of the
sec And that's what you know, if it's fatigue set
in like you said, it just it could have been coincidental.
As you said, we rolling the road. Uh you know,
we had these ice storms. So who knows what the
practice schedules and the rigor was as far as getting

(22:52):
back and forth to events and classes. Uh, and like shit,
we got Arkansas twelve. Is why we're only going to
be on to eleven forty today, but.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
I don't know you, so you're you are guaranteeing that
there's probably not fatigue setting in with uh. We played
a smaller We only played seven people. We've been getting
to about eight, but we played seven people and we
had three players with four files. So I don't know there.
I just don't want to panic. And I really like

(23:23):
this team. I really liked because last week we talked
about Kenny Brooks and I'm not getting enough respect. I
just want to make sure that we deserve the respect
we're getting.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yeah, I think Kenny, he's talking for this a couple
of times. He's kind of used to playing with with
short rosters. It's not like he's ever had a team
that could go eleven d or anything like that, so
I think he's used to how you have to do
practice to not overwork some players or over exert them
and all like that. So I think he's okay with that.
And they didn't look tired to me. They just looked

(23:58):
out of sync. They just they just had a bad games.
The way I'm looking at now, if they look the
same way today the next week, I'll come back and say, Okay, Anthony,
I think you were right. But for the time being,
I'm just gonna think I'm just one of those games
you just write off and move on and hopefully today
it'd be a big batsback game for him.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
And they were twenty two percent from the field in
the first quarter and they were still you know, had
a fairly close I think it was one point maybe
at the end of the and only shooting twenty two percent.
But the glaring thing to me was, you know, you
always count on I think things you can set your.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Clock by, or Georgia A.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Moore, Clara Strack and probably we both said last week
Hassett has been doing a great job of you know,
doing a lot of different things like she's just a
utility utility tool or whatever. But I think Clara stracts
two for twelve, six points, five rebounds is not what

(24:50):
you expect from her now what she expects from herself.
And I think the further you get into better coaching
and better talent. As again I to LSU as a
South Carolina game, they're going to strategically, like you said,
Kobe Brand needs to get shots. He doesn't get good shots.
As Jack said, he's scared to take the tight one

(25:11):
like some of the great shooters like Wally's Erbiak. I mean,
you give him, you give him five inches, three inches,
he's pulling that thing. But Claire Strack two of twelve,
zero for two from three point you we really don't
want to shoot in three pointers. But I think the
biggest thing five rebounds and the six points is you don't.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
You don't. That's not something we really expect.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
No, they're not gonna win games with her totals look
like that on the shooting percentage or the rebounding either one.
And also Amelia has this we talked about, didn't score
for the first time this season. Thinks she only had
two or three shots, and they can't do that either.
They've got to get more production from Herbert. Like I say,
it was just it was just a weird game. Texas

(26:01):
A and M got right up in them and really
got after him, and it just seemed like the Kentucky
energy level and flow was just not there like what
it had been, and they just kind of let Texas
A and M hang around at the end of Colston.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
And against Arkansas today, So you're not going to be
in town apparently because if you are going to be
in town, you will be in studio with me, So
you're not gonna be in town now.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
I'm hoping to come over a Thursday for the game
and hopefully maybe to come over so Friday to watch
the gymnastics because our gymnastics team came up that big
win over Alabama there at Missouri tonight. I think it
is Missouri Alburt So I'm hoping to have a change
to get over there and watch them.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Okay, well that is what that is.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
The Dennis Johnson and at Versailles High School, they're having
the Court fourteen Classic. Jasper Johnson will be there, Boom
will be playing from for sales. We have a little
Trinity North Laurel, Woodford.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
County, Taylor County.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Taylor County.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, then so these other people the Ride Wave Elite where.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
I don't know if you know who? You know who
Ryde Wave is?

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah, that's the Overtime Elite team that Jasper's on.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
But do you know who Ryde Wave himself is?

Speaker 4 (27:30):
No?

Speaker 3 (27:30):
I do not.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Okay, yeah, I don't know what the r W.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
So, so they will be in town. Are you you
going over there? I'm assuming it is uh. I think
it's kind of set up as a memorial for Alvis.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
I think kind of absolutely helpless to be something that
will continue every year. I want to see Jasper, obviously,
if you want to see Dennis, want to see Rosetta Johnson.
Alvis's wife won't want to see her. Also looking forward
to seeing Taylor Kenny play, the junior on Jasper's team,
who's from Newport, Kentucky. And it was a terrific player

(28:05):
the last three years here in high school and he's
down at overtime elite now and his coach has told me,
listen to this Anthony. His coach has been involved in
coaching for about twenty years from the high school of
the NBA level and thinks that Kenny is the most
efficient player he's ever coached. He said before him it

(28:26):
was a guy named Bradley Beal, but now he thinks
his ty Kenny.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
When Bradley Bell. Where's Bradley Bell from?

Speaker 3 (28:34):
I don't know, but Cory Frazer coached him at some point.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Okay, I didn't think he was from Ohio. That's why
it was like or Kentucky. So but then again he
may have been. I'm sure someone will fill me in
on that. I did enjoy going to see Jasper. That
is the first time actually I saw Jasper last year
at this event, saw Jasper play in person. And did

(28:57):
he not go like nine for eleven or did he
go eleven to thirteen or something and.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
For teen or something like that from three point ranging
at thirty six points? So I told Corey his coach
to day when I talked to him, it's kind of
big shoes, the field said. If he didn't do that
this year, was blaming it on coaching.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
And how was uh, the Jasper's season going thus far?
As I mean, we you know, we kind of questioned
whether he's gonna come with nil and all those things,
if he would play for for Sales or play for
Woodford County where his dad is the athletic director, who
you know, bringing some money to the community or whatever.
But he seems to be doing he seems to be
doing quite all right in the financial care category. But

(29:39):
as far as the basketball, I do see a lot
of highlights, and I see a lot of outlets posting
his highlights and profiling him on some of the games
he's having speaking to his dad or just you covering
it is he getting everything he's expecting and everything that
Mark Pope is expected.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yeah, I think Corey's really been Corey Fraser has really
been good for him and has pushed him in a
lot of different ways. And I really was in enjoyed
when I talked to Corey about he said one of
the things he's really emphasized it is making Jasper become
a more outgoing Person's become a better leader on the court,
enjoy doing interviews more. You know, Jasper's kind of quite

(30:20):
quite spoken. He's a little bit more like Dennis. He's
not like he's Uncle Derek anybody for as long as
he wanted to, That's not kind of Jasper's natural instinct.
But the Corey said he's really working on that, pushing
him out of that zone. So I'm kind of anxious
to have a chance to talk to Jasper and a
kind of see for seems to be a difference at
him or not.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
I'm interested to see that.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
I'm going to have to make sure I get on
the list this year and make sure you call.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Whoever runs Court fourteen.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
I had to spend quite You came in with bodyguards
and security and all this stuff, and I spent quite
a time at the ticket table just trying to get
in after we had had the person who set up
the whole event was on our show two hours prior,
and I had to spend quite a bit of time. Hynie,
get a free pass because Larry Vallam looking at these tickets. Man,

(31:12):
these tickets are twenty two dollars up to one hundred
and two hundred and twenty dollars or am I reading
that wrong? Is that something that's quite common? Because I
don't have two hundred and twenty dollars to watch my
nephew play ball and to have the dog on the
person who set the thing up on the show. I
have you on my show for free, and then I

(31:34):
got to pay to get.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Into your event.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
I think when you have Dennis on here a little bit,
he'll be all to help take care of that. Okay
for you. But I did notice that's a pretty premium ticket,
and maybe Dennis can explain this. I'm sure there's quite
a few perks go along with that higher price ticket,
so we will see. But I know they're expecting a
big crowd. I think the first games hit three that afternoon,
and then Jasper and his team play Hunting and Prep

(31:57):
at seven o'clock at Hunting and Preps. Got a couple
of pretty big time players on there too, so I'll
be a pretty intense and exciting night.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Well when we come back, Larry Vault, Well, you did
say that our gymnastics team is performing are performing down
in Columbia, Missouri at six pm to night, and that
is you can watch them SEC Network.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Interesting. Yeah, I didn't know.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
It should be fun, should be fun to watch.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
I'm I'm gonna ask you a little bit more about that.
I gotta make sure my girl Sharon Lee is gonna
get us another nine point nine or better because she
just set the expectation. We're gonna keep going with that.
But we will discuss that on the other side.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Of the break.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
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Speaker 6 (32:41):
This is the home of the Wildcats six thirty WLAP.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Welcome back Stockyards Bank Sunday Morning Sports Talk. I'm Anthony
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banking and financial needs. Larry Vaught, we have gymnastics coming
up today at six o'clock down in Columbia mule Zuri

(33:10):
and I did. I did bring up Sharon Lee because
Larry Vaught, whether you know it or not, I do
have I think I have social anxieties. You may not
know that, and it may not manifest itself properly, but
when we are around those young ladies or just in
groups of people. I don't know if I've ever told you,

(33:30):
I don't like being in crowds. I don't like being
in groups of people because I get anxious and it
irritates me.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
It makes my skin crawl.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
But Sharon Lee always looks at me and looks like
me at like a little puppy, like she feels sorry
for me. And at that point I have to be
a man's man and man up and do what I
have to do. So I keep speaking of Sharon Lee
because she's come a long way, as the coach stated
last week, and she came out the gates and balled out.

(33:59):
But Isabella McNelly, you can always count on her to
pull the team. So just kind of you know, I'm
getting interested in the team, and I think you all
who has reached out on social media and personally to
appreciate the coverage that we give Olympic and women's sports

(34:21):
in general, because a lot of people don't have to
do that and it may not be good listening, but
if you look at Nielsen rating you may think otherwise.
But we do like to give these women a shout
out because they are They're doing great things, they're productive.
We beat number three Alabama last week, Larry. Now, it
was yeah, yeah, last week, and so we're three in

(34:43):
one overall one and oher and SEC probably beat the
top rated team in the SEC. So what should make
the top rated team? But it doesn't work like that,
Larry vaugh, What are you looking forward to at six
pm today? I'm watching it. I'm gonna watch it.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Well, I think it'll be it's fun to watch. I'm
looking forward to Cavin chanskover and watch in person. But
when the release came out from UK this week, one
thing I had no idea about. I guess it's the
analytics I don't study or anything like that, but it
said that the Kentucky team ranks in the top ten
in the country on every event. Wow, pretty good consistency.

(35:19):
That you are a top ten in every event, and
the vault rotation is ranks number two and the Kentucky
Floor is number six. So it's very very impressive. And
I like that they've got just so much depth that
seems like that they just keep having running people out
there that are just putting up huge scores. And as

(35:39):
you said, Sharon Lee made her first collegiate appearance and
popped in nine nine out there on the beam, and
last week we had Tim Garrison. He talked about how
he thought that was probably the story of the meat,
even though Isabella McNally won two events and just keeps
piling things up. You could tell how proud he was
of what Sharon Lee had done. So they just keep

(36:00):
try that depth out there and do it really, really good.
And of course Delaney Rodriguez, who's been on with us twice,
continues to do very well in the all around competition.
And I hope we'll do the same again tonight, and
hopefully maybe next week or week after we can have
one of them back out with us again.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yeah, And I want to thank the w nineteen seventy
four collective for allowing us to get to know these
young ladies because now that I'm paying attention to them,
I said, I if I was just reading the news,
otherwise I would.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Say, oh, who's at Sharon Lee.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
She's a you know, super sophomore, just showed up and
now she's in the top ten in her event in
the country, Larry vaught. But thanks to the w nineteen
seventy four collective, we got to got the opportunity to
meet these young ladies.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
And here's it's probably a.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Dumb question, but she ll not she I do know
when we talk to Garrison, and you know, we talked
to the girls that's come on the show when they traveled,
they don't take all those people. And that's why I
ask Coach Garrison, like, if the meat is going a
certain way, can you move somebody around?

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Now?

Speaker 1 (37:02):
That is easy to do at home because you don't
travel everybody. So they're not traveling. All the people we
saw perform in the last that they saw performing the
last meet at home, right, Larry, And I think he
said that Sharon was a penciled in to perform, like
it wasn't like a last minute decision. So hopefully, and
I'm assuming after nine to nine, you don't just leave

(37:23):
her at home. But so everybody's not gonna travel, So
a lot of these people that scored at all last
week would not be able to travel with the team.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Is travel right to Missouri.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
He may, he may travel the majority of it because
like they so many of them compete that you may
go ahead and just and just take them all. I mean,
if you're taking a plane as we'll fill it up right.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Yeah, yeah, I guess. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
And il money that takes some of the whatever the
case might be. But we're gonna check them out of Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
Kentucky's got an extra five hundred thousand dollars now because
Vanderbilt storms the court. They got an extra five uther
tasks just to throw away and pocket change now.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
And you don't have to worry about the plane ticket.
You can watch them at six o'clock on the SEC Network.
But when we come back, we will have Dennis Johnson
to talk about the Court fourteen Classic in versales of
Whitford County High School with Jasper Johnson, our very own
Jessper Johnson will be performing next Sunday. We'll be back
after this. You're listening to Stockyards Bank Sunday morning sports
talk on news radio six thirty WLAP