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Welcome everyone.
It is Kentucky Sports Radio. Tuesday, January twenty eighth. I'm Matt Jones, still here in New York, getting ready to watch Cats and Balls coming up tonight, a game that is always exciting, but maybe a little less exciting after the news of yesterday. You can give a shot the Clark's Puppy Shop phone line. I'd say if I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven A Vision Auto Glass text machine is seven seven two seven seven four five two five four uh Ryan and Drewer in studio and Lexington.
Shannon is in Louisville. Ryan, I mean, I.
Don't like to start shows with bummer news, but it's I don't know how you don't do it. It's Kentucky and Tennessee. The continuation of you know, Kentucky's probably their second biggest rivalry in college basketball behind Louisville. I don't know what that guy that called the pre show, Shannon saying Tennessee fans don't care about Kentucky like they that guy.
He had admit it that there's a T shirt game every time Kentucky comes to play.
Though, that's ridiculous when I mean, we do hate them more in football, then they hate us because we they're they've been better than us. But the idea that it's not true in reverse, they hate us in basketball more than we got a ton of people we play in basketball.
That dude is just insane.
All he's got to do is look at my mentions after a game and then see what Tennessee fans think. But tonight, Ryan, with the news that Lamont Butler will be out as he is hurt, will not play tonight, makes this game, this evening a little bit less exciting.
Yeah, you know you hope to go into a rival's home court needing a win coming off a two game losing streak, be a full strength, so you can have a chance to pull a win out there.
But not having him, dude, that's that's crucial.
That's maybe the one guy they couldn't afford to lose for this game because they got Zaki.
I mean, Drew, do you think we can win without him? Like, if we're being completely honest, I mean, can we win without him?
Uh?
Yes, slim chance. But if Jackson Robinson is playing the way he did at Mississippi State and Kobe Burle will wake up, if Kentucky can just start throwing in some threes and have one of those games that they're capable of eventually, then you have a chance. But it will take some special shooting from outside to score points against this team without having.
But we agree that the chance to win is to go up there and just bomb threes, right, right, I mean like right, and we got to take thirty plus threes tonight and hope they're failing.
I mean, that's really our one chance of winning this game.
Correct, That's it, man, You hit it.
Because they are the number one defensive team in the country. They kept Auburn to in the fifties, another good offensive team. So yes, for Kentucky to win this game, they have to be able to shoot lights out somebody, two or three guys, not just one guy.
They ain't a couple guys to shoot lights out tonight.
This stat is amazing.
So Kentucky Shannon is zero to four when we've scored sixty nine points or less. Tennessee has only allowed seventy in one game this year.
Wow.
Yeah, and that does not play well into Kentucky's hands at all. You know, Kentucky wants the game in the eighties or nineties or above that even you know you play in the sixties or seventies. I don't like their chances.
All right, So let's talk about though, Lamont Butler, I mean Drew, I don't know you know yet last night when that news came out. So people understand the rules in the SEC have changed a little bit. You have to this is a gambling thing. In order to like preserve the sanctity of the game. You have to say who's gonna play and who's not. And generally speaking, I finally had somebody tell me how they get the difference between out.
Probable, et cetera.
Basically, if you have no plans of the guy dressing out and warming up with the team, you have to put it as out. And apparently the SEC has told teams privately like that's how it is, period. And if we find out you knew he was out and then you didn't say it, fine, So clearly they knew Lamont Butler was out. They have andrew Carr as questionable, which means they still think he could play. So if Butler is out, presumably he's farther back from playing than car. Pope said just a couple of days ago, it seemed like Carr might miss some time.
I mean.
There were rumors flying last night from on text to me. I have no idea, so I don't want to say definitively, but like, how worried are you up for Butler the rest of this year? Do you think this is just a game, Like what do you think it is?
Well, he seemed really banged up lately, and I hadn't been playing well for that, it's the fact that he's still been playing through it. I'm not as worried about long term. I've actually made up a positive scenario in my head that I'm just gonna live in fantasyland where Pope has yeah, no, no, everyone please get on board with this. I've completely made it up, but Pope has said, Look, it's at Tennessee nine point underdog, we're banged up. I'm gonna put these guys on ice and make sure we're healthy for Arkansas. So I've put that in my head. I have no idea if that's real, but I'm at least hopeful that maybe this is a butler. You have everything hurt right now, Let's get you a week and see how you're doing. But it could be long term because I mean they have him as out, not game time decision, not probably you didn't want to see out for a guy that has just been playing for you.
Out, which is what surprised me. The out.
I mean that says not playing. You know, I don't know. I mean, I'm not there I intentionally, you know. I'm a little surprised that Mark didn't do.
His radio show right now. Last time he won't Wednesday? Did they do though the day before a game press conference? Or no, didn't do one?
Uh?
Yes, it was Ansley Almanor and Jackson Robinson though, but no coach, No coach, They do the players on Monday and Pope on Thursday. Okay, all right, so that there was no we won't get any answers to the pre game.
Yeah, so there was no way for anybody to have to do it. So we probably won't know the answer until Pope does his his interview with Tom Leach before the game. You know, I have no idea. I hope it's I hope it's the scenario, Drew says. But let's just say Ryan that Butler were out longer. I mean, he has a shoulder issue. It's even like backs, you can rest if you have something in.
Your shoulder that's tougher.
Because it feels like that could be something torn at which point then I wonder if you're playing.
So that's what makes me.
I'm gonna be very hesitant until I hear what Mark says tonight, because there's a part of me that's very worried, Like shoulder injuries are not usually something that just like immediately get better. And the fact he's been had I mean I think he got hurt when during the Alabama game.
Is that before Texas A and m game. I mean that's a while back. I don't know.
Ryan, I'm probably a little more concerned than I was even on the car one.
I'm concerned, and I'll tell you why. This is a tough kid. I mean he, like you just said, he's been hurt since the A and M game. This is his last season of college basketball. He's playing a huge game against a team that was just a number one team in the country a couple weeks ago. He would go if the coaches would let him go. I think if you ask him, he probably would try to play. But we saw in the Vandy game there are a couple times where his left arm was just hanging down beside. It hurts so bad he couldn't even move it. So that's what worries me, because if he could go even a little bit, I think he could talk him in that he would want to.
Play, all right, So if I were to so, now, the question is what does Kentucky do we saw against in our last game we saw against Vandy. Honestly, I thought the moments where Kentucky's offense looked the best was when Jackson Robinson played point.
To be quite frank with you, do you think that's what they Drew do? Drew is this.
I mean, it's hard for me to see them starting Travis Perry on the road at the best defensive team in the country. Now, Travis's defense is weak. If you saw the number, I mean, if you saw the numbers that they released yesterday of plus minus defense, Travis is really really bad. But offensively like, but that's you know, Tennessee is not a great offensive team. Do you start Travis Perry or do you slide Jackson Robinson over and have him play like a scoring point guard.
That's a tough one. When the Butler news came out last night, I typed and deleted a tweet that said, Zekaia Ziggler get ready to learn lyon County. But I couldn't even smile with fake optimism because I'm very worried about that matchup.
That's a.
Butler has not played well offensive lately, but his on ball defense is pretty dang special, and it is a significant drop defensively where you're going against the player that, if I'm not mistaken, I think Zekay Ziggler played against Sean Wood and Travis Ford. I mean, this dude's played a lot of SEC basketball and you have a true freshman who when he's committed to Kentucky, probably didn't even expect to play.
Much this season.
You're now rolling out Knoxville where he's gonna have a lot, a lot of minutes, and that is a terrible matchup for Kentucky.
Yeah, I'm with And is that them or me that was got the discosi?
I think yeah?
Yeah.
All right, So you guys in Lexington, the tech people, y'all got to fix them. There's no I mean, we got to fix the Lexington feet because that's been an issue the last two days. Let me read you this Shandon about on off defensive splits. I mean this, this gives you a sense of what we're what are concern is. This is for the year, how we do defensively when guys are in the game. The best defender we have on the team by numbers with a plus eleven point five, not.
Surprisingly Lamont Butler.
Second best Andrew Carr, which surprised me a little bit, but I can. I mean, he's you know, he's had some good matchups. Amari Williams is third. That's nine point five. All right, Let's go to the ones that are negative. Brandon Garrison minus twelve, Kobe Braya minus fifteen. Travis Perry Shannon minus twenty six point five.
Ouch.
Al right, we only have three players negative period. But he is minus twenty six point five. Lamont Butler is plus eleven point five. So that means every hundred possessions, teams score thirty eight more points on on Travis Perry than Lamont Butler. That's I mean, I love Travis Perry and offensively I think he gives him a lot, but that is a massive Shannon drop off.
Massive. Yeah.
Makes it hard to make the case for Travis Perry being out there and getting minutes when he's getting eaten up defensively. The other number that you gave me there with Kobe Bray, I mean, that's a guy that you have to have on the court too.
But he's got life.
Yeah, if you're gonna be able to score, he's gonna be and he's a minus fife.
He's gotta shoot more than five times. He only shot the ball five times against Vandy. He's got to shoot eight to ten every night. They gotta get him more shots.
Yeah, it is. So it makes me nervous.
So I'm gonna if I'm starting, I'm gonna go Robinson Oway Bray Almanor Williams, which Ryan, that's not the greatest lineup in the world, but I think that's the lineup you have to go with.
Well, may be forced to go with that lineup tonight. I know, did you know you mentioned Zakaia Zigler Travis Perry. That's a bad matchup for Travis. I think ze KaiA Zigler and Jackson Robinson that's a bad max up for Jackson Robinson too. I mean, I think this Ziggler may just be licking his chops waiting to play this game to night against who they throw out there on him.
All right.
Drew CJ. Moore, who has been with the Kentucky team, He was there at the game Saturday. I think he's gonna be there tonight. I think he's there with them through the through the Arkansas game. He said on Field of sixty eight last night that he thinks if you were to get Mark Pope to have truth sirum to where he had to tell the truth. Right now, Kentucky's three and three in conference. He said he thought Mark Pope would today go into the postseason nine to nine and take it to finish twenty and eleven and probably be like a six or seven seed.
Would you do you think that?
Would you take it if you were Mark, knowing that Lamont Butler is out and we don't know how he and Carr how long they might be out.
I mean, it sounds crazy to accept that record as Kentucky, but the the analytics are predicting a lot more losses, not even counting the injury situation, and just uncertainty around two starters who have been huge for you and your biggest wins.
I think I would.
I think I would take it. It's really just to take I mean, not knowing Butler or car if you're gonna see them again, I mean, and I assume we will, but not knowing that, I mean, if you don't have them, it's could be a lot worse than nine to nine.
I would take nine to nine.
Yeah, I think I would take it. I mean, they're so banged I would They're banged up. In the schedule, it just keeps getting difficult. The kin Palm predictions have them losing. I think maybe even eight more ahead just with the numbers.
Yeah, I would take it.
I'd pick it in the second Yeah, I would too.
Man.
So, like I said, with the news about Butler, and car and would and not just a reflection of Kentucky, reflection on how good teams are this year in the SEC.
I'd take nine to nine and get twenty wins total.
Yeah, so I think I would too. And and tonight is for me. This is for me tonight. I never would throw away a Tennessee game. Look, we have twice in the last five years gone down there where it looked like we had no chance, and we've won.
I think we won the.
COVID year in a game that nobody thought we had a chance to win, and then we won a couple years ago with CJ. Frederick and Antonio Reeves games that we thought we had no chance. So I'm not giving up on it. The good thing about Tennessee being bad offensively is if you get hot, you can beat them. But for me, this is a game to kind of figure out what we have, because you know, with al Lamont Butler the season can look a lot different. A five nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven would you take nine to nine?
Yes? Or no?
In the text machine seven seven two seven seven four five two five four. Hopefully they'll get it fixed in Lexington. If not, Shannon, this may be like the other day it was just me and you, then we go do it. I hope you're ready for it. If that happen it bring Jay Williams on here. Let me arguing with it.
MJ.
MJ will be right back, walker back and is Kentucky Sports Radium?
All right?
So it looks like most of you on the text machine would take nine and nine in a heartbeat.
I agree.
If you're nine and nine, I think you're probably six seed five seed seven, depends on how things go. Because you got so many quad one wins. I mean, that's why those wins in the non conference will be so important. It seems like almost all of you would take it. One person rights, Matt, all right, that was a little negative in the first segment. Give me the positive case for how you make this work without Butler? Well, okay, you got to hit a lot of threes, right, you have to get Drew.
I think Amari Williams has.
Got to play like, no, no, no negatives, Like he's got to play great.
Almanor.
I mean, let's give Almanor his proms. I mean Almanor has had in the last three or four games, multiple games where he's made more than one. Three he made what do he make four in Nashville?
Drew, Yeah, four or five?
He made four in Nashville. So I mean, if he's doing that, if he can get you twelve points, then you'll take that. At that position. The problem for me is, Okay, let's say Jackson Robinson, I disagree a little bit with uh, with with with Ryan. On the defense, I think Robinson and o way, you know, they're gonna do as well as they can against Lanier and Ziegler. But then that means you're gonna have to play Brea and Almanor at the same time. And at that point, Drew, I really worry about what happens to us at the three to four position with those two guys having the guard.
Yeah, and uh, Tennessee plays big down low. I think the four and five are like six ten, two thirty. Not a great matchup for Almanora or Bria. But I mean, you know, on the other side, if you're running a gun and those guys got to run with you. But adding to what Kentucky has to do to win, whether it's making threes or whatever, Jackson Robinson has to win the Robinson Lanier one on one battle I know it's a team sport, but those two guys, I mean, if Robinson State in the NBA, there's a good chance. Laniers at Kentucky. I mean, he was kind of waiting to see what Robinson did. He was as high on Kentucky's portal board as anyone. They were very close. I think this is a game he's probably had circled on the calendar, and if he were to outplay Robinson, I don't think Kentucky has a chance, and he's averaging a.
Really great point. Those were Kentuck.
You could make a strong argument the Kentucky's biggest two targets in the portal The two guys they wanted the most were Robinson and Lanier.
They'd love to have had them both, but they were like, we gotta get one, all right. So they got Robinson.
Tennessee got Lanier, like this is your chance to go Okay, who made the right choice. Lanier's probably outplayed Robinson early in the year, but this would be a good chance for Robinson to get back. But you're right, I mean for us to win, Ryan, Robinson's gotta have twenty, right, He's got to have at least twenty for us to win, Bray has probably got to have. If you're saying, what's Kentucky's path to victory, Robinson twenty Bray at least three threes, four threes al minor at least a couple and then just hope things work out.
And if we're trying to be positive this segment. The last time Butler didn't play against Gonzaga, Kerr got hurt. They had to slide Jackson Robinson over to the point guard.
Had one of the best games. You know, he did great that game.
Yep, he You're exactly right, that's what Actually, that is a real point. We did beat Gonzaga with without Butler.
Yeah, they had.
Came came back from down big. Well, they came back once Crisa.
Went out too, That's true. They were down.
That's when Robinson just kind of stepped out.
Maybe this, maybe this is what happened. Maybe this is the moment Robinson like hits another level.
Let's with the three point shooting.
With three point shooting, I think the best wins are Florida and Mississippi State. And Kobe Brea hit seven threes against Florida and Robinson had seven threes against Missive State. It's hard to ask a guy to make seven threes, but it's worked out pretty well when they have hit that minute.
We need to ask somebody to do it.
Hey, yeah, right, shoot them off and Kobe, one of you makes seven threes. We can't win this game playing the sort of get to the basket. You cannot drive to the basket against Tennessee. We're gonna have to shoot threes and we're gonna have to make them. Who's up first? Shit, Bird, Bird, Go ahead, Bird?
What's going on?
Guys?
I got a two things.
Number One?
Did y'all see the fight and the early forfeit of.
Powell County versus Montgomery County basketball last night?
All right, So make your second point. I'm gonna have Ryan talk about that because he knows the facts. Go ahead, what's your second one?
All right? The second point?
I know Drew's gonna love this.
Did y'all see that Bill Belichick announce that they're ripping up turf at North Carolina and putting down grass.
They're going back to the where football should be played.
Well, that's good. I appreciate the call. I'm for that. Most places are getting rid of turf now they have that field turf which is kind of in the middle. Ryan, tell me about what happened. You know that it was all anyone was talking about online. Powell County Montgomery County. There were so many fights, a team quit.
I just happened to be there. So, man, you went to the game, Yeah, I was there. I was in the crowd.
I had no idea about this. How did you end up going to a Powell County Montgomery County game.
Well, one of my good friends is from Powell County. His son in law coach is Montgomery County, so he invited Josiah and I over to come watch his son in law coach against his old school.
So we wish is like Carmen san die Yes, though, like, you go to a Powell County Montgomery County game, do you expect to see Ryan Lemon walk in?
I mean probably, so he's in so many random places.
I doesn't suppose all right, So I didn't know you were at the game, right, So what happened?
I walk in and we got there at the start of the second quarter because traffic was a nightmare in Lexton last night, and they're in a twenty minute delay because there had just been a fight on the floor, and you could see the video where a Montgomery County player pushes some Powell County players. He gets ejected, but the whole Powell County bench, the whole bench left the bench and ran on the floor during all this. So not only did the Montgomery County kid get kicked out for pushing, the whole Powell County bench got kicked out of the game.
So Palell County's down to like five players and one bench. They had six guys. That was it.
They play for about four or five more minutes, and then with a minute left in the first half, a Powell County player pushes a Montgomery County player. He gets kicked out, and when he got kicked out, the whole Powell County team they just picked up their stuff, walked off the floor.
Minute left till halftime forfeited the game. I've never ever seen that happen before half.
So hang on they so Palle County at that point could have kept going. They had five dudes.
Trek craigt yes.
Why didn't they play The six guy on the bench was Shannon? Was he like me? And they didn't want to put him in under any circumstances? Why didn't they.
Put we're putting feathers in. I don't care.
Why why didn't they play him?
I think there was more of a protest walking off the floor. They were they were thinking a protest about how they how the game was.
Let me ask a question. I'm not trying to be cynical. Were they losing at the time.
They were down by about twenty twenty or twenty five points? Man, it wasn't even halftime, so.
They were probly hang on a second, So they were protesting down twenty at halftime.
That's the way I kind of feel it went. Yeah, they were upset because it was really physical, like.
A protest drew when you're losing by twenty and then you.
Protest, Right, what's the protest?
They were the ones that left the bench, right, Yeah, And now I'm sure the KHSADA is gonna come down on them. You can't just walk off the floor in the middle of a game without some sort of sanctions, probation, something.
That Wait a minute, you were a guest of the Powell County coach. Why did you let him do this?
Well, my buddy is from Powell County, but his son in law coaches Montgomery County. I'm sitting behind the Montgomery County banch.
Okay, right, Drew, do you think we're getting the unbiased view here? Since his son in law was a little bit of a lean here.
It feels like this was an anti Powell County lean and the way you told the story nothing but fact.
I just tweeted the video.
If anyone will, we'll see if there's a different story, let me know. We'll be right back. KSR.
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Aviashon Auto Glass text machine seven to seven to two, seven to seven four five two five four one person rights Matt. Last time we went to Knoxville, Dalton Connects had forty and we still won. I'm very confident. I like it. I mean it's good. I I we have won twice down there in five years when I thought we had no chance to win it.
So I'm not dismissing our chances.
The other thing is, Drew, if we if you, if you go back and look at those two years, we beat them down there. It's because we hit a ton of threes, right we got we got really hot, and we hit a ton of threes, and we have a team that can do that.
We've I know I've said this a thousand times, but.
If you go look and Mark Popitt at Butler, they would go win games they shouldn't win, and then lose games they shouldn't lose because of shooting threes. So like, if you're gonna pull an up set, Drew, this is the kind of team you can do it with because you can get hot and just bang a bunch of threes yup.
And it's not just the last five years. Literally the last two times we've been there, Kentucky was an eleven and a half point underdog and a nine and a half point underdog and one both times. Wow, So maybe we like being a big underdog. I note a half point underdog right now. Last year when Connect had forty reed Shepherd and Antonio Reeves had twenty seven each and Shepherd hit seven threes. So it was one of those games. We're have fun, Dalton Connect. We're still doing all right over here. They scored close to one hundred something if I'm not mistaken.
Yeah, One person writes, Matt, what about Trent Noah?
You haven't mentioned him? This could be a big game for him. What maybe?
I mean, I worry about Noah's defense, But then again, you know Tennessee's not a great offensive team.
So yeah, why not.
I mean, all these guys are gonna get a chance tonight, Ryan, everybody on the roster. I mean, Colin Chandler's probably gonna get a few minutes. You don't have a choice, right, These guys are gonna have to pulla so like you take Noah, Perry and Chandler, They're probably all gonna get in at some point. And then if one of them plays, well, maybe it gives them a chance to get rolling.
Yeah, you gotta think even if Andrew Carr plays, he's not gonna be one hundred percent. He can't play a lot of minutes. So I think Trent Noah does get on the floor again, and you know, at least he's the one guy who brought a lot of effort down at Vanderbilt. He stuck his nose in there on a rebound and a loose ball and fought for a couple of balls, and that's what earned him a lot more playing time.
Travis Perry is the thing though, because Butler's out. So Travis Perry, like, do I think he can guard Lennie here or Ziegler?
No? But do I think he may have to go out there and play. Yes?
And so you know what, Travis, this is what I would say. Let's not think about what you can't do. Let's think about what you can. When you get that ball and it's open, shoot it, Travis Perry, Jackson, Robinson, Kobe, Braya, Almanor. If the four of you get the ball and have it open three. If I don't see it go up, Shannon, I'm running to Knoxville to yet.
Yeah, the four of them should shoot.
Every single time they get it. And oh way, if you ever get your confidence back, I'll put you on that list too. It feels like he's not confident in his jumper. But those four guys, Robinson, Brea, Almanor, Perry, I don't care what. I don't want to see you pump faking Shannon, shoot the ball when you're open.
Yeah. I mean we were talking before the season started, thirty five to forty three point attempts. It's been closer to twenty five, you know, twenty we've been out shot.
The other team has taken more threes than us in four of our six SEC games. That can't happen. We're the three point shooting team, especially tonight. If you're open fire, if you miss it, you miss it. But that get We're not gonna beat Tennessee going off the dribble. We're only gonna beat them shooting threes. And those four dudes should not pass up any any open three the entire game. Last question, Shannon, I'll go to you this one. One person writes, mad, I'm up for a promotion at a police department. They said I need to sell myself. How would you guys recommend someone sell themselves in a job promotion interview?
Sell yourself like I'm what you sell yourself. I'm the hardest working person on the planet.
That's what you would say.
I like that, Yes, yeah, I would say if you don't believe it about yourself, then nobody else is going to believe it. Right, So you should sit there and say, what are the things I'm good at? And now let me say it with confidence. Don't worry about like sell yourself, but also say I like.
Every this is a big thing.
Shannon, say you work well with others because everybody wants you to be able to work well.
That's true.
Yeah, be able to get along with everybody. Unless you work in a place like this where there's nobody here, that doesn't really matter.
You don't have to work well with everybody who's something egg Richard, I think police department, though, you are.
Gonna have police, absolutely in police.
I think you are go ahead, Richard.
Well, I think our boys have a shot. Uh. If Karr can give us twenty minutes and the rest of them shoot a bunch of trees that hit say thirty five percent of and we got a shot and winning. This one other thing you're talking about yesterday and I couldn't couldn't get my fall to work right. Uh, y'all are talking about the uh the fourth down play in uh in the AFS. I mean yeah, AFC Championship game. Whether there has been six plays, six games like that in the last three years and Kansas City gets a break down every one of them.
Yeah, I told you, I'm just not listening to all these Kansas City conspiracy theorists. I saw this, and here's what I would say to you. Richard, You're right, I mean have there been calls. There was that sliding call, and I'm not saying there haven't been calls, but I'd also say this, I did look up this stat in the last eleven in the last seven years, Kansas City's had eleven playoff games that came down to a final drive by Kansas City where they needed to score. In those eleven games, Kansas City scored seven touchdowns and four field goals. And Richard, how many flags have they thrown on those drives?
Zero?
Zero, So at the end of the day, at the end of the day, they got to I appreciate the call. Game was tied, philidor excuse me. Buffalo got the ball, Kansas City got the ball, Kansas City scored Buffalo.
Did there you go like, it's just you know, it's like us.
We had some problems against Vandy, but then we were up seven with six minutes ago. We gotta win. You gotta win when you get to that point. We did neither to Buffalo. And that's the way.
Who's next, propane man, propane man, go ahead.
Yes, people are calling in about local drama when we have two of the biggest games coming up this week, and that's I feel like that's what we should be focusing on.
But other than that, first of all, local drama is if local drama is great, you're telling me that you don't care about what happened Kyll County.
In Montgomery County, that was a fight.
Ryan Lemon was in attendance, and he is biased and he comes in You don't think that's interesting.
It is to a point. But other than that, I'll focused on this Tennessee game. Bray is gonna come in, He's gonna have a career career night eight threes. We're gonna win by five. And to the last caller on the pre show, he sounds like a guy that swallows thank you.
Right, well, I'm really glad you you did that. If that guy comes in all holier than now and then he says that, like, stop it.
How many threes drew we got to hit tonight to win? Oh?
Boy, Tennessee doesn't score a lot of points. No, I think I think I said they needed thirteen to beat Alabama. If they had eleven lost by five, I was pretty spot on with that. I'm gonna say fourteen, getting crazy.
Fourteen, that would be forty two points. I think we'd win with I think we'd win with fourteen. I like that number. I think that's a good number. I think we need more than we would against other teams because against Alabama we were still able to get layups. Until we're not Ryan. You're not getting any layups tonight, Like there's no uncontent. We don't do well in contested layups anyway. And Tennessee's probably the best team in the country at protecting the rim and like stopping you from getting points at the basket.
Yeah, this game's gonna be in the sixties, maybe in the fifties, So Kentucky has to find a way.
It's the three point shot goes down.
Yeah, what's that, it's in the fifties.
We're losing, like we we ain't win in the fifties, Like we we gotta get to seventy and we might have to get to seventy five.
Wait, I mean, if it's a fifties, right, we're not winning, right.
No, I'd say even in the sixties, we're gonna have a hard time winning. They just got to find a way to get hot and outscore them because Tennessee it.
I'll tell you one thing, I think we need to pull a Powell County if they bank in a three. The moment they bank into three, Mark Pope needs to take his team and get on the bus out because there's something going on with that crap. And if it happens against Night, just leave. I don't care if it's the first half.
Yeah, I'm fine pulling the Palell County? Is that what we're gonna call it now, Shannon? When you forfeit pulling the.
Powell County a bunch of quitters? I they call Powell County or quitters?
How about Ryan Lemon being there? I still can't get over it.
Like you, I walked in and there.
Was just this week. Why were you there? Like it's like a reporter.
Yeah, it's nothing to do this funny.
The referees at one point, I've got to tell you this, went back to the locker room and brought out the rule book when they were trying to figure out what to do after the pow Cunny players left the bench.
And we're going through the little bitty KHSA rule book to figure out this till.
It's pretty obvious, like when the other team completely leaves the building that.
They have I feel like I could have I didn't need the rule book to say if the other team leaves, the one team that didn't leave wins.
Yeah, it's pretty obvious. I would think.
I like, they had to get a rule book. Is it not online for my atlas? They have a hard Copye they keep it about cocky back there. Yeah.
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What are the commercials they run in Louisville, Shannon?
It was about blooder control. P happened, didn't she?
She started the commercial by saying, P happens, Yeah, And I thought that had to be code for something, but she meant what she said.
Yeah.
She said it happens in bed, it happens in your car.
She said, it happens in the car just driving down the road. Does that happen?
You never tinkled while you were driving down the road.
Not just down the road, Like I'm not just driving down the road listening to the pre show, just like here we go.
I mean, I that makes people happy, appreciate, It makes people.
Say to my bosses at all, I'm like, we got to work on the ad sales in Louisville because like in Lexington, we're sold out on the network, we're sold out.
But in Louisville, I don't know what happens.
But they don't always sell the inventory, so they end up filling the rest of it, which is crazy because our ratings in Louisville.
More people listening in Louisville than even in Lexing.
I heard they were looking for an endorser for people that pee their pants? Would you like.
A pee happens?
And it's like, for those of you listening in Louisville, you always hear pee happens. You hear I'm not a lawyer. You hear Trump watches and I'm like, Shannon, what is happening in Louisville? That that's the commercials that run all the time.
I don't know. You act like I picked the commercials. I always play what's in the log I don't know what's gonna come up next.
By the way, I did during the break, I donated yet again to God's Pantry, the forty one dollars God's Pantry dot org slash KSR. It's it literally took forty five seconds. So I did it during the break. I try to do it every break. After I read one Drew, you said you did a donation in honor of someone besides Mark Pope.
Yes, I felt I gave fifty that's one for every time we've played Ziegler. I'm hoping it'll give us a little magic before tonight. And as soon as I did it to hit me, I should have done fifty four for Jody Meeks. So before tip off I might throw other fifty four and there for some good vibes.
Yeah, fifty dollars for every time we played Ziegler. He has been there a long time.
And you know, they don't have the same Croatian or Serbian they used to have, Ryan, but they have a new one. Remember they had that one dude for years, he laughed, and now they got another one.
And I think this was better than the other one.
Was ick sic or something like that. I'm not a president exactly right, but yeah, he's just a big, big butt post player that's gonna push.
Was gonna be Shannon. As soon as he said big, I was holding my breath. Please Ryan, whatever's next, make it. But then it's always, but every time he does it, it's always, it's always. But all right, so we gotta talk for just thinking about Liam Cohen, you know, like I like Liam, but he's making it tough.
Shannon. You're not a fan, right, Like you're not a whole.
No, I don't trust this guy.
All right.
So, you know, the NFL, like the NFL fan base, sports fan base is the world, and as a whole doesn't really know Liam Cohen like we did in Kentucky, right, Like they may have heard of him as who is the guy that's done a pretty good job with Tampa Bay, but now he's a Jacksonville coach. First thing they hear about him is the whole didn't tell is his head coach? He was going like, so they're already thinking he's a little shady, little weird.
And then he does this press conference yesterday and I don't know, man.
You know, they always talk about winning the press conference, but Shannon, there might be some times that you definitively.
Lose the press conference. Right.
You don't think people can ruin their first impression in four seconds, but maybe you can because for people who don't know in Jacksonville, that's located in Duval County, and you know they do this thing where they.
Go Duval, Right, that's what they do. Yes, does he make them back me up on? That's what they do? That's what they that's what they do, right.
Yeah, Well, Liam Cohen tried to do that, and I don't.
Know that it went exactly perfect. Go ahead, Duval now does it? He raises How would you describe.
His facial expression when he does it, Shannon, He raises his eyebrows and what would you say?
That's he looks like a complete goober to me?
Wom dude, ball and now everyone has made fun of me?
People you know.
Barstool retweeted it and just wrote, Ohen seventeen. It is there's a whole group of people around the country that all they know about Liam Cohen.
Is this, And I would be like, this is our guy, this guy.
You didn't play it again? I thought, youlay it again?
You usually ball?
There you go, drough. I know you like Liam Cohen.
What do you make of the fact that he's now like everyone in the country is making fun of him?
When I saw this yesterday, and it's it's more than just the Duvall's. He was kind of awkward all day. I even told a few people I didn't know Liam very well, but I was around him enough when he was here, you know, doing interviews, just seeing him out, I didn't realize he was so corny, like he seems almost like a character from the office and that duval like if you it's your first day on the job, you're getting fired. And one he did it like he's in the back row at church to someone next to him that's excited about the jagson and like he's trying to keep his voice down and not not do it too out at the press conference.
That's what I was gonna say.
He sounded like he was at the library, and you know he's he's not a raw, raw guy to begin with. He's trying to fake it be a raw rock guy. But like he's in the back of the library. And he didn't even say it right. You know, the emphasis is on the wrong part of it.
Dude, Like he said it like a cycle. He said it like a psycho killer. That's what he said it. He said it like he's trying to this is what I think.
It sounds like he's at church or to movie theater and he's trying to shin and whisper to his girl, yeah in.
A really awkward way. And then he does this. Dude, all it like runs up my back. The way he does it.
He doesn't need to ever do it ever again, needs.
To do it again ever?
No, And now The last coach to get mocked this much at their opening press conference was Nick Sirianni with the Eagles, and he's been two Super Bowls Drew, so now.
You know, maybe they don't.
Maybe it works out for Liam, but I'm not sure he could have been cringier.
I love what you said about the office.
He does seem a little bit like Kevin or something from the office, like it's it's I don't think it could have gone worse dreue for Liam yesterday, could it?
Did You see a clip of him walking into the building and he's not doing anything wrong, He's just smiling. It's his first time as a head coach, so I mean whatever, but it was very uncomfortable just to wall. It's like he didn't know who to talk to or whose hands to shake. Jacksonville didn't really help out. They're just staring at him. But he's like, Hey, I like your belt. My wife has that belt. I was like, oh, this is weird.
He's so awkward in these videos, and you know, I don't remember him Ryan being really awkward here, but it almost feels like when he crossed the state line in Florida, the cringe just went up a huge group of notches.
Yeah, I always got the impression he was kind of a little nerdy guy, like I said, not real charismatic, not a raw raw guy whatsoever, just really really good at what he does.
What about planting roots though he ran that one back, so it's true.
Yeah, man plant roots and Jackamill.
All right, well we will take a break.
We'll take your calls more on Kentucky, Tennessee right after this, OKSR duvall
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