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Chapter 1: What events are happening at Comedy Off-Broadway this June?
Comedy Off-Broadway in Lexington welcomes comedian, podcaster, author, and actress Zarna Garg, June 5th and 6th. Then from the Moon Tower Comedy Festival, catch Dean Stanfield, June 12th and 13th. And don't miss AGT finalist and club favorite Josh Blue, June 18th through the 20th. For tickets to all Comedy Off-Broadway shows, call 859-271-JOKE or visit ComedyOffBroadway.com. Comedy!
This is Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage and the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety Safe Summer Driving Tour. Now, here's Matt Jones. Welcome, everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio Friday, June the 12th, here at Mike's Landing just outside of Burksville, Kentucky on Dale Hollow Lake.
First of all, that was a nice entry, but let people in Kentucky hear you all this morning because it's a massive crowd here. There we go. No, you went over 100 decibels.
That's not allowed. Over 100 decibels.
I knew that could happen. Don't mean to scare the fish. I'm sorry. But nevertheless, we are here. It is a great crowd. One of our favorite remotes of the year down in southern Kentucky. I'm sure a lot of you listening around the state. Have never been to Burksville or never been to Cumberland County, but it is absolutely beautiful.
Some of the nicest people around the state, and I appreciate them coming out this morning. You can give a shout out to Clark's Puppet Shop. Phone line 859-280-2287. A-Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-774-5254. And this edition is sponsored by the T.J. Smith Law Office.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of Mike's Landing for this episode?
If you call T.J., he'll make them pay. We have Drew Franklin and Shannon the Dude who performed a concert here last night at Mike's Landing. How did that go? That was awesome. A lot of fun. Had a great turnout. Everybody stayed until the end. And we probably played a lot of songs that normally aren't played here. I think it's more of a country music vibe here. So you brought the rock.
We rocked the dock last night. That's right. Well, Mike, is it Bonita or do you do it southern and say Bonita? Which one are we doing? Bonita? Okay. I would go with Bonita, but I'll say Bonita. Mike and Bonita Humphrey here, they have ā this is the landing right here on the lake and 32 cabins. You stayed in one last night. Very, very nice.
I mean, I would highly recommend it for anybody that wants to come down here, stay in those cabins. There was three levels. I mean, you could have slept eight people in there if you wanted to. So, very, very nice. And then this is Poker Run this weekend. The first Poker Run they've had here. Lake Legends Poker Run.
And, Drew, everybody this weekend is going to be filled with people with their boats. They're going to be partying, tied up, winning. Well, maybe not tied up. The boats are going to be tied up. Not necessarily the people. Although everybody does different things on their boat. But, nevertheless. They're going to be all tied up, and they're going to win prizes. It should be a lot of fun.
I can tell they're excited. They have a bunch of booths set up. Everybody's got the t-shirts on. I've never participated in a poker run, but they seem like a lot of fun. I always hear at poker runs, this is the weekend to be here, and so I'm glad to be at the first one. This morning, folks eating here. They've got music, et cetera. Really glad to be here.
Like I said about this area, this was one of those areas I kind of discovered doing the book. I'd never been down here, never been to really this southern ā I've been to southeastern Kentucky, obviously, but never really south-central Kentucky. And it is absolutely beautiful. And even though the weather was bad earlier, it's cleared up and is nice.
We got a lot of stuff to get to, including my canes have put me in the quandary of game six or me going to game seven. But I want to start with the UK basketball, Drew. And I got a question last night. I actually was on the text machine quite a bit because people were writing me about the hockey game. And somebody wrote me and said something kind of interesting.
They said, Matt, I listen to you all the time. I'm very excited about the basketball season. But then it occurred to me that we have this team full of players. And outside of Malachi Moreno and Cam Williams and Trent Noah, I really have never seen any of them play except the one kid, Milan, when he shot threes and hit against us.
So this person asked me, and I bet there's a lot of people listening to this that kind of feel the same way, even if they don't say it. Could you give me just a little bit on each player on how they actually play? Like, who are the players we're going to have? Now, I will note, Jack Pilgrim reported yesterday, Trent Noah this year is only going to play the two. Do you find that interesting?
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Chapter 3: How did the concert featuring Drew Franklin and Shannon the Dude go?
Think about Florida that has a chance to put three bigs on the floor. He's not going to be able to guard those guys. So I think the better chance to play him is, can you put Trent Noah at the two? Maybe he becomes like a three-point shooter like Steve Kerr or something like that, and that's what you're trying to do.
It's a tough spot for somebody, though, who's preparing for one position all offseason, and then, oh, by the way, now you've got to play the two. We know he can shoot, so that's the one thing that can keep him on the floor. And he has an offseason now to prepare for it.
So I thought we'd do this quickly, Drew, about some of the new guys so that people listening could kind of, you know, learn a little bit. Tell everybody about our point guard, Zoom Diallo. The last time we had a point guard connected to Washington was Sevier Wheeler went to Washington. And Quad A Green also. And Quad A Green, that's exactly right.
But now we actually get ā we actually have two Washington players. What is our point guard going to look like? Because a lot of times these last 10 years, our team has risen or fallen based on who our point guard is. Yeah, I'll be honest, wasn't sitting around watching a lot of Washington last year, but once we got him and Kepnong, had to do a little research.
Unless he makes a big jump, probably not knocking down a lot of three-pointers at that spot, but he's a big, strong guy. I don't know if you all saw the video of him, just summer workouts. I mean, he is jacked. Who can get to the rim, hopefully be able to defend well in the SEC, and will be a big assist guy. When you add Milan...
The hope is he can get inside and then kick it out to Milan and the shooters and get the offense going that way. Part of the reason I wanted us to get Milan so much is this is a kind of point guard that I don't know how often we've had a guy like this. I'm trying to think, who's the last real pass-first point guard we've had?
I mean, it's been a while because Cal wanted dudes who went to the basket. Lamont Butler was a little bit of that, but he was more of a defensive specialist, and then Aberdeen was trying to score.
So we haven't had a guy like this, not a great shooter, but I think part of why Milan was so important, this dude is a great passer, and this is going to be a guy who guys are going to get open looks because of him. So I actually think if you're one of these kind of traditionalists who likes pass first point guards, I think you're going to like this guy.
And with all due respect to last year's team, Zoom can dribble. I think that's a big part of being a guard. He'll be able to create a little better. The passing's big. And the hope is he can make kind of a Lamont-Butler jump under Pope. Because Butler's offense got a lot better at Kentucky. I mean, the Louisville game's an extreme example.
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Chapter 4: What are the details about the upcoming Poker Run event?
He dominated the game. I mean, he really, like, UConn really didn't have an answer for it. Yeah, he's going to be, you know, playing against another level of competition. But he's played against those teams, even though he was in a smaller conference. He's played against some of those big teams. Can Kentucky be good if that's their best player? Like, how good can they be if he's.
He could end up being really good if he makes the jump. He's also very ball dominant. I mean, he'll play a little point guard, too. He's probably going to back up Zoom, really. I mean, you'll see him slide over a lot. But if he can create the way he did at Furman, obviously you're taking up a big jump in class there. But as you said, he's just a bucket getter.
I want to talk for a second about Milan, okay? Milan is going to be not ā without question, everybody's going to say this is a six, six-and-a-half-million-dollar guy, which ā You know, if you go back to when KSR started, you would have said, that is ludicrous. Remember, I mean, they said we cheated by getting Anthony Davis by giving him $100,000. Now you have guys getting $6 million.
Here's the thing about him. I want to just give you some numbers. He shot 52% from three. I don't know if he'll shoot, but he shot 52% from three, getting open looks, probably being the second best player on his team. If he were to shoot 52% from three at Kentucky, he would be the second best three-point shooter in the history of the school. It for a season. You remember Antonio Reeves?
He'd be better than him. Deron Lamb, better than him. Tyler Hero, better. Only Reed Shepard would have a higher percentage, and Reed was a bench player. This would be as a starter. Don't say Reed was a bench player. He was a bench player. That just takes me back. I mean, he shouldn't have been a bench player, but he was a bench player.
So, I mean, you're bringing in a guy on paper, Drew, who could be one of your three or four best three-point shooters in the history of the school. Yeah, and I said this on a show when you're gone, the records are in trouble. He hit like 20 more threes last season than Jody Meeks had in UK's record year.
Jody had the 10-3 game, which is outstanding, but Milan had like five games with eight threes. His percentage might come down a little bit because that's such a big ask to repeat that, but I think there's going to be some games where he can rewrite some UK history because he's that dynamic outside. Once he gets hot, it's over. I mean, we saw a little taste of it in the tournament, unfortunately.
Let me give you another example of a number. Now, they haven't kept this number except in the last ten years. So, like, you can't go back and see what Jody Meeks did or what Travis Ford did. But there's a stat now, open three-point percentage. If you don't have anybody in your face, what do you do? Our all-time leading guy at that is Antonio Reeves. His percentage was 61% at open threes.
You want to know what Milan shot last year, Shannon, open threes? What's that? Remember, Antonio Reeves is our all-time leader, 61. Milan was 71. That was crazy. I mean, that's 10 percentage points higher. than we've ever had here on Open 3. I hear you saying he's a good passer. I don't want that guy passing. Shoot it every time.
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Chapter 5: What insights are shared about the new UK basketball players?
That they spent the whole summer together. They did all these events. But Pope did team building where he basically said we want to spend the whole summer together. And the players were like, you know what, by the time the season started, we all needed a break from each other. And that they're actually going to do less of that this year.
Pope even said in an interview on the BBN show something like, you know, we've learned what works to get people to like each other and maybe what you don't do. What do you think about the less time is more time with your teammates? At least with last year, I think they were pretty unique. You know, we're never going to get the real answers, but we don't have to revisit it.
The Louisville comments, that whole first couple months, something was clearly off. This year I thought they were going to move into the lodge and hang out a little more, which I like. But I think the not hanging out as much was probably, hopefully more of a one-off situation last year because your teams need that. And I think they need a foreign trip.
I'm sure there are guys who might have done the NBA process that are tired. But I wish they ā and I get maybe you needed to say that in recruiting to get some of them on. But I feel like they need that so bad. Pope talked about that with his 96 team, how much it meant for them to have that trip and how it helped put them over the top.
And I hate that they're not following through with it, even if a couple guys are tired. I think I've hinted at it, but I'll just go ahead and say it now. Kentucky was supposed to play in the Bahamas. They had it set up to where, you know, originally a long time ago it was going to be Israel. I don't know who thought that was a good idea. Is that why the players didn't want to travel?
No, that wasn't it. This was to the Bahamas. They were going to play in the Bahamas, had a schedule of teams they were going to play, probably teams they could beat up on, and they've decided not to do it. I can't say what teams are going to do it, but that's probably going to be announced next week, and it's going to make people go, are you kidding me?
That could have been us, but they decided not to, and we'll see if it works. Yeah, for selfish reasons, we wanted to go to the Bahamas too, right? It was going to be like the first week of August, second week of August, and it was going to be four games on television. I think the SEC Network was going to pick them all up, but now that's not happening.
Would have been nice to go there, see the team, and see kind of what you got before the season starts. But, you know, as far as the players not liking each other last year, sometimes you just have personalities that don't mesh, whether or not you hang out with them all the time or see them fewer times. It doesn't matter. Sometimes guys just don't match. Sometimes they don't.
And I don't think they hated each other. I think we've really only had one team in the last ā 20 years that hate ā 15 years that hate each other. But it just didn't work out. And so hopefully with this set of way they're doing it, it'll be better. We'll go over some of the other players as well over the course of the show. 859-280-2287. Text machine is 772-774-5254. People have breakfast.
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