Welcome in to the Sources Say podcast, your go-to Kentucky basketball podcast on the KSR podcast network.

I am your host, Jack Pilgrim of Kentucky Sports Radio.

Very excited to be joined once again by the Smiths.

We got Sean Smith coach at Frederick Douglas High School to my right and then Spencer Smith of Synergy Sports to my left. So got the gang back together. What's going on guys? Sean, let's start with you. How are you? How the heck are you? I am fantastic, Jack Pilgrim. How are you doing? I'll just, we get to play the top 10 matchup at Rupp Arena this weekend. Are you crazy?

I've never been better in my entire life. But before we dig into that, Spencer, how are you doing on this lovely Tuesday evening? Yeah, I'm doing great. It's game week, right? Like, we wait all spring and summer and fall for game week. and game week's here. It's a game that doesn't count. I don't care.

Ruff's going to be packed.

For those in the comments who have been asking, Sean and I are not related.

Sadly. and fall for game week and game week's here it's a game that doesn't count i don't care ruff's going to be packed um for those in the comments who have been asking sean and i are not related sadly we're not related we just happen to have a very common last name but people in the comments keep asking so let's just address it early s smith we got the alliteration going we got the the overlaps of the last names but uh yeah i love love you both. And I'm very excited for this one,

because as Spencer said, it's game week, baby. We got a top 10 matchup inside of Rupp Arena, number

one, Purdue Boilermakers against the number nine Kentucky Wildcats. It does truly not get better

than that. We're going to talk the ins and outs of that matchup, who to watch for, just, you know, things that we're keeping a very close eye on, the things we need to see, things we want to see, all that good stuff. But before that, we haven't gotten the chance to dig into the blue white game and kind of what unfolded there. The big news that came out of that blue white game, unfortunately, the one thing that we kind of had in the

back of our mind that we said couldn't happen, did happen. Jalen Lowe goes down with a shoulder

injury. Fortunately, it's his right non-shooting shoulder. And we've heard great, great, great, great,

great things ever since, you know, basically the shock of him going down and not being able to move it.

I watched the training staff kind of pop it back into place and it was like, oh, I don't love

that.

I do not like seeing him, you know, be in excruciating pain and then walk off the floor,

not able to move his shoulder, go straight back into the locker room.

We're like, oh, man, that's just the worst. That's the absolute worst. But fortunately, Mark Pope had some positive news to share, said that he really responded, well, 48 hours afterward. And, you know, definitely not something to worry about long, long term. But it's still something that's very likely to keep him out. But I guess let's start Sean first takeaway.

When you see Jalen Lowe go down, would immediately go through your mind in kind of the following

steps of, okay, well, now we've got to replace point guard one, who steps in, who's going to

be able to step up, those sorts of things.

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