Welcome, everyone. This is the local toy dealers KSR postgame show. Kentucky with a big win,

getting back on track, absolutely annihilating Valparaiso, 107-59 in Rupp Arena on rainy night in Lexington, Kentucky.

We'll open up the phones here in just a minute. 859-2-80-2287.

Shout out, by the way.

I just heard the commercial of a big blue deli downtown. I eat lunch there a lot. Sometimes that Billy goes and we get it for lunch, right, Billy? Great place. Good stuff. Yeah. Good stuff. So thank you. They've joined the post-game show. It was a feel-good game for Kentucky tonight.

I thought after the poor performance

against Georgetown, who by the way won by double digits on the road tonight against Maryland.

So maybe Georgetown's good. And the poor first half against Nichols was important Kentucky

come out and play well, and they did. I think they made their first five shots and were excellent. Let's just go over some numbers.

All five starters, all five starters in double digits. That's huge. Malachi Moreno,

18 points, gets a double double. They had 27 assists with only six turnovers.

That is a four and a half to one ratio.

You're not going to lose any game where you have that assist to turnover ratio.

They shot the ball 39% from three.

That's the first time they've been over 25% in a game this year. So that was a

great sign. And it all for me comes down to, well, two things. One, Valpo decided to play uptempo.

I'm glad they did it because I think a lot of teams in the SEC, the good teams. So Florida,

Alabama, they're going to play like that.

So I want us to have games like that. But also it's a very tough style to beat Kentucky at when you're a lot less talented.

And that's what ends up happening is you get run off the floor, especially when we're

hitting shots.

But put that to the side, the big difference in this game is clearly having Lowe and Aberdeen. You know, in the first half, the last game, Aberdeen didn't play a lot of point. He comes in and plays it in the second half. You see the difference. And then tonight, Aberdeen right out of the gate helps. and then Jalen Lowe, he played, you know, small amount of

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