John Calipari
John Calipari
John Vincent Calipariis an American college basketball coach. Since 2009, he has been the head coach at the University of Kentucky. Calipari was previously the head coach at the University of Memphisand the University of Massachusetts. He was also the head coach of the National Basketball Association's New Jersey Netsand the Dominican Republic national basketball team in 2011 and 2012...
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It was a pretty good effort, and I was happy with some of the spurts we had.
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I'm not crazy like him. I can't do it all because I have the old roots of you have to be able to slug it out, grind it out. But it's been a great experience.
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Rodney scored a bunch of points, but let me tell you what Rodney did -- he defended. Late in the game, he did not get beat on the dribble one time.
build chance coming national program top win
I said 'I'm coming in here to build a program to get us into the top 10 and give us a chance to win a national championship,' and I haven't wavered from that.
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Our half-court defense is still our staple. That's what we are. We want to make the game hard for the other team. It's hard to run plays when you can switch and do the things we do.
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I didn't like the start of the game. The first two shots were not how you start a game. What I liked was as the game got going we had a big lead, we never got out of whack. We kept running our offense.
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I want him to understand he's just part of this team, ... For most kids coming out of high school, they were the team. Most of these kids think leadership is everyone serving them. Leadership is you serving everybody. So we're putting him in with older guys who can teach him things.
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You have to understand this young man will do anything I ask. This is a guy who shot it all the time in high school, and if I ask him to take four shots a game, he'll take four shots a game.
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That was a high-level basketball game. My hat is off to Tennessee . They played exactly like they needed to play. They are executing how they want to play. They got it inside when they needed to get a couple of baskets.
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It's a good win against a team that was 9-1. If we don't beat somebody by 40, everybody is saying, 'What's going on with the Tigers?' They have scholarships too. They came out and had a game plan on how they were going to play, but they turned it over 19 times.
teacher protector
I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.