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...
caused defense free hook kick
We just couldn't make a basket. Please, make a basket. A free throw. Anything. Hook it in, kick one in. But their defense caused us to do what we did.
active ball drive respond zone
We were up 10 and they went to the zone and we didn't respond well. They are very active but you've got to drive the ball in there and we didn't do that.
create games
We were able to create turnovers and do that to create a gap. There will be other games that we won't be able to do that.
basketball skilled stars
My stars were stars. They are skilled basketball players, and there's a lot of them, which makes it kind of nice.
good stars three
My stars were stars, all three of them. We're pretty good when that happens.
basketball hat
That was a high-level basketball game. My hat is off to Tennessee.
heck hope last playing
That was a heck of a game. I told their coach, 'Let's hope we are playing in April. Let's hope we are the last two standing.
breakdown good happy mark second stopped
I was happy with some of the spurts we had. I thought we did some good things defensively in the second half. There was just that breakdown around the 6- or 7-minute mark where we let them make some plays, and we stopped playing.
good returning
When you have your returning quarterback, you are in pretty good shape,
almost bad figure guys played shots taking trying vomit
We have guys who just haven't played together. We're just trying to figure it out. Offensively, we're taking so many bad shots right now it's almost making me want to vomit at times, but we are being aggressive.
again chance entire excited five madness midnight opportunity players ready schools stage start tip
We have that same opportunity again in a little over two weeks. We are the first of five schools being televised, so we have the chance to set the stage for the entire night. I'm excited, my staff's excited and the players are excited. We're ready to start the season, and there's no better way to tip it off than with Midnight Madness on ESPNU.
perform room
We had to perform for two months. We had no room for error.
couple energy forget high level performed pleasing ready saw seen
When you win, everyone shines. We all performed at a high level. The most pleasing thing is we saw an energy level we have not seen in a couple of weeks. Forget the score, you have need to get yourself ready to play at a high level and we did.
settling
We were just settling for two many 3s.