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...
athletic concerns everybody forward good green knows normal saying talking team typical upset
They are a very good team and they aren't your normal 16-seed. Everybody knows tat and everybody is talking about that. They are saying that this is the upset because they are not the typical 16-seed. They have seniors, they have (junior forward Caleb) Green inside, and they are as big and athletic as we are. That concerns me.
basketball bothered guard heck tape zone
The zone bothered us more than it should have. Our guard play was very tentative. I don't know why. ... We will have to go look at the tape and take a look at it. But, it was a heck of a basketball game.
mean poverty
Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.
history time
How about that? That's the first time in the history of the school.
coached fast game played thrown turned
It's not one guy. We played bad, I coached bad, it's everybody. We're all thrown in on this one. We all missed, all turned it over, all didn't play up to snuff. I didn't get the game fast enough, so I didn't coach well enough.
trying sometimes
When you're trying to make somebody the best version of themselves, you have to keep defining that over a period of time because sometimes it changes.
ball deny game great guys pressure ready start wings
I think what we are going to do is go great ball pressure and deny wings to start the game because I want to know who is not ready to play. We had guys start this game like we don't have to play. Like they were going through the motions.
city great opportunity showcase university
This is another great opportunity to showcase our program, our University and our city to the nation,
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.
control instead thinking
Now our team's thinking about getting better instead of the other team's stuff, which we really have no control over.
allen andre cooper eight game joey march minutes next opportunity players playing ready tried trying
The thing I've tried to tell each of these players is be ready for your moment. What if I only play Andre Allen eight minutes this game because Darius is really playing well? What if this game is better-suited for Kareem Cooper than it is Joey Dorsey? What I'm trying to tell our players is that you have to live with that and march on to the next game, and that may be your game and your opportunity to be the star.
easy good passing turn
Offensively, we were back to passing it to each other. We were back to making easy plays. We didn't turn it over as much. We did some good stuff.
laughing kind
If I ever tell the same story twice, just laugh and roll with it because, when you get older, you start doing that kind of stuff.
coaching fun people
People thought I was crazy. I've had more fun coaching this style.