John Calipari
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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...
kentucky intriguing program
The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program.
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.
absolutely biggest building event hurricane since
We're going down to their building and it's probably the biggest event since the hurricane that's going on around there. It's going to be nutty, absolutely nutty.
freshmen
We've got a young team, freshmen and sophomores and Rodney. But we've got a competitive group.
bottom conference good half league maybe three top weathered
We won't know how the conference has weathered this for about another two or three years, maybe four. The top half of our league was very good (this season). The bottom half of our league was not good. That's a fact.
andre born star today
There is a star born in every one of these games, and today it was Andre Allen.
beat capable chances great team win
When you beat a team on a 10-game win streak, that's a great win. We had chances to get it to 16, 18, 20 and we're just not capable of it yet.
build change players state teams trying
When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say you take players from state championship teams because they only know one thing, winning.
awful bit happens looking oh
We were awful for a while. In that first half, oh my gosh. I'm looking at it, thinking, 'Can we be this bad?' Yeah. And it was a little bit of being gun-shy from that loss. That happens when you lose.