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...
based care suspect
They're intelligent kids. They're doing well in school. They take care of business. ... Decision-making can be suspect at times based on their inexperience.
depth skills south team
You take your team - east, west, north, south - because I want my team. I've got battlers. I've got skills ... depth ... size.
city great opportunity showcase university
This is another great opportunity to showcase our program, our University and our city to the nation,
six took
Sometimes I get a little stunned. Wow! It took us six years.
ability court energy everybody importance score washington
Now everybody understands the importance of Darius Washington with this team. It's his energy as much as anything else, his ability to get up and down the court and score baskets when we need some baskets to be scored.
league national prepared teams
That's what this league is all about. The first half, the building's electric. National TV. Two teams prepared to go hard.
bought conference missouri played tough valley winning
The Missouri Valley Conference bought games. And they all have winning records. Did I (say) that they all played tough teams? No. Look at their non-conference schedules.
builder conference five gotten last minutes momentum rebound
This could have been a momentum builder going into the conference tournament, but we couldn't rebound ... If we could have gotten one more rebound in the last five minutes of the game, we could have won.
fresh legs minds strive trying
They have fresh legs and fresh minds and that's what we're always trying to strive for in March.
came easily final game hat leaving lucky night noise played plays ricky teams trouble won
They (East Carolina) came out and played like it was the Final Four. They could have easily won this game and we are lucky to be leaving here with a win. If ECU plays like that every night out, they will give a lot of teams trouble and make some noise in the conference. I take my hat off to Ricky and the team. We played as well as we could play.
good second stars three
We really guarded. We rebounded in the second half, and my stars were stars, all three of them. We rebounded and my three stars were stars. We're pretty good what that happens.
andre born star today
There is a star born in every one of these games, and today it was Andre Allen.
came catch everybody field goal held opponents percent percentage shooting skilled thinks
We held opponents to 37.8 percent in field goal percentage on the year. But for some reason, everybody thinks we're a pressing, 3-point shooting team. I don't know where that came from. We're a balanced, skilled team. We can pass, catch and shoot.
driving drove instead
Instead of driving to the rim, we drove wide. I have no idea.