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...
concerned
Be more concerned with everybody else than yourself.
bad chance ourselves win
You can't win this kind of game. To give ourselves a chance to win as bad as we were playing, I was stunned.
bit country feeling great players playing start winning worry
I told them, 'There are other players around the country feeling like you do about their game. Just keep working at it. You'll be fine. We may not be playing great right now. Don't worry about that. We're winning the way we're playing, but they're going to have to start playing a little bit better.
bad coached free kick played please
Please make a basket. Make a free throw. Kick it in. We played bad and I coached bad. ... we did it together.
ball feet front grab means missed ton understand whether
You understand that means you have the ball two feet in front of the rim. Whether it was because of a bump, a grab or a hold, we were 13-for-36 (inside). We just missed a ton of them.
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.
ended game kept played
I have no idea. We just kept saying, 'Take it hard.' You know, the game ended up being played in a way that we couldn't get it changed, couldn't make the plays.
beaten gave houston played
Obviously, Houston gave us a game. (The Cougars) could have, should have beaten us they played so well.
worry
Go ball. Go ball. I'll worry about the coaching. You just get out there and ball.
chose home million whatever
My first thought was for him to go overseas, make $5 or $6 million over his career, then come home and do whatever he wants. But he chose the unconventional way, the NBDL, which is hard. But he did it.
decision kids season second
During the season, every decision I make will be about the team. The second that season is over, it is all about the kids on the team.
bumped either fairly good job nine somebody straight
He made runners, he made them when they bumped him, he made them inside. He rebounded the ball. He did a fairly good job of defending. We (isolated) him about 10 straight times, and about nine of them, we got something good; either he scored or got somebody else something.
driving drove instead
Instead of driving to the rim, we drove wide. I have no idea.
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.