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...
losing pressed
If we pressed them, we were losing this game.
college concern fine guard high nba played playing steal style whether
My concern with Darius has nothing to do with offense; he'll be fine on offense, ... It has to do with whether he can guard the position. Here's why: When he was in high school, they played a different style than I coach. It was, 'press all over and try to steal the ball.' You can't play in college or the NBA that way -- you have to guard somebody. Now that he's playing for me, it's going to be different.
fresh legs mentally striving team
Now what I have is a team that's fresh mentally and they're fresh physically. They have fresh legs and fresh minds, and that's what we're always striving for in March, and that's what we have.
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.
bit coach fast game move obviously
Obviously I didn't make the game fast enough. I didn't coach up to snuff. So, you know, it's a little bit of everything. We move on.
beaten gave houston played
Obviously, Houston gave us a game. (The Cougars) could have, should have beaten us they played so well.
played
Let me tell you, we played well. Don't think we didn't play well, we're not much better than they.
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.
bit couple easily left minute plays reality shots until won
We made a couple of shots and couple of plays because we are a little bit longer. The reality of it is they were there until there was a minute left and they easily could have won the game.
andre born star today
There is a star born in every one of these games, and today it was Andre Allen.
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.
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.
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.
larry learned
I think I learned it from Larry Brown.