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...
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Our half-court defense is still our staple. That's what we are. We want to make the game hard for the other team. It's hard to run plays when you can switch and do the things we do.
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Rodney scored a bunch of points, but let me tell you what Rodney did -- he defended. Late in the game, he did not get beat on the dribble one time.
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I think you're all stunned when they say that we haven't watched any tape. Does that stun you? I don't want them to worry about Bradley. ... You worry about us.
I was disappointed that I couldn't get it faster. Then I thought we could play it their way. But we couldn't.
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Grown people cried in that arena, my wife and kids included. And it wasn't because we lost. They were crying for him. You learn that at your worst moment, people feel compassion.
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If a team gets after us and becomes physical, that bothers us. That's one of those things we have to get better at.
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For us to get a first seed, it just doesn't happen. Well, it's never happened here before. It's hard. There are only four teams that get this. I'm really proud for the respect that the committee has shown toward us.
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Go ball. Go ball. I'll worry about the coaching. You just get out there and ball.
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I got a little frustrated at times because I thought there were chances for us to break open the game. I'll probably watch the tape and say it was as much Rice as it was our guys.
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This wasn't about money because if it was I wouldn't be standing here. You're sitting here and you have a staff and their families, and then you have your other family -- those 13 or 14 basketball players. And at the end of the day there are a lot of young people pinning their hopes on what we do. We have a good group of young people, and I'm ecstatic about coaching them.
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This was not our best performance. We just did stuff that I haven't seen since the first of the season. We picked a day to miss 15 one-footers.
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We make rules based on money. They make $6 billion, and everything's based on money. We should have freshman ineligibility. But it costs money, so it's not even discussed. Kids should have five years (of eligibility) instead of four.
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Joey is looking good. After being released (Thursday) morning, he came by the Finch Center for a couple of minutes and said he was ready to start working out again.
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He has a mother and a father who absolutely love him and tell him that every day. They let him work through the grief and then said the grieving is over. (The game) was over by 3 o'clock, and by 7 or 8 they were eating on Beale Street.