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.
everybody knows normal saying upset
They're not a normal 16th seed. They're just not that, and everybody knows it. That's why everybody is saying this is the upset and all those things.
andre born games seemed star today
There's a star born in all of these games and today it seemed to be Andre Allen.
coached locker played quite room somber visions winning
That's quite a somber locker room in there. They had visions of winning this whole thing. It's not one guy. We played bad, I coached bad, it's everybody.
biggest caught energy last missed shooting week
The biggest thing I told (Anderson) is that he can't get caught up in the shooting and scoring. He got tentative last week because he missed some shots. We don't need (him) to make shots. We need (him) to do the energy stuff.
adrenaline destiny playing worn
They could be playing like this is destiny and find the adrenaline to go crazy. Or they could be worn down.
bad themselves
They want it as bad for themselves as I want it for them.
seen since stuff tried
It wasn't one of our better performances. I thought we tried to play hard. I thought we competed, but we did stuff that I haven't seen since the first of the season.
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.
coached fast game played thrown turned
It's not one guy. We played bad, I coached bad, it's everybody. We're all thrown in on this one. We all missed, all turned it over, all didn't play up to snuff. I didn't get the game fast enough, so I didn't coach well enough.
chance instead lose move played playing second won
For a while there in the second half, we played not to lose instead of playing to win. We had a chance to lose the game, but we won it, and we will move on.
coaching job last matter tape watch year
This has been an unbelievable year, no matter what happens. I did a better job of coaching last year than this year. What we went through last year, we can laugh, but I will not watch a tape from last year.
calm looking supposed
They think they're supposed to win. It makes me laugh. They're looking at me, like, 'Would you calm down?
coach expect fair
They've always been more than fair to me, so I don't expect anything other than that they're going to be more than fair. I want to be the coach here. I think they want me to be the coach here. Let's just go.