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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We have that same opportunity again in a little over two weeks. We are the first of five schools being televised, so we have the chance to set the stage for the entire night. I'm excited, my staff's excited and the players are excited. We're ready to start the season, and there's no better way to tip it off than with Midnight Madness on ESPNU.
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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.
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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.
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I said 'I'm coming in here to build a program to get us into the top 10 and give us a chance to win a national championship,' and I haven't wavered from that.
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I think the university and I have gone out of our way to give Jeremy every chance to be a part of this program, but we can not allow his actions to continue to be an ongoing distraction for this team.
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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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You can't win this kind of game. To give ourselves a chance to win as bad as we were playing, I was stunned.
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It would be nice if it worked out. But we're not thinking that way.
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I second the motion. His record is spotless. He graduates every kid. He doesn't look at other women. He doesn't smoke.
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The zone bothered us more than it should have. Our guard play was very tentative. I don't know why. ... We will have to go look at the tape and take a look at it. But, it was a heck of a basketball game.
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There won't be any crime. There won't be any accidents, because nobody will be on the streets.
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Enjoy it. Take a breath, kick back and enjoy. Because this doesn't happen every year at Memphis. It happens at Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina and those other programs. It doesn't happen at Memphis.
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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.
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People thought I was crazy. I've had more fun coaching this style.