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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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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He stands for three things: his family, his players and winning. I will miss playing him, but he will be coaching again.
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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.
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People thought I was crazy. I've had more fun coaching this style.
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When you have your returning quarterback, you are in pretty good shape,
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We're going down to their building and it's probably the biggest event since the hurricane that's going on around there. It's going to be nutty, absolutely nutty.
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To have that kind of energy after that Texas game and to have one day in between shows that we bounce back quickly. We did what we were supposed to do. All I was concerned with was how we guarded, and I thought we were tremendous.
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You have to understand this young man will do anything I ask. This is a guy who shot it all the time in high school, and if I ask him to take four shots a game, he'll take four shots a game.
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At the end of the day, let's see where he gets picked in the draft. Let's see where he gets picked. I think he'll be picked very high ... He sells a lot of tennis shoes and he'll sell a lot of tickets.
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What I hope is he uses the next five days to get in the weight room, come back and be the star he's supposed to be.
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We created some turnovers and that's why we had a 20-point lead. Today we were ready to go so they never really had a chance.
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We have guys who just haven't played together. We're just trying to figure it out. Offensively, we're taking so many bad shots right now it's almost making me want to vomit at times, but we are being aggressive.
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If they can keep these games from being fast-paced games, with the guys they have out there, they can continue doing this. If it's in the 60s, they got a chance.
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I didn't like the start of the game. The first two shots were not how you start a game. What I liked was as the game got going we had a big lead, we never got out of whack. We kept running our offense.