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...
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.
defense game hard plays run switch
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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They (East Carolina) came out and played like it was the Final Four. They could have easily won this game and we are lucky to be leaving here with a win. If ECU plays like that every night out, they will give a lot of teams trouble and make some noise in the conference. I take my hat off to Ricky and the team. We played as well as we could play.
good returning
When you have your returning quarterback, you are in pretty good shape,
absolutely biggest building event hurricane since
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.
days five hope next star supposed uses weight
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.
created ready today
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.
almost bad figure guys played shots taking trying vomit
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.
continue games guys
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.
game kept liked running shots start
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.
chose home million whatever
My first thought was for him to go overseas, make $5 or $6 million over his career, then come home and do whatever he wants. But he chose the unconventional way, the NBDL, which is hard. But he did it.