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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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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I want him to understand he's just part of this team, ... For most kids coming out of high school, they were the team. Most of these kids think leadership is everyone serving them. Leadership is you serving everybody. So we're putting him in with older guys who can teach him things.
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Hopefully he'll respond to this and understand I'm trying to do whatever I can to make sure he understands there are boundaries,
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You understand that means you have the ball two feet in front of the rim. Whether it was because of a bump, a grab or a hold, we were 13-for-36 (inside). We just missed a ton of them.
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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.
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Our defense was phenomenal. Joey Dorsey was an absolute monster, and we need him to be a monster.
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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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The thing I'm most pleased with was I thought you saw an intensity level and an effort level that we haven't had for a couple of weeks. Second of all, there were things we prepared to do, and we executed them. ... It was some good stuff.