Posts Tagged 'John Calipari'

Video: John Calipari before today’s practice

Several clips of UK coach John Calipari talking to the media before today’s practice.

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Here Calipari talks about his team’s defense against the 3-pointer.

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Video: Calipari talks about video from Thursday game

Here is UK coach John Calipari talking before Friday’s practice about watching the video of Thursday’s win over Sam Houston.

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John Calipari’s defense at Memphis vs. this year

(H-L photo/Mark Cornelison)

(H-L photo/Mark Cornelison)

John Calipari exclaimed last night that this may be his worst defensive team since 1988.

My statistical library doesn’t go back that far, but I do have the stats for his nine years at the helm at Memphis, where the Tigers were generally very good defensively. In fact, last year stats guru Ken Pomeory ranked Memphis best in the country in defensive efficiency.

Opponents managed to shoot better than 40 percent just three of Cal’s nine years there. And the 3-point percentage by opponents was normally around the 30-32 percent mark, which is certainly respectable.

Through three games, a very small sample, this year, opponents are shooting 42 percent from three-point range and averaging a mind-blowing 12.33 triples per game.

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Video: Highlights from the Calipari post-game presser

Here’s the WKYT sportscast from last night with a greatest hits of Calipari’s post-game clips, starting about 1:00 into the video.

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Audio: Calipari says it’s his worst defensive team since ‘88

Here’s John Calipari’s post-game press conference. It’s 14:41 of entertainment, with Cal lamenting his team’s poor defense, the 3-point shooting of Sam Houston State, and several other issues that went into the 102-92 Kentucky victory.

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BBL: Tobias Harris’ midnight decision

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Video: John Calipari before today’s practice

Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari talks to the media before today’s practice. There’s a little talk about Thursday’s game, but mainly its reviewing some of the elements of Monday night’s 72-70 nail-biter over Miami of Ohio.

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BBL: Tobias Harris watches Vols; Selby setting up UK visit

(H-L photo/Mark Cornelison)

(H-L photo/Mark Cornelison)

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BBL: WonderWall, Tobias Harris update, Charlie Coles

(H-L photo/Charles Bertram)

(H-L photo/Charles Bertram)

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Audio: John Calipari and Charlie Coles in post-game

Here are the post-game press conferences with both coaches after Kentucky’s 72-70 win over Miami of Ohio.

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