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You think he just hands the ball to multiple waves of freshmen each year and says "Here, go out there and do whatever" and they just magically come out as a Top 5 team each year? That's laughable. If letting freshmen go out there and do work is that easy, why hasn't Duke or UNC been able to do the same with all the McDonald's AAs they've brought in year after year after year? A team this young has only been able to do this once and it was the Fab 5... and that was just one crop of kids. Calipari has gotten three different classes to at least the Elite 8 and to two Final 4s. Take off your hate hat and realize that he coaches these kids up at least a little bit. They're the best defensive team in the country and you think that's because of the kids?
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Um yes, they did out-athlete Louisville today. Pitino is playing a matchup zone, applying full court pressure occasionally, working plays out of timeouts and they stayed in the game basically with 2 players and coaching. Level the talent on those two teams and who did the superior coaching job today? What exactly did Cal do to counter the zone? Louisville flustered them, and hung in the game but ultimately with athletes of that caliber who can shoot like that, you can only plug the dam with your thumb for so long.
I am not a basketball coach, so perhaps my take is shallow in your mind, but I watch my fair share of college hoops and I disagree with you wholeheartedly. Cal is a mediocre at best in-game coach. If he didn't have success on the recruiting trail, he would have little success at all in my opinion.
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Seriously though, I find it pretty amazing that he takes in so many highly touted freshman every year and is able to put their egos aside and have them play unselfish basketball. Don't think many coaches would be able to do that.
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I always laugh when I hear this. It's like being impressed that a multi millionaire didn't go bankrupt. Gosh, I can't believe a coach can take an NBA team deep into the tournament! It's got to be so much easier doing it with scrubs. If Cal is such an artist at managing egos, then why did he flame out of the NBA so quickly, a league rampant with egotism? Oh, I guess because you need good players to win. Imagine that.
At worst, Calipari is a cheater, directly involved in play-for-pay. Only rumor at this point, so I won't hold it against him, but I wouldn't be surprised. Usually where there's a lot of smoke there's fire. I mean, World Wide Wes hangs out at UK practices fer christ sakes.
At best, Calipari is shady as fuck, who's left a black eye on every place he's bolted from. Even if he is not directly cheating, his track record shows he has little regard for compliance by taking the "look the other way" approach.
But who cares because he's a nice guy on TV, right?
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Um yes, they did out-athlete Louisville today. Pitino is playing a matchup zone, applying full court pressure occasionally, working plays out of timeouts and they stayed in the game basically with 2 players and coaching. Level the talent on those two teams and who did the superior coaching job today? What exactly did Cal do to counter the zone? Louisville flustered them, and hung in the game but ultimately with athletes of that caliber who can shoot like that, you can only plug the dam with your thumb for so long.
I am not a basketball coach, so perhaps my take is shallow in your mind, but I watch my fair share of college hoops and I disagree with you wholeheartedly. Cal is a mediocre at best in-game coach. If he didn't have success on the recruiting trail, he would have little success at all in my opinion.
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So how do you explain MSU and Coach Izzo getting schooled by Louisville? Does that make Coach Izzo a mediocre coach? We lost by 13 and Kentucky won and was in control most of the game. Of course they have more talent than MSU but it's ignorant to say Cal is not a quality coach.
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I think he's a hell of a good coach and of course an awesome recruiter. As long as the NCAA and NBA let colleges recruit one and done's, you can't complain about his program at UK. Other than the obvious talent, they always play hard, play great defense and play together. Today's game matched up two of the best coaches in the country.
a hell of a good coach?
Cal is a mediocre basketball coach...at best. what he is is a master at using guys like Worldwide Wes and their connections to guys like Jay Z - who was behind the KY bench tonight - to convince talented players to come play for him for one or two years because he's great at "developing" them for the NBA. he doesn't give a shit about Kentucky or college basketball....he cares about all the ancillary deals he has going that have made him a very rich man who has a litany of even richer men playing in the league. he is single handedly trying to ruin college basketball by making a mockery of the entire concept of college athletics. It's been on shaky ground for a while now, but he doesn't even pretend to give a shit about educations. He runs an NBA Development squad, and that's all he cares about.
and even WITH all that talent at his disposal, he routinely loses in the big game because he's simply not a good coach, and he's particularly useless in a close game in crunch time. he doesn't have the slightest fucking clue of how to draw up a winning play when they need it because he has 5 guys who are all stars that do it for him. just give it to Gilchrist or Jones or Lamb or Davis and let them make a shot. That's his game plan. it happens to work especially well this year because I think Davis is an exceptionally talented and uncommonly mature kid. Derrick Rose was not. John Wall was a joke. He'll probably win....but don't pretend it isn't a terrible thing for the sport and the ability of other schools who actually give a shit about the fact that they are a UNIVERSITY to compete with his band of Jay Z slurping all stars.
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MSchott said...
Typical shallow take. Did Kentucky just out athlete Louisville today? Of course they are more athletic but they play tough defense and play as a team. Cal doesn't sit on the sidelines and let them play street ball dude.
That's exactly what they did
PItino coached circles around Cal today...just like he always does. Louisville out hustled and out toughed Kentucky to stay in that game, but they simply didn't have the firepower to compete with the endless stream of NBA ready guys. the fact that Cal only won that game by a few points is a perfect illustration of why he's a shitty coach. How many guys on that Louisville team are going in the first round? 5 from KY are. boozhoo ●
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