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No more Mr. Nice Guy for Cal
Perhaps sensing a team beaten down from the previous two seasons or wide-eyed newcomers, Kentucky Coach John Calipari tried to be good cop.
Sensing that didn’t work, he became the bad cop on Wednesday, He instituted a curfew, called for two-a-day practices (the first beginning at 6:15 a.m.) and generally went from Camp Cal counselor to Parris Island drill sergeant.
“It’s a new Coach Cal,” freshman DeMarcus Cousins said. “Intense and focused. It’s not the laid-back, chilled Cal no more.”
Calipari attributed the change to what he saw in Kentucky’s opening exhibition game against Campbellsville. Although Uk won, the coach did not like how the players went about it. Fatigue set in, causing the coach to question the team’s conditioning. Few took the initiative and drove assertively to the basket, the trigger mechanism for Calipari’s dribble-drive offense. Defensive intensity waned.
Calipari likened the situation to a scrimmage performance by his Memphis team last year against St. Louis.
“I saw right there the team was not tough enough, not in condition and the attention to detail wasn’t there,” he said. “When I saw the same thing against Campbellsville, I went to sleep with what I call blood sweats.”
Calipari all but promised a better performance against his alma mater, Clarion, in Friday night’s exhibition or a continued effort to get there.
Noting his own new exercise routine (reflected in the sweat-soaked t-shirt he wore to practice), Calipari said, “Either they catch up to it or get dragged through glass.”
Calipari noted that he’s been counseled to stay patient. It’s only early November.
“The problem is we’re opening the season against a NCAA (Tournament) team,” he said in reference to the Nov. 13 opener against Morehead State, which played in the NCAA Tournament last March.
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« Reply #1 on Nov 5, 2009, 5:36pm » | |
i agree that UK's conditioning looks very bad!!
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« Reply #2 on Nov 5, 2009, 5:42pm » | |
It kinda makes me nervous a bit,almost like these boys just aren't responding and think they can win it all because of high school/aau accolades. I'm thinking their gonna get the message now,let's hope they take it the right way
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« Reply #3 on Nov 5, 2009, 6:25pm » | |
Honestly that last game was exactly what I expected. Its not like we have 5 retuning starters from a deep tourny team. But im now worried. A few more game and this team should be awsome
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« Reply #4 on Nov 5, 2009, 7:26pm » | |
Our lackluster showing against Campbellsville was a real blessing in disguise.
It has definitely gotten Cal's attention and that will be the start of getting the players to APPLY themselves to what he is teaching them.
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« Reply #5 on Nov 6, 2009, 2:19am » | |
Nov 5, 2009, 5:42pm, nightmare4 wrote:| It kinda makes me nervous a bit,almost like these boys just aren't responding and think they can win it all because of high school/aau accolades. I'm thinking their gonna get the message now,let's hope they take it the right way |
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I have no worries that these kids will put their heart and heads in the game and improve... Most teams at this point are still feeling out their players/lineups/abilities and were not an exception too that...
Come a month they will be much improved in their offense/defense/ and conditioning~!~
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« Reply #6 on Nov 6, 2009, 6:43pm » | |
Looks like they need to "get tough!!"
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« Reply #7 on Nov 6, 2009, 8:09pm » | |
I bet Patterson and Orton are in shape.
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« Reply #8 on Nov 6, 2009, 10:16pm » | |
Looks like the practices have paid off. We looked much better tonight.
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« Reply #9 on Nov 7, 2009, 4:39am » | |
^ No pain no game
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« Reply #10 on Nov 7, 2009, 11:21am » | |
Like one of the announcers said in the pregame show, It's could to get after them now about their condition and lackadaisical effort rather than having a Gardner-Webb upset early on in the year. They looked good yesterday but have a while to go to probably be in the shape Coach Cal knows they need to be in.
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« Reply #11 on Nov 9, 2009, 6:02pm » | |
I give us a month and we will be the team everyone wants to see it is just going to take a while
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