The bottom line in all of this goes back on Calipari, he has an analytics department but he is hard headed as can be in how he wants to play. He has to have a dominant shot blocking team that doesn't foul a lot to pull that off.
He has neither this year, opposing teams are attacking UK at the rim and beyond the arc, you cant give both up.
UK forces way too few turnovers with their length and athletic ability as they settle to play half court by Grind It Out Cal and thus get very few fastbreak points. UK takes twice as many bad twos as opponents, the worst shot in college basketball.
You cant play King of the Hill basketball with average to good players, other coaches have exploited UK repeatedly by out coaching Cal. They shrink the court, jam the lane, knowing that UK will not jack up threes. That's why there is no driving lanes, no flow to the offense, etc.
Cal wants to play downhill, three yards cloud of dust basketball, problem is he doesn't have the studs to pull it off this year and he refuses to adjust on the fly. Sometimes Coaches have off years too, it happens........He wont change, we can only hope the new recruits fits his system, and with no bigs signed for next year, well....