Someone used to summarize during the show, must’ve got tired of listening.
Guard play
“I don’t want to take away from Notre Dame — we didn’t play good,” Calipari said. “Our guard play was not good at all. The movement of the ball, the spacing of our team.”
Wheeler
“The first thing is, if they play that way, you have to play a little different,” Calipari said of his conversation with Wheeler. “Maybe not do some of the things you were doing, just run our team. Just do that. The second thing is, this has to have happened to you before. Well, tell me what you did. How did you play? How did you go against it? Instead of me guessing, you tell me.”
“It wasn’t just him,” he said of Wheeler. “I thought TyTy started really solid, and maybe we didn’t go to him enough. That was an issue, we needed to. But he didn’t finish, and it was also defensively for both of them.”
We normally win these LOW scoring games
“We’re up two with a minute (and) 30 (seconds) to go,” Calipari said. “Should have won the game. We held them to 60, 62 before the last play. Do we lose games when we give up only 60 points? Normally we don’t. … As bad as it was, we still were in position to win. In my mind, we should have won — up two with a minute (and) 30 (seconds) to go. Do we have work to do? Yeah. Am I happy? Come on, you know me.”
“At the end of the day, our teams win these kinds of games,” he said. “I thought we were going to win, but we didn’t.”
Prepare for OSU
“Now we get after it for our next game with three days of football practice. Why? Because I’ve got to prepare them to play great. I told them today, I don’t know if that means win or loss, but I know how you’re going to have to play and what we have to do. We’ve got three days to get after it.”
“I said, ‘If you don’t want this, it’s too much, get the flu, whatever you want, hamstring, bad back, whatever. Step aside so we can do what we have to do.’ … It’s going to be physical.”
OSU
“They’re very physical. Their big guys are not 6-11, but they’re 6-7, long and strong,” Calipari said. “If you wait for them to get in your body, you’ve got no chance. They go high-low, set unbelievable screens, many of them on one possession. It’ll be a hard game for us.”
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Oscar
“I’m really proud of him,” he said. “We’ve got to protect him, though. We’ve got to have great spacing. You have to because — are you going to let him get 50? You’re going to trap. We’ve got to do better, and that’s my mission right now.”
Not calling TO at the end
“Ten seconds, nine seconds to go. Let’s talk about it and understand why I normally don’t call timeout. I normally don’t,” Calipari said. “If you call a timeout, OK, you’ve got a 30-second timeout. You bring your team over, you draw up a play. ‘Listen, listen! We’re going to do this! Alright, now to get it in, we’ve got to go on a zipper cut and in. Now, when we get it in, you only got 10 seconds, so we’re gonna do this.’ And then the horn goes. ‘Ah!’ And then somebody says to me, ‘What if they go zone?’ ‘Ah, go give it to Jimmy. Jimmy, just go.’ I mean, it’s not as easy as you think. The best thing you can do is let a guy go.”
“… I’m still learning about my team. Seeing that, I probably would have called a timeout. Probably would have done something, if they were man or zone, ‘Here’s what we’re doing.'”
Thanks fans for showing out in South Bend
Dontaie Allen
“Dontaie is going to get his opportunity if guys don’t start making them,” Calipari said. “I’ve been on him about, when we do shooting drills, you cannot shoot the ball like you’re in a HORSE game. You have to be shot-ready. As you’re catching it, it’s leaving your hand to go off.”
Still thinks team has a chance
“We’ve got great kids, we do,” Calipari said. “I think we’ve got a team that before it’s all said and done, we’ll be fine. I hate losing. … Right now, we have to get back to who we are.”
