ON HIS COACHING PHILOSOPHY…
“In a paragraph, my goal each year is to help each player have a career year and to get those players to play together. It’s simple…. have each guy have a career year and have that group of players play good together. Get them to play off each other.”
ON RELATIONSHIPS…
“Look, in this profession it’s all about building relationships…If you’re not being fair with kids, guess what? All those people over time build up too, and they’re working against you.”
“What have you done for another coach? What have you done for our profession?”
ON THE DRIBBLE DRIVE MOTION OFFENSE…
"The players are unleashed when they play this way," he says, "because every player has the green light to take his man on every play."
DRIBBLE DRIVE MOTION OFFENSE from Sports Illustrated Feb. 12, 2008…
“Instead of going straight into the offense, Memphis sometimes swings the ball around the perimeter or springs the point guard with (gasp!) a ball screen. And instead of sending his post man straight to the lane's weak side, Calipari allows him to go on what Memphis calls a ‘rim run,’ in which the penetrating guard throws a lob in the vicinity of the basket for an alley-oop dunk.”
Special thanks to Sports Illustrated and collegehoopsnet.com for some information from Coach Calipari.
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