catmandoo
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posted 02-20-2021 10:02 PM
Calipari: "I keep talking daggers. Olivier (Sarr) made two free throws and a jump hook, those are daggers. The 3 by Devin (Askew), the rebound by Devin in traffic, those are daggers. The biggest thing is that we’re a good defensive team and we learned a little bit from the last time playing them how you have to play them. We knew coming in that it was going to be hand to hand combat and we didn’t back away. They’re a top-20 team, probably a top-15 team, they have a chance to go to a Final Four and we came in here and did it. It’s one game and now we keep building.
A few years ago, we were 6-7 and ended up getting to the Elite Eight I believe. We lost four in a row and everyone’s going crazy and all of a sudden the team turned it around. Like I told them after, even when they were playing bad, I believed in them. Even when individuals were so bad that it was scary, I believed in them. You just keep working with kids—they’re kids. You keep working with them. You hold them accountable, but you keep encouraging and coaching and challenging them and getting them to work outside of their comfort level. Then, when they’re doing it right, you’re there. When they’re not doing it right, you hold them together. That’s coaching.
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