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Calipari sets sights on rotation
By Keith Taylor
October 28, 2009

John Calipari doesn’t know who will be fitting into his rotation, but the Kentucky coach will have a better idea following tonight’s Blue-White contest at Rupp Arena.

Calipari has had a history of using more than six players in his dribble, drive, motion offense and has been known to have a deep rotation. During the team’s media day earlier this month, Calipari indicated he may try a different scheme considering the team’s roster is stocked in talent from top to bottom.

“I thought in one way I like to play nine guys, eight or nine guys and maybe even a 10th guy in a game,” he said. “But this may be a team where I play eight guys and then I bring in the other five guys to play about four or five minutes a half. That way you play them all. We have no bad players on the team, so I could do that.”

One of Calipari’s preseason worries has been figuring out a way to get freshmen John Wall and Eric Bledsoe on the floor at the same time. Another issue Calipari has been delving into is team chemistry.

Although Caliapri is a seasoned veteran on the sidelines, he admitted that his first season at Kentucky will involve growing pains.

“I have had teams where I have had to walk in and had to take over programs but they have never been like this,” he said. “They were never a team that had a chance to really win. They were teams that you were wishing would win some games. This is a little virgin territory for me as a coach too, I’m going to be learning. I’m going to be learning the whole way through. So it’s not set in stone, and I don’t have all the answers and some of this is going to be guessing and if I don’t guess right, I’ll change.”

Calipari added that he won’t be afraid to change schemes if necessary.

“The one thing I’ve always been able to do is to look at something and just say, ‘it’s not right, we’re changing.’ That’s how we will defend and that might be the way we play offensively. So there are some things were going to have to do and work out and figure out once I get those guys on the court.”

As for his entire team, Calipari wants his team to play in a relaxed mode.

“The only thing I try to do is let players play,” he said. “So I think guys look at it especially from the outside they say, ‘wow.’ But I’m going to tell you early on, guys are going to be angry with me because I’m going to make them do things and feel ways they have never felt before. And they won’t know how to respond to that. The first one is to pull a tantrum.

“Because you don’t know what to do, I’ve never felt this way. That’s how it’s going to be, but after they get going they will say that he is making me do things I have never done and I’m feeling good about it. That’s when you have a team, but that takes time.”

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