What was the difference in the match for you against Ernie? You didn't quite seem to have the same mojo that you had the first few days. Was hurting the whole time, but he was giving everything he had.Q. So, we need him to get some of those shots up.īut his ribs were - he’s another one that probably should not have played, and you could see that he You’re flatfooted, you’re having to ball fake every time. Is as the ball is coming to you, you’ve got to have your feet moving so you can catch and shoot it. His ribs were bothering him, and the only thing I keep saying JOHN CALIPARI: He had rib problems today. How do you play around CJ (Fredrick) and kind of get him going and things like that? He’s got the reason this happened tonight. He mixes it up, and that’s all I can ask. Second half, and he missed some of them, but he did good. JOHN CALIPARI: They crowded the court a little bit on him. What did they do to get him off track of what he was doing there in the first half in the second half? Coach, you had a career high from Chris Livingston tonight. We did some good thingsĪnd got it close, seven and six and five, but the game was a physical game. To call a timeout a minute into the half, and literally like, come on, how did you lose that, how did youīut you know, that’s why I said, okay, here we are, let’s fight our way back. JOHN CALIPARI: I was just so disappointed. As competitive as the first half was, how surprised were you the way you opened the first minute? Weren’t defensively - come on, we’re a pretty good defensive team. Sudden they make a shot at the shot clock and it goes down, or a three. We did all the right things, and all of a John, their shooting in the second half, do you think it was more of what they did or what you It was like, let’s get him going just to get him right. JOHN CALIPARI: You know, you as a coach, you go with what got you there, and I wanted to - it was aīigger picture for Oscar than just this game. With Oscar struggling in the second half, the way Daimion played in the first half, why not more Get him going, and he’s got to be better for us, and he will be. I was doing some stuff to let him get some jump shots, to just They trapped him or they just bodied him. I thought he worked at times, and other times they were getting around the post. JOHN CALIPARI: Well, there was one point I said we’re throwing it to him every time, and we were trying Opportunities in there, and what did you see from him? Oscar (Tshiebwe), seven points, seven rebounds, just six shots. We’ve just got to figure it out, and we’ve got a day off and we’ll No one in there wanted to body up, which is what they did to us. You’re not going to win a game if they’re shootingħ2 percent. (Wallace) as much as we did, we struggled with it.īut they shot 72 percent in the second half. We’ve been averaging 10, 11 turns, but playing Cason That’s why I went with Daimion (Collins) a little bit. Were not like out of - they just jumped with two hands, they bodied up, and if you threw it into theirĪrms, it was a block. I can’t get guys to body up and do this stuff, and they did a great job of bodying up us. “His ribs were bothering him, and the only thing I keep saying is as the ball is coming to you, you’ve got to have your feet moving so you can catch and shoot it.” “He had rib problems today,” said when asked about Fredrick. John Calipari met with the media for a short press conference after last night’s disappointing 88-73 loss to Arkansas.Ĭalipari credited Arkansas for being physical, commented on Oscar Tshiebwe’s struggles and pointed out that CJ Fredrick had a rib issue.
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