March Madness
Who's your number 1?
Coach
Cal, for all of the grief he gets on the NCAA infractions front, is a helluva basketball coach.
Coach Calipari’s ability to X and O on both ends of the floor is grossly underrated.
On offense, Calipari recognized genius in an offense which is called Dribble Drive Motion
, run by an obscure junior college coach from Fresno, CA.
Coach Cal took the DDM, tweaked it, and used it with his superstars,
turning it into a national championship worthy offense that’s all the rage in college basketball today. With a few more
practice free throws, he’s likely hanging a banner.
But
more than X’s and O’s, Calipari is a master psychologist.
Consider what he’s done with young teams at Memphis led by freshmen point guards Derrick Rose
and Tyreke Evans, and now a virtuoso performance in his first year at Kentucky with the mercurial John Wall behind the wheel.
The results he’s had at UK this year are astounding.
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You won’t find a more talented club anywhere in America. One through five, the Wildcats are as explosive
and athletic a basketball team as there has been this decade.
John
Wall is the lead guard and he’s likely going to be the No. 1 pick in the draft. He does things with the dribble that
would make Kenny Anderson blush. He also happens to be a plus shooter with an embarrassment of athletic riches: 40-inch vertical,
explosive quickness, and speed.
Inside, Demarcus Cousins
is probably the toughest player in the country to matchup with. There isn’t one single post defender in college basketball
today that can handle his size and strength one-on-one without at least some help.
Cousins is a surefire lottery pick as well.
If
this inside/outside combination weren’t enough already, consider the fact that Kentucky’s supporting cast would
start for 99 percent of the teams in college basketball. Hell, Eric Bledsoe and Patrick Patterson would be No. 1 options on
virtually every team out there.
Bledsoe is a hot shooting,
lightning quick combo guard who gives UK a second creator/playmaker opposite Wall.
Junior Patrick Patterson is a seasoned post scorer who’s added a 3-ball to his quiver. With an improved
face-up game, Patterson can complement Demarcus Cousins from the high post or from the arc in a four out look if UK really
wants to isolate Cousins on the block.
Point blank, the
Cats are the team to beat!
