Archie Goodwin – photo by Tammie Brown | WildcatWorld.com
When Tennessee added insult to Nerlens Noel’s devastating knee injury, John Calipari knew he had to do something different to turn his team’s season around. As Coach Cal has said time and time again since losing Noel, no one was going to feel sorry for the Cats (20-8, 11-4 Southeastern Conference), so they had to figure out a way to get off the ground and fight back.
His solution: Put it in his guards’ hands and let them play.
“He talked with us (after the Tennessee game) to see what we were more comfortable with,” graduate student Julius Mays said. “It was more of him putting it all in our hands to where he really had nothing to do with it. He told us to just go out there and play. Any rebound, missed shot, turnover, it’s all in our hands. Obviously when it comes time to slow it down, we have our grind-it-out offenses, but other than that he just wants us to get up and down and play.”
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter’s Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.
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