If the ball goes up, if he hits you first, where are you next to? The cheerleaders, and you have the sprinkles on your uniform now. If you’re not, he’s blowing you into the cheerleaders, and then you get the sprinkles on your face. You got to be lower than the man you’re guarding. You’re not physically this beast, and you’re slender.
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He just needs to get on the court, and when he gets on there, he has got to fight like heck. Now you start looking and you have your chance, now get in there and do it. Daimion got a chance to play a whole lot. Who got a good chance to play a bunch? Dontaie got his chance to play a whole lot. Here is the good thing about all the injuries and sickness. I’ll make you breakfast, but you’re just not playing a whole lot tonight. If you’re not quite ready and you’re not into it that game, that’s fine. If someone is playing well, I’m going to play them a lot of minutes. JOHN CALIPARI: I think it’s going to be game to game, and guys are going to have to accept that. How close do you think you are to finding the rotation you want to play with? It’s kind of like North Florida and these teams that we’re playing have played one Power Five after another. They get in the league, and I think they got Xavier now. Then they went zone and they kept playing. And I’m telling Tony, he did a great job of saying, ‘We’re not backing down.’ They’re not going to play for a couple weeks, and we’ll have practice. We’re able to go down and chuck a guy, then we will get some of the helmets from the football team. My point is, if that’s how we’re going to play, then I’ve got to teach that. What Tony had his guys setting screens, and they were plastering guys. What if you’re 1-for-9? How confident are you now? Now, they think I just got to make shots to be confident. If you play that way, you’ll be confident. You can’t miss them all, but you can go in and miss shots if you’re defending and you’re rebounding, if you’re diving on the floor, and if you’re making a difference in the game. It’s not what it is for us because, again, I want them to know you can go in and miss shots. We had some guys miss a lot of shots today. Now, to encourage them, that’s what I’d be saying to them. I’m taking you out if you don’t fight, if you’re not defending, if you don’t dive on the floor for a ball, or if you’re not sprinting. Now, you can’t miss every shot and expect to play. I’m not taking guys out for missed shots. A lot of times I keep coming back to all the clutter. You struggle and all of a sudden you shoot an air ball or you miss one, and it leads to missing four. I keep talking to the guys about that confidence. I got to get to double figures.’ He doesn’t play that way. He’s not there to say, ‘I’m going to prove that I can do this.’ He’s not playing like, ‘I need to get some baskets now. He’s comfortable with who he is as a player. TyTy seems like he’s really letting the game come to him. We got the ball and did some good things and then missed shots that were wide open, even one right next to the basket. We went against a zone today for the first time we really played it. You can’t, or I got to figure out who else plays.ĭoes that put pressure on them? Well, you won’t believe this, when they go in the game, there’s pressure on them. Then offensively, again, we had two guys go 2-for-12. It wasn’t like he was going against 6’7 guys. I’m worried about my team fighting, and about my team being consistent for 40 minutes and how we’re going to play. But I’m worried about my team playing the right way. I know it’s a process when you’re rebuilding like he is, and we talked about it. John, you’re 18-and-1 against former coaches. I may let them just get their wind back and then go Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. I may do conditioning and not do practice. Then we’ll figure out what we’re doing on Thursday, and that may be individual work. It will be an individual workday unless you need treatments or something else for you.
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They’re going to have off tomorrow and they’ll have off Wednesday. Davion hopefully will be ready for the game next week. Lance, I think that ankle is still bothering him. With Keion, we didn’t know if he would play until right before the game, and you saw that he was tired. Today, Daimion didn’t do the shoot-around because he had a high fever. And it comes at a great time because we’re sick. Now we’ve got another game next week and we’re getting a little break. So, alright, now how do we continue to build? Ohio, I don’t know, they’re ranked 30th because they lost to us, but they will end up being one of those teams – an NCAA tournament team – and we beat them pretty good. We played, obviously, now the number one team in the country first game out of the gate, and it’s a four-point game with four or five minutes to go.