Perspective: Scan Kentucky’s rosters and see one-and-dones. Look closer and see John Calipari’s brilliance.
By Sally Jenkins Sally Jenkins Sports columnist Email Bio Columnist March 30 at 7:56 PM KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Set aside, if you can, the annoyances that attend a Kentucky run in the NCAA tournament: the hordes of blue followers with their single-barrel bourbons and the exaggeratedly soft, elongated R’s of their horse-farm accents, and above all, their pretension that there is such a thing as bloodline in basketball. There’s not, of course.
“What it does when you’re changing teams like this, it keeps you curious,” Calipari said earlier this week. “You have to be. You have to look and say, ‘How do we play with this team? What drills do we use? Do we invent new drills?’ We’re doing things with this team that we’ve never done with any other team because we’ve had to. It does keep you younger. There’s no lesson plan year to year. It’s all new. . . .
For experience, and mature company, Calipari has had only 6-8 fifth-year senior transfer Reid Travis, and even he is “another kind of one-and-done,” as Travis says. Travis came from Stanford seeking to get himself NBA-ready. All Calipari did with him was get him to drop more than 20 pounds and make him become a mobile threat as well as a monster rebounder who hauled down 11 against Houston. When Calipari checked on Travis’s body fat recently, it was 4 percent.
Ashton Hagans: The point guard went just 5 for 27 from three-point range in his first 25 collegiate games. He was the guy everyone laid off. Calipari insisted he could become a shooter but only if he put the time in. He would stick by a player who went 1 for 10, the coach said, only if he knew he had been in the gym. Suddenly, Hagans began hitting 50 percent or better in six of his past eight games coming into the NCAA tournament. “You been in the gym?” Calipari asked him.
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