re: Pat Forde rips John Calipari in latest column

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In my book...Calipari is a great salesman and okay coach.



Yep you don't

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What's the dispute? Or, rather, what's the logical counterargument your extensive CBB viewing brings to the table? As far as I can tell, Cal's teams aren't particularly disciplined; gets away with running very basic, easily defended sets on offense because he can out-talent and out-athletic the opponents; have a terrible FT shooting percentage; and have ridiculously underperformed relative to their talent level recently. He's a decent coach, not a great one. He's a great recruiter, no question, but the fact that he managed to get on the dribble-drive bandwagon a few years ago, back when it was still shiny and new, doesn't really make him a great coach or an innovator imho. But you seem fairly convinced of his greatness, so it'd be interesting to see what you have to offer (and please don't resort to "he won X games and went to X Final Fours" -- we already know the numbers. I'm more interested in observations of his actual coaching.)