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John Calipari Would Prefer Players Get Credited With Points They Didn't Earn
Published 4/8/2008 at FanIQ Blog
I was pleasantly surprised with the tune of John Calipari's post game interview with the lovely Sam Ryan. He was saying all the right things, taking the blame off his players and putting it on himself (foul!11!) and giving the necessary respect to Kansas. THEN, the Derrick Rose shot was brought up and he lost me with some sour grapes. "Yeah, I don't like this being able to go to the monitor. I'm going to try and get that changed now." I understand the frustration, John, but Derrick Rose clearly had a foot inside the line. It was a two-point field goal. What's ...

Calipari Doesn't Like the Refs' Stupid Monitors
Published 4/8/2008 at The Sporting Blog
By Chris Mottram Here is Coach Cal after last night's loss taking a firm stance against referees getting calls correct (shhh, 12-inch voice zone): "Yeah, I don't like this being able to go to the monitor. I'm going to try to get that changed now." Good luck with that, Johnny. He did give a little smirk there, which means he could have been joking. But more likely, that was just him being his typical, smarmy self. And can Calipari please stop claiming that they were trying to foul Kansas? Because they weren't. Maybe he wanted them to, but none of his players got that message. Perhaps a timeout was in order ...

Reflections on Monday Night
Published 4/8/2008 by rtmsf at Rush the Court
So we’ve had some time to ruminate on last night’s proceedings in San Antonio, and we keep circling back to the same conclusion.  This was a great college basketball game, but it wasn’t a classically great game in the sense that both teams played exceptionally well and the better team won at the end ...

Calipari Doesn't Like the Refs' Stupid Monitors
Published 4/13/2008 at The Sporting Blog
By Chris Mottram Here is Coach Cal after last night's loss taking a firm stance against referees getting calls correct (shhh, 12-inch voice zone): "Yeah, I don't like this being able to go to the monitor. I'm going to try to get that changed now." Good luck with that, Johnny. He did give a little smirk there, which means he could have been joking. But more likely, that was just him being his typical, smarmy self. And can Calipari please stop claiming that they were trying to foul Kansas? Because they weren't. Maybe he wanted them to, but none of his players got that message. Perhaps a timeout was in order ...