Kentucky Wildcats Basketball: To Platoon or not to Platoon

Mandatory Credit: Mark Zerof-USA TODAY Sports

"COACH CALIPARI: Oh, yeah. I went on TV after and both guys said, You know you didn’t have the energy that they had. Do your guys understand every game they play is going to be someone’s Super Bowl? But we were also disconnected offensively. Wasn’t just defense. It was both. What they came in, with their game plan, was drive the ball, something we worked on a little bit yesterday, something that we’re going to have to get better at so we keep people in front of us. I told Bobby after, I mean, he lost three of his guys, his starters, had two starters back, has pretty much a brand new team, and they came in here and did that? Wow! Hats off to ‘em. I told the team at halftime, You know what? I’m happy this happened, and if you don’t start playing you’re going to lose, and I’ll even be happy about that. You need to get hit in the head and start understanding what we/you have to be. And I know all our fans, Oh, we can’t ever lose a game. We can’t. Well, there are going to be some Ls the way we’re trying to do this for a while until they get it."

And apparently, Coach Cal’s Big Blue tirade continued to the post game show.

And all of this set off a ridiculous debate on social media as to whether John Calipari “got Kentucky” and an incredible “Who needs each other more: Kentucky or John Calipari” debate was spawned.

All because Kentucky was down by 5 at the half to Buffalo and just won by 19 points.

Personally, I thought that John Calipari would finally be able to get the trust of the Big Blue Nation in year six of his stay here. Three Final Fours in five years have made me trust the man, almost completely on all basketball matters. And after last year, we learned that it is not how the season begins, but how it ends that really matters.

But the media is going to media, and everything John Calipari does is going to be second guessed. And now the “platoon system” is under attack.