Kentucky Basketball: 3 Concerns After Wildcats Home Loss to Kansas
By J Bill Sosh
Coaches Need to Step Up
The importance of coaching strategy and decision-making within a particular game is most often over-rated, at least in this writer’s opinion. Fans love to argue about it, I believe, because they can’t relate to the ability and athleticism of the players, but they can see themselves making the calls on the sidelines.
By and large, players win or lose games. But this has been a bad week for John Calipari.
It’s hard to question the decisions of a coach who has had so much success, but it’s clear that Calipari is leaning on the athleticism and abilities of the players far too much and not bringing a clear strategy to the table on how to beat top opponents like Kansas.
A team with as much talent as the Wildcats should never be hampered by a zone defense as badly as they were against the Jayhawks. That points to a lack of understanding on how to make the zone collapse, which falls on the coaches, not the players.