Kentucky basketball: Wildcats “me” attitude puzzling as is substitutions by Cal

Puzzling comment No. 2

Ah but wait for one final observation from Calipari after admitting his team got out-toughed.

Calipari noted on his subbing of players who were getting beat on drives or failing to drive themselves.

He said that if you got beat to ball then I took you out. It’s rough but you got to go. For a team struggling at so many positions is this the best answer.

Calipari’s logic will surely be the talk of the week.

“Well, you know one of the things we talked out, do we — Lance [Ware] too, how about throwing Lance in there? What you’re trying to do is, I’m not trying to — I want to win every game I coach, but the other side of it is, I’m not trying to take anybody’s heart away. So you can sub them when three, four minutes and go.

“We didn’t start the half that badly, so that wasn’t the case. It isn’t like you’re subbing quarterbacks. He played a bad quarter so I’m going to play this other quarterback. You don’t coach that way. What you do is you sub them in. You go out the other way and again, Dontaie got great looks in the second half. Got great looks. Got fouled. But they were going at him defensively. In other words, whoever he was guarding they were going. Did the same thing to BJ, which is why I took those guys and went with Jacob and the other guys.”