Calipari Reveals ‘Tweak’ That Sparked Kentucky

The infamous “tweak” that John Calipari credited for Kentucky’s stunning postseason reversal of fortune not surprisingly turned out to be a pretty simple coaching adjustment.

Calipari revealed this week that he merely simplified the game for point guard Andrew Harrison before the SEC tournament and told him to worry less about scoring and more about distributing.

“I was trying to make the game easier for Andrew, Calipari told CBS This Morning” on Monday during an interview promoting his new book. “I got tapes of Deron Williams, who averaged nine assists throughout his career in the NBA. We had a game where he had 11 assists and I showed Andrew and I said, ‘Look at this. Let’s watch. Would you have passed or shot?’ He said, ‘I would have shot.’ ‘Would you have passed or shot?’ Well, Deron was throwing balls to everybody.

“And so I said, ‘Monday, you will not shoot one basketball. You will pass. We’re going to run less plays. You will create shots. We will chart. We’re not telling our team.’ He comes in and has 26 assist attempts. Twenty-six assists that Monday. I’m mad the whole practice because it’s changed my team. Why didn’t I do it earlier? And then I apologized to him, I apologized to the team and I said, ‘I messed this up, make me look good now.'”

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Calipari Reveals ‘Tweak’ That Sparked Kentucky

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The infamous “tweak” that John Calipari credited for Kentucky’s stunning postseason reversal of fortune not surprisingly turned out to be a pretty simple coaching adjustment.

Calipari revealed this week that he merely simplified the game for point guard Andrew Harrison before the SEC tournament and told him to worry less about scoring and more about distributing.

“I was trying to make the game easier for Andrew, Calipari told CBS This Morning” on Monday during an interview promoting his new book. “I got tapes of Deron Williams, who averaged nine assists throughout his career in the NBA. We had a game where he had 11 assists and I showed Andrew and I said, ‘Look at this. Let’s watch. Would you have passed or shot?’ He said, ‘I would have shot.’ ‘Would you have passed or shot?’ Well, Deron was throwing balls to everybody.

“And so I said, ‘Monday, you will not shoot one basketball. You will pass. We’re going to run less plays. You will create shots. We will chart. We’re not telling our team.’ He comes in and has 26 assist attempts. Twenty-six assists that Monday. I’m mad the whole practice because it’s changed my team. Why didn’t I do it earlier? And then I apologized to him, I apologized to the team and I said, ‘I messed this up, make me look good now.'”

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