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John Calipari (born February 10, 1959) is an American basketball coach. Since April 2009, he has been the men's head coach at the University of Kentucky.
Calipari is the former head coach of the University of Memphis, the University of Massachusetts and the NBA's New Jersey Nets. He is one of only two coaches to direct
three different colleges to a number one seed in the NCAA Tournament, and the only head coach to have a Final Four appearance vacated at more than one school, though
Calipari himself was not personally indicted by the NCAA while coaching UMass or Memphis.
Calipari has taken three different schools to the Final Four: UMass (1996), Memphis (2008) and Kentucky (2011). Trips with UMass and Memphis have since been vacated and
do not count.
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• Complete breakdown of the Dribble Drive Motion offense with many entries and warm-up drills
• Learn how to get your team to commit to intense defensive pressure on every possession
• Dominate your opponent by teaching a smothering, stunting defense
• Gain insight into how one of the most successful coaches in the NCAA gets his team to compete in every drill
with John Calipari,
University of Kentucky Head Coach;
2011 Final Four, 2x Naismith National Coach of the Year,
2009 Sports Illustrated National Coach of the Year,
.771 career winning percentage
Watch as John Calipari prepares his young team for the 2010-11 season which included a run into the NCAA Final Four. In this All Access DVD, Coach Calipari reveals
everything he teaches and drills to get the Wildcats into an aggressive, attacking mindset on both the defensive and offensive ends of the floor. With this video set,
Coach Calipari breaks down every drill in more detail than ever before to teach his team how to play the right way!
Transition Defense
The first practice is all about defense and getting the team ready to play at a fast pace and to disrupt any offense they may face. Likewise, Calipari balances this with
an ability to slow the game down and make intelligent basketball decisions.
Calipari has them begin with running their offense in the half-court and immediately transition onto the defensive end with constant pressure on the ball. His "Progression
Drill" shows you how the defense reacts to odd numbers on the break.
By building from a 2-on-1 and developing into 3-on-2, 4-on-3, 5-on-4, and finishing with a 5-on-5, you will see the principles of the Kentucky Wildcat defense and how
they are able to cover so much ground.
Man-to-Man Defense
To play for Calipari you must commit yourself to the defensive end. With fundamental drills including lunges, charging drills, loose ball drills, stunting, box closeouts,
and the impossible closeout he prepares his team to be an instinctive, aggressive defense. In the shell drill, you will see the basic responsibilities that the team must
have to be successful: intense ball pressure, great help defense, high closeouts, and finishing with rebounds. Also included is their 2-2-1 press which is designed to
speed up the pace of the game and create turnovers; covering how to align your press against one guard up or even against four-across.
Dribble Drive Motion Offense
Calipari shows you how he builds the Dribble Drive through breakdown drills, off of transition, and through numerous entry sets. Keeping to his principle of playing at a
fast pace; Calipari has the team flow their half-court game straight into their transition offensive attack in a 5-on-0 setting working on numerous options.
With breakdown drills including 11, 21, 32, Blood 33 and 44, and Skip 21 you will see how each drill reinforces the principle of attacking the rim and putting pressure on
the defense. In both Kentucky's 2-Man Shooting and 3-Man Shooting breakdown drills, you will see how they work on the reads of the Dribble Drive while being able to play
off of one another.
Q&A
Wrapping up both of the practice sessions, Calipari answers questions about his team and his approach to practice. He discusses topics on how to structure a practice,
teaching young player's proper shooting technique, and how to attack sagging defenses.
Calipari provides you with everything you need to create a championship caliber team. Order this DVD today and implement these attacking, aggressive principles into your
program.
"... John Calipari was a rising star in college basketball. I was a green and naive college kid writing for the school newspaper. It was the Fall of 1991 and the coach was coming off his first (of many) 20-win seasons.
Anticipation for the upcoming hoops season was at a fever pitch - a completely new phenomenon for the University of Massachusetts which had just come off its first back-to-back plus-.500 seasons in 13 years.
The night of Midnight Madness arrived and I was assigned to do a quick feature on the event for The Massachusetts Daily Collegian. It wasn't my first story for the student paper - I had helped out on the football beat - but it was definitely the most high profile. My plan for the night was to scope out the scene outside the Curry Hicks Cage, an old barn of a basketball arena where Dr. J once toiled and where the Mass Madness was being held.
I would get quotes from students waiting in line outside for the night's festivities, some "color" of the happening and hopefully a quick quote from the head coach and a player. (If memory serves, it was one of many nights when the coach would provide pizza for the adoring fans who waited in line.)
With a midnight deadline, I would then rush back to the Campus Center basement where the paper's offices were, cull together a 750-word story and then probably pass out from exhaustion, nerves and excitement.
It was my first, real chance at deadline writing and the rush I was getting while scrambling to piece together a feature that would be played prominently on the sports page was a feeling I would thrive on years later. At that time though, I was just hoping not to vomit on my keyboard.
I leafed through my notepad, used all the "money" quotes I had collected and with about 20 minutes to spare, I forwarded the story to an editor, who quickly passed it along for layout.
"Happy with it?" asked the editor after he had put the paper to bed.
"Pretty much," I said. "I think I nailed it."
The next morning, I rushed to the first stack of papers I could find, turned to the back page and smiled a bit at my byline under the headline "Madness at The Cage" (or something to that effect).
John Calipari's Lockerroom Speech Before / After Game
The smile lasted about two seconds.
I began reading my own words. Two paragraphs in, the first quote I used was from the young, up-and-coming coach:
"This is the start of what we hope will be a great season and our fans are just incredible," said Jim Calipari.
I read it again. And again. And again. Each time it said "Jim" instead of "John." Each time my heart sank lower and lower.
With most of my writing to that point focused on UMass football, I had mixed up the first names of the football coach - Jim Reid - and the basketball coach - John Calipari.
I wanted to dig a hole and hide in it until the basketball season ended. Or longer.
I rushed to the paper's offices, checked a few more editions to confirm the error had been printed in all the papers and sat crestfallen behind a computer terminal. I knew what I had to do.
I picked up the phone, called the men's basketball office and asked for Coach Calipari. I was put right through.
"Coach, this is David Scott at The Collegian," I stammered.
"Hi David."
"Coach, I have to apologize," I said. "I called you 'Jim' instead of 'John' in my story today. I feel awful."
"That's okay, David," he laughed. "I've been called a lot worse!"
We talked for a few minutes, I apologized about a hundred times more and Coach Calipari continued to tell me to not worry about it.
"You got the last name right," he said. "Hope to see you at practice."
That was my first, true introduction to John Vincent Calipari. In the nearly two decades since, I've probably typed his name - correctly - thousands of times for newspaper stories, magazine articles, blog entries and most recently the book I was fortunate enough to work on with him, "Bounce Back."
We've both come a long way from the early-1990s in Amherst, Massachusetts. Coach has been to two Final Fours, the NBA and the University of Memphis among other places. I forwarded my writing career at various stops including College Sports Magazine, Sports Illustrated for Kids and SPORT Magazine.
Over the years, we have always stayed in touch, even when our respective careers took us in different directions. I was at the press conference when he was introduced in New Jersey and by his side after the Kansas loss in the 2008 title game. I've seen Coach in his absolute best and yes, even during some of his worst times (although it's hard to distinguish those moments with such a positive and inspirational man).
I've watched from afar as his children grew from little peanuts who used to crawl on the floor of The Cage into incredible young adults. I've seen firsthand what a wonderful and supportive wife Ellen has always been.
In essence, I have seen the evolution of the Coach who is now at the helm of YOUR University of Kentucky program. He has gone from the new kid on the block to the wily veteran. He went from "itchy shoes" to "Gucci shoes" and from The Cage to Rupp - but through it all he has never strayed too far from the little boy from Moon Township, Pennsylvania who used to spend his afternoons pretending to be Fran Tarkenton or Ilie Nastase or Arnold Palmer.
He was a dreamer back then and he continues to dream, especially of the new heights Kentucky basketball can rise to. When he says he is humbled to be YOUR coach, you can take him at his word. He feels the history and the responsibility of this job every day and will never stop living to those ideals.
Best of all? No one refers to him as "Jim" anymore. ..." David Scott, Senior Sports Content Manager/Editor for or CoachCal
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Coaching Awards
• 2009 NABC Co-Coach of the Year
• 2009 Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year
• 2009 Sports Illustrated National Coach of the Year
• 2009 Iba National Coach of the Year Finalist
• 2009 C-USA Coach of the Year
• 2008 Naismith National Coach of the Year
• 2008 C-USA Coach of the Year
• 2008 Phelan and Iba National Coach of the Year Finalist
• 2007 Phelan National Coach of the Year Finalist
• 2007 USBWA District 4 Coach of the Year
• 2007 Basketball Times South Region Coach of the Year
• 2006 C-USA Coach of the Year
• 2004 NABC District 7 Coach of the Year
• 1996 Naismith National Coach of the Year
• 1996 The Sporting News National Coach of the Year
• 1996 Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year
• 1995 Naismith National Coach of the Year Finalist
• 1994 Naismith National Coach of the Year Finalist
• 1994 Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year
• 1993 USBWA District I Coach of the Year
• 1993 Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year
• 1992 Eastern Basketball Coach of the Year
Pros Coached
"... I've had the privilege of coaching some outstanding young men during my career. Many of them have found careers outside of basketball and I couldn't be prouder of every one of them. They used their basketball skills to help create careers, families and legacies for themselves. I derive great joy from staying in touch with my former players and sharing their successes with them.
Some of the players have been fortunate enough to play professionally, either overseas or in the NBA. When I look at the list below of the drafted NBA players I have coached, I think of all the hours of effort and dedication spent not just by the individual player, but also by my staff and their teammates in preparing these young men to fulfill their dreams. ..." Coach John Calipari
• Actors: John Calipari
• Region: All Regions • Format: Color, Director's Cut, Full Screen
• Language: English • Number of discs: 2
• Studio: Championship Productions
• Date Edition:NEW on Jul 01, 2011 !
• Run Time: 248 minutes
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