A trip to the Bahamas four years ago this month allowed Kentucky to test drive a much-hyped platoon system for substitution. Next week’s return trip for four exhibition games figures to also feature experimentation, albeit without the allure of such a radical change.
“We’re going to be experimenting with a lot of stuff, and I told them that,” Calipari said Wednesday. “There are things we’ll do defensively we have not done here in the past. I just want to try it. There are things offensively we’re going to try that we really haven’t done much in the past.