Kentucky had just lost a second straight game for the first time this season. Yet Coach John Calipari said the word “fine” six times in his postgame news conference. He said the word “OK’ twice.
Calipari set the don’t worry-be happy tone at the start.
“Let me say this, and start by saying this: we’re going to be fine,” he said.
Calipari acknowledged that “freshman mistakes” contributed to a 66-64 loss to Florida. But he cited how UK held the Gators to 6-for-30 shooting from three-point range and 66 points (which equaled Florida’s second-lowest point total of the season) as reasons for optimism.