“When you’ve got a bunch of young guys, it’s the last piece of this. It’s not skills, it becomes, will you battle?”
Calipari’s message to his team yesterday was talent is meaningless unless you have the toughness to maximize it. He echoed a lot of fans when he said that without toughness, some of these guys will not make it at the next level.
“I’ve seen guys who have advanced with less skills and less this, less that, yet they’ve fought and they lasted. Had 15-year careers. If you don’t fight, you’re not making it because it’s too competitive.