Of course, there are the exceptions: this season, the Cats had three players with quality minutes return for their sophomore season, for example. But when that isn’t the case, Calipari knows he has to work quickly.
“My job is to be patiently impatient,” Coach Cal said on his radio show Wednesday evening. “It goes faster here. We can’t say he’ll be better next year. We need them to be better next week or next month. We know they’ll get better in a year.”
Now that the Cats are into league play, they’ll play two games each week, drastically shortening the rest/recover/prep work time they had throughout the month of December.