John Calipari spent the first four practice sessions of this week’s USA Basketball U19 training camp on the sidelines.
The UK coach — also the head coach of the U19 national team — sat in a courtside chair, usually flanked by assistant coaches Tad Boyle and Danny Manning, and evaluated the players that had been invited to his camp.
He took notes, chatted with his coaching colleagues and waited his turn.
Once the first cuts were made Tuesday morning, the Team USA on-court instructors who had been running things to that point took a backseat, and Calipari started coaching.