Former Kentucky assistant and 17-year NBA point Rod Strickland did an interview recently in which he talked about his time under John Calipari in Memphis and in Lexington. The interview, conducted by TheUndefeated.com, dwells on one-and-done players and what all he learned under Calipari.
There’s a lot of good stuff in the interview, but I particularly like this part about John Wall’s frustration in his one season as a Wildcat:
When John Wall was at Kentucky, he would get so frustrated. And I would tell him, ‘This is the hardest year of your basketball life.