Hello and good afternoon from lovely Paradise Island, where your University of Kentucky Wildcats just wrapped up their open practice before a four-exhibition gauntlet in the Imperial Ballroom at the Atlantis. I was in attendance to witness the fans’ first look at John Calipari’s new team, so allow me to share a few observations with you, if you will.
Pick-and-roll defense was the major point of emphasis.
There was one major theme from the practice and it was the pick-and-roll. It’s clear Calipari expects Kentucky’s opponents to pick-and-roll this team to death this week, so he is doing all he can to get them ready (an impossible task this early in the process) for what’s ahead.