More than anything, Kentucky’s trip to the Bahamas is an opportunity for the coaches to experiment with the 2022-23 squad. Over the course of ten practices and four games, John Calipari and his staff will be able to try out different lineups to see what works and what doesn’t almost three months before the season opener.
The past two teams that went to the Bahamas during the summer, 2014-15 and 2018-19, definitely benefitted from that head start. I combed through the KSR archives today to see what we were saying about those teams during their Bahamas trips. For the most part, those early takeaways ended up being spot on.