The following is excerpted from Success is the Only Option by John Calipari. Copyright © 2016 by John Calipari. Used by permission of HarperCollins. All rights reserved.
My job is to push each of these players through his comfort zone.
In the weight room, you’ll hear, “No pain, no gain.” I must make each of them as uncomfortable as I can in practice daily and in individual workouts, stretching them to the limit so they discover what their limit really is.
Karl-Anthony Towns was seven feet tall by the time he came to us in 2015 for his freshman season.