As Kentucky has limped from the starting gate with four losses in its first 14 games of the 2022-23 men’s college hoops season, John Calipari’s “outmoded” offensive approach has been roasted like your Christmas turkey.
“Their offense is archaic. It’s gotta be the same s--- he was running with the New Jersey Nets,” was the assessment of one coach quoted in an article from The Athletic’s Dana O’Neil which ran under the headline “Is John Calipari now the Jimbo Fisher of college basketball?”
The funny thing about comparisons of Calipari to the Texas A&M head football coach whose offensive approach is widely thought to have gone stale is that, in the case of the UK basketball offense, the underlying metrics are, actually, pretty good.
