{"id":80528,"date":"2025-01-12T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/john-calipari-on-arkansas-struggles-are-we-playing-the-right-people\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T15:18:00","slug":"john-calipari-on-arkansas-struggles-are-we-playing-the-right-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/john-calipari-on-arkansas-struggles-are-we-playing-the-right-people\/","title":{"rendered":"John Calipari on Arkansas struggles: \u2018Are we playing the right people?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arkansas<\/strong><\/a> fell short against Florida<\/strong><\/a> Saturday, 71-63, and head coach John Calipari<\/a><\/strong> questioned if he was playing the right people in a pivotal SEC game like that.<\/p>\n

The loss dropped the Razorbacks to 11-5 on the season, they\u2019re out of the top 25 and Florida is cruising at 15-1 on the season, ranked No. 8. Simply put, Claipari wanted to know where the effort and emotion was.<\/p>\n

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It certainly didn\u2019t show up across 40 minutes in the coach\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n

\u201cTop 10 team, hold them to 39% from the floor, 28% from the three, out rebound us by 10. A bunch of those were at the end of the game, offensive rebounds. We miss a bunch of free throws, miss a bunch of layups, and we still have a chance, and then we start missing free throws. So I gotta look and say, Are we playing the right people? Are we playing the right way,\u201d Calipari said postgame<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re getting shots. We\u2019re getting layups. We got to the free throw line. We did all the stuff we\u2019re trying to do. And then the other thing is, there was emotion shown in that game, in one play, what was it? He dunks, the crowd goes crazy. And why isn\u2019t that us? Why aren\u2019t you absolutely excited about playing?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Calipari doubled down on the effort request. He simply needs more from his players if Arkansas is going to be successful and make a run.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think part of it is, if someone doesn\u2019t play well, they can\u2019t get out of their own way,\u201d Calipari said. \u201cBut you don\u2019t have to play great. You don\u2019t even have to play good. Just defend. Dive on the floor, talk. Be a great teammate. Chest bump, get everybody going, and you\u2019ll bounce out of that. We haven\u2019t learned that yet. I got to do a better job. We got to make some shots. Do I got to play some different people? Probably, maybe that big lineup is the answer for us for a while you say, well, you won\u2019t shoot it as well. They ain\u2019t shooting it well right now, so let\u2019s, you know, it\u2019s, we just got to figure stuff out.\u201d<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll have to figure it out fast as Calipari and company travel to LSU and Missouri in their next two games before returning home against Georgia. After that, Arkansas has ranked games against Oklahoma and Kentucky leading into February.<\/p>\n

Perhaps by then Calipari will play the right people.<\/p>\n

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