This was my question to Cal after the game about stall ball:
Basically he's gonna always do it and when it doesn't work it's because the players screwed it up.
Q. The game was never really in doubt, but it did get a little bit tighter than it maybe should've. It seems like this team struggles at the end with shortening the game. Is that something that when they learn how to make winning plays will help, or is it something that you can correct?
JOHN CALIPARI: Well, the game got close because we broke down on defense, and they executed the crap out of some lobs, some back doors, some different play, offensive rebounded twice, and all of a sudden you look around and it's 14. And when you're up that many points, you're going to massage it and take a shot late. If you can get it in transition, you do. If you don't, you grind it out. And that's why historically my teams get up 20, they win.We didn't do it at Tennessee. We shot quick shots. We broke down defensively. We didn't come up with any tough rebounds, and all of a sudden it went from 20 to 4. This thing never got under 14, and so I thought our kids did good. I like how they responded. 10 turnovers in a game. You know, we had a couple games there we were 14, 15 turnovers. We're not going to win because that's another three or four baskets for that other team.