Kentucky Basketball: What to Make of John Calipari’s Platoon Experiment

Posted by Brendan O'Meara on September-26-2014 Add Comments

Who knew that John Calipari, coach of the Kentucky Wildcats, was such an altruist? He must have been reading Karl Marx on the beaches in the Bahamas.

All kidding aside, Calipari is attempting to change the game of college basketball by creating two NBA-style platoons that will share equal playing time and, in theory, showcase more talent over the course of a 40-minute game. Can it work and will it draw the attention of scouts and future recruits to Lexington?

No matter how you slice it, the Wildcats are a weapon of mass destruction. The arsenal looks more like a circus freak sh...

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