John Calipari threatens to use old Bob Knight tactic with Arkansas

John Calipari has seen enough good and bad basketball over his legendary career to know when a team has to go back to the basics and reteach the fundamentals. He also knows what a team that’s not focused looks like, and you get the sense that he knows exactly what was wrong with his Arkansas Razorbacks on Tuesday against Winthrop. Any good SEC team should never have trouble with a Big South conference team, and that’s meant with no offense to Winthrop. Still, the Eagles gave the Razorbacks everything they could handle, and more, in what ended up being an 84-83 win by Arkansas. After the game, Calipari was clearly upset. Yes, he gave Winthrop credit for coming out and not playing afraid of the Razorbacks, but he also derided his team for playing a brand of offense that simply doesn’t lead to wins. In fact, Calipari was so upset that he said he is thinking about going old school with the Razorbacks. “How about, we might go back to how you guys grew up, if any of you ever played basketball. Where you had to pasRead More