[Hoot Gibson]

That last 3 or 4 minutes of the game tells you all you need to know about cals coaching abilities

The entire season tells you all you need to know about Cal's coaching abilities. He is a coach who needs to land recruits who have been very well coached in high school. He is a salesman and a manager but he is not a coach who is going to teach players core fundamentals.

Starting what should be a project player like Nick Richards for the entire season is inexcusable. For Richards' sake, I hope that somebody who cares about him hooks him up with a school and coach willing and able to teach him the game of basketball. Calipari is not that guy.

The same goes for Diallo. It is easy to see how Diallo dominated at the high school level with his size, wingspan, and raw athleticism - but he was not much better at the end of a full season than when he first stepped foot on UK's campus. At no point during the season was Diallo a skilled enough basketball player to start for UK. The same was true of Qade Greene.

This was the team that Calipari recruited and it is a team that had the potential to make a deep run in the tournament. That potential was not developed as it should have been and IMO, UK never put its best starting lineup on the floor during the entire season.