A few words on consistency
Well, it's actually a lot of words, but I expanded on this week's good/bad/ugly post in my column from Kentucky, which can be read here.
More than much of the sport of basketball, I think achieving a consistent effort from players for a 40-minute game comes down to coaching. With a first-year coach in Jerome Allen, consistency might be hard to come by this year. Allen is lucky to have a young team which he can shape over the next year and on.
And even the legendary coach John Calipari of Kentucky says his team is struggling to stay consistent — which was obvious when Penn was up 12 points in the first half Monday (for more, see this story in the Lexington Herald-Leader). It must be even harder for coach Cal to keep a consistent level of play when he faces the one-and-done syndrome every year as his players leave for the NBA. The fact that he's continually in the top 25 despite that is a testament to how great of a coach he is.
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