Reid Travis made a living punishing opponents around the basket at Stanford, evidenced by averaging a near double-double last year for the Cardinal and regularly creating “and-1” opportunities by drawing fouls.
But now at Kentucky for his final season of college basketball, John Calipari wants Travis to broaden his game in order to better position himself for a future in basketball.
“My thing with him is, let’s lose some weight. Let’s be more about movement,” Calipari said in an interview with Kentucky Sports Radio earlier this week. “You’re not going to lose your strength and your power but we need to get more movement, more perimeter stuff, even though, at the end of the day, we need a basket or a rebound, you’ve got to go for the ball.