Rick Pitino has never been shy with a microphone in front of him, and after losing to Kentucky in Atlanta, he had plenty to say about the Wildcats.
He started by tipping his cap to the point guard who flipped the game on its head.
“I congratulate UK for the great second half. Think a big difference is the play when Jaland Lowe comes in the game, they’re a different basketball team,” Pitino said. “He makes people better. He is very tough to guard in pick and rolls.”
Then he went straight to Mark Pope’s identity shift and basically said Pope reinvented this team on the fly.