John Calipari hates zone defense. He pretty much always refuses to run it, because, in his words, “when we play zone, every shot they shoot is a three and it goes in. And when they play us zone, we can't make any shots. I don't understand that, but that's how it is."
Fair point, coach, but I think you might want to revisit your opinion on it following the overtime win against the Georgia Bulldogs. With De’Aaron Fox, Mychal Mulder and Sacha Killeya-Jones out due to illness, and Bam Adebayo on the bench with early foul trouble, Calipari had to resort to his biggest fear: running a zone defense.