Arkansas coach John Calipari had a heart to heart with his team Razorbacks on Saturday after a defeat of 69-61 to No. 8 Texas A&M in which he strengthened the importance of playing with confidence and clearly Indicated that the team – despite a hard effort has fought in defeat – should in no case be content with a kind of moral victory as the regular season is approaching.
“So that we can pass, we will have to beat someone,” he said when the team had abandoned his third defeat in his last six outings, falling at 4-8 in dry play. “We can say what we want, (but) I wanted to make sure they were not happy (thinking), we are going to go well. No. If we won this match … we are in the tournament .
Calipari added that he was perplexed why some players play timidly and said “some guys must play better”.
“Now you are going to have to go and get someone else,” he said about the loss, which would have been a very important victory for Quad 1 to stimulate the still Lacking of Arkansas.
“I didn’t want to put this on it because I have guys who are a little fragile,” he continued. “So I have to keep them responsible but continue to recover them. They are a bit fragile. But when you lose games or don’t play well, it happens.”
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Jerry Palm
The Arkansas fell at 15-10 in total and 4-8 in dry play with the loss. It was in the support of Jerry Palm who enters Saturday as the first team as a seeded seeded, which means that he was one of the last teams projected in the current field.
The Arkansas is very likely to play comfortably in the tournament field in a secure sec with six remaining regular season games. His next chance to mark a huge victory occurs on Wednesday evening while the Razorbacks go to Alabama to face the N ° 1 Auburn.
