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(1) GILLISPIE MAKING TEAM TENSE: I admit to being fascinated with Coach Clyde's personality and the
various emotions that he brings out during the season. At the beginning of the season, he was often
cantankerous with the media and many of the media types wondering aloud if he was the most difficult
person to work with in UK history. But then all of a sudden he began to open up and at times, seems
almost reflective about himself. Case in point today where the Coach, without prodding, began to
question the pregame approach he took with his team." "I was too hard on them..I made them too
tentative. I made too much of the magnitude of the game." Coach said he thought this game was huge
due to the athletes on the team and that it may have been one of the more important games of the
season and it caused him to "present to tense a guy" to the rest of the team. The players for their
part thought Gillispie did nothing differently and Patrick Patterson noted that, "Coach takes blame
for a lot." Nevertheless at least to me, this seemed like a different type of thing. You could
almost see Coach beating himself up over his pre-game tactics and taking responsibility for the way
he attempted to prepare the team. Somewhat fascinating to watch..

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Quite a different version though from what we've had in the past....:-)

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Joseph

Kentucky Basketball is more than wins and losses, it is about
having pride in the program....and now it is BACK!!!