John Calipari - New Father of Point Guard U.

Here's a link to this article in which it explains Coach John Calipari's incredible success to bring in top point guards year after year.

It's certainly true and it leads the author to at the end of the writing claim Coach Calipari as the new "father to Point Guard U." assumingly taking over for the former, Lute Olsen at Arizona.

Arizona was formerly the place for premier points that went on to thrive in the NBA - Damon Stoudamire, Mike Bibby, Jason Terry are some of the points that played at Arizona.

Now Coach Calipari has had a string of some great point guards, first at Memphis and now ones that are following him to his new home the University of Kentucky.

His point guards over the past two years have been drafted first overall (Derrick Rose) and fourth overall(Tyreke Evans).

Which leads me to wonder, is it the system that is producing these great point guards or is it the talent? Or is the system simply a great vehicle for these explosive talents to showcase their skills?

First of all this system in question here is the Dribble Drive Motion Offense, which I have written about in earlier posts here. Obviously if you are a strong guard, with great quickness and the ability to penetrate, playing in this offense is going to showcase those skills to the utmost.

This I believe is the case with Derrick Rose and Tyreke Evans. Rose you could argue is taylor made to have the ball in this kind of offense. The question is though, had Rose elected to go to say, Wisconsin and play for Bo Ryan's swing offense and slowdown approach. Rose's skill set would be the same, yet his full range of capabilities may or not have been as exposed.

Since Calipari's has taken the job at Kentucky he has signed major recruit and point guard, John Wall. Wall is generally considered the top player of his class and has already been projected as a top 3 pick. Here's some of his highlights to get a better idea of what Kentucky's getting.

Again a perfect marriage of player and system. Wall is going to thrive and Coach Calipari's third straight lottery selected point guard. Pretty unbelievable and definitely the new Point Guard University.

My take: Calipari is a great recruiter and is bringing in players who fit perfectly into his system. Look out for Wall.