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John Calipari gave an update on injured starters Tyler Ulis and Marcus Lee yesterday during his meeting with the media.
The update on Ulis sounds good, but the latest on Lee is not as encouraging.
Calipari said Ulis was at full speed yesterday and shot the ball well. He feels it’s the first time that Ulis has been back to normal since his injury.
Lee, on the other hand, could miss tonight’s game against Eastern Kentucky.
“He got hit in the head,” Calipari explained. “I don’t know exactly what they’re talking about. I don’t have any idea. You’ll have to ask the doctors.”
Calipari confirmed that Lee has not practice since the UCLA game.
Here are Coach Cal’s comments:
On if Marcus Lee has practiced since the UCLA game …
“He has not. Hopefully today we’ll see if he can do anything. Tyler (Ulis) was full yesterday. It was the
first time (since he injured his elbow). Tyler hadn’t practiced before the UCLA game. He did a half a
practice, but nothing. Yesterday he was really full and shot the ball well. Seems to be back to where he
was.”
On Lee’s injury …
”He got hit in the head. I don’t know exactly what they’re talking about. I don’t have any idea. You’ll
have to ask the doctors.”
On yesterday’s practice …
“What I didn’t do is I didn’t accept certain things. If certain things weren’t done, we ran. If certain
players weren’t doing what they were supposed to, we ran. Then it was like, ‘Now, if you want to keep
running, keep doing it.’ Look, I want to empower this team, but when they are in, where they are right
now, that’s my job. That’s not a teammate to do that. When everybody’s doing their thing,
everybody’s trying, everybody is playing and battling, and you’re fighting, then they come together
and they really accept what each other has to do. They can be empowered. We’re not close to that
right now. That’s what – if this team is supposed to be by the end of the year what we all believe it
could be, they’ve got to be empowered.”
