No gold medal for John Calipari's United States U19 after loss to Canada...

Jul 8, 2017.
World News - Basketball News.

No gold medal for John Calipari and United States U19 at FIBA championship.

The U-19 World Cup is traditionally the toughest FIBA championship for USA Basketball to win.

Indeed, Saturday’s 99-87 semifinal loss to Canada isn’t as embarrassing for Calipari as it may seem. The knee-jerk reaction to USA Basketball’s stunning failure to win gold at the U-19 World Cup is to blame its head coach for once again squandering superior talent.

John Calipari did not bring home a gold medal in his first experience as a coach for US Basketball. Calipari's United States U19 team was upset by Canada, 99-87, in the semifinals of the FIBA U19 World Cup in Cairo, Egypt Saturday.

There are opinions that other countries are also often benefited from the great continuity of selecting players with years of experience in the national team, a luxury that the United States does not seem to have at the U-19 level.

The Americans coasted to an unbeaten 5-0 record entering the semifinals, they had no answer for Canadian guard R.J. Barrett on Saturday. The top prospect in the 2019 Class drew a series of ill-advised fouls on Hamidou Diallo and demolished a parade of other U.S. defenders, scoring 38 points, grabbing 13 rebounds and dishing out 5 assists.

Barrett entered the game ranked second in the tournament in scoring 19 points per game and is currently ranked as the No. 1 recruit in the class of 2019 by the 247Sports Composite. Barrett would continue a line of Canadian stars to play at Kentucky under Calipari, including current pros Trey Lyles and Jamal Murray and current Wildcat Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

These disadvantages help explain why the United States won just one of the six U-19 World Cups held between 1995 and 2011. Billy Donovan and Sean Miller overcame those obstacles to lead the United States into Gold in 2013 and 2015, but Calipari could not make a repeat this year.

The U.S. team will face Spain in the bronze-medal game Sunday at 10 a.m.

More info about John Vincent Calipari :
John Vincent Calipari was born February 10, 1959. He is an American college basketball coach.

Calipari was previously the head coach at the University of Memphis (2000–2009) and the University of Massachusetts (1988–1996).

He was also the head coach of the National Basketball Association's New Jersey Nets (1996–1999) and the Dominican Republic national basketball team in 2011 and 2012.

Calipari has been to four Final Fours with Kentucky (2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015). He had previously led UMass in 1996 and Memphis in 2008 to the Final Four, but those appearances were later vacated; however, Calipari himself was not personally implicated by the NCAA in either case. Calipari is the only head coach to have Final Four appearances vacated at more than one school.

As a college coach, Calipari has 21 20-win seasons, eight 30-win seasons, and three 35-win seasons. He has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year three times (1996, 2008 and 2015) and led Kentucky to its eighth NCAA Championship in 2012.

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