John Calipari has never been afraid to adapt his coaching style to fit his personnel. In his first five seasons at Kentucky, he’s coached all manner of different teams. His first group dominated with a combination of overwhelming talent, suffocating defense and brute force in the post. The next season he used more finesse, employing pick-and-rolls and dribble handoffs to take a team to the Final Four.Similar adjustments – and two trips to the national championship game – followed over the next three seasons, but a few statistical hallmarks have remained in place. In fact, that’s true dating all the way back to Calipari’s run at Memphis.On offense, Coach Cal’s teams sometimes play fast (2005-06 at Memphis and 2009-10 at Kentucky) and sometimes play slow (2010-11 and 2013-14 at UK). Sometimes they get it done by getting to the foul line in spite of mediocre field-goal shooting (2013-14) and sometimes by shooting well from the field and rarely turning it over (2010-11).But almost without exception, Coach Cal’s teams dominate on the offensive glass. Dating back to 2001-02 and including this season, Calipari’s Memphis and UK teams have ranked in the top 30 nationally in offensive-rebounding percentage 10 times according to kenpom.com, the source for all statistics found in this story. Only once during that time period (2010-11, his most anomalous team before this season, but we’ll get to that later), has a Calipari team ranked outside the top 75 nationally in offensive-rebounding percentage.On defense, Calipari teams, above all else, contest shots well. Ten times in the last 14 season, Coach Cal’s groups have ranked in the top 10 nationally in effective field-goal percentage defense, and never have they ranked worse than 53rd. Along those same lines, Calipari teams excel at shot-blocking. Remarkably, UK and Memphis have ranked in the top 15 nationally in block percentage in 12 consecutive seasons.This season, UK is taking those three consistent traits – offensive-rebounding percentage, effective field-goal percentage defense and block percentage – to the extreme. The Wildcats, as of Dec. 2, rank first nationally in all three.In that way, this is a typical Calipari team. In other ways, it’s anything but.Unprecedented depth has prompted Coach Cal to go to a much-talked about platoon system in which 10 players share minutes roughly equally. Logically, UK has rocketed to the top of the national rankings in bench minutes, ranking first with reserves playing 49 percent of available minutes this season. In his first five seasons in Lexington, UK ranked no higher than 160th nationally and lower than 300th three times.The differences resulting from the platoons don’t end there.On offense, the system has led to passing unlike anything Calipari has coached in recent seasons. As good as they have been, Calipari’s teams haven’t typically registered high assist totals, which can be attributed in part to his Dribble Drive offense, which encourages passes that lead to driving opportunities. This year has been a different story, with UK racking up 120 assists through seven games. The Cats have assisted on 59.7 percent of their made field goals this season (63rd nationally, highest for a Calipari team in more than a decade), up more than six percent from UK’s previous season-high total under Calipari.On defense, UK’s depth has allowed the Cats to turn up their ball pressure. Whereas previous teams have been content to force opponents into tough shots and contest them rather than go for turnovers, this group is managing to do both. UK has forced turnovers on 27.9 percent of its defensive possessions, good for ninth nationally. By comparison, the previous four UK teams have all ranked 293rd or worse in defensive turnover percentage. It’ bears mentioning it that the season is young and the competition will improve, meaning Coach Cal has plenty of time to do what he does and adapt. That said, it looks like he’s coaching a different kind of team than he ever has.