When John Calipari came to Kentucky last year, he brought with him the Dribble Drive Motion Offense, a scheme known by players and fans alike as a viewer-friendly style of play that allows players a high degree of freedom. There was a great deal of excitement as to how a very talented 2009-10 team would play in the system.However, it quickly became clear to Calipari that a complete focus on the dribble drive was not the best approach for his team.”Last year, the dribble drive, we looked and it wasn’t the best way to do it 100 percent of the time,” Calipari said, “so we didn’t.”With two true centers in DeMarcus Cousins and Daniel Orton in the post, as well as another experienced post scorer in Patrick Patterson, Calipari realized his personnel demanded that he prioritize interior touches for his big men. The offense was adjusted accordingly.While Calipari estimated that last year’s team ran the dribble drive about 30 percent of the time, he anticipates this season’s edition of the Kentucky Wildcats will place much more of an emphasis on his signature offensive philosophy.His players couldn’t be any happier about it.”It’s what Coach brings to the table,” sophomore guard Jon Hood said. “It’s an odd, different offense and it’s really fun to watch (and) fun to play in.”Said freshman forward Terrence Jones: “It’s an offense made for people to make plays. It’s an offense where the coach trusts you. You get to decide on what you want to do with the ball.  It’s a fun offense.”With fewer pure post players on this team, including big men like Jones who possess diverse skill sets, the dribble drive is a natural fit. The big men who are on the roster will be asked to do different things this season.”It’s going to be like last year but not so much going to the post like they did to DeMarcus,” senior forward Josh Harrellson said. “It’s going to be better for the big men because we’re going to get a lot more rebounds because the basket will be open for us.”The dribble drive is a style that calls on players to play with a level of aggression that is a step beyond what most are accustomed to. Even though last year’s team did not play the offense in games nearly as much as this year’s team will, learning the offense and its principles was critical to the development of both the team and the individuals comprising it.”By teaching it, it taught us to be aggressive,” Calipari said. “So now John Wall and (Eric) Bledsoe and Darius (Miller) did things that people didn’t know they could do, because they were aggressive.”With Big Blue Madness and the official start of practice just around the corner, the team is only in the beginning stages of learning the principles of the offense that Wall and Bledsoe benefitted from.”It’s uncomfortable for us right now since we’re just now learning it, but I feel our team will be great in it,” Jones said. “It’s pretty much just making plays off the dribble, which most of us have done our whole lives.”While learning the offense is a work in progress, freshmen like Jones, Brandon Knight and Doron Lamb feature games that figure to translate well.”Brandon is great for this offense,” junior guard DeAndre Liggins said. “Doron is fit for this offense. He has the floater, the jump shot and good basketball IQ. I love his game.”Knight and Lamb are quick to cite the dribble drive as a factor in their decisions to come to Kentucky and look forward to taking the floor.”It fits me good,” Lamb said. “If Brandon drives the middle and they collapse on him, he’s going to kick it out to me and I’m just going to shoot it.”Calipari showed last year that he is flexible enough to mold his offense to fit the makeup of his roster. While this season should be a return to the dribble drive for Calipari, it won’t happen without a few tweaks, especially for this year’s team.”We probably will go more (in the dribble drive), but we may run something into it,” Calipari said. “In other words, we’re not going to come down and just start. We may have some motion, some action, some different things, and we enter our spacing and start driving that ball.”Calipari is excited about coaching this year’s team, particularly with the renewed focus on the dribble drive, but he made sure to remind fans that results won’t come without bumps in the road.”We’ve got an all new offense, a totally different way to think about playing,” Calipari said. “We’re going to start off slow. Do you remember me saying it? We’re going to start slow. We’re going to lose some games early. There are things you’re going to look at, turnovers. We’re not going to be what you think, no high expectations. This year I really mean it.”