For the second time in as many Southeastern Conference games, Kentucky survived overtime. This time, the Wildcats went to double OT at Texas A&M and came away with a 70-64 win. UK got a big and-one from Devin Booker, a clutch 3 by Tyler Ulis and big plays (including two sets of two made free throws) from Dakari Johnson and Trey Lyles in the second extra period after both Willie Cauley-Stein and Karl-Anthony Towns fouled out. Afterward, John Calipari talked about the win, saying “we’re just not a very good team right now” even though the Wildcats are 15-0. Minutes later, he followed his comments up with a tweet fitting for an NFL Playoff weekend. Check it all out below.

In the immortal words of a great quarterback: RELAX!

— John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) January 10, 2015

On Trey Lyles and Dakari Johnson coming through when they needed to …“We’re just–I was happy with them, but the shot that Tyler made, the and-one that Devin made and then Dakari rebounding. I couldn’t get Karl to rebound. He got traffic and grabbing and pushing and he’s looking for fouls and balls are hitting him in the chest. So I thought Marcus Lee defended well down the stretch when we put him out there. But we’re just not a very good team right now. And Texas A&M, Billy (Kennedy), he did everything he was supposed to to give them a chance to win and we kind of got lucky and walked out with a W. The thing about this: Texas A&M without their best player. Without their best player. So I’m a big Billy Kennedy. He knows. We’re friends. That thing was a war. They did not quit. They did not stop.”On why they are not a good team right now …“I don’t know. In the last two games, we’ve kind of–what’s happening, again, we’re walking out of timeouts, guys aren’t paying attention, which means they’re into themselves. You make a bad play, it leads to another bad play and another bad play. You miss a shot and now you don’t want to be aggressive. You’re tentative. So we have a lot that going on and I just told them, ‘We need to take a day off tomorrow, get away from each other and self-reflect, including me, and let’s just figure out where we go with this.’ Because right now, we’re not very good.”On players other than Aaron Harrison stepping up in big moments …“Well, the one thing I want to tell you is we’re learning about our team. We continue to learn. We couldn’t get Aaron to drive the ball today. He did not drive the ball. He should have been at the foul line like (Danuel) House, which is just drive in there and jump right at (them). Don’t try to jump sideways and shoot fades. But we couldn’t get him to do it and so House shoots 11 free throws, he shoots two. And then on top of it goes 4 for 20 and a bunch of them were, just drive the ball, man. Go at somebody. But what happened is, you’re not playing great and you get tentative and the bail-out shot is just a jumper. If it goes it goes and if it doesn’t I didn’t make it. But he wasn’t the only one. Willie didn’t play particularly well. I mean, we had a lot of–we’re kind of hitting that proverbial wall maybe a little bit early right now.”On fouling before the in-bounds at the end of the first overtime …“They did and the kid made one. I was hoping he’d miss both but he made one. But it put us in a different position rather than down three and being desperate. We were just trying to escape, just to be honest. I mean, think about Dakari makes the free throws and Trey, who every other time Trey has been in that situation has missed the free throws. You’re counting on your freshmen. Devin Booker making a play in transition and Tyler making a 3. Guys fouled out. They were grabbing guys. We were running at non-shooters. Think about what I’m saying. He is not going to shoot it, he’s driving and we ran right at him and the guy drives around us. Or how about this one? We fouled the guy. At that point, when you’re coaching, let’s just try to get out of here. Let’s just try to escape.”On needing to work on energy …“It’s not like we’re not playing. What’s happened is the other teams are playing out of their minds. But guess what. Is it going to change? Every game’s this way for us. We’re just not–you can’t count on freshmen. That’s gotta be the veterans. Your veterans gotta be the core group that drags the young kids, not the other way around.”On what it says that they have escaped with two wins …“We have a will to win. Look, like I said, at each point and each time they came in, we play to win here. We’re not playing not to lose. Play to win. If they beat us, they beat us. I said it in five straight timeouts. I never thought about us losing. My whole thought was, how do we get this thing and get a gap? Then when we got a gap, we shot a layup. Like, what just happened? There were things that happened in that game that I’m like, oh my god. And then you have to erase and move on and say, ‘Come on, let’s go.’ “On Tyler Ulis coming up big late …“Yeah. I thought he did some good stuff. And I was going with whoever was playing well. I was scrambling and I thought Marcus Lee would defend better than Trey and I thought Trey would be better on offense that Marcus Lee. We were subbing like that. Took Dakari out and times and put Marcus (in). I was doing anything. Andrew is hurt. Andrew got hurt again yesterday. He’s trying to play through it, but that’s why when he starting limping I said, ‘Kid, just stay out.’ And he kept saying, ‘Coach, let me try.’ And so he’s beat up a little bit but I’m happy the guys–because he didn’t play particularly well, but other guys didn’t either. You think about it, what did we shoot? (28 percent) I love that. Do you know how much I love a team shooting 28 percent and winning? What just happened? You shot 28 percent and you won the game. And it isn’t like they didn’t shoot fouls. They shot fouls too.”On the play where Andrew Harrison shot instead of pulling it out …“I just think he had a mental lapse. And again, he ran by me. I don’t know why I didn’t just yell, ‘Pull it out! Pull it out!’ And I didn’t because I just didn’t think I had to. But I should’ve. So it’s a combination of me and him both. It’s kind of like when Karl was falling out of bounds at Louisville and I’m standing next to an official and I say, ‘Why didn’t he call a timeout?’ How about this thing? Why didn’t I call a timeout? I could have called it too and I didn’t. So there are things–these kids, they’re not machines. They make mistakes. They do dumb things. But I’ve got a good group, a group that has a will to win and now I got my work cut out for me. We got work to do. We’re not very good right now. We’re just not.”On whether that’s hard to believe …“If you watch the last two games, we just shot 28 percent. We shot 28 percent and we outrebound a team that we’re way bigger than by one rebound. I mean, and the guys that won the game, Trey Lyles hasn’t made a free throw in pressure yet until then and Dakari would be the first–if one of my guys got cramps and they had to pick a foul shooter on my team, they would pick Dakari. Let him shoot it. And the kid went up and made two. And he made a–big rebounds. He fought in there. I was proud of him. Maybe this gets him to go because he’s been really struggling.”On Andrew Harrison’s injury …“He’s got like a hip. He got hit in the hip and it’s been bothering him. And then he got hit yesterday. We were doing–it was a nothing drill and he just got hit by Dakari. Just being around Dakari you get hurt. He ran by him and boom, he went down on the floor. So that happened at the end of yesterday’s practice.”On UK not having many first-half offensive rebounds …“What they did was they just said, ‘This guy’s not getting it,’ and they pushed you into the cheerleaders and they hoped somebody else got the ball. This one and that one aren’t getting it and it was a full-force in that way. And we didn’t fight it. We just accepted it. And there was one where Karl had his hands up and it was a double foul. I can’t wait to see that on TV, when I see the version. But this is a lot of stuff. I come back to, our veterans gotta get this right for our team, not our young guys.”On whether the game was called differently after the double foul …“I don’t know. I have to watch the tape.”On hitting free throws late after struggling early …“We had some guys miss two again. Willie made two. How about the two Willie made? Willie went 1 for 3 last game. He comes in makes two and those were big too. We were just trying to–even in the first half, if we don’t make 3s we’re down 15 instead of three. The only shot we made was a 3. Dakari couldn’t hit the rim again. He had five attempts at shots and didn’t get it to the backboard. So you gotta give them credit. They fought and played. I’ll say it again: They didn’t have their best player and they did it. So my hat’s off to Billy (Kennedy). I know how good a coach he is and he’s a good man, but I told him ‘you guys deserved this one’ after.”On being dominated in paint points …“Yeah. Just they were more active, more physical. They fought. We kind of accepted it. We were looking at officials, ‘Call fouls,’ and they didn’t. There were three rebounds at the end of the game where my guy’s worried about, ‘He’s fouling me! He’s fouling me!’ And the ball hit him in the chest. My guy. And their guy got it. You can’t–I had to take him out. I said, ‘What are you doing?’ ‘He grabbed my arm.’ ‘OK, sit over here. Dakari, go in there and battle.’ And you got young guys. It’s amazing when you have young players, the stuff they say and do. It’s like having 8-year-olds. Like, ‘You said that, really?’ “On whether he’s afraid this won’t get his team’s attention …“We just gotta get better. I’m not worried about all that. I’ve had teams like this. I am so old that I’ve had enough teams that I’ve started like this and they get stale and they gotta get something back. You get your mojo back and then all of a sudden you come out of the gate and you start playing, you’re on a roll. I don’t us to be great right now anyway. We need to be great at the end of February and March. Right now, let’s see where we are, learn about each other. We learned a lot about our team. We really did. That’s the whole thing. You’re playing this early and it’s January, learn. You win and you learn. I don’t think there are any losses right now. It’s winning and learning and that’s all we’re trying to do.”