To the Kentucky fans that tape the games and replay them as if they were the coach of the team, John Calipari has a message for you: Don’t spend too much time overanalyzing the tape of Wednesday’s Blue-White Scrimmage at Rupp Arena.

As Kentucky prepares to audition what it has built in practice the two weeks since Big Blue Madness, Coach Cal cautioned Tuesday that he’s still tinkering with how the Wildcats will play this season.

The Dribble Drive, pick-and-roll and post-up offenses, they’re all still on the table for this athletic, versatile team.

“I’m not here to say, ‘You just watch me coach. This is how my teams always play. This is Cal ball.’ I don’t know how we’re going to play yet,” Calipari said. “I know we’re going to play hard, we’re going to be unselfish, be a great team from offense to defense, and then a great team from defense to offense. We’re going to be our brother’s keeper, we’ll do it together and you’ll have fun watching us.

“Short of that, we’re just trying to figure it out right now.”

Coach Cal isn’t blowing smoke to the media masses either. What everyone will see Wednesday at 7 p.m. is a team very capable of running a number of offensive and defensive looks.

“I honestly couldn’t tell you what Coach Cal has up his sleeve,” senior Darius Miller said. “We’ve tried just about everything it seems like. We’ve been doing Dribble Drive, pick and roll, posting up, everything. I don’t know exactly what we’re going to do or how we’re going to play, but it’s going to be fun to watch.”

Fun for some, work for others. With two weeks left until the season opener against Marist, Calipari is trying to figure out what best suits his team.

Blessed with the length of players like Anthony Davis, Darius Miller and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, maybe this team is best suited for the Dribble Drive and press. But hold on, Coach Cal has said freshman point guard Marquis Teague is perfect for the pick-and-roll. Kyle Wiltjer’s ability to shoot, not to mention Doron Lamb’s accuracy, would seem to fall in line with a pick-and-pop philosophy.

And Calipari has even suggested that a zone (has the world turned upside down?) may be his best option on defense because of this team’s length.

“We started in a press with this team and I didn’t like it so we’re already to a different kind of press that suits the team better,” Calipari said. “This team, I hate to tell you, may be a zone team because we’re just so long. It’s ridiculous how long we are. It takes away when teams just jam it into the post.”

The flexibility in philosophies shouldn’t surprise anyone. When Calipari took the job in the spring of 2009, he was profiled as the mastermind of the Dribble Drive Motion Offense and therefore a Dribble Drive-only coach.

As teams and fans quickly learned, however, Calipari doesn’t confine himself to one viewpoint.

To play to the open-floor strengths of John Wall and Eric Bledsoe while feeding the overwhelming size of DeMarcus Cousins and Patrick Patterson, Calipari meshed some post-up play with the Dribble Drive during the 2009-10 season. Last year, to complement the shooting touch of Lamb and Brandon Knight, Calipari instituted handoffs into the offense (by accident, he will tell you).

But this idea of using the pick and roll seems so crazy, perhaps, because it felt like Calipari was so resistant to it two years ago.

“I never said I wouldn’t do it,” Calipari said. “I just said it wasn’t right for my team.”

Listen to Coach Cal long enough and it sounds like the pick and roll is perfect for this one.

The well-documented trip to South America with the Dominican Republic National Team sparked Coach Cal’s interest in the pick and roll and he’s worked feverishly the last month to figure out how to add it to his repertoire. The team has experimented with it in practices, tinkering with not only how to run it but how to get into the Dribble Drive out of it.

Fortunately for Calipari, expert resources are at his fingertips as a few NBA coaches are in town this week to watch the Wildcats practice.

“If you want to watch my team, you’ve got to come early and we’ve got to talk pick and roll so I get some stuff out of you,” Calipari said. “You’re not just watching my team. I’m taking stuff from you, and then you’re welcome here.”

To give you some perspective of how experimental the offense remains, on Wednesday Calipari watched game film from his 1995-96 Massachusetts team when it played – and beat – Kentucky to see how he used a post-up offense against nine future NBA draft picks.

Whatever Calipari ultimately decides to go with by season’s end, he’s willing to adapt to the strengths of his players. At the end of the day, his style still centers on beating your man on the dribble, getting to the basket and being the best defensive team in the country.

Chances are, no matter how differently Calipari approaches it, that’s what everyone will see Wednesday night and for most of the year.

“I’m not going to change how I coach,” Calipari said. “We’re not going to change our style. We may change how we get into our style depending on personnel.”