John Calipari is accustomed to managing big-time players with big-time egos. With some of his teams, he’s had to resort to sports psychologists and the like to try to get his players to play as a cohesive unit or even to try to get them to simply like each other.With a roster full of players with McDonald’s All-American pedigrees and NBA futures, you might figure Calipari would have a lot to work on in that department, but he’s not concerned about it with this edition of the Kentucky Wildcats. Calipari believes the time the Cats spend together as part of their regular routines, including this week’s long East Coast road trip, is more than enough.”Being together is a big part of that: the meetings the free time and all that,” Calipari said. “There are teams that I’ve had to (work) with. I’ve brought in sports psychologists and done all sorts of exercises. This team is in good shape. These guys like each other.”With the puzzle of off-court chemistry already putting itself together, Calipari has turned his focus to deciding how those pieces fit together on the floor. UK has players capable of doing almost anything on the basketball court on their own, but Calipari is asking them to hone in on the things they do best. “What’s your job for our team?” Calipari said. “What do you do well? Do that. You don’t have to try to do everything. Don’t try to do what he’s doing. Complete each other, don’t compete with each other.”For instance, Kyle Wiltjer cannot throw down alley-oops and block shots like Anthony Davis. However, Davis doesn’t have Wiltjer’s dead-eye stroke from the outside or his arsenal of post moves. In the same way, Marquis Teague and Doron Lamb should not try to play like each other. If Calipari can find a way to get each of his five players on the floor at the same time focusing only on what they do best, UK very quickly goes from a dangerous team to flat-out terrifying to opponents.Even though UK was far from a finished product against Kansas on Tuesday, the Wildcats dispatched the Jayhawks 75-65 behind a 27-9 run to start the second half. Having coached some pretty talented teams himself, Kansas coach Bill Self recognizes what this team could become.”If they keep getting better, they have a chance to be the best team in the country,” Self said on his weekly Hawk Talk show. “From a raw-talent standpoint, even the Carolina team we faced in the Final Four with (Ty) Lawson, (Wayne) Ellington, (Tyler) Hansbrough and Danny Green … this Kentucky team may even be superior to that. That’s some hard-rocking dudes. They have a real shot (at 2012 national title).”UK struggled to a 28-28 tie in the first half against Kansas, turning the ball over repeatedly and taking poor shots. Most emblematic of those first-half struggles was Teague, who turned the ball over six times and failed to make a field goal. Calipari said the big city stage got to his young point guard and he’s seen it happen before.”He has done everything a guard I have brought into the (Madison Square) Garden has done,” Calipari said. “You know it is like all of a sudden you forget about what you have to do for the team and you start to do your own thing.”Teague will need to play a lot more like he did in the second half against Kansas (11 points, one turnover) if the Cats to have success in a pair of games this weekend at the Hall of Fame Tip-Off Classic in Uncasville, Conn. UK first plays Penn State (3-0) on Saturday at noon on ESPN3.”They do a good job at running their offense, as a matter of fact they run some stuff similar to what we are doing,” Calipari said. “They do a nice little job of throwing stuff at you, and they bring some press at you. We need to really perform to be able to do this.”The Wildcats have very quickly proven this season that if you allow them to get in the open floor via turnovers and defensive rebounds, they will punish you. As a result, expect Penn State to try to make this a half-court game. The Nittany Lions are a much different team from a year ago under first-year head coach Pat Chambers, but they have already established themselves as a slow-paced team yet again.Calipari has work to do to make his team in 2011-12 as good in the half-court as last year’s team, but he still has proven he doesn’t mind facing a team that slows it down as Penn State likely will. “They want to make us play half-court traditionally,” Calipari said. “And people who watch my team historically, if we are winning a nine or 10 point game, we will be grinding it out.  That’s the reason we play the way we play so that we will be fine if we play that way.”More than pace of play, Calipari is concerned about the way his team has started each of its first two games. The Cats turned in lackluster first halves against both Marist and Kansas before rolling in the second. Calipari knows Penn State will bring its ‘A’ game with an opportunity to face the No. 2 team in the nation, so the Cats must do the same.”We need to understand that every opponent is a worthy opponent, especially because they are playing us and playing out of their minds,” Calipari said.