In one aspect, there is only so much you can take from an exhibition game against an overmatched team.In another aspect, if you’re a Kentucky basketball fan and head coach John Calipari, what was there not to like about UK’s 122-54 rout of Dillard in front of 21,589 fans at Rupp Arena?There was a 69.6 percent shooting clip from the field, 28 assists, 11 3-pointers and a plus-26 rebounding margin. Like Calipari said postgame, everything looks good when you make shots, but there was no overshadowing the improved energy and intensity in the final tune-up before next week’s regular-season opener. Monday night against Pikeville, the Cats were getting pushed into the cheerleaders on rebounds. On Friday, UK was diving for loose balls, winning 50-50 chances and playing unselfishly.”Intensity, passion, everybody talking more, playing together and just going harder,” was the difference Terrence Jones said after the victory, and nobody epitomized the four-day turnaround better than Jones.The 6-foot-8 forward looked lost and frustrated Monday in his first game against outside competition, missing 7-of-9 shots and turning the ball over six times in the win over Pikeville. Against Dillard, the potential upside of Jones – the versatility and the explosiveness – shined through again with 23 points, 10 rebounds, six blocks, four assists and three steals.Jones was the equivalent of a five-tool baseball player.”He had a passion about playing,” Calipari said. “There was no coolness. High school kids, when it doesn’t go right, they try to be cool like, ‘I don’t really care. You know, this isn’t really me.’ But you can’t be that way. He even started the game a little bit that way.”But what you saw was when he got near that goal, the thing that he does that not many in the country do at his size, his second, third and fourth jump.  ‘So go in there and do it.  Just go in there and go rebound every offensive rebound.  Go after it once, twice, three times.  Don’t accept being blocked out.  Then run that court.’ “Similar to the Pikeville game, Jones started slow. This time around, though, Jones composed himself and finished 10 of 13 from the floor.”I just wanted to improve from the first game,” Jones said. “(I had) first-game nerves. I just didn’t play as hard as (Calipari) wanted me to. I wanted to prove to him that I was going to come out and play harder. We just practiced real hard this week to get ready for this game and I feel it showed.”Calipari downplayed the score after the game, saying the Cats still had a “long way to go,” but in terms of team chemistry, UK appeared to be clicking in midseason form.Uncharacteristic of a team made up of freshman scorers, Kentucky played as selflessly as you’re going to see a team play all year.Late in the first half, with UK already riding a 41-10 run, Jones stuffed a player at the top of the arc and had nothing but the open hardwood and rim ahead. But instead of taking it the length of the court to finish off the play he started, Jones bounced it twice and passed ahead for Jon Hood to throw down the dunk.”We’ve just been focusing on sharing the ball,” Jones said. “I started off taking two bad shots I should have passed and I just wanted to make that up for myself by giving away one.”  Hood returned the favor on the very next play with a perfect lob that Jones reached back for and tomahawked with one hand.Later in the second half, Doron Lamb continued the effort with a dive at half court for a loose ball. He threw ahead for Brandon Knight, who again had a wide-open dunk, but Knight threw off to Jones instead for another thunderous dunk.”We’re just trying to build chemistry as a team and just trying to look for our teammates and know when they’re supposed to be there,” senior forward Josh Harrellson said. “That just gets the crowd going. We’re trying to get everybody’s adrenaline pumping and (pump) more enthusiasm into the game because that brings more energy.”Harrellson and Hood were largely responsible for igniting the initial spark. After getting off to the team’s second consecutive sluggish start, Harrellson entered the game and provided an immediate lift. A week after finding his way into Calipari’s doghouse with a controversial post on Twitter, Harrellson put up four quick points, four rebounds and a block before going back to the bench. Hood picked up right where Harrellson left off with two 3-point daggers from the left corner. When Hood hit the second trey, UK had turned a two-point deficit into a 26-11 lead Kentucky lead.Harrellson finished with 13 points and seven rebounds on 6-of-6 shooting, and Hood tallied 18 points thanks to four shots from behind the arc.”(This game) boosted it a little bit,” Hood said of the confidence he gained Friday. “It’s still just the preseason and we’ve still got a long way to go.”True, but there were a lot of questions about this team’s toughness and mindset after the first exhibition game. The Cats provided plenty of answers before the real test begins.”It’s kind of in between where we want to be, but, there are signs,” Calipari said. “I’m dealing with all freshmen again, so we’ve got to do it in a hurry, but we’re getting there.