For all the mind-numbing problems youth can evoke, it has its redeeming qualities as well.Take for instance Tuesday night. Not even a week after being called “selfish” by their head coach, Kentucky played unselfish, made the extra pass and reaped the benefits from behind the arc. The Cats hit 10-of-16 3-pointers, including 8-of-10 in the second half, in a 91-57 rout of Boston. Maybe the young minds of Kentucky soaked up their head coach’s not-so-raving review after the Connecticut game. Whatever the case was, there’s little coincidence that the extra pass Tuesday night led to easy buckets. “All the 3s that we took I thought were all good shots,” said UK assistant coach John Robic, who filled in for head coach John Calipari at the postgame news conference. “We think that we have a pretty good shooting team, and the right players took the right shots. They were open shots. When we have them, we want our guys to take them. And more times than not they were off of penetration and a kick-out, both against the zone and man to man. We got good looks, and fortunately they went down.” Kentucky shot 59.3 percent from the floor overall and 21 of the Cats’ 32 buckets were assisted. During the game-defining 28-5 run to start the second half, eight of UK’s first 10 field goals came off an assist, including four from freshman guard Doron Lamb. Of Kentucky’s 17 field goals in the second half, 13 of them were assisted.”That was a big thing today, making the extra pass,” said Lamb, who finished with five assists. “In Maui he said we were selfish because we were trying to lay the ball up with 23 people (around) and people open in the corner. Today we just wanted to come out and be unselfish and pass the ball to the open man.”Freshman guard Brandon Knight, minus a few sluggish opening minutes, made the biggest progress. Just a few days after sitting down for a role-defining talk with Calipari, Knight dished out a career-high six assists.”He just told me what I need to be doing really, and that’s getting other people shots,” said Knight, whose scoring (23 points) didn’t suffer. “That should be my main focus. Open shots will come for me. I don’t have to press a lot or anything because I know that I have a green light, so it’s basically getting guys involved and making sure they’re playing to the best of their abilities and getting them involved.”Although Knight scored in bunches in the EA Sports Maui Invitational, he struggled distributing the ball. The first-year guard finished the three-day tourney with 18 turnovers in the tournament and just eight assists.Calipari, who has guided three straight point guards to the NBA, didn’t show Knight video of John Wall or Derrick Rose. Rather he told him to let score within the flow of the game.”Brandon is a scorer … so it’s a whole new learning experience for him,” Robic said. “He got a little bit better, but he was proud of the number of assists he had tonight, which is a different mentality for him. If he continues to do that, it’s just going to make our team better because he’s going to score within the flow of the game. He doesn’t have to force the action. “His job is to get the other guys involved, and if he can get them involved, that will just make us an entirely different team.”The Cats’ distribution benefited everyone as four Cats (Knight with 23, Terrence Jones with 18, Lamb with 13 and Josh Harrellson with 12) reached double figures. DeAndre Liggins (nine points) and Darius Miller (eight) nearly joined them.Liggins’ final stat line wasn’t pretty, but the junior guard ignited the early passing. After missing several early passes, Liggins started to kick out and find the open man. “A lot of it was just guys getting into the paint,” Knight said. “I’m pretty sure other teams are scouting us. They’re seeing that when we’re getting into the paint we’re shooting it, so guys are going to be open from now on. We’re learning to make that extra pass.”Of course, the pass-happy Cats didn’t get off to an overly rousing start. During a slow-to-get-going first half, Kentucky looked like it was still feeling the jet-lag effects of an all-day flight from Hawaii last week.Eventually the Cats snapped out of it.”That must have been some halftime speech,” Boston University head coach Patrick Chambers said. Chambers’ players might be the ones to blame for the Cats’ second-half run.”While we were talking about the second half, we heard the other team yelling and screaming and getting excited because they were down seven,” Lamb said. “We wanted to come out at the beginning of the second half and be more aggressive than we were in the first half. They were so loud that we heard them.”And they heard their coach’s plea to pass the ball.Knight was asked after the game if the Cats took Calipari’s “selfish” comments personally.”You don’t try to take anything coach says personal,” Knight said. “You try to learn from it and whatever he says you take that adjustment and try to make it.”For one night at least, the young Cats learned their lesson. Maybe youth isn’t so bad after all.