It seemed fitting in a way that the first time the Kentucky men’s basketball team opened its postgame locker room to the media in a regular-season game in nearly a decade, head coach John Calipari may have aired his displeasure with some of his team by shaking up the lineup.Kentucky won handily Tuesday night, manhandling an overmatched Auburn team 78-54 for the Cats’ (13-3, 1-1 Southeastern Conference) first league win of the season, but the bigger story after the game was the lineup changes, particularly Terrence Jones coming off the bench. UK had its first lineup change of the season, and for the first time in Jones’ 16-game collegiate career, UK’s leading scorer did not start (Doron Lamb started in place of him). Calipari said postgame that Jones didn’t start because of an illness. A stuffed-up, nasally Jones said he has a sinus infection, coughing, sneezing and even spitting up some blood early Tuesday, but after 35 minutes of play, it was pretty clear to everyone in the media room that, a couple of days after Calipari hinted Jones may not start, the benching may have been more about proving a point than your run-of-the-mill sickness.”I kind of liked him coming off the bench,” Calipari said. “Maybe we’ll keep him there. (I) kind of liked our start, too, with him coming off the bench, so maybe we keep him there. (He) rebounded better; just went after balls. He went after balls with two hands above the rim.”For one night at least, Jones got the message. The freshman forward came off the bench and responded with a freshman-record 35 points. Three weeks after Doron Lamb broke Jamal Mashburn’s longtime mark of 31 points with 32, Jones topped them both in a rare off-the-bench performance. (Oddly enough, UK’s freshmen break the scoring record twice in a season a year after stars John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins came to campus; plus, both Lamb and Jones did it off the bench.)”I just had the mindset of coming in and trying to play my hardest,” Jones said. “(Calipari) told me not to use the excuse that I was sick.”Perhaps the most impressive parts of Jones’ performance were his quick start and efficiency, both of which haven’t been up to par of late. Jones first entered the game at the 15:11 mark, got his first points on layup with 13:13 and never stopped from there. Jones tied the record late in the second half with a 3-pointer from just right of the top of the key and broke it with a pair of free throws.”He’s a grown man,” Auburn coach Tony Barbee said.As if he was making a case to be back in the starting lineup already, Jones finished 11 of 17 from the floor, 4 of 5 from 3-point range and 9 for 13 at the free-throw line. He also had eight rebounds, three steals and just one turnover.”I’ve had (some) slow starts, so I knew that (Calipari) was thinking about (not starting me),” Jones said.Jones wasn’t the only player Calipari directed a point to Tuesday night.As Lamb made his first start of the season, players like Jon Hood, Eloy Vargas and Josh Harrellson received stern in-game messages.Hood saw action earlier in the game than he usually does but was yanked pretty quickly after a missed 3. Vargas was the first sub of the game but was in and out of the game like a yo-yo. When Vargas played how his coach has preached and ripped a rebound away with two hands, the crowd applauded him, but just moments before he was stuffed on an easy dunk opportunity.”I’m trying to see if we’re going to be able to use some of these guys in the higher-level SEC games,” Calipari said. Even the reliable Josh Harrellson, who has played more consistently than just about anyone else on the roster this year, struggled in the first half. The SEC’s leading rebounder recorded zero rebounds in the first half and did not start the second half.”Josh reverted to a year ago,” Calipari said. “Every ball he went after with one hand. That was who he was a year ago. Well, then you don’t deserve to be on the court. A lot of times guys are reading what they’re saying about them. All of a sudden you change how you play. When you go down that slippery slope, that’s exactly what it is: slippery. It’s hard to come back up. That’s why I’m trying to make sure we keep the pressure on this team.”  Clearly, Calipari could get away with it against an Auburn team that is having a year to forget. The Tigers have lost to the likes of UNC Asheville, Samford, Campbell, Jacksonville and Presbyterian. But UK, now two games into conference play, is at the point in the season where it’s time to find a consistent identity. Non-conference play has passed, February is approaching and March Madness is sooner than the players realize.”One mistake and we were out tonight,” said Harrellson, who regained his composure in the second half and finished with eight points and four rebounds. “He wants everybody to play as hard as they can in SEC play. It’s time to step up and play as hard as you can the whole time. If you get tired, take yourself out. He’s not going to take any crap. He wants to win it all.”The messages are even being sent to veterans like Darius Miller, who once again switched from hot to cold as if someone turned the handles on a faucet. Miller started the game with a quick six points and a pair of strong rebounds but largely disappeared after that.”I said some things in the huddle (to Miller),” Calipari said. “I said, ‘You guys watch, he won’t do this, this and this when I put him back.’ Well, he did one of those things. If I was him, I’d have looked right at me (and said), ‘Yeah, you don’t think I can do that?’ May not have said anything, but I’d have looked right at the coach. I would have loved it.”Where is that lion, (that) tiger?  Where is it? Come out.”Maybe the lineup changes, the quick hooks and the messages Calipari sent Tuesday night was enough to prod the inner lion, er Wildcat, to wake up.