John Calipari and coaches throughout the league joined the Southeastern Conference Coaches’ Teleconference on Monday. Read what Coach Cal and Ole Miss head coach Andy Kennedy had to say.Coach CalOn this week’s games against Ole Miss and Mississippi State …“You’re talking about two teams that have players that can break you down and score when they need to. Mississippi State was up four on us when they played us here and we kind of wore them down with a little bit of our depth but I’m not sure we’ll be able to do that down there. Mississippi, Andy (Kennedy) has them playing so well. They’re running their stuff, they’re executing, they’re playing through the people they need to play through, they’re playing zone, they’re scrambling it up a little bit and putting out a 1-3-1 (zone) and a little bit of half-court trap stuff. They’re doing great stuff. Both teams are being well-coached and both teams are in position to win games because of how they’re being coached and players are playing their roles well.”On whether the game at Missouri was UK’s best performance in SEC play …“Well, the thing that I would say is the whole mantra, the whole message for the week was passion, outward emotion, enthusiasm for each other, and show it. We practiced all week on recognizing each other’s good plays and verbally doing it. We’ve got such a young team. We’ve got the youngest team I’ve ever coached and one of the youngest teams in college basketball history that their emotions are all tied to how they’re playing offensively. And I would say our strength of schedule right now is a five. That’s why when everybody gets caught up in, ‘They gotta win every game.’ We don’t. We just gotta take care of business. Our strength of schedule is top five and it’s not going to change a whole lot to finish out the year. So they you have our efficiency on offense and we’re still holding the ball too much and it’s top 10, top five. The issue becomes the enthusiasm, the passion, the spirit we play with on defense. We should be a better defensive team than we are right now, but a lot of it’s just transition defense. How about we sprint back? How about–you know, last game we (said) every huddle, ‘They’re driving right and they’re driving right. Make them go left.’ And they just kept driving right. So again, there’s some things that we can do to make us better. And I keep saying, it’s not a skillset, it’s not that we don’t have good guys. They’re a good team. All the things that people say that are weaknesses, we can change. We got size, we got athleticism, we got depth. The things that you have no control over we have. So we’ve got things that we can change and we’re going to try to.”On Jabari Brown’s play on Saturday …“Yeah, he was outstanding. Again, he flew up and down the court, put himself in positions to get out ahead of our defense and if you leave him alone he makes shots. I mean, the last five, six games he was making 60, 70 percent of his 3s the last six games. So I think, again, whoever’s playing Missouri – and I’m happy we’re not playing them again – that you have to be prepared to say, ‘If he gets going, what are you going to do?’ We ran a little zone, we trapped some pick-and-rolls, we did some stuff to try to slow them down and he and (Jordan) Clarkson ended up getting 70 points between them. So we’ve had now two games where teams have shot 50 percent against my teams. And I bet you if you look over the history of all the years, over 20 years of coaching, back-to-back 50-percent shooting nights against my teams, I can’t imagine that it’s happened. But it did and both these teams – LSU and Missouri – terrific basketball teams.”KennedyOn this week’s upcoming games …“Two very big challenges, obviously tomorrow night in Lexington against one of the better teams in the country, who have had an unbelievable amount of success in Rupp, and then turning around and hosting Missouri, who is playing very good basketball and presents a number of challenges with quite arguably the best back court in college basketball. So another week of SEC play going to certainly present challenges.”On Kentucky’s perimeter play …“The biggest concern for us is their size. We’re not overly big in the back court and they’ve got a lot of size. They play (Jarrod) Polson a little bit and he’s probably the only guy on their roster under 6-5 that gets in the game, so they present a number of issues with their size and their versatility. I think the Harrison twins are really starting to play much more confidently. With all freshmen, as the season gets longer, they get more comfortable in their roles. James Young’s as prolific a scorer as a I can remember – I lose track of how long Cal’s been there – but I don’t know if he’s had a guy that came in from day one and really, really scored as efficiently as James Young does. So they present a number of challenges with their size, their athleticism and their ability to make shots.”On what impresses him the most about Julius Randle …“His overall game is what sticks out to me. He’s obviously very, very physically strong and just attacks the ball. Great players are always around the ball and he always seems to be around the ball. He’s facing up and making more shots on the perimeter. Most everybody will do what we’ll try to do is put some bodies between him and the basket, and hopefully we can get him off of his straight path, because if you allow him to get to that left hand and have a straight path to the basket, there’s very little you’re going to be able to do.”