John Calipari took a new approach to the holiday break this year.For this edition of the practices, workouts and film sessions known affectionately (or un-affectionately, depending on who’s talking) as Camp Cal, Calipari shifted the focus from team to individual. He asked his players to name an area of their game they wanted to add or improve before the end of the season and committed to helping them do it.Willie Cauley-Stein said he wanted to handle the ball more effectively. Andrew Harrison picked out his mid-range shot as an area for growth. So too did Dakari Johnson, who even attempted one such shot in Kentucky’s first game after the break.”I kind of scrunched, like, ‘Phew, not now,’ ” Calipari said. “But we’ve been working on that. That’s one of the things he’s added to his game. So I can’t now work on it with him and then tell him not to do it.”Johnson’s shot, which missed, came in the second half of an overtime win over Ole Miss with UK up just two, so it’s only natural Calipari cringed a bit when his bruising 7 footer decided to show off his newfound range. So then, does that reveal he may have erred in changing things up for a team that had steamrolled through its first 13 games?Ahead of a Saturday trip to Texas A&M (9-4, 0-1 Southeastern Conference), Coach Cal thinks not.”I’m not backing up,” Calipari said. “Each individual by the end of this year, I want you to look at and say, ‘He is a better player.’ Every one of these guys you look at: ‘He is a better player.’ And if that happens, then our team has grown, we’re doing all the kind of stuff we need to do.”Karl-Anthony Towns, meanwhile, acknowledges there’s a balancing act for UK (14-0, 1-0 SEC) in adding new individual elements, but he’s on board with Calipari’s point of view. He used one familiar phrase and a new metaphor in the span of a sentence to make his point.”Of course, but at the same time, if it’s not broke, don’t fix it, but if the pencil is good enough to use, why not make it sharper?” Towns said. “We can still do a lot of things to improve your game and make it even a more valuable part and asset to your game. That’s my thing. I just want to make sure I continue growing and doing new things, but also, like I said, make the pencil sharper.”It’s not as if the pencil was dull to begin with, which is why the fact that UK played its first close game after Camp Cal might concern some. Once again, Calipari isn’t buying in. He just wants to make sure the new focus doesn’t detract from what has made UK so dominant.”My thing was not ‘it’s not broke, don’t fix it,’ ” Calipari said. “It was did they focus more on what we were trying to teach them individually and got away from the energy that they need to play with? I’m going to talk about it today. But I’m still — I’m telling them, ‘I’m counting on you to bring energy.’ “If nothing else, Ole Miss proved the Wildcats don’t have any choice but to bring energy if they want to keep that unblemished record much longer.”It was definitely a wake-up call for all of us, I think,” Trey Lyles said. “They’re going to come out and play that much harder against us. It’s SEC play now, very physical. I’d say it was the most physical game we played so far this year and we’re going to get every team’s best shot so we just have to be prepared for it.”That “everybody’s Super Bowl” thing goes to another level on the road, too, and that’s exactly where UK will go this weekend against the Aggies. Fortunately for the Cats, they have some experience to call on from their win at Louisville on Dec. 27.”I learned we really just have to come out with energy,” Towns said. “No matter where we are, we have to take control of the game from the get. If we can do that we can have a lot easier time during the game. If we allow the opponent to be the aggressor, it can be a rough night for us.”A&M dropped its SEC opener against Alabama, 65-44, but did so without leading scorer and rebounder Jalen Jones, who missed the game due to a sprained ankle suffered Jan. 3. Second-leading scorer Danuel House was also limited to 21 minutes after picking up two early fouls.”They’re great at pick-and-rolls,” Calipari said. “They’ve got players at every position that can score. They’re playing a pack-line defense, man-to-man. They’ll also play a tandem zone like all these teams are now playing us. So, they’re going to come in with one thought: Let’s slow these guys down. They’ll run offense. They’ll shoot it quick when they get into transition, but they’re going to make us play in the half court. They’re a good team.”UK will have to respond, and there’s only one way to do it.”It’s all effort and energy, but these guys are young,” Calipari said. “What we’re asking them to do is really hard. They’d rather not do it. They’d rather do it their way: Let me jog and stand straight up and shoot a fade away. You just can’t win playing that way.”