Gasaway:

John Calipari needs to draw Cousins aside at practice this afternoon and say: "DeMarcus, I’d like you introduce you to John Wall and Patrick Patterson. They are very good at basketball. John’s making 61 percent of his twos. Patrick’s making 74 percent. Let them shoot too, OK?" Cousins isn’t chopped liver himself, of course, and on D he already gives the appearance of being a Cole Aldrich-variety hybrid, one who both blocks shots and crashes the glass. (When he’s on the floor.) But speaking literally, the Kentucky offense so far this year has risen or fallen largely according to how often Patterson and Wall get to shoot—the more often the better.

(If you still have this game on your DVR, watch the unintentionally revealing and slightly humorous sequence on Cousins’ scoring play with just under 11 minutes remaining in the first half. As the Wildcats run their offense, everyone off the ball moves really well—until Cousins gets the rock. At that point the other four UK players stop dead in their tracks and watch. Just eight games into Cousins’ career, his teammates already know that the ball definitely stops there.)