Sometimes, seeing things go wrong — and having no control over it — can be more difficult than anything else.

So when John Calipari said he’s a little angry, and wants the players to be angry as well, Terrence Jones knows where his coach is coming from.

“He’s on the sideline, he can’t play for us,” Jones said. “He’s mad and he can’t do anything about it, as far as what’s happening on the court.”

Jones, who scored 10 points against Arkansas, said “off-stuff” affected him and led to his subpar performance. Arkansas’ Marshawn Powell scored 22 points, mainly going against Jones. Powell hit a couple early threes, a shot he normally doesn’t take, as Jones was told to play off Powell on the perimeter. Later in the game, Jones clamped down.

“I just knew I wasn’t going to let him be the reason we lost, if it came down to him scoring on me for the win,” Jones said.

Powell wasn’t the scorer, but Arkansas did win. A critical part of that was rebounds that were fumbled away. The team has gotten away from the gang rebounding a little bit.

“I think a lot of guys are just standing (around),” Jones said. “If me or Josh (Harrellson) doesn’t get it, then the other team gets it.”

Jones was asked if the guards needed to help crash the boards more.

“I mean, they’re doing a lot of great stuff other than that, but I just think we have a lot of guards who aren’t used to rebounding on the defensive end,” Jones said. “It’s just something they have to get used to.”

DeAndre Liggins discussed his technical foul against Arkansas, part of a key run where Rotnei Clarke scored seven straight points in getting Arkansas to retake a lead. Liggins said he didn’t think he fouled Clarke on the play, during which Clarke went for a layup and Liggins backed away.

“I was shocked they gave me a tech,” Liggins said. “Because I didn’t say nothing to them.”

That was a different story than Liggins’ technical against Vanderbilt, in which he looked to the Vanderbilt bench after a layup and said “He can’t guard me.”

The technicals stem from Liggins’ penchant for passionate play, but Calipari talked to him about needing to avoid anything that could give officials reason to give him a technical.

“That’s part of why I get the technical’s, but I have to leave it up to the coach to deal with the refs,” Liggins said.