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Junior Nick Richards has been everything the Big Blue Nation was hoping for

Scoring points doesn’t tell the entire story in a basketball game, especially when you’re a five-star big man playing for a team coached by John Calipari.

The “Anthony Davis took the fourth-most shots on that (2011-12) team” quote counter from Calipari is somewhere around 27,352 times at this point in his Kentucky tenure. The Harrison twins were the closers on the same team that included Karl-Anthony Towns, who has been setting the NBA on fire as arguably the league’s best center this season.

Big men aren’t required to help carry the offensive load in Kentucky’s offensive attack, but for this year’s bunch so far, it’s a good thing Nick Richards has because, uh .