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John Calipari gets credit and discredit for recruiting hired guns. The mercenaries come and go like modern-day bounty hunters: Tyreke Evans and Derrick Rose and John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins and on and on. It’s a double-edged win for the Kentucky coach: He can woo the best high school kids by promising he won’t hold them back. If they don’t produce big trophies, Calipari can shrug and blame it on inexperience.