Why is John Calipari, the head coach at the University of Kentucky, taking time he doesn’t seem to have – “his days are like 20 hours long,” said Dominican assitant Del Harris – to coach a national team that has yet to make the Olympics, ever? The answer is three-pronged. One, he wants to build basketball into the mainstream consciousness of the Dominican Republic as another option to a better life. Right now, there’s just baseball, where athletes are thrown into the professional ranks in the minor leagues at young ages.