In high school, we were eliminated from the district tournament when I was a junior and went out in two in my senior year. While he has struggled to adopt a new outlook on his basketball future, he has not, apparently, lost any of the old confidence. I just need to know when to do things and when not to do things. It's not that way here. I'm still a shooter.
Every shot looks good.
I know I can play, basically, with anybody. I'm just not going to be the guy who comes off the pick every time and shoots the ball every time. He has bulked up from 140 to 165 pounds since leaving Irvine and has worked to change more than just his approach to hoops in Colorado. In California, he said, his primary passions included partying, hitting the beach and avoiding the drudgery of homework and classes. He had to ace his finals just to pull a 2.5 GPA in his first quarter there.