His future is bright. But with all that green grass, there's a brown spot here and there. That body type that makes him able to slash and explode also creates challenges in some other areas of the game. He's going to have to find ways to be more effective on the defensive end.

From everything I can tell, he's been a real nice fit and I know he's probably a little overwhelmed.

There's been a few teams where they felt at the four position [power forward] they had a post-up advantage and went right at him. It's work that needs to be done, and I think he will.

It's one of the hardest things we do. That's the next step. ... It's like anything else — once you do it a few times, it gets easier.

It was so demoralizing to lose my body and begin to realize that my whole future may be set on its ear. The thing that helped me was, instead of spending my life thinking about how I can get over (CFS), now I spend my life thinking about how to get around it, and how to succeed in spite of it.

It was so demoralizing to lose my body and begin to realize that my whole future may be set on its ear,