A: "I think that of all the things I needed to improve, I did last year. I just did it for a shorter sample size than everybody else did. All those things of me becoming a leader and being able to lead these guys and bring them along and kind of establish myself, it was there, but when you don’t play for 20 games it’s really tough to be able to lead by example and do all these things because you’re not taking the floor with them every night. So then I went from being the leader at the beginning of the season and being the main guy to where I came and had to fit in at the middle of the season. So everything changed, everything about my season changed, everything about the way we tried to use me changed because the plans me and Coach Miller had for me, things that were set up for me to be in place, weren’t able to happen because of that situation.
“So I think this year, god willing, I’m due for a big year and we’re due for a big year as a team. If nothing comes up or nothing bad happens then one thing (Miller and I) talked about is start to finish, it’s something I haven’t been able to do since I’ve been here. It’s not really things I had in my control, breaking my hand as a freshman in a freak accident and then this whole situation happened that I had no control over what was going to happen. To go start to finish I think would get me to where I want to be.”
