Florida’s 2019-20 men’s basketball team is stacked with talent at every position. Gifted, high-flying playmakers who make the game look effortless at times.
Not every player gets to this brand of basketball based on talent alone, though. Some have to scrap and claw their way to the top.
That’s what UF veteran big man Dontay Bassett has done ever since he stepped foot in a gymnasium.
“I used to tell him growing up, ‘Are you the lion or the deer?’” Donald Bassett, Dontay’s father, said. “‘Which one do you want to be?’”
“I’m a lion, dad.