I remembered the first quote. I’d forgotten about the second.
As Kansas coach Bill Self went on a three-minute rant of sorts — a half-hour after his team’s 63-60 victory over New Mexico State on Saturday — my mind shot back to this summer and the comments he’d made about freshman Quentin Grimes.
The famous line was this one, which came after Self had coached Grimes for six games during the summer as part of the FIBA U-18 Championships: “I would say he’s probably as complete a guard as we’ve ever had.”
Another sentence from that June day some 5 1/2 months ago, though, looms more significant now.