TIM FULLER WAS one of dozens of scouts filling a Louisville gym in late April 2021 to assess some basketball talent.
Among the players on the former Power 5 assistant coach's list: Amen and Ausar Thompson, from unsponsored AAU team Florida Pro HSA, who initially hadn't been on his radar but came recommended by a friend.
"Amen picks the ball up full court and he's dogging this kid," Fuller recalls of the game against the higher-ranked Meanstreets EYBL team from Chicago. "Dogging him, dogging him, dogging him to the point where the kid has now got his back turned to Amen and doesn't even want to dribble.