“My main thing is I’m going to try to outwork people,” he said earlier this week shortly before a team workout at the Hendricks Training Complex. “Nothing bad is going to happen if you work your hardest in everything.”
You also can turn negatives into positives. To wit: Easley, who averaged 23.3 points for the Class B state champions this past season despite playing through foot pain, was offered a scholarship by only one Division I program, The Citadel. He has no clear idea why he received limited D-1 recruiting interest. Nobody really gave him a good answer, he says.