Omar Lowery had been to the area plenty of times before.
More than two decades ago, he enrolled at South Plains College to begin playing college basketball, and he later worked as an assistant coach at Texas State and Sam Houston State. The man knows Texas basketball, which is exactly why he found himself in the Lake Travis High School gymnasium in his first season as an assistant coach on LaVall Jordan’s Butler staff.
This time, around three years ago, he strolled into the building to get an up-close look at D.J. Thorpe, a 6-foot-9 big man who was the son of NBA All-Star Otis Thorpe.