These days, the USC basketball program rarely has to leave the region to find top talent. But as Andy Enfield was beginning to build the Trojans into a competitive team in 2015, he found himself looking at a gangly, rangy big man from Westchester, Ill., who wasn’t a blue-chip recruit but had fluidity to his movement that set him apart from more highly touted prospects.
Even after he sprouted up from about 6 feet 3 to about 6-9 after his eighth-grade year, he wanted to spend most of his time playing on the wing. Before his senior season at St.