Keandre Kindell stopped playing his son in one-on-one basketball about nine years ago. The score didn't matter, but playing on bumpy backyard dirt did.
"This guy was too fast," he said. "He knew how to dribble on the craziest atmospheres, like rocks and grass. I slipped on some rocks and scraped my knees up. I couldn't do it."
A bumpy path to the basket never dissuaded his son.
Learning to play basketball on a rocky surface is one of many obstacles Wichita State junior guard Dre Kindell dealt with as he traveled from the cut list in junior high in Cincinnati to junior college to Wichita.