When the basketball season tips off, Deleon Brown always is ready to go.
More often than not, the Colorado Buffaloes' junior guard proved to be a key contributor at the outset of each of his first two seasons in Boulder, supplying a small jolt off the bench of whatever the Buffs were lacking in that moment — from 3-point shooting to taking a few turns at point guard to playing solid perimeter defense.
Yet as each of those two seasons wore on, Brown wore down. As the Buffs begin their third week of preseason workouts ahead of the Nov.