Make no mistake. Nate Tomlinson was a good basketball player.
Good enough to play a key role in a unique run put together by the Colorado Buffaloes yet to be repeated at the Pac-12 Conference tournament. And good enough to play professionally for six seasons in his native Australia.
Tomlinson, though, wasn't the sort of player who filled up the stat sheet. And as the son of a lifelong coach, the former Buffaloes point guard often heard similar versions of the same comment along every step of his playing career.
"It's funny, a lot of people never said I was a great player.