FORT WORTH, Texas – Robert Phinisee couldn’t help but notice the coaches in attendance for his first adidas Gauntlet game on Friday night.
He saw Indiana coach Archie Miller. He also saw Butler coach Chris Holtmann. And he also spotted an assistant coach from Purdue.
Many players insist that they don’t know which coaches are at their games. Not Phinisee.
“I don’t see how you don’t,” he said. “When you’re in warmups, you see them right away.”
What the coaches who watched Phinisee on Friday night saw was a point guard who is still undervalued nationally.