Twenty seconds into a November tilt against Emporia State, Jeremiah Tilmon stands along the Mizzou Arena baseline with all the intensity of a commuter waiting for a bus to pull up.
At the top of the arc, a spin cycle of motion rolls on as Kevin Puryear, Kassius Robertson and Jordan Geist run a three-man weave. Even as Jordan Barnett turns the corner, Missouri’s big man doesn’t burst into the pocket of space created when his defender steps up to clog a driving lane. Tilmon slowly lifts his hands to his waist and Barnett shovels the ball to his mitts.