Kourt Williams II turns his head to the right, staring at the red and blue felt-covered walls of San Antonio’s Grand Hyatt Hotel, putting his index and middle fingers on his chin, almost a pose stricken straight from The Thinker.
He’s lost in deep thought on this early January afternoon, which isn’t something rare for the intelligent, well-spoken Ohio State commit – one who signed with the Buckeyes in December, graduated high school early and enrolled in college last month.
In this moment, he’s trying to explain in pinpoint fashion a mindset shift that he seems to have perfected.