Scoring mystified Darral Willis not too long ago, a circumstance that seems impossible given his current status as Wichita State’s rapid-fire go-to guy.
“He had a hard time making a layup as a freshman,” Madison (Wisc.) Memorial coach Steve Collins said. “It looked like a newborn giraffe, his body was going so fast and he just wasn’t coordinated.”
Willis, now a junior at Wichita State, remembers it the same way. When he went to Madison Memorial, everyone told him tall people play basketball, so he tried.
“I was struggling,” Willis said. “I had so many different shot forms that I didn’t know how to shoot the ball.