Let’s put it this way: when you’ve had the long and improbable basketball journey Cormac Ryan has had, nothing much is going to impress you. Part of belonging is acting like you’ve been there before, right? So just because you’re wearing an honest-to-God NBA uniform — dark Milwaukee Bucks roadie, name and number (30) on the back … just another workday.
Just because the place you’re draining 3s is no longer the Dapolito Rec Center on Carmine Street but instead the Toyota Center in Houston, with each of the 18,055 seats occupied … look, you’ve played games at Cameron Indoor, OK (in Coach K’s farewell game, no less)? You once played a couple of Final Four games at the New Orleans Superdome, in front of nearly 70,000 fans. A gym’s a gym.
Still … when some of those 3s are taken with Kevin Durant’s hand in your face, when you wind up with 25 (on 9-for-14 shooting) and KD, because he is KD, feels the need to not only answer you back with a couple of game-clinching baskets (over you) but also a little smack talk …
Well, that has to be a little surreal, right?
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
