Q. Who was your first opponent last year to like make your first like holy sh*t kind of blew you away moment? Did you have one? Kon Knueppel: "We played OKC in the preseason. So I would say that all of a sudden I was guarding SGA in transition and I was like, man, I have no chance. The footwork, it was not even like, I don't know, it was a preseason game and I was like, oh my goodness. I picked this guy up. I was looking, I was like, is somebody else coming to pick him up? And I was like, all right, I got him."
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