How much confidence have you gained early this season, getting playing time, and making an impact?
Getting playing time has been great – knowing that Coach trusts me to put me in the game. I feel confident because my entire freshman year I spent learning from everyone. Learning all the plays in a different system. Now that I know them, when I get put in, I can just focus on playing basketball. I know the offense. I know the defense.
What have you proved to yourself so far?
I just think that I have gotten a lot more aggressive on offense. When I score buckets it’s great to see my teammates support me. The most important thing, even if Coach yells at me, I just listen to the message, what he says, and take it to heart and learn from it.
What’s next?
He tells me every day that I’ve got to work on my defense, my defensive stance, so that’s my main focus right now and not worrying about offense.
What is the biggest sport in Norway?
Soccer, and skiing is number two and then ice hockey.
Do you ski?
I don’t ski at all. I haven’t skied since I was 12 maybe.
What other sports did you play growing up?
I played soccer. Started as a striker, and then I was a goalie. Then I actually played this European sport, hand ball, which I was really good at. It’s a team game and there are six players. There’s a tiny goal and there’s tiny ball and you have pass it around and shoot it in the goal.
You haven’t been home since you came to UofL. Has your family come here to visit you?
They came here for 18 days and visited me, and they stayed with some great people that I got to know through my girlfriend. They are very supportive of me, take care of me and kind of are like my American family.
Your girlfriend is a UofL cheerleader, how tall is she?
She is 5’2”.
Getting playing time has been great – knowing that Coach trusts me to put me in the game. I feel confident because my entire freshman year I spent learning from everyone. Learning all the plays in a different system. Now that I know them, when I get put in, I can just focus on playing basketball. I know the offense. I know the defense.
What have you proved to yourself so far?
I just think that I have gotten a lot more aggressive on offense. When I score buckets it’s great to see my teammates support me. The most important thing, even if Coach yells at me, I just listen to the message, what he says, and take it to heart and learn from it.
What’s next?
He tells me every day that I’ve got to work on my defense, my defensive stance, so that’s my main focus right now and not worrying about offense.
What is the biggest sport in Norway?
Soccer, and skiing is number two and then ice hockey.
Do you ski?
I don’t ski at all. I haven’t skied since I was 12 maybe.
What other sports did you play growing up?
I played soccer. Started as a striker, and then I was a goalie. Then I actually played this European sport, hand ball, which I was really good at. It’s a team game and there are six players. There’s a tiny goal and there’s tiny ball and you have pass it around and shoot it in the goal.
You haven’t been home since you came to UofL. Has your family come here to visit you?
They came here for 18 days and visited me, and they stayed with some great people that I got to know through my girlfriend. They are very supportive of me, take care of me and kind of are like my American family.
Your girlfriend is a UofL cheerleader, how tall is she?
She is 5’2”.
