Brennan: Welcome back to summer hoops. Remember that?

CARTERSVILLE, Ga. — The LakePoint Champions Center is essentially a giant warehouse, a Costco-sized edifice that just so happens to house 12 well-spaced and individually scoreboarded basketball courts, but it could hold anything: shipping containers, airplanes, the Large Hadron Collider, Scrooge McDuck’s entire trinket stash. You realize, in those first few steps, you haven’t watched a live game of basketball, played right there in front of you, since March 10, 2020, when you caught the tail end of Syracuse-North Carolina on the Wednesday night of the ACC Tournament, which you only went to so you could grab your media credential in case things went the way you kind of suspected they might the following day. “I don’t know if kids are more talented now, but I do think kids are playing harder,” Douglas said. Brad Jacobsen, coach of Nebraska Supreme’s 17U team — a team that features top-60 2022 prospect Isaac Traudt, who was being watched by Tom Izzo, Tony Bennett, Fred Hoiberg and more than a few other coaches during his games in Cartersville, Ga. — had his first experience with the Under Armour circuit Memorial Day weekend. “It had talent and high-level players, sure, but it was played in a way that made it a really good basketball game.” In the celebration, Traudt and Jasen Green, Supreme’s other top prospect, rushed to celebrate with each other as though they had won one of the most meaningful games of their lives — and as if they had been teammates forever, even though they’d just started playing together a few weeks earlier.