Sam Cassell had game long before he came to Tallahassee.
What the fiery competitor didn't have when he arrived at FSU in the summer of 1991 was a motor-mouth. A non-stop engine stuck on warp speed motor-mouth.
Cassell, whose No. 10 jersey will be retired Thursday during a halftime ceremony at the FSU men's basketball game against Wake Forest, didn't develop his reputation as an all-world talker until after he left FSU.
"He wasn't that way at Florida State," said Doug Edwards, Cassell's teammate at FSU and, like Cassell, a first-round NBA draft pick in 1993. "I don't recall him talking as much the way I see him talking now.
"I guess it's part of who he's become. I'm sure he's just trying to get into people's heads on the court."
Expect Cassell to say all the right things at the Civic Center on Thursday. The savvy shooting guard who led FSU deep into the NCAA Tournament
