But they hit it off the instant they met at last year's Utah summer league, choosing to focus not on those differences but on what connected them instead. From that moment, they could share memories about playing in the Pac-12, and McConnell could bust Fultz's stones about how the Wildcats always beat the Huskies, and Fultz's mother and sister could treat McConnell as if he, too, was their own flesh and blood, and the fact that the two competed for minutes at the same position never caused a cross word between them.