Landers: ‘Surreal feeling’ finally getting to play with Antetokounmpo

The 6-foot-10 redshirt freshman, the brother of Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo, had six points, four rebounds and a block in 16 minutes in Dayton’s 79-61 victory. Foul trouble limited his impact. He picked up two in five minutes in the first half.

Antetokounmpo provided two of the game’s biggest highlights with rim-rocking dunks, the second off an alley-oop pass from the other member of Dayton’s 2016 recruiting class, Trey Landers.

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“That’s all we talk about, me and Kostas,” Landers said. “It’s beautiful. He pointed up and I said OK. I knew he was going to get it. I just threw it up there. It had the crowd going crazy. It’s a beautiful thing. That’s like my best friend. For him and me to be in the game at the same time, it was a surreal feeling.”

Antetokounmpo sat out last season as a NCAA partial qualifier. He suffered a knee injury in the summer and wasn’t cleared for full-contact practices until a couple weeks before the exhibition game.

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“It meant a lot to him for him to show the people what he can do,” Landers said. “He’s been off for about a year and a half or two years, battling some injuries and things like that. He had a good showing tonight.”

The Wayne grad Landers scored six points on 3-of-5 shooting in 15 minutes. He had three rebounds and an assist.