Keisei Tominaga, a left-handed shooting assassin from the field, says he struggled with the different rules and culture on the court along with the language barrier in his first year in the United States.

But the Ranger College, located in Ranger, Texas, shooting guard insisted he had the confidence to do as well as he wound up doing.

“During the preseason, I didn’t know too much about the rules in America and I occasionally got called for traveling,” Tominaga told reporters from his home in Japan. “But I eventually got used to them as I played in more games.”