ALEIGH, N.C. — Rashad Streets admits he didn’t like Quinton Cypher when they first met ahead of their freshman year of high school.
Streets can’t quite put his finger on why, chalking it up to his immaturity at the time.
“I felt like when I was coming out of middle school I had to grow up a bit,” Streets confessed. “Once you get around somebody … I’m more comfortable with him now. I have a ton of respect for him, seeing the work he puts in. You just have to be around him.”
Cypher’s first impressions of Streets are just as brutally honest.
“I thought he was lazy,” Cypher said. “I didn’t think he had the right mindset. Honestly, that’s the biggest change with him, he just transformed his whole life. He’s changed so much as a person, as an individual and as a teammate.”
Streets and Cypher are buddies now, and the dislike in 2025 will probably come from opposing offenses.