Basketball is a little different than most sports in that you can walk in a gym in almost any city and get in a pretty competitive game. He will get to work out the kinks against #10 USC and #2 Arizona in the next week. That should be fun.
From what the players and people around the program have said, he will be in the running for SEC player of the year. If he can live up to that hype, it will be a fun season.