Jordan Poole’s long highway from frigid Milwaukee to the NBA was paved by the searing words of his father as the two headed home after a basketball tournament. “As we got to the house,” Anthony Poole recalls, “I said, ‘Hey, you say you want to go to the league. That tournament was good. You did OK. But it was BS. You’re not putting in the effort to get where you want to get to. You’ll be lucky if you’re an overseas player.’ “I said it to motivate him. To get him pissed.”