TheHoosier.com caught up with former Indiana guard Jordan Hulls at his local basketball camp, the JH1 Skills Academy, last week. Here's the one-on-one Q&A session with Hulls, who is now living in Indianapolis and continuing to explore his professional options for the upcoming season.

The Hoosier: You just wrapped up your third year of professional basketball, this year with Limburg United (in Belgium). You guys made it to the semifinals of the league playoffs. What were you thoughts on the season?

Jordan Hulls: It was a great year for us. Coming in, people had us ranked in the bottom half of the league. We ended up getting in the top half, getting an automatic bid to the playoffs, going to the final four, semifinals, taking the best team in the league who has won it the last four years to a Game 5. We lost it at their place unfortunately, but we had a great season as a team and individually it was a great year for me as well. I got to play point guard, which is what I want to do, come off and utilize my shot and setting guys up passing. For next year, I’m looking forward to other options. Belgium is an option, but there are other options as well, so I haven’t made that decision yet.

TH: Taking the time to enjoy being home?

JH: I’m only home for such a little amount of time. I love doing my camp – I wish I could do more of them in Northern Indiana and Southern Indiana, but time just doesn’t really permit it for me. As much as I love doing it, I love spending time with my family because 10 months is a long time to be away.

TH: This is the third country you’ve lived in during your professional career. What’s that been like having to move so often?

JH: There’s a stressful part about it. So after every year, each time has been good to me but each year I’ve decided to go elsewhere because I thought that was best for me. It’s been a great experience because I was in Poland – different culture. Huge culture shock to me, especially out of college. And then I went to Kosovo, even bigger culture shock. Then I went to Belgium, and Belgium was probably the most westernized place I’ve lived. We really enjoyed it. That was the first year I had my wife with me, and we got to experience our first year of marriage together in a different country. We were just dependent on one another, and that was really good for us as a couple. It was really fun just seeing the world while we’re still young, because once you start having kids and get older it’s a little bit harder to do. If we can do that now, that’s just an added bonus to playing over there.

TH: What’s your favorite adventure or memory from your time abroad so far?

JH: We got to go to Normandy this year. That was pretty incredible, just seeing the cemetery there. The actual beaches were stormed up. Oh my gosh, it was pretty remarkable just to be there and feel like you’re part of history and an awesome American memory there. It’s just one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. We went to Paris as well, we did Amsterdam, we went to all the neat cities surrounding Belgium, but (Normandy) was probably the coolest just because not everyone can say they’ve been there.

TH: Your parents also visited you this past year. How enjoyable was that?

JH: That was awesome. That was the first time they had come to see me in Europe since I’d been playing, it just hadn’t worked out the last couple of years with scheduling and that kind of stuff. This year, with my wife Aubrey being with me, we had her folks come out, my parents come out, we had some friends even visit, so we were pretty busy with some guests. For my parents to be able to come over and see what life is like for us in a different culture, different environment – that was their first time out of the country to Europe. I think they really enjoyed it. Both of them realized how different it really is, but also how much more there is out there than just here in Bloomington or stateside. We got to travel around a little bit to see the cool cities in Belgium and Amsterdam and they got to go too. I think they really enjoyed it.

TH: Last time we spoke, your wife Aubrey was in nursing school. How has she managed to complete her coursework while you guys have been abroad?

JH: She was able to finish up nursing school right before she came out to nursing school. She took her boards in the summer. Two days after she found out she passed, she was able to fly out to Belgium and be with me. We looked for jobs out there. We had some different connections through Bloomington. There were people who knew people in Belgium randomly. It just didn’t work out because of the language barrier, though. She would’ve had to learn more Dutch to be able to speak with them. But she ended up nannying, which was great just to keep her busy because honestly I’m at practice, come home then I go back to practice and she’s stuck there. And actually, one of my teammates from Belgium this year, Stanton Kidd, his girlfriend lives over there and they got to be really good friends. Now she’s done and now she’s got a job at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, so she won’t be going with me this next year. That’s just something we decided, because I want her to pursue her dreams just like she’s letting me pursue mine. Riley’s an awesome hospital and I’m really happy for her to be able to do that. So we live in Indianapolis now, and she’ll visit whenever she can.

TH: Living Indianapolis for the time being makes it easier to keep tabs on the current program compared to living in Belgium, I imagine?

JH: I have to borrow my parents’ stuff. (Laughs.)

TH: Do you stream the games? Follow on Twitter?

JH: I’ll stream them, but I also have an app called SlingBox on my iPad and I literally get every single channel that my parents get, which is awesome. The only problem is the six-hour time difference, so I’ll be up at 3 a.m. watching the IU game just starting – which I’m ok with. That’s not a big deal. But that’s probably the biggest way I keep in contact. I talk to Coach Crean and Coach Buck every once in a while, and then Derek (Elston) obviously, he’s one of my best friends so I try to keep up with him.

TH: Speaking of Derek, how happy were you to see him return to the program as its Director of Player Development?

It’s great for Derek. He’s a great glue guy, great locker room guy. He can keep things light but he also knows what it takes to play at that level and how demanding it is and how hard it is to play at IU. You’re going to get better at the end of the day, but you’ve got to be willing to put in work and Derek’s been there and done that. I was so happy for him. Obviously he loves Bloomington, loves being able to stay home, so I think he’s really enjoying his time.

TH: What were your thoughts on this past season?

JH: It was an awesome surprise. I think they surprised a lot of people. As a former player, I know how the outside – they don’t know nearly as much as what they do on the inside, there’s only that core group of guys going through it every single day. So I was really happy for them to have the year that they did. To go through the ups and downs in the beginning and then be able to finish strong, it was really fun to watch. I’m a huge fan of Collin (Hartman), Robert Johnson, OG (Anunoby), Thomas (Bryant). I like how hard they all play. The whole group has been really fun to watch.

TH: How excited are you for the upcoming season, with the team being a near-consensus preseason Top-15 team?

JH: I’ll keep up with them as much as I can. It’s always exciting when people think you’re going to be good. That adds pressure, but it’s good pressure because it makes you want to go out there and work that much harder. I’m really excited to watch them. It will be interesting to see how we fill Yogi’s role, but I’ve heard Newkirk is going to be really solid for us, so I’m excited to see that.