Cayden Daughtry has never been one to shy away from competition.

The five-star senior guard out of Calvary Christian (FL) has a plan and that plan is to be in the NBA just two years from now. Playing in the Overtime Elite, along with his regular high school schedule over the last three years, has him prepared for whatever the next level has to bring him.

Now a senior and the No. 4 player in the latest USA TODAY Sports composite ranking, Daughtry has an opportunity to win his third consecutive state championship. He also has one last opportunity to do something with his OTE team, Fear of God, that he hasn't done yet: win the Overtime Elite championship.

This year could be as hard as any to do that though, as every team competing is an established high school team or academy program. That's a challenge that Daughtry has fully embraced.

"It's definitely different, just playing the best players every single night so you don't have any off games in OTE," Daughtry said. "It's never been like that. Now it has a little more structure to it. Every team is practicing more with each other and every team has been with each other for a little bit longer. 

"The past couple years I've played, a lot of the teams would bring in eight or nine players and they just go and they’d get beat by teams like us who had two years under our belt. It just came down to sometimes just having more experience with each other. This year, there’s no excuse because everybody has played fairly enough with each other so there's no setbacks or down games."

Daughtry and Fear of God tip off the OTE season against defending champions FaZe Friday night, Oct. 23, at 8:30 p.m. ET. His high school season with Calvary Christian doesn't begin until Nov. 28, when the Eagles host Second Baptist (TX).

A look back at Cayden Daughtry's track record and what's still to come

Last season, Daughtry led Fear of God to an 11-7 record and was one of the league's leading scorers, averaging 29.1 points and 5.2 assists per game. A year prior, while he and the team were getting their footing set in the league in their first season, he averaged 20.5 points and 3.9 assists per game.

He did all of that in OTE while also leading Calvary Christian to a 46-2 record over the last two seasons and back-to-back FHSAA Class 3A championships. As a sophomore at Calvary Christian, he averaged 16.7 points but saw a significant rise in production last season, upping that total to 26.5 points per game.

The success he's had on the court is nothing new for Daughtry.

"If you've been watching me play since I was little, I've been doing this my whole life," Daughtry said. "I've just been always averaging 25. I don't have that many bad games and if I do have a bad game, I will at least give you something to try and win the game.

"Going into this year I’ve definitely got more consistent and more efficient and just got better on the defensive end. I got in the weight room a little bit more to get ready for college.”

This year in particular is one that Daughtry said he's been the most excited to get to.

Not only is he a senior and one step closer to achieving his ultimate goal of getting to the NBA, but it's also one last opportunity to make a lasting impact in OTE. There's also opportunity to avenge the loss from last season that he says is the reason Calvary Christian was left out of the Chipotle Nationals.

"Everyone who comes to Calvary sees the winning culture and they see what we build every single year," Daughtry said. "They see what we’re trying to get to every year and I feel like the hardest part is getting guys to understand just how big every game is. We lost one game last year and that game pretty much took us out of Chipotle Nationals contention, which we all thought we should have made it, but it happened. 

"Every single game just means a lot more because we’re not a prep school. We don't have all the four- and five-star talents that these other schools have. We go out every single time to compete and do everything we can to win the game. When it comes to OTE, everyone's a challenge because everyone is new and they think that this is their league. However, we've been here and we're here to stay."