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11-15-2007, 07:07 AM
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Butler back in familiar role; Walton in a new one
Jim Naveau | jnaveau@limanews.com - 11.15.2007
There are other things going on this week in sports besides the Ohio State-Michigan football game.
Really, there are.
Two of them involve Lima?s Big Ten basketball players, Ohio State?s Jamar Butler and Michigan State?s Travis Walton.
After two games, Butler is second on the Buckeyes? men?s team in scoring at 17.5 points a game, returning to the scorer?s role he played when he got more than 2,000 points in his high school career at Shawnee.
The 6-2 senior point guard had 18 points in a 68-54 win over Columbia on Tuesday night and 17 in the opener against Wisconsin-Green Bay on Monday.
From one in-person look and watching another game on television, it?s obvious Ohio State is looking to Butler as a leader this season in more ways than just scoring.
He has started 71 straight games. The rest of the Buckeyes have combined for 19 starts ? 10 by Othello Hunter and nine by David Lighty.
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11-15-2007, 01:22 PM
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I like the leadership and drive Butler has displayed on the court this year. Keep it up, Jamar.
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11-18-2007, 10:18 AM
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OSU men's basketball: Butler feels comfortable back at point
Senior switched positions last year in a nod to Conley
Sunday, November 18, 2007 3:15 AM
By Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Last week, Jamar Butler celebrated his return to the point guard position with a career-high 10 assists and five three-point field goals, which tied his career high.
One night later, in the second half of a one-point game that determined whether the Ohio State men's basketball team spent Thanksgiving in New York or the Schottenstein Center, coach Thad Matta implored Butler to make a play.
The senior made three: two three-point baskets and an assist on another in a 12-0 run that sent the Buckeyes (2-0) to the semifinals of the NIT Season Tip-Off. They play Syracuse (3-0) on Wednesday night in Madison Square Garden.
Butler knew it would be like this again even before practice began in October.
"I haven't been happier," he said then.
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BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : OSU men's basketball: Butler feels comfortable back at point
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11-26-2007, 01:42 PM
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Congratulations to Jamar for becoming Ohio State's all-time leader in 3-point field goals made.
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Point guard Jamar Butler, the Buckeyes' second-leading scorer at 16.5 points per game, didn't take his first shot until the final three minutes of the first half, and when he did, it went in. That 3-pointer from the left wing gave Butler 154 career 3-pointers, the most in OSU history, breaking a tie with Brent Darby and Scoonie Penn.
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11-26-2007, 03:33 PM
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Way to go Jamar!
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11-26-2007, 04:08 PM
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Hopefully Thad can get him some rest before the start of the Big 10 season or he is going to be one tired little puppy by season's end and tired legs makes for bad outside shooting which has been one of his strong points so far this season.
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11-26-2007, 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by LitlBuck
Hopefully Thad can get him some rest before the start of the Big 10 season or he is going to be one tired little puppy by season's end and tired legs makes for bad outside shooting which has been one of his strong points so far this season.
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Butler has played most of the game for the last 2 seasons...He will be fine...He dropped weight to get in better shape...
I do think that Hill will start to steal some minutes later in the season... | |
