SF Evan Turner (official thread)

[GrizzlyBuck]

I was completely impressed by Turner yesterday. He was very aggressive on both ends of the floor and showed a lot of confidence for a freshman (tough competition in HS had to help) in a tough environment against one of the better teams in the country. I loved how he went to the basket with controlled abandon (oxymoron?) he drove it hard, but pulled up for little floaters instead of committing charges. I loved his rebounding even more, rebounding is mostly desire, desire to block someone out and desire to just go get the ball, he was a man on the boards yesterday, hopefully the entire team will follow his lead in this (if they had in this game we might have won, as I remember one occasion where a senior and another frosh played, I got it, you take it and lost it out of bounds and another where the same freshman let a rebound he was closer to bounce and a Volunteer got it)

Keep up the good work young man, bright days are ahead for you and your teamates

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

I have been on Turner's bandwagon since I saw him in high school. He is going to be a good one for tOSU.

[LitlBuck]

He sort of reminds me of Lighty last year at the end of the season and DL looks like the freshman this season.

[Yertle]

Agreed. Lighty was playing with more confidence and control at the end of last season than he is now.

By the way, when I first saw DL, I was about to reply "Well, Lauderdale is a freshman!" Brain fart.

[Buckskin86]

Turner's game taking off as OSU freshman adjusts to speed of college play
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3:13 AM
By Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Evan Turner spent the first few weeks of the season wondering why he wasn't starting for the Ohio State men's basketball team.

He wondered to some teammates. He wondered in some of his many phone calls to Gene Pingatore, his coach at St. Joseph's High School in Chicago.

"You've got to earn it," Pingatore recalls telling Turner, "and once you get in there, you've got to make sure they keep you in there by doing the right things."

The 6-foot-6 freshman guard got his shot to start in the season's eighth game, with the Buckeyes coming off back-to-back losses and an eight-day break for fall-quarter exams. He did enough right to outweigh the wrongs.

He gave glimpses of his versatility: He scored in double figures in three of his first five games as a starter, grabbed six rebounds in one game, handed out four assists in another, recorded three steals twice and, yes, committed 12 turnovers in his first two starts.

The turnovers continued to dog him through the first two weeks of the Big Ten schedule. He had 18 in five games.

"It seems like he's been thinking a lot on the court," senior Jamar Butler said. "I told him to quit thinking, just play. He went out and looked like he was having fun, just playing ball."

BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Turner's game taking off as OSU freshman adjusts to speed of college play

[crazybuckfan40]

That is what all the frosh need to do, quit thinking and just play...

Nice to see that Butler is trying to get that thru to them as he was once there struggling real bad as a frosh...

[jimotis4heisman]

Originally Posted by GrizzlyBuck

I was completely impressed by Turner yesterday. He was very aggressive on both ends of the floor and showed a lot of confidence for a freshman (tough competition in HS had to help) in a tough environment against one of the better teams in the country. I loved how he went to the basket with controlled abandon (oxymoron?) he drove it hard, but pulled up for little floaters instead of committing charges. I loved his rebounding even more, rebounding is mostly desire, desire to block someone out and desire to just go get the ball, he was a man on the boards yesterday, hopefully the entire team will follow his lead in this (if they had in this game we might have won, as I remember one occasion where a senior and another frosh played, I got it, you take it and lost it out of bounds and another where the same freshman let a rebound he was closer to bounce and a Volunteer got it)

Keep up the good work young man, bright days are ahead for you and your teamates

nope very good phrase, one of the things about evan was he was pressing, going to hard, he needs to realize and continue to develop to play on the edge, the edge of passion, fire, intensity and control. with his game this is so important. think of mike conley, think of the old woodenism,"be quick, never hurry" evan needs to learn to develop that facet of his game.

like ive said before its not an evan turner or jon diebler, it needs to be evan turner AND jon diebler, those two can really feed of each others games