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F/C Terence Dials (2006 B1G POY, Dir. of Professional Development)

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Does it seem like we've had more than our share of the POW honors? Seems like just about every week it's Butler, Foster, Dials, and even on the ladies' side Davenport wins it a lot. Guess that's just how it goes when you have two programs at the very top of the conference. :oh:
 
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thackattack said:
Does it seem like we've had more than our share of the POW honors? Seems like just about every week it's Butler, Foster, Dials, and even on the ladies' side Davenport wins it a lot. Guess that's just how it goes when you have two programs at the very top of the conference. :oh:
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IIRC, Marscilla Packer won it once for the ladies, too.

EDIT - She shared it the week before last.
 
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he'll be a good pf in the N.B.A. I know some clowns said he'll be a center but, not to many 6'9 centers . Wallace is 6' 10

I wish he had another big body to help him battle down low because, thats the only thing this great team is missing
 
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akronbuck said:
he'll be a good pf in the N.B.A. I know some clowns said he'll be a center but, not to many 6'9 centers . Wallace is 6' 10

I wish he had another big body to help him battle down low because, thats the only thing this great team is missing
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I appreciate the optimism, but I (and my feeling is most others who are knowledgeable about OSU bball on this site) don't think Dials is an NBA player. You're right in saying he's not tall enough to play center, and, unless he makes some miraculous improvements, he's really too slow of foot to play the 4. Some players develop an outside shot once playing basketball becomes their career, rather than something they do alongside school, but you can't really teach speed. Dials seems a bit too plodding for the NBA. Compare him to a guy like Glen Davis from LSU, who is both bigger and much more able to handle the ball, shoot from the outside, and create a shot off a few dribbles.

All the luck in the world to Terrence, this team would be nowhere without him, but if he made an NBA roster I'd be pretty surprised.
 
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Good point and I was thinking the samething but, he gets the job done down low for the buckeyes and he is the only one doing it.
Your right. His footspeed is slow but, so is elton brands and he does pretty good for being undersized and not the most athletic player playing the 4 spot. He's a big scorer to

He'll make a team and I see him turning into a charles oakley/ boozer/wallace or a mahorn type of player down the road. Some teams need that type of player to be the dirty man


The game was only a speed game but, now all those N.B.A teams want a PF with some big bodied size to eat up the space down low.
Look at the CAVS, Gooden is a good player with no weight but, almost every game the other team gets almost all the offensive rebounds to easily because, they have no tough guy down low. College is tough enough but, the N.B.A teams need a center and a pf to do all the ditry work down low to give them a better chance to win the boards and game

Look at the pistons , the 2 wallaces dominate down low.
Dials will never be a rasheed wallace but, he could become the other wallace that came along after years in the N.B.A of playing.. I hope he does but, he won't ba a lottery pick so only time could tell
 
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Terence Dials (Official Thread)

Didn't see one of these in existence yet and it's about time we make one...

Today Terence was named Big10 Player of the Year!!! Quite an honor for the big fellow and a great reward for his hard work over these last 5 seasons.

From OSU's site...

Matta, Dials Voted Big Ten's Best
March 7, 2006
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Thad Matta was named the 2006 Big Ten Coach of the Year by the league media and Ohio State senior center Terence Dials was chosen as the 2006 Big Ten Player of the Year by both the league coaches and media, the Big Ten Conference announced Tuesday.

Dials earned a spot on the 2006 All-Big Ten First Team (media and coaches) as well.

Ohio State's Je'Kel Foster, a senior guard from Natchez, Miss., was as second team honoree in the coaches' balloting while Foster and sophomore guard Jamar Butler were named to the third team by the conference media. Butler was an honorable mention selection by the league coaches.

Big Ten coaches placed Foster on the league's 2006 All-Defensive Team. He also was tabbed a Big Ten Sportsmanship Award Honoree.

Dials, a native of Youngstown, Ohio, becomes Ohio State's fifth Big Ten player of the year and the first since guard Scoonie Penn claimed the honor in 1999. Dennis Hopson was selected in 1987 while Jim Jackson won the award in both 1991 and '92. Hopson and Jackson were both forwards.

Ohio State (23-4) last had a student-athlete earn first team All-Big Ten honors in 2002 when Brian Brown made the squad. The last Ohio State center to make the league's first team was Ken Johnson in 2001.

Buckeye coaches have earned the media nod as the league's top coach five times previously with Eldon Miller (1983), Randy Ayers (1991, 1992) and Jim O'Brien (1999, 2001) all earning the award.

Dials led the Buckeyes in scoring and rebounding with 15.3 points and 8.0 rebounds a game. He finished the regular season with enough points to rank No. 15 in Ohio State history with 1,492. He also is No. 6 in career rebounding with 834. His .564 career field goal shooting percentage rates No. 3 all-time in OSU history.

(...there was more, but it wasn't about Dials...)
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I also don't see Dials as an NBA player, but guys like Reggie Evans seem to manage to hang around so anything's possible. To do it, he'll need to get serious about the weights and diet, work hard on defensive technique, and develop a consistent 15 foot jumper. I give him a decent chance of being able to do the last of those, and the other two should theoretically be up to him. Even if he does those things, he's a journeyman due to being a tweener and having very questionable athleticism, but there's nothing wrong with being an 8 year NBA journeyman. Good luck to him.
 
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Jagdaddy said:
I also don't see Dials as an NBA player, but guys like Reggie Evans seem to manage to hang around so anything's possible. To do it, he'll need to get serious about the weights and diet, work hard on defensive technique, and develop a consistent 15 foot jumper. I give him a decent chance of being able to do the last of those, and the other two should theoretically be up to him. Even if he does those things, he's a journeyman due to being a tweener and having very questionable athleticism, but there's nothing wrong with being an 8 year NBA journeyman. Good luck to him.
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i cant remember the last time td missed a 12 footer, and the past few games hes put in a couple of 15-18 footers per game.....
 
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Dispatch

3/10/06

Traffic jams before basketball games haven’t been a problem around Value City Arena in recent years, but the bandwagon attached to the current Ohio State men’s basketball team has been getting more crowded.

On Sunday, it kept Terence Dials’ mother, Judith Kimbrough, from accompanying him to center court for Senior Day.

Dials was escorted by his younger brother, Michael, who had spent the night before the Purdue game at Dials’ apartment.

"She got held up in traffic," Dials said. "I didn’t know the Arnold Classic was (downtown last weekend). She didn’t either, and she had to find a hotel far out. She just got stuck in traffic."
She did make it to her seat in time to enjoy the game.
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