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

4. Terence Dials, Ohio State: He doesn't do much on the defensive end (0.6 blocks), but Dials is almost unstoppable at the other end (15.9 ppg, 7.9 rpg). Last season's team -- and we're talking to you, Tony Stockman -- didn't get Dials the ball enough. This season's team -- and we're talking to you, Sylvester Mayes -- had better.


Although you have to love TD getting some publicity, this is a strange write up. He doesn't do much on the defensive end? Are the 7.9 rebounds all offensive? He's not a shot blocker, according to this author, that's what defense is all about - I guess. :ohwell:
 
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Dials Wants Focus On This Basketball Season

scout.com

10/25/05

Dials Wants Focus On This Basketball Season

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Terence Dials

By Steve Helwagen
Managing Editor
Date: Oct 24, 2005

OSU senior center Terence Dials says it is great that fans are geared up about the No. 1-ranked recruiting class that arrives on campus next fall. But he also wants to see some excitement for this year's squad, which has some aspirations of its own. Click this free link for more.

The Ohio State men’s basketball team is hard at work in its second week of preseason practice. The Buckeyes will hold their first exhibition Sun., Nov. 6, against Findlay. They open the season Nov. 20 against Chicago State.


On the team’s photo day Oct. 13, we had a chance to speak with senior center Terence Dials. The 6-9 Dials is one of five returning starters for coach Thad Matta’s Buckeyes. He earned second-team All-Big Ten honors a year ago, averaging 15.9 points and 7.9 rebounds per game.

Dials, back for his third year as a starter and fifth season overall (he missed most of 2002-03 with a back injury), has heard all the talk about Matta’s incoming class of recruits for next year.

“I know it’s out there,” Dials said. “I have friends in the athletic office. They tell me how everyone is buying tickets now and they think they’ll be able to be on the list for next year. I joke about that. But it is the number one recruiting class.

“They are getting all of the media and respect they deserve. But right now we’re not thinking about those guys. They’re nice guys, but I’m thinking about the team I’m going into battle with every night and the guys we have on the floor right now.”

Dials is among four seniors – the others being Je’Kel Foster, J.J. Sullinger and Matt Sylvester – on the squad. Matta has named all four of the seniors as co-captains.

“I think that is a good thing,” said Dials, who flew solo as the captain last year. “They have all shown leadership on and off the floor. My role is to go out and show leadership and lead on the floor. I know the other guys will be doing the same. We just need to lead by example with the way we play.”

Dials was asked if last year’s upset of then-No. 1 ranked and unbeaten Illinois helped put the Buckeyes back on the college basketball map.

“I think it did a little justice to this program,” he said. “I think it also put a little faith in Coach Matta’s system. Without him, obviously, we wouldn’t have been able to get that win. We believe more in his system as a result and we bought into it the whole off-season. We know this preseason is important for us to have a great season.”

Dials talked about what he wants to accomplish as a senior.

“As always, our goals are to be Big Ten champions, win 20 games and get to the NCAA Tournament,” he said. “Realistically, all of that is possible. But we need to get better every day. We’re not there yet, but with the hard work we’re going to put in I think we can be right there.”

The Buckeyes opened preseason camp with just 10 scholarship players, meaning there will be few breaks during practice.

“I told somebody earlier this is going to be a grind,” Dials said. “We will have guys out here fighting for positions. Playing time is going to be on the line every day in practice. There’s no breaks and no hiding. You can’t get a blow.

“It will be five-on-five every day. It will be interesting to see how Coach handles the lineup.”
 
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i used to play pickup games with TD

Were you ever able to pick him up, or did he just carry you around all over the place? :tongue2:

Seriously, I love TD. He's got such great courage and heart. It would have been neat to see him on the floor with the new guys - but I have a feeling they're going to take over nicely :biggrin:
 
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dials isnt that quick, but i doubt anyone on this site has the body to bang with dials or keep him in check. he is so physical though thats his strength.


the easy way to focus on this season is to play well, this team is able to go through the preB10 season undefeated. if these guys put together a good season the people of columbus will reward them. even before the ill game last year columbus was a buzz about them.
 
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I'm glad Dials came out and said it, because there is so much hype about 06-07, people forget that we are returning five starters. That doesn't happen all too often in college basketball, in fact rarely. Although this current team isn't as loaded in talent as future years will be, they are definitely as god if not better that the previous team. Hell, if they get 20 wins and win a game or two in the tourney and a couple in the Big Ten playoffs, would you consider it a successful year? I know I would. I am so hyped up for mens basketball basketball I can barely wait out a couple more weeks. I'm excited to see what Matta can do with this class loaded with leadership and experience :)
 
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11/28/05

Dials displays his artistry in the paint for Buckeyes


Sunday, November 27, 2005
Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter

-- Illinois swept through the Big Ten last season with an unguardable three-guard trio of Deron Williams, Dee Brown and Luther Head, Exhibit A in the argument that success in college basketball starts on the perimeter.

But not every coach believes that. Not every team is shaped that way. For Ohio State this season, once again, the discussion has to start inside with Terence Dials.

"When you have post guys, they change the whole game because you have to double-team them," said Indiana's Mike Davis, one coach who would take a dominant post player over perimeter strength. "Dials . . . I think he's one of the best in the country."

As the Buckeyes went 20-12 last season, Dials led the way with 15.9 points and 7.9 rebounds per game, including 21 points and eight rebounds as Ohio State handed Illinois its first loss after a 29-0 start.

A second-team All-Big Ten selection, the 6-9, 260-pound Dials is back on a Buckeye team that lost only Tony Stockman from its top six scorers and added offensive pop with transfers Ron Lewis and Sylvester Mayes.

The Buckeyes weren't shy about hoisting 3-pointers last year, but second-year coach Thad Matta prefers not to depend on 3-point shots.

Off to an 2-0 start that included a late collapse in an overtime win over Butler, this team is far from perfect. Matta will continue to educate his players in his ways. This was the first time he was able to work with the Buckeyes through a complete off-season.

Even when everything's not working, Matta would like his teams to be a pain for opponents, and that's what they were last season.

"The team they have coming back this year is very dangerous," Iowa coach Steve Alford said. "They were as difficult a team to play against as we played all year, and we played a schedule that included all four Final Four teams. They do a great job of playing hard, and Dials was an awfully big key.

"They did a good job of putting Dials in a system where he was going to get touches. They have a good perimeter game, and when you have that presence that can give you inside-outside, I think that makes a big difference."

The Buckeyes know what they have. Dials has the ability to overwhelm the opposition, but in a set offense that can still look clunky, Ohio State doesn't always take advantage of what Dials can do, and Dials sometimes doesn't do it himself. But there will still be nights where he can do damage almost by accident.

"I thought Terence did a good job of using his size," Matta said after Tuesday night's win over Butler, "but we took some bad shots where I felt we could have let him go to work. We took some shots where nobody got to the boards, and the definition of a bad shot is if your teammates don't think you're shooting it."

You won't see Dials taking many bad shots. Last season, he shot 57.4 percent from the field.

"Terence is a premier player down inside," senior forward J.J. Sullinger said. "Not too many people do well against him. He's big and strong and he can finish, so it's definitely a big thing to have on your side."

Next season, that presence in the post will be taken up by super freshman Greg Oden, the 7-footer who's the top recruit in the country. Bring up Ohio State basketball to most fans, coaches or players that are part of the Big Ten, and it doesn't take long for Matta's stunning five-man 2006 recruiting class to come up.

In just his second year in the league, Matta has opened a lot of eyes.
"Thad seemed to do a good enough job last year coaching and did a good enough job this year recruiting," Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. "I'm sure not going to feel sorry for Thad right now."

There's no reason he should. Though the best times for Ohio State basketball are ahead, right now isn't too bad. The Buckeyes will still make their share of mistakes. They aren't going to stand out in a deep league that features eight teams with legitimate NCAA Tournament aspirations.
But they'll once again be a pain to play. And no one will be a bigger pain for opponents than Dials.
 
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I don't follow OSU bball much so I wanted to check with those of you who are more knowledgeable than I am. Where do you see Dials fitting in the NBA? How about the draft this year?

I still need to see more out of him before I think NBA

Matta still calls him "Tinkerbell" on occasion, meaning he doesn't go up strong.

I'm afraid if Dials doesn't step it up a little more that he might make one of the last couple rounds if anything at all.
 
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