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F DeShaun "The Diesel" Thomas (Panathinaikos - Greece)

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Published: December 30, 2007 6:00 a.m.
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Title tips Knights' way

Thomas' basket gives Luers first championship

By Greg Jones

High school sports editor

He did it again.
For the second time in eight days, DeShaun Thomas gave Bishop Luers a win with a last-second tip-in.
This time the stakes were even higher as Thomas? tip gave the Knights their first SAC tournament title with a 63-61 win over South Side on Saturday in front of 3,200 fans at a jam-packed Wayne gym.
With the score tied at 61 and the clock ticking away, Lawrence Barnett missed a driving layup and Thomas collected the rebound in his left hand and put it into the basket as time expired.
?We made history, so that?s pretty nice,? Thomas said of the Knights? first SAC title in the school?s first appearance in a boys championship game. ?It seems like it is always there. When someone goes up for a layup, I try to time it and the ball came down where I was at, and I tipped it in.?
Thomas? tip beat Bishop Dwenger 72-71 on Dec. 21, and he made a last-second rebound basket in last year?s regular-season finale against North Side.
?They need to,? Thomas said of teams blocking him out. ?It is a matter of playing hard. When you play hard, good things come to you like a tip-in.?
Thomas finished with 20 points and 16 rebounds.

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Thomas atop Luers' boys scoring list

Staff reports

DeShaun Thomas became the all-time leading boys basketball scorer at Bishop Luers with a 33-point effort in a 64-42 victory against Northrop on Friday.
Thomas, a sophomore, has 1,040 points in his career. He surpassed current South Side assistant coach Aaron Rehrer, who scored 1,015 at Luers from 1997 to 2001.

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Sophomore points
Thomas breaks Luers' career-scoring record Friday night

By Aaron Organ
[email protected] Just in case DeShaun Thomas gets too caught up in the hype, count on his coach to bring him back down to earth.

After the game in which Thomas broke the Bishop Luers career-scoring mark of 1,015 points formerly held by Aaron Rehrer ? midway through his sophomore season, mind you ? his coach, James Blackmon, had little to swoon over. At least, not yet.

?It?s not an issue right now because he?s only a sophomore,? Blackmon said. ?His numbers going to go up. But I keep telling him, he?s still 900 points away from me, so he?s still got a ways to go.?

Blackmon, a former Parade and McDonald?s All-American at Marion High School in 1983, finished his career with 1,897 points. While Thomas, sitting at 1,040 points after the Knights 64-42 drubbing of Northrop on Friday night, has some work to do to catch his coach?s mark, he is on pace to smash it by career?s end.

Thomas finished with 33 points to pace all scorers against the Bruins, tying the scoring mark with his first three shots and passing it with his next.

Northrop looked helpless in attempting to calm him down.

?It was a matter of time that he was going to get eight points throughout the game,? Blackmon said. ?We knew that, but I don?t think that was his focus. I think he was just fired up and ready to play this ballgame. The shots he got early were part of our transition offense.?

If Blackmon is referring to Thomas? second and third shots, both threes, the Knights run a ridiculously unorthodox transition offense. The first three-pointer came off a double-team that Thomas raised high over and toward the basket, sinking the shot seemingly with ease. The third was even more inexplicable, rising high against an even tighter double-team with no sign of struggle.

He makes circus shots look routine, defenses look offensive and misses look odd.

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Harding avenges lone loss

Hawks end Knights' win streak

By Greg Jones

High school sports editor


Call it a triple play of sorts for Class 3A No. 6 Harding.

With a 75-65 win over 2A No. 3 Bishop Luers, the Hawks accomplished three important things: Breaking the Knights? nine-game winning streak, avenging their only loss of the season and most importantly, staying unbeaten in the SAC.
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Sophomore DeShaun Thomas led the Knights with 33 points.
Luers (10-3, 4-2), hadn?t lost since Dec. 8.
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I'm not sure that was breaking the rule #8. Of course, I'm neither judge nor jury, so my opinion is as worthless as a 3 dollar bill. But I'm constantly looking for the "experts" on BP to give their opinions on the projected likelihood of key recruits attending OSU. Kind of like the "no worries" posts by WADC in the Pryor thread.

The entire recruiting process is mentally draining for me, and those little updates help bridge the gap between January 2008, and the signing day for 2010 basketball recruits.
 
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Yertle;1070904; said:
The entire recruiting process is mentally draining for me, and those little 12oz icy cold beverages help bridge the gap between January 2008, and the signing day for 2010 basketball recruits.
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fixed it for ya Yertle (adding my favorite gap bridging past time)

As far as Thomas is concerned, until I hear someone who is not from IU or who is not an IU mouthpiece say otherwise, I consider him commited to tOSU, but then again the makers of the $3 bill sued me for defamation when I compared myself to it :biggrin:
 
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No worries here and none from recruits...

But there was an article last month on a page back that said we are the main school and he is not that high on the hoosiers...

He is in the middle of basketball season so it isn't like he is just going to change his mind...If there is something we will post it...
 
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Yertle;1070904; said:
I'm not sure that was breaking the rule #8. Of course, I'm neither judge nor jury, so my opinion is as worthless as a 3 dollar bill. But I'm constantly looking for the "experts" on BP to give their opinions on the projected likelihood of key recruits attending OSU. Kind of like the "no worries" posts by WADC in the Pryor thread.
They could really be worth $3 if Hillary gets elected president::biggrin:

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Yertle;1070904; said:
I'm not sure that was breaking the rule #8. Of course, I'm neither judge nor jury, so my opinion is as worthless as a 3 dollar bill. But I'm constantly looking for the "experts" on BP to give their opinions on the projected likelihood of key recruits attending OSU. Kind of like the "no worries" posts by WADC in the Pryor thread.

The entire recruiting process is mentally draining for me, and those little updates help bridge the gap between January 2008, and the signing day for 2010 basketball recruits.
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Imagine if this was done routinely by many members... you would have to open up threads constantly only to find that very few have any actual updates.
 
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keep in mind this is basketball recruiting it is how shall i say it much more exciting that football recruiting, think eric gordon stories.

when news is avail, it will be posted. thats how it is. thomas is a sophmore, pryor/wells/jenkins are srs....
 
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