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G/F Evan "The Villain" Turner (2010 Naismith Winner)

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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
 
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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.
 
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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."
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BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Turner's game taking off as OSU freshman adjusts to speed of college play
 
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GrizzlyBuck;1071026; said:
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
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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
 
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jimotis4heisman;1072179; said:
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
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Couldn't agree more, I think that is the main reason for all of his turnovers that he has committed...Either not putting the ball on the floor before he takes off to the rim or bouncing the ball off his foot...

As for the last statement that is so true, and will continue to be true for the rest of the season...

I kinda see a little bit of Lighty needing to slow himself down too, especially when he is around the rim and struggling to finish...
 
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I love Turner's development and what he brings to the games. The way he and Lighty - and Butler at times - attack the basket puts so much pressure on a defense. If we could get some consistency from the outside, this would be a very, very difficult team to defend, and it has been when shots are falling.
 
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Men's Basketball: Evan Turner Featured in Illinois Program Courtesy: OhioStateBuckeyes.com
Release: 01/22/2008
The Sky Belongs to the Stars
Freshman [URL="https://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=87813&SPID=10421&DB_OEM_ID=17300&ATCLID=1293033"][URL="https://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=87813&SPID=10421&DB_OEM_ID=17300&ATCLID=1293033"][URL="https://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=87813&SPID=10421&DB_OEM_ID=17300&ATCLID=1293033"]Evan Turner[/URL][/URL][/URL] becomes regular contributor in first season as a Buckeye
By Rick Balazs, Ohio State Athletics Communications
Growing up, [URL="https://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=87813&SPID=10421&DB_OEM_ID=17300&ATCLID=1293033"]Evan Turner[/URL] admired Grant Hill for his all-around play. Thanks to his ability to pass, rebound and score, a triple-double was often in reach for the former Duke star.
This season, Turner, a freshman, has provided the Buckeyes with similar multifaceted play, showing the ability to knock down the open jumper and break defenders down off the dribble. His versatility has helped him become a key contributor in coach [URL="https://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=87813&SPID=10421&DB_OEM_ID=17300&ATCLID=1057541"]Thad Matta[/URL]?s regular rotation, as he has averaged seven points and three rebounds a game in 16 games, including nine starts.
It should not come as much of a surprise Turner has enjoyed a successful freshman season. Growing up in Chicago, Turner always faced stiff competition on the basketball court. The Chicagoland area has produced many stars over the years, including Isaiah Thomas, who graduated from Turner?s alma mater, St. Joseph?s in Westminster, a suburb west of the city.
Turner thought that playing against kids often better or older than he was helped him become a better player.
?I was fortunate to play in Chicago because there is so much competition,? he said. ?I think it prepared me well. If you can play in Chicago, you can play anywhere. I would go to the park and play, and there were always kids there who were better than me. That forced me to work on my game even more.?
He also benefited from growing up in a basketball family that introduced him to the game at a young age.

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I think Evan has produced a spark ever since he got here. Maybe the production wasn't there but he gave the team something right away, a quality that was missing. And with his play he has has started to improve others play.
 
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Evan has started to play with a ton of confidence and seems to be trying to step up as a leader even tho he is a frosh...

He is shooting the ball from the outside then I thought he would, but is not limited to just shooting the ball but is taking the ball to the rack...

We have said before that Evan just needs to just control himself when he is playing fast, and he is doing that very well in the last couple games...He just needs to continue to improve and not become complacent in any way...

The best part about Evan is he doesn't want to do it alone and he makes comments about other guys in terms of knowing that they will get the job done when called upon, or he will have confidence in them getting the job done...
 
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"A shout out to Jon Diebler. He came in and got our defense going, got a couple of key stops and brought in energy and so did the crowd. We fed off both of them," Turner said.

This quote about the guy he's competing with for playing time says the world about Turner. Evan sounds like a very unselfish guy and a great teammate.
 
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