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PF Jared Sullinger (2x 1st Team ALL B1G & All American, Anyang KGC, S.Korea)

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Boys basketball: Northland makes early statement

Saturday, December 8, 2007 3:15 AM
By Mark Znidar


The Columbus Dispatch
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Jared Sullinger, a 6-foot-9 center, played tall with 24 points, 12 rebounds and two blocked shots. He scored 11 of his team's final 13 points.
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"It was crazy," said Sullinger, who has committed to Ohio State. "They gave us their best shot. But their legs were pretty much gone in the fourth quarter. I wanted to put the team on my shoulders. I thought it was my quarter."
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December 8, 2007

Watch Jared Sullinger grow

It was 30 years ago almost to the day, but I have never forgotten the first time I saw Clark Kellogg play basketball. I staffed a Cleveland St. Joseph game against a team that might as well have been the Washington Nationals. A cousin, who was a St. Joseph student, told me about Kellogg's great feats, how some day he would be able to say he was classmates with a living, breathing NBA player. Well, yeah, sure, kid, I said. Kellogg, you see, was all of 16 years old.
Two hours later, I was practically out of breath telephoning a friend about Kellogg. I was gushing. This kid, I said, is 6 feet 8, 220-some pounds and handles the ball like a guard, wants and usually gets every meaningful rebound, swats tons of shots and dunks as if he wants to tear down the basket. "Sure, sure,'' said the friend. "I'll see for myself.'' A week later, Kellogg was even better. My friend should have bought a season ticket to St. Joseph games. He made almost all of them, and continued to follow him at Ohio State and the Indiana Pacers.
I bring up Kellogg because there's nothing quite like witnessing a high school phenom for the first time. It's basketball's version of, say, seeing the Monet exhibit at the Columbus Art Museum. You study Impressionism in high school and see the works in a textbook, but it's quite different in person. I felt the same way seeing LeBron James of Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary, Reggie Williams of Baltimore Dunbar, Troy Taylor, Ron Stokes and Nick Weatherspoon of Canton McKinley, Ed Ratleff of East and O.J. Mayo of Cincinnati College Hill. They were great and bound for the pros.
I saw another star in the making the other night, but Jared Sullinger of Northland doesn't leave you breathless or babbling in tongues. He plays like a grand master in chess. Sullinger is nothing like his older brother J.J. When J.J. Sullinger was at Thomas Worthington, he was so brash and flashy as if to be a young Richard Gere in the movies. At 6-6, he had the jets, handle and hops of a much smaller player.
Jared, though, is a building on wheels. He's 6-9 and probably 240 or 250 pounds. He can hoist the three-pointer - he did so in warm-ups - and has this delicate floater in the lane that no one can touch. His putbacks aren't backboard shakers but textbook lay-ups. It's difficult to figure out how good he can become. How will he stand up against players his own size? Forecasting how good a big man will become is no different than what general managers do with NFL quarterbacks and bullpen closers. It's not an art, but a game of chance.

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I didn't quite understand what the writer's point was in this article. Was he trying to compare Jared to one of the former players or was he trying to say that he had a completely different game than anyone he has seen in Ohio at that level.
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In my opinion, I felt he was comparing Sullinger's potential to Clark Kellogg at the HS level.

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Northland 84, East 52
Jared Sullinger scored 19 points and J.D. Weatherspoon 17, and host Northland (5-0, 3-0) coasted to a City North win over East (1-4, 1-2).
East's Jordan Laster scored a game-high 22 points.
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Athletes of the week: Kate McNeilis, Jared Sullinger

Saturday, December 15, 2007 3:04 AM

The two Dispatch athletes of the week, based on performances from Dec. 3-9:

Jared Sullinger

NORTHLAND, BOYS BASKETBALL

Sullinger, a 6-foot-9 sophomore forward, led Northland to three victories. He had 29 points and 13 rebounds in a 72-55 victory over Whetstone. He had 24 points, 12 rebounds and two blocks in a 60-51 victory over Brookhaven. His 23 points and 13 rebounds led the Vikings to a 69-62 overtime victory over Dayton Dunbar.
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