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

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MaxBuck;1931594; said:
Man, what will happen if he gets a red light citation
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Saw Coach Sullinger out today. He motioned another driver to go ahead and turn into a parking space even though he had the right of way -- very polite driver.

As long as Jared takes after his dad, he'll be fine in the traffic ticket department. :tongue2:
 
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Unfinished business for Jared Sullinger
June, 9, 2011

The two missed free throws stick with Jared Sullinger.

In a two-point loss to Kentucky in this past season's Sweet 16, the Ohio State freshman finished with 21 points and 16 rebounds and made all but two of his nine free throws. But those two misses came on separate trips to the line in the second half of a tight game in Newark -- a game eventually won by UK on a Brandon Knight jumper with nine seconds remaining.

Two days later, the Wildcats beat North Carolina and moved on to the Final Four in Houston. All Sullinger and the Buckeyes could do was watch.

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Sullinger was a beast against UK, but the Buckeyes weren't able to pull off the win.

"My coach [Thad Matta] always said I should have made those and I know I should have gone 9-for-9. If that happens, we tie Kentucky instead of Kentucky winning by two," said Sullinger by phone from Columbus. "It bothers me. That team was something special, not just on but off the court. It ended so shortly. It was tough to see [seniors] David Lighty, who played for a national championship, never win one, or Jon Diebler, who had a hard time starting out as a freshman elevating to what he did, and even Dallas [Lauderdale] accepting his role ... and it just ends like that."

The star freshman who made the big shot, Knight, declared for the NBA draft. The star freshman who came up short, Sullinger, did not. He chose to stay in his native Columbus instead of almost certainly being selected in the top five of the draft.

His only regret? Those two missed free throws. As for the pros, Sullinger swears he never gave declaring a second thought.

He's not wired that way. Never has been. May not be for quite some time.

"Jared has a mother, a father and two older brothers -- all college graduates -- and no one is looking at him as a meal ticket," said Jared's father, Satch Sullinger, who just concluded a 32-year career as a high school coach, including the last 10 at Northland High in Columbus.

"Jared enjoys college. I told him you have a lifetime to be an adult and go to the next level. You're not going to have the teammates you have now that bleed scarlet and gray. You'll have guys whose contracts are coming up and need this and that. They'll have attitude. Are you ready for that?"

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http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...d/6644700/unfinished-business-jared-sullinger

Top 10 frontcourts for 2011-12
By John Gasaway
Basketball Prospectus

2) Ohio State
For the purposes of these rankings, I'm defining the Ohio State frontcourt as Jared Sullinger, period. To be sure, Thad Matta has a 6-foot-10 McDonald's All-American joining the roster this fall (hard to believe, I know), and I'm sure Amir Williams will be a fine player. But I'm already on the record as believing that Sullinger is poised to do some very special things as a sophomore. Simply put, I'm not sure we've seen a player this good not enter the draft in recent years. The closest examples would be Blake Griffin and DeJuan Blair as freshmen, and of the three, Sullinger arguably has the best numbers as a first-year performer. To repeat what I said about Sullinger a few weeks ago: "For a freshman to log this many minutes, stay out of foul trouble, make 70 percent of his free throws, take care of the ball and dominate the boards at both ends of the floor is very rare." Assuming that Sullinger's teammates can keep opposing defenses honest, I'm really looking forward to seeing just how much damage the big guy can do as a sophomore.
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http://insider.espn.go.com/ncb/insider/news/story?id=6639518
 
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After discussing it with Matta, Jared Sullinger turned down a chance to play with USA Basketball this summer. But he'll still get out of town to play a couple of times.

Matta said Sullinger will be a player counselor at LeBron James' Nike skills camp in Akron in July and also is likely to attend Amare Stoudamire's Nike camp for college and high school big men in Chicago later this month.

"I don?t ever want to take away from what a guy wants to do personally," Matta said of the USA Basketball opportunity, "but I think in Jared?s case, he knows the importance of who he is and what he means to this basketball team. I think he also knows the things he needs to work on in the off-season.

"The other thing you have to guard against with Jared is Jared loves to play, and Jared can overplay at times. I think we can help monitor that a little bit more."

I told Matta I thought he was going to say "loves to eat" instead of "loves to play."

"Yes, he does," he said, laughing. "We?re working on that, too."

Matta said Sullinger's workouts have changed since last off-season and that when he was tested at the end of spring workouts, his body fat measured 13.1 percent.

"His body's really shaping up and looking good," Matta said.
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http://blog.dispatch.com/hoopsscoops/2011/06/highlights_from_mattapaulus_1.shtml
 
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Quote from ESPN article:

Look out, world. Jared Sullinger just keeps getting better. In an April interview with the New York Times, Satch Sullinger, Jared's father, cited his son's desire to expand his game and adopt more of a true power forward role as a collegian as one of the reasons Sullinger turned down a likely top-five spot in the 2011 draft. This process is already underway. On Saturday, Sullinger caught the ball in unusual spots -- he was often 10 or 15 feet away from the rim, as opposed to the low block spot he dominated in 2010-11 -- and, rather than back his defender down for an easy interior bucket, pivoted away from pressure, squared up and knocked down silky face-up jumpers from the wing.

At one point, Sullinger even drained a 3-pointer, and it came with the sort of panache (and mechanical solidity) that exceeded some of the better point guards in the gym. Sully could continue to dominate the college game as a low-post force, but he seems determined to move away from the hoop and become what he'll have to be at the next level: a power forward. So far, so good. (And, if you have to guard him, so, so scary.)


http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebask...32452/letters-from-camp-emptying-the-notebook
 
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Ohio State star Jared Sullinger is trimmer and slimmer at LeBron James camp
Published: Thursday, July 07, 2011
By Elton Alexander, The Plain Dealer

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Joshua Gunter, The Plain Dealer
Ohio State's Jared Sullinger, shown last March, appears to have dropped a lot of weight, but he says it's only about 10 to 15 pounds.

AKRON ? Ohio State's Jared Sullinger just did not look like himself during the second day of the LeBron James Skills Academy for high school and college players at James A. Rhodes Arena. And without his pair of glowing orange gym shoes, Sullinger was hard to distinguish from the rest of the players at the camp.

He has a waist now, and appears to have lost so much weight one has to wonder if the loss of his formally wide axis on the block will now make him a less lethal post player. The Buckeyes sophomore was listed at 6-10, 281 pounds, but he looked possibly 30 pounds lighter than that, and moved like it, too.

Yet Sullinger said the moves were real, but the weight loss was only a mirage.

"I weigh 275," he said. "I've lost 10 to 15 pounds since the end of the season. I want to get down to 255-260 and stay there."

Which means he has a way to go, "seven more weeks," to get there.

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http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2011/07/sullinger_is_trimmer_and_slimm.html

Sullinger has no regrets about returning to OSU
Published: Wednesday, July 06, 2011
By BOB FINNAN
[email protected]

AKRON - Jared Sullinger didn't want to listen to all the noise.

The Ohio State University sophomore-to-be didn't want to pay attention to what the experts had to say.

He wanted to focus in on what his gut was telling him, and that was to pull out of the 2011 NBA draft and return to the Buckeyes.

Sullinger, 19, had some unfinished business at Ohio State, which finished 32-2 during his freshman year in 2010-11.

"I wanted to be a kid," he said on Wednesday at the LeBron James Skills Academy at the University of Akron. "I wanted to play basketball. Obviously, there is an NBA lockout. But that had no influence on my decision.

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http://morningjournal.com/articles/2011/07/06/sports/doc4e14f14b865a5686861327.txt
 
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Sullinger weighs in on OSU basketball
By Ben Axelrod
[email protected]
Published: Friday, July 8, 2011

As the only college All-American on the roster, in addition to living a mere two hours away, Ohio State freshman forward Jared Sullinger attracted a larger crowd than most when players met with the media during this past week's LeBron James Skills Academy in Akron, Ohio.

"How much do you weigh?" one of the gathered reporters asked the Buckeye big man.

Sullinger scanned a nearby official camp roster as a smile came to his face.

"According to this, I'm 280," he said with a laugh.

The humor of Sullinger's answer was obvious. Anyone who'd watched him play in Akron over the past couple of days saw that he's slimmed down significantly from the 285 pounds he played at during the 2010-11 season.

Sullinger said he's lost between 10-15 pounds since the season ended and that his weight now fluctuates between 272 and 272 pounds. He attributed his recent weight loss to his offseason workout routine that includes a heavy boxing regimen.

"A minute jabs, a minute hooks, a minute body blows," Sullinger said, explaining his routine in the ring.

Despite his noticeable weight loss, Sullinger still has some work to do, as he stated a desire to drop even more weight and drop to between 255 and 260 pounds by the time the 2011-12 season starts. The sophomore-to-be said that a slimmer Sullinger does not necessarily mean a less-powerful Sullinger.

"My butt's not going nowhere," he said. "That's where most of my power is."

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http://www.thelantern.com/sports/sullinger-weighs-in-on-osu-basketball-1.2521469
 
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Jared's 'more colorful' diet

I was at the Schottenstein Center recently to interview Jared Sullinger for a story. It was the first I had seen him since April, when he promised to be under 270 pounds when this season began.

When he walked in the door, the first words out of my mouth were, "You're skinny." He is shaped like a "V" from armpits to waist.

I asked him how much he weighs.

"Two-seventy," he said.

I asked him how he did it.

"I cut my diet down. A lot of the 'goods' and not so much of the 'bads.'"

What are the 'goods?'

"More greens. I have a more colorful plate now."

What did he give up?

"A lot. Fast food. Just eating a lot. I'm eating smaller portions."

He's not sure how much more weight he wants to drop.

"We'll see what works," he said, "and fly from there."

When summer conditioning ended yesterday, he weighed 269.

One addendum to the story:

Last week, Sullinger's father, Satch, showed me "before" and "after" photos of Jared sent to his phone from Dave Richardson, the program's strength and conditioning coordinator.

The "before" photo showed Jared when he reported in June 2010 for his first summer of conditioning. His measurables: 292 pounds and 23 percent body fat.

His measurables last week: 272 pounds and 14 percent body fat.
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http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/blogs/hoops-and-scoops/2011/08/sullinger-weighs-in.html
 
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