He's back!!! Jack Taylor scores 71 in opener

[Tugg Speedman]

Jack Taylor scores 71 in opener

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/9983856/jack-taylor-scores-71-points-grinnell-opener

GRINNELL, Iowa -- Jack Taylor is back at it for Grinnell College.

Taylor scored 71 points Friday night in Grinnell's 144-99 season-opening victory over Finlandia.

The 5-foot-10 guard from Black River Falls, Wis., became an instant celebrity last Nov. 20 when he scored 138 points in the Division III's school's 179-104 victory over Faith Baptist Bible College.

On Friday night in front of a crowd of 347 fans, Taylor was 23 of 52 from the field, made 11 of 29 3-points attempts and 14 of 21 free throws.

[Skitch]

How many players on our team could score 71 if they shot the ball 52 times?  I'm willing to guess most of them.  Maybe not Derrick.

[Tugg Speedman]

How many players on our team could score 71 if they shot the ball 52 times?  I'm willing to guess most of them.  Maybe not Derrick.

After the tOSU game the answer is none right now.

[ChicosBailBonds]

He scored 109 today

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Does he play point guard?

[MerrittsMustache]

The only thing impressive about Jack Taylor is the sheer volume of shots he gets off.

[WellsstreetWanderer]

Must suck to be his teammate. What do you do but rebound and chuck it back to him ?.

[StillAWarrior]

Must suck to be his teammate. What do you do but rebound and chuck it back to him ?.

Apparently, not much.

[brandx]

What a mockery of basketball. Taylor went for an 11 minute stretch never even crossing half court. If a teammates gets an offensive board under the basket - his job is not to lay it back in, but to find Taylor.

They schedule small Christian schools for non-conference games that may only have a couple hundred students. their entire plan is to press the entire game (13 players averaging double-figure minutes). If a team gets the ball across mid-court, they give them the layup. One opponent player in one of taylor's 100 point games shot 25-27 from the field. But they get a guaranteed payout. Kinda like scheduling Grambling 

The coach writes basketball books and this is how he gets pub for them.

[MarsupialMadness]

Ya I don't like the sound of this.

[brandx]

Ya I don't like the sound of this.

I don't mind it one way or the other - but people shouldn't look at it like real basketball. It's not even remotely close to Loyola Marymount under Westhead when they averaged 122 points a game

[GGGG]

Grinnell is in the same conference as a number of Wisconsin schools.  (Carroll, Beloit, Lawrence, Ripon, St. Norbert)  Midwest Conference.  Despite all the pub for this coach's "system," they haven't won a conference title for over a decade.  (His system was less fast paced back then.)  And they have never come close to competing for a D3 national championship.

[StillAWarrior]

Grinnell is in the same conference as a number of Wisconsin schools.  (Carroll, Beloit, Lawrence, Ripon, St. Norbert)  Midwest Conference.  Despite all the pub for this coach's "system," they haven't won a conference title for over a decade.  (His system was less fast paced back then.)  And they have never come close to competing for a D3 national championship.

While Grinnell always plays fast, the extraordinary numbers (like Taylor's last week) have been against extremely low level teams from tiny schools -- a couple of notches below the D3.  Grinnell schedules them, pays them a pittance (apparently $1,400 for a recent one) and then plays a crazy version of "basketball" that results in Taylor averaging 90+ over a couple of games.

[GGGG]

Yeah, I see their first game was against Finlandia...an independent D3 school from upper Michigan.  And Crossroads College, which belongs to the Association of Christian College Athletics.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Yeah, I see their first game was against Finlandia...an independent D3 school from upper Michigan.  And Crossroads College, which belongs to the Association of Christian College Athletics.

I thought it was an exhibition game against a team from Finland sponsored by a vodka maker?