Congrats to LAZAR

[mugrad99]

http://www.sportingnews.com/college-basketball/article/2010-03-08/sporting-news-college-basketball-all-american-team

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Wow, are five teams really necessary?

[MikeyT42]

Wow,

1st team is all guards, and Trevon and Trevon Hughes is not one of the top 25 players in the country.

Congrats sporting news, you've lost all credibility.

[MU B2002]

18/25 are guards.

[MarquetteDano]

18/25 are guards.

Could DeCourcey be saying it's a guard's game?   Naaaaaaah.   

[dsfire]

Some of those classifications are dubious, though.  Evan Turner is a guard?

[bma725]

Some of those classifications are dubious, though.  Evan Turner is a guard?

At least this year he is.  Prior to that probably not, and he probably won't be at the next level.

[dsfire]

Maybe I just haven't watched enough OSU this year (in retrospect, not sure I've watched any of their games).  Just seems hard to classify the top rebounder on the team who rarely shoots from 3 as a guard.

[bma725]

Maybe I just haven't watched enough OSU this year (in retrospect, not sure I've watched any of their games). Just seems hard to classify the top rebounder on the team who rarely shoots from 3 as a guard.

He plays point guard, runs the offense and leads the team in assists by a rather large margin. 

[dsfire]

He plays point guard, runs the offense and leads the team in assists by a rather large margin. 

Would you consider Terrence Williams as playing point guard last year?

[21Jumpstreet]

Wow, are five teams really necessary?

If an MU guy is on it!  Pretty nice props for Lazar.

[bma725]

Would you consider Terrence Williams as playing point guard last year?

He was more of a point forward, like old school Paul Pressey.  They had an actual point guard on the floor at the same time as Williams so he only ran the point in certain situations or on certain plays.  Ohio State is different.  They play Turner, three wings and a center.

Mostly what it comes from is that Matta didn't feel comfortable with the PGs he had on the roster so he had Turner spend the summer working on being a PG again(he played the position in HS) and plays him there now.  Turner plays the game now as a PG, has the ball as much as a PG, distributes like a PG....the only differences are that he looks to shoot more, and Matta has changed their game planning so that traditional PG roles like getting back on defense instead of crashing the offensive boards go to someone else.

[dsfire]

Fair enough.  I guess I considered him as still being a small forward, but situated in a different offense.  Then again, I didn't realize OSU doesn't have a real point guard.  I had considered Turner and TWill (and to some degree, Greg Monroe) as similar in having the offense run through them, though maybe Devin Ebanks is a better comparison with given how much he's had to cover when Bryant and Mazzulla aren't/weren't in.

Guess it really comes down to what you use to define the positions.