+
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2015
PAGE 7
+
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I just trusted Coach K and everyone on the staff with all my heart. I believed in everything that they told me, I just wanted to help, you know, contribute to such a special group. I wanted to go somewhere where I knew we would win."
Tyus Jones on choosing Duke
ASAPSports.com
FACT OF THE DAY
In the last three NBA Drafts, five Duke players have been selected in the first round. Two of them (Austin Rivers, Jabari Parker) have been selected in the top 10.
basketball-reference.com
TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Before Jones, who was the last Blue Devil to win Most Outstanding Player in the Final Four?
A. Kyle Singler (2010)
ESPN.com
THE MORNING BREW
Tyus Jones should strike while iron is hot
Scott Chasen
@SChasenKU
Following the conclusion of the NCAA Tournament, teams wait to see which, if any, of their players are going to declare for the NBA Draft. Typically, the biggest question surrounding the status of each potential entry is one of the more basic questions:
DAVID J. PHILLIP/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Duke's Tyus Jones cuts down the net after his team's 68-63 victory over Wisconsin in the NCAA tournament championship game Monday, April 6, in Indianapolis.
So what is the question that
"Is the player NBA ready?"
But that is simply the wrong question to ask. "NBA ready" implies there is a certain state a player can get to while in college, which makes him ready to produce at the NBA level right away. However, this ignores that players can keep developing after college.
Take Alex Len of the Phoenix Suns, for example. His per game stats in points, rebounds, assists and blocks have all more than doubled from his first year to his second year in the NBA, and his metric statistics have shown similar results. Len's true shooting percentage is up nearly 10 percent from his rookie year, while his turnover rate has dropped nearly 7 percent. Subsequently, his player efficiency rating has risen by around six points, while his field-goal, three-point and free-throw percentages have all increased.
should be asked? How about this as an alternative:
rias the player's stock peaked?"
Let's not kid ourselves. The goal of most top college prospects is to make it to the NBA. And considering that at just about any time a potential NBA draft pick can go back to college to get his degree, it would seem a mistake for him not to maximize his potential earnings, while getting a jump start on a career that becomes increasingly more difficult with age.
After all, a person at 40 can go back and get a college degree. However, that same 40-year-old likely wouldn't be able to make it in the NBA. Michael Jordan is the only player to have ever scored more than 27 points in a game at 40 years old. And, only four players, Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Robert Parish and John Stockton, have recorded more than 20 points in a game at that age, according to basketball-reference.com.
The clock is ticking, so when the opportunity presents itself, a player would be foolish to pass up the chance to play at the next level.
So how does this all relate to Tyus Jones?
may still be viewed as a late first round prospect by places such as DraftExpress and NBADraft.net, but, as one NBA scout told ESPN's Jeff Goodman in a recent article, "he'll never be hotter" as a commodity than he is right now.
could do to move up even further.
Should Jones return, he
Simply put, for players like Jones, declaring for the draft is all about timing.
runs the risk of injury and decreased numbers due to personnel changes, among other things, all of which could drop his stock severely. However, for the scrawny-looking point guard from Duke who lacks supreme athleticism or defensive ability, there's very little he
Well, the time for Jones has come.
Edited by Vicky Diaz Camacho
Hinton receives Big 12 Player of the Week co-honors
Hinton
1st day of deliberations end in Boston bombing case
Kansas freshman Smith Hinton was named Co-Big 12 Women's Tennis Player of the Week Tuesday, league officials announced. Hinton became the second Jayhawk to receive the award in three weeks after senior Maria Belen Luduera received the award March 24.
ELISE AMENDOLA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hinton won both her doubles and singles matches in Kansas' lone competition against Kansas State this week, a 4-0 sweep, pairing with fellow freshman Summer Collins for a 6-3 doubles win and dominating her singles match 6-1, 6-2.
Hinton will be back in action tomorrow as Kansas takes on Tulsa in Lawrence at 2 p.m.
Hinton shares the award with fellow freshman Sarah Dvorak of the Texas Tech Lady Raiders.
IDENISE LAVOIE
Associated Press
— Jacob Clemen
Investigators examine the scene of the second bombing outside the Forum Restaurant on Boylston Street on April 16, 2013, near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, a day after two blasts killed three and injured more than 260 people. During testimony on March 11 in the federal death penalty trial of Dzhokha. Tsarnaev in Boston, an FBI agent held up pieces of the black and white backpack he said were found near the Forum restaurant, where Tsarnaev admitted to detonating one of the bombs.
BOSTON — Jurors in the trial of admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev deliberated for a little more than seven hours Tuesday before ending their first day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.
Judge George O'Toole Jr. dismissed the jury at about 4:40 p.m. after telling the panel of seven women and five men, "It's time to call it a day."
During both opening statements and closing arguments, Tsarnaev's lawyers admitted he participated in the bombings but said his nowdead older brother, Tamerlan, was the driving force behind the attack.
The judge said jurors sent him two notes containing questions shortly before the day's end. He did not publicly share the contents of the notes but told the jurors he would answer their questions Wednesday morning. Prosecutors and Tsarnaev's lawyers declined to reveal the contents of the notes.
"This was a cold, calculated terrorist act. This was intentional. It was bloodthirsty. It was to make a point"
Jurors are considering 30 charges against Tsarnaev stemming from the 2013 attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260. If they convict him, they will then decide during a second phase of the trial whether he should be sentenced to death or receive life in prison. Seventeen of the charges carry the possibility of the death penalty.
ALOKE CHAKRAVARTY
Assistant U.S. attorney
During closings Monday, Tsarnaev lawyers agreed with prosecutors that Tsarnaev conspired with his brother to bomb the marathon and planted one of two pressurecooker bombs that exploded near the finish line on April 15, 2013.
But the defense said it was Tamerlan Tsarnaev who was the mastermind of the attack. It was Tamerlan bought the bomb parts, built the bombs and planned the attack, defense attorney Judy Clarke said.
"If not for Tamerlan, it would
not have happened," Clarke said.
A prosecutor told the jury that Tsarnaev made a cold-blooded decision aimed at punishing America for its wars
in Muslim countries.
"This was a cold, calculated terrorist act. This was intentional. It was bloodthirsty. It was to make a point," Assistant U.S. Attorney Aloke
Chakravarty said. "It was to tell America that: We will not be terrorized by you anymore. We will terrorize you."
Deliberations were scheduled to resume Wednesday.
1