Darius Carter- is a Shocker!

[SumShocker]

KAKE Sports feature on Darius, plus some good weight room footage:

http://www.kake.com/sports/headlines/WSU-Player-to-Watch-Darius-Carter-214235391.html?ref=391

[Aargh]

If Ron "I got this" Baker says Carter is his favorite player of the summer, I'm all in on Carter.

Baker just strikes me as a guy who is a no-nonsense, just get it done guy who doesn't know the meaning of the word "excuse". I think Baker and VanVleet are going to emerge as team leaders before they are seniors.

Marshall says Carter is more D1-ready than any JuCo he's ever had. That's encouraging, but a coach has a bit of an obligation to say things like that. Baker doesn't, so his endorsement says a lot about Carter.

[Dave Stalwart]

Marshall says Carter is more D1-ready than any JuCo he's ever had. That's encouraging, but a coach has a bit of an obligation to say things like that.

Marshall also said Cle was disappointing last summer. The potential best player we've had in decades didn't merit an overblown endorsement from Marshall. I think Marshall is pretty "no-nonsense" too. If Carter is already impressing Coach, I am scared of Carter at this point.

I'm like you. I'm all in on Carter. The guy apparently looked good enough at the Juco level to effectively get a really nice, tough kid who was certainly going to be a good player and who was about to be an upper classmen get squeezed off the roster. I wonder which came first, Jake asking to transfer, or Coach finding Darius Carter.

[ShockerPhi]

Marshall also said Cle was disappointing last summer. The potential best player we've had in decades didn't merit an overblown endorsement from Marshall. I think Marshall is pretty "no-nonsense" too. If Carter is already impressing Coach, I am scared of Carter at this point.

I'm like you. I'm all in on Carter. The guy apparently looked good enough at the Juco level to effectively get a really nice, tough kid who was certainly going to be a good player and who was about to be an upper classmen get squeezed off the roster. I wonder which came first, Jake asking to transfer, or Coach finding Darius Carter.

I thought Marshall said he was the one who improved most over the summer. Or were you referring to just how unprepared he was for the D1 level?

Either way, that just shows that Carter isn't like Cle. He won't have to improve as much to be ready. Obviously more improvement will be great, however :D

[BOBB]

KAKE Sports feature on Darius, plus some good weight room footage:

http://www.kake.com/sports/headlines...1.html?ref=391

Anyone else having issues getting this to play?

[moshock]

Anyone else having issues getting this to play?

I had a little trouble initially but once I refreshed it and cussed at it a few times - it played . This group seems focused - I can't wait to see them on the court

[1972Shocker]

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I have not been able to get it to play.

[bunck]

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Do you guys have your java turned on? I had to watch it using Firefox, which is my only browser that still has java enabled.

[wufan]

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[Rlh04d]

I don't know if this has been brought up on here before, but I was wondering how Darius Carter's season thus far has stacked up to Carl Hall's junior season. The numbers are actually really interesting.

Hall wins pretty much across the board as far as raw stats go:

Player	GP	MIN	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FG%	FT%
Darius Carter	24	18.3	8	4.4	0.3	0.4	0.7	0.5	0.515	0.62
Carl Hall	33	22.3	8.4	5	0.7	0.5	0.8	0.8	0.572	0.646

But that doesn't take into account Hall averaging four more minutes per game. When you factor that in and calculate per-minute stats, Carter is actually out-performing Hall in his junior season in most categories:

Player	GP	MIN	PPM	RPM	APM	SPM	BPM	TPM	FG%	FT%
Darius Carter	24	18.3	0.437158	0.240437	0.016393	0.021858	0.038251	0.027322	0.515	0.62
Carl Hall	33	22.3	0.376682	0.224215	0.03139	0.022422	0.035874	0.035874	0.572	0.646

Hall still has the higher shooting percentages, but Carter is scoring more often, rebounding more, blocking more, and turning it over less.

I'm really surprised to see Carter being more efficient on the boards than Hall was as a junior. That was one category where I assumed Hall's superior physicality would shine through.

[wufan]

Interesting! Carter and Hall do not play a similar style despite playing the same position. Carter is so long and athletic!

[Rlh04d]

Interesting! Carter and Hall do not play a similar style despite playing the same position. Carter is so long and athletic!

Yeah ... Carter's much more about using his length to score than just physicality, the way Hall would.

He still has a long way to go to match Hall's physical strength in the paint, but it seems like he's improving a lot. Having better rebound/block-per-minute numbers than Hall is just impressive considering their different styles. Not sure if Hall playing the 4 with Stutz at the 5 is part of that ... but it seems like Carter gets similar minutes at the 4 with Lufile/Coleby at the 5.

I just remember thinking going into the season that if Carter could play the sixth man anywhere near the way that Hall had in his junior year, we'd be in pretty great shape. And he's done just that.

[tropicalshox]

Saw a lot of good stuff from DC last game. I expect we will see a tremendous season from him next year.

[pogo]

He does get out and go really well.

[Shake-n-Bake]

Like I have reminded many fellow shocker fans, Hall made a significant improvement from his junior year to his senior year. Coach has done an excellent job of developing JC guys in a very short amount of time. Look at the improvement of Joe Ragland from junior to senior year. Heck look at Lufile, last year the guy could hardly get on the floor, now he has turned into a pretty solid big man. I'm hoping/expecting to see a substantial improvement from DC next year. Now that's a scary thought considering our backcourt guys will be 1 more year experienced, and that's not even counting all the newcomers.