Whiteside dominating

[herd1990]

23 points 16 boards. 2 1/2 minutes to go. He may prove to be a good find for the heat.

 

[Jeremybozz]

The announcers said he changed the game as soon as he came off the bench. Career high 23 and career high 16 rebounds. Just dominating.

 

[HerdFan73]

Just imagine if he'd spent 2-3 more years in college instead of the D league and Serbia or wherever the hell else he played. Glad to see him doing well now though.

 

[TwolfHerdfan]

Does he even acknowledge attending Marshall? Just curious.

 

[Trebel06]

I haven't heard much of Whiteside as far as interviews go but in the link below he mentions Marshall and seems to have fond memories (at the 5:33 mark)



Whiteside

 

[Trebel06]

Also here is the link to tonight's highlights for anyone who wants to watch.


Highlights

 

[herdalicious]

Originally posted by HerdFan73:
Just imagine if he'd spent 2-3 more years in college instead of the D league and Serbia or wherever the hell else he played. Glad to see him doing well now though.

The NBA D-League has better players in it than C-USA, plus you get paid for it. He'd stopped going to school anyway and would never have suited up ever again anyway. Kid was not college material, and when you consider the track record of the coach that brought him in, chicanery may have been involved.

 

[HerdFan73]

Originally posted by herdalicious:

Originally posted by HerdFan73:
Just imagine if he'd spent 2-3 more years in college instead of the D league and Serbia or wherever the hell else he played. Glad to see him doing well now though.

The NBA D-League has better players in it than C-USA, plus you get paid for it. He'd stopped going to school anyway and would never have suited up ever again anyway. Kid was not college material, and when you consider the track record of the coach that brought him in, chicanery may have been involved.

Speaking of that prior coach, Whiteside had TWO triple doubles against UCF that season. It was in Jones' best interest to convince Whiteside that going to the NBA was in his best interest.

 

[oldeherd]

Can we really say that a year or two under what turned out to be a train wreck under Herrion would have done Whiteside any more good than the path he took?

 

[Herdon2]

He probably could have been a top 10 pick had he stayed for 1 more year at Marshall.

 

[bigoherd2]

Bull crap. He left and improved his game playing against professionals. Do you really believe he would have grown his game playing against backup centers at Marshall. Professionally, he could work on his game all day, every day (and not have to attend classes which wasn't going to happen anyway). I wouldn't say this about any other Marshall player (football or basketball) except Moss, but he did the right thing by jumping to the pros when he did.

 

[herdalicious]

Originally posted by HerdFan73

Speaking of that prior coach, Whiteside had TWO triple doubles against UCF that season. It was in Jones' best interest to convince Whiteside that going to the NBA was in his best interest.

DJ is a cheating weasel, and apparently not a very good basketball coach (see: the current state of UCF basketball), but you might be stretching things a little bit there. Whiteside had made the decision to go pro before the start of the spring semester - by most accounts, he had stopped going to class early in the semester.

If there was any role that one played in the other's departure, already knowing Whiteside was inevitably gone at the end of the year certainly didn't do anything to encourage DJ to stick around another year himself.

Both leaving were foregone conclusions to the season before tip of the first game, though, really.