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all jeremy evans can do is dunk?

His dunks are awesome! *over beasley* heheh and he had a couple nice blocks. You can tell Love owned him in strength but dang did Evans hustle or what?
 
Not a bad skill to have. He's so skinny when he turns sideways he can squeeze between other players and avoid fouling them. As well as jump over most anybody...
 
No I still think Evans is good... there are a lot of problems with the team but Evans really isn't one of them.
 
He was the only player with a positive on the +/- against the T-wolves with a +10. 14 points in 17 minutes ain't bad for a 2nd round rookie. I know Jeremy from way back as I covered him in college for Scout.com's WKU site. He has a nice jumpshot but a slow windup. He never was allowed by the coaches here at WKU to shoot outside because then nobody would be inside to rebound as we didn't have any other inside players. The Houston Rocket's Courtney Lee was on the team and he was the shooter, Jeremy was the put back man and rebounder. Even after Lee left for the NBA other shooters stepped up and the coaches still woudn't let Evans shoot outside. When he did he usually hit. While outside shooting wasn't his forte here at WKU he does have a nice touch and with development could become a outstanding outside shooter later in his career. The coaches here never made any effort for Evans to be a scorer even though he scored over 25 ppg in HS. WKU was a guard offense and most times Evans wouldn't even touch the ball on offense.

The story on how WKU was able to sign him was that he had a very bad ankle sprang his senior year in HS and didn't go to very many camps because of it and the ones he went to he was hobbled and he just got overlooked by the big boys. Another school was after him, I think it was Baylor, but they didn't have room. One of the coaches was friend with a WKU assistant and called him up and WKU moved in and got him.

When Evans visted WKU he was playing pickup with the guys. The story goes that after the game Courtny Lee ran to the coaches office and told him "we've got to get this guy".

A little story. I'm disabled and use a chair to get around. When I was going to the arena to check out a pickup game a group of players were walking across the parking lot to the gym. I was getting my wheelchair out of the car, a talk skinny guy ran across the parking lot up to my car and asked me " Do you need any help sir?". I told him no I had to do it myself cause it has to fit just so getting out of the car. He flashed a big smile and said "ok, I just wanted to make sure". That was my first meeting with Jeremy Evans.
 
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