Kevin Durant wins Adolph F. Rupp award..first freshman ever to win

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Texas freshman Kevin Durant has been named the winner of the 2007 Adolph F. Rupp Trophy. Durant is the first freshman to boast the Rupp Trophy in the award's 35-year history."It wasn't even close this year," said Commonwealth Athletic Club of Kentucky spokesman Gerry Calvert. "Durant won it going away. Considering the list of former winners, it's remarkable that he won it as a freshman."Durant, averaging 25.8 points and 11.1 rebounds, led the Longhorns to a 25-10 record and the second round of the NCAA Tournament.Former winners of the prestigious Rupp Award, named after the legendary Kentucky coach, include: Bill Walton, Larry Bird, Ralph Sampson, Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, David Robinson, Shaquille O'Neal, Tim Duncan, and most recently, J.J. Redick.http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2815208Rumble young man, rumbleGet yours kid..congratulations

 

He deserved it. Kid was ballin this year, unbelievable player.

 

Been a scoring machine leading texas to the 4 seed. Deserves it very much.

 

He's a great player, but him being the first freshman to win this award really has in large part to do with the college game being so depleted of top talent.

 

Damn right. I knew he was going to win it, he just has a phenomenal year. Can you guys imagine what his career at Texas would look like if he decided to stay there for 4 years? Wow....I could see him averaging 30+ and 12 in his senior year.

 

I wonder what hell be like in the NBA, against Kobe and TMac and stuff, itll be interesting.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CB4AllStar @ Mar 28 2007, 03:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Damn right. I knew he was going to win it, he just has a phenomenal year. Can you guys imagine what his career at Texas would look like if he decided to stay there for 4 years? Wow....I could see him averaging 30+ and 12 in his senior year.</div>He was pretty muchy averaging 30 and 12 THIS yearI'd say 40 and 15. If Pistol Pete could do it Durant could

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pacers fan forever @ Mar 28 2007, 07:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>He was pretty muchy averaging 30 and 12 THIS yearI'd say 40 and 15. If Pistol Pete could do it Durant could</div>Well, he averaged 26 ppg this year, on alot of touches already. Anything over 35 is exagerating. That just couldn't happen in today's NCAA basketball. Pistol Pete did this a LONG while ago when no one was used to his dazzling ball handling skills at the time....his moves weren't heard of before...Bob Cousy brought a little flare, but nothing like Pistol Pete's.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CB4AllStar @ Mar 28 2007, 02:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Damn right. I knew he was going to win it, he just has a phenomenal year. Can you guys imagine what his career at Texas would look like if he decided to stay there for 4 years? Wow....I could see him averaging 32 and 12 in his senior year.</div> There's no way Kevin Durant would be putting up 30/12 in his senior year with the other talent Texas has. DJ Augustin, AJ Abrams and Damion James would be taking on bigger roles and Durant wouldn't need to be scoring 26ppg+ like he did this season. And Pete Maravich was the biggest ballhog in the history of basketball. Kevin Durant isn't half as selfish he was. If Durant stayed at Texas I think his scoring average wouild stay around 25/10.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Mar 29 2007, 12:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>And Pete Maravich was the biggest ballhog in the history of basketball. Kevin Durant isn't half as selfish he was. If Durant stayed at Texas I think his scoring average wouild stay around 25/10.</div>How do you know Pete was a ballhog? From what I've seen he was a great passer just an even better scorer. Neither of us were alive then so it's kind of pointless to be declaring him a ballhog. And unfair.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pacers fan forever @ Mar 29 2007, 12:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>How do you know Pete was a ballhog? From what I've seen he was a great passer just an even better scorer. Neither of us were alive then so it's kind of pointless to be declaring him a ballhog. And unfair.</div> Who cares if none of us were alive then? Why is it unfair? How do I know Pete was a ballhog? Because I've read about it, lots of people that were around the game back then knew he was a ballhog.

 

Durant had single handedly led Texas to 4th seed this year. Very impressive job by a Freshman and he deserved the award. If he stays all 4 years which it seems as though he is considering he could have one of the greatest college careers of all time.


On a side note, BCB, where did you read this I don't really know much about pistol pete. Was it online?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GArenas @ Mar 29 2007, 02:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Durant had single handedly led Texas to 4th seed this year. Very impressive job by a Freshman and he deserved the award. If he stays all 4 years which it seems as though he is considering he could have one of the greatest college careers of all time. On a side note, BCB, where did you read this I don't really know much about pistol pete. Was it online?</div> Kevin Durant didn't do it by himself, although he was obviously the huge reason...DJ Augustin and Abrams played great down the stretch. Some people think Maravich was a ballhog, some people think it's a false charge...I tend to side with the people that think he was.<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Playing most of his career for the perennially hapless Atlanta Hawks, Maravich was derided as a selfish hotshot and hotdog because his teammates found it difficult to handle his fancy-passing, and couldn't score as easily as he could anyhow. It was in the pros that Maravich developed his drinking, and by some accounts, cocaine abuse problems.</div>

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Mar 29 2007, 02:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Who cares if none of us were alive then? Why is it unfair? How do I know Pete was a ballhog? Because I've read about it, lots of people that were around the game back then knew he was a ballhog.</div>Yeah they also called him for traveling on moves they'd never seen before. Point is he was ahead of his era. Nobody understood him so to call him a ballhog is a little unfair. Besides, he was always a 7 assist man.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pacers fan forever @ Mar 29 2007, 02:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yeah they also called him for traveling on moves they'd never seen before. Point is he was ahead of his era. Nobody understood him so to call him a ballhog is a little unfair. Besides, he was always a 7 assist man.</div> Maravich was very much like Iverson in that he could put up 40 points, dominate the ball and still get 7 assists because he had the ball everytime down the court.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pacers fan forever @ Mar 28 2007, 05:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>He was pretty muchy averaging 30 and 12 THIS yearI'd say 40 and 15. If Pistol Pete could do it Durant could</div> Yeah, you do realize Kevin Durant has very good young teammates right? You guys are all acting like Durant will keep scoring more and more while not putting into account guys like Augustin, James and Abrams who all can be very good players....there's no way Durant touches 35ppg with those kind of players all in their JR/SR seasons. Bottom line, Durants teammates are too talented for him to be needed that much on offense, even if he is talented enough to do it.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Mar 29 2007, 03:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Maravich was very much like Iverson in that he could put up 40 points, dominate the ball and still get 7 assists because he had the ball everytime down the court.</div>look - there are only about 5-10 guys who average 7 apg in a season. those guys are considered great passers. I believe that Iverson is a great passer. and I believe maravich was a great passer. put it this way - if you were open maravich would get you the ball. plus maravich was a much better shooter than iverson so I'm not sure that comparrison is that greatl.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pacers fan forever @ Mar 29 2007, 02:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>look - there are only about 5-10 guys who average 7 apg in a season. those guys are considered great passers. I believe that Iverson is a great passer. and I believe maravich was a great passer. put it this way - if you were open maravich would get you the ball. plus maravich was a much better shooter than iverson so I'm not sure that comparrison is that greatl.</div> Maravich was a great passer, I'm not denying that. I posted this above.QUOTE(Pacers fan forever @ Mar 28 2007, 05:08 PM) He was pretty muchy averaging 30 and 12 THIS yearI'd say 40 and 15. If Pistol Pete could do it Durant could<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Mar 29 2007, 02:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yeah, you do realize Kevin Durant has very good young teammates right? You guys are all acting like Durant will keep scoring more and more while not putting into account guys like Augustin, James and Abrams who all can be very good players....there's no way Durant touches 35ppg with those kind of players all in their JR/SR seasons. Bottom line, Durants teammates are too talented for him to be needed that much on offense, even if he is talented enough to do it.</div>

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Mar 29 2007, 03:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yeah, you do realize Kevin Durant has very good young teammates right? You guys are all acting like Durant will keep scoring more and more while not putting into account guys like Augustin, James and Abrams who all can be very good players....there's no way Durant touches 35ppg with those kind of players all in their JR/SR seasons. Bottom line, Durants teammates are too talented for him to be needed that much on offense, even if he is talented enough to do it.</div>I don't see why not. Just because he has talented teamates doesn't mean he can't score. It would only take him about 25 touches to do it if he kept shooting the way he has.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pacers fan forever @ Mar 29 2007, 02:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I don't see why not. Just because he has talented teamates doesn't mean he can't score. It would only take him about 25 touches to do it if he kept shooting the way he has.</div> Kevin Durant is the best player in college basketball, but your really going overboard. There's no way in hell he'd be able to up his points by 15 with that kind of talent around him. There were tons of HOF players that played college ball all 4 years in the 80's-90's and none of them touched 40ppg. Your being ridiculous.