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Jensen was good enough to get drafted. . .
in the 7th round by a Japanese basketball team, or something equivalent, so I think you overate him a bit. Don't get me wrong, he was an excellent basketball player but he was more a product of Majerus's system than anything else.
Utah played great defense because Majerus was a fantastic teacher of defense, and a master strategist. Majerus could gameplan to make teams do what the were bad at. This made the sum greater than the parts and made average players look better than they really were (see Jensen). All Majerus's teams played great defense, before and after Jensen. Jensen was a very good on the ball defender, and he was a tirelss worker off the ball denying the opposing teams star from every getting the ball. He was great at using his body to minimize his athletic deficiencies. I give him all the credit for this. The problem is, Cummard is a great defender too, though you don't seem willing to recognize that, and it makes me wonder if you've even watched a BYU game. You also seem to be stuck on comparing Jensen's junior and senior achievements to Cummard's sophomore season, which really makes no sense at all to a sane person. Take Andre Miller or Michael Doleac off that team and nobody would have ever heard of Alex Jensen. Role players are only as good as the stars they support, and that's all Jensen was. Quote:
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02-20-2007, 08:40 PM | #33 | |
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You are making the point
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Also as a freshman and sophomore Jensen was just a role player, as a junior he was the second best player on the Utes. As a senior he was the best player on the Utes, and the best player in the MWC.
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02-20-2007, 08:54 PM | #36 |
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I don't deny he was a great player
I just think a lot of the credit goes to Majerus. He put great teams on the floor and the best players on good teams tend to get the credit. I have a hard time believing Jensen would be player of the year if he was playing for Giacoletti.
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Majerus clearly played favorites with his players. His favorite guys were guys who didn't have great talent, but got the most out that talent. Jensen got more out of his talent than any player at Utah not named Andre Miller. I just wish Majerus could have somehow given Jensen's work ethic to Britton Johnsen. |
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Actually, no, I'm not. Because of my ignorance of Cummard, I really can't see him getting off the bench of that Utah team. If you don't want to believe I can make both comments, that is your problem.
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I felt that we were treated more like a three bit whore. And a note of thanks would have been nice.
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