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O.J. Mayo has been a celebrity since he starred in Kentucky high school basketball as a precocious seventh-grader. But growing up famous isn't always pretty. Mayo occasionally allowed the pressures of celebrity to push him outside the boundaries of good judgment. His high school dust-ups became national news. When he got benched for a playoff game for missing a class, it made ESPN.
Basketball offers a respite for this 6-5 freshman who runs a team like a point guard and scores like a shooting guard. "Whenever things are bad for me, not happening well for me," he says, "I come to a basketball court and play basketball and let out some emotions or anger."
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The basketball always has belonged to Derrick Rose. At the high school level, a point guard with his degree of talent gets handed the ball and the license to do most anything he wants. "It's totally different now," he says. Memphis plays a free-flowing offensive style that allows Rose, who is 6-4, to use his athleticism and skill to manufacture scoring opportunities. But the flow is as important as the freedom.
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Throughout the preseason, Indiana basketball was in the news for all the wrong reasons: investigations, rules violations, staff changes. Want a right reason? Eric Gordon is a Hoosier.
He is a 6-4 shooting guard with a tight stroke that'll remind veteran basketball fans of Bradley All-American Hersey Hawkins, except that Gordon is athletic enough to jump over Hawkins. Gordon says all the tumult hasn't distracted him from preparing for his freshman season. Or maybe he's too tired to lift his head. IU coach Kelvin Sampson is known for many things now, but his lasting reputation is as a coach who drills his players like they just arrived at Parris Island.
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Frank Martin is surrounded by freshmen at every Kansas State practice. That's not so bad when one of them is as gifted as 6-10, 235-pound power forward Michael Beasley. But don't think that'll sway Martin, K-State's rookie head coach, into believing any first-year collegian has something to say that you need to hear. "What do they know about what it takes to succeed in college basketball?" Martin says. "They have no understanding. They can't answer any question as far as what it takes to succeed in college basketball. Why should they be the ones answering about what it takes for our team to succeed?"
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