Thursday, January 24, 2008
Two minutes into Kansas’ victory against Iowa State on Wednesday, sophomore forward Darrell Arthur found himself in an unlikely spot. After Arthur committed a turnover and a foul, Bill Self brought out the quick hook and summoned Arthur to the bench — replacing him with senior Sasha Kaun. Fortunately, Arthur picked the right guy on the bench to sit next to. It seems all the Dallas native needed was a quick chat with assistant coach Danny Manning.
“He was just walking me through different moves I could do on them, because I started off pretty slow,” Arthur said, “It helped me a lot.”
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Manning’s words of advice quickly translated to offensive buckets on the court.
Arthur finished with 16 points on eight of 13 shooting, and showcased every move in his arsenal.
“They didn’t trap the post at all, so it was pretty easy to get anything you wanted.”
When Self substituted his 6-foot-9 sophomore back into the game, Arthur quickly went to work. First, he used a short baby hook in the lane to give Kansas a 9-5 lead. Arthur scored inside again on the next possession, and displayed his soft shooting stroke on the next trip down the court to give him six consecutive points.
“I was just giving them different things to look at and trying to show my all-around game,” Arthur said.
It’s an all-around game that Arthur — who’s now averaging a team-high 13.4 points per game — works on everyday at practice with Manning.
“He just walks us through different moves everyday—something different everyday,” Arthur said.
Arthur’s offensive game was efficient, and he did everything Bill Self wanted him to do – except rebound.
Arthur — who’s averaging 5.7 rebounds per game -- finished with only one rebound in 19 minutes.
“I was pretty disappointed,” Arthur said. “I couldn’t get anything going on the glass, but Darnell did a nice job of cleaning up for us.”
Self said Arthur hurt his calf in practice yesterday, and he said that might have affected Arthur’s ability to rebound.
“I hope it did,” Self said, jokingly. “Because he had one more than I did, which isn’t very good for a big guy with his athletic ability.”
All joking aside, Self said Arthur was hurting during the shoot-around before the game, but the training staff cleared him to play.
“If you watched him today, he didn’t run like he was capable of running. I think he was worried about trusting it early in the game. After I subbed for him and got upset with him, the next thing you know, he was great.”
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