Will ISU be the moment for Pledger?

[DenverSooner]

Will that great performance be the switch where the light comes on for Pledger? I certainly don't expect that kind of performance every night but I would love to see him be a guy that scores 12 on a bad night and gets 18-20 somewhat regularly to average about 15 a game. That game had to help his confidence.

 

[sharp1]

Will that great performance be the switch where the light comes on for Pledger? I certainly don't expect that kind of performance every night but I would love to see him be a guy that scores 12 on a bad night and gets 18-20 somewhat regularly to average about 15 a game. That game had to help his confidence.

I totally agree no reason he shouldnt be more aggressive with ball, as long it's in the flow of the offense....Also...we've played two overtime games and Pledge hit the three too send them both into O/T.

 

[thebigabd]

38 points for a college player is a BIG DEAL... even average players dont ever put up 40 points.

This could be the moment for him.

 

[Sooner04]

How many points did Mason-Griffin have last year against Iowa State in Norman?


[ducks]







Big time performance by Pledger. Needed every drop of it too.

 

[Dave4OU]

38


http://content.usatoday.com/sportsdata/basketball/ncaab/game/IowaSt_Oklahoma/2010/01/27

 

[Max Power]

38


http://content.usatoday.com/sportsdata/basketball/ncaab/game/IowaSt_Oklahoma/2010/01/27

and cade had 24

yet we only won by 5

 

[Krugerfan52]

One interesting stat that I saw about Pledger's 38 (and TMG's for that matter) is that it is more than any single game output by any player during the entire 12 years Kelvin Sampson was the coach at OU.

Blake's 40 points against Texas Tech was the highest individual scoring game's since Jeff Webster put up 44 in 1994. Corey Brewer's 36 in 1998 was the highest scoring game during Sampson's tenure.

Reguardless of all that, Pledgers was one of the great individual performances in recent OU basketball history IMO not just because of the numbers but because it was done on the road and in the clutch, down the stretch to go to OT and during OT.

 

[sanguinetti]

hope so, but shawn clark had 30-something once.

 

[Big Old Booger]

hope so, but shawn clark had 30-something once.

Vs Arizona State during the 83/84 season. I think he had 36.

Shawn Clark, for those who don't remember, was 6'3", or so, but had a 46 inch vertical. He could jump up and grab a quarter off the top of the backboard. I remember he had some thunder dunks, too.

CORRECTION: he scored 37 off the bench vs Arizona State.

And Clark, who came off the bench to score 37 points against Arizona State last season, might not even start. More important to the Sooners' destiny is McCalister, who averaged 16.1 points a game in '83-84 as one of the nation's top freshmen. McCalister was hampered by a stress fracture in his right shin during the final six weeks and has undergone arthroscopic surgery on his left knee twice in the last six months. His status is iffy, but, says one Sooner, "If he can breathe, he'll play."

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