Antoine Davis - Detroit Mercy

[spiderman]

Davis finished 3 points shy of Maravich's record for college points. gave it an amazing run, coming close when nobody else has. yes, 5 years vs 3 years. but still. heck of a shooter.

Detroit Mercy coach is now lobbying for a CBI invite. I get it. he wants it for the kid. but the team is 14-19. come on. it's over. or does the CBI invite them just for the ratings?

 

[whampas]

Davis finished 3 points shy of Maravich's record for college points. gave it an amazing run, coming close when nobody else has. yes, 5 years vs 3 years. but still. heck of a shooter.

Detroit Mercy coach is now lobbying for a CBI invite. I get it. he wants it for the kid. but the team is 14-19. come on. it's over. or does the CBI invite them just for the ratings?

It's also his son. Maravich did it in two less years and no 3 point line. Big asterisk if CBI comes through.

 

[urmite]

Does it count his time at Kentucky, New Orleans, and LA?

 

[spiderman]

It's also his son.

I didn't realize that. funny how both played for their dads.

takes a lot of shots to score that much. Maravich took 3,166 shots in 3 years (83 games)!
that's 38 shots per game ... and 14 foul shots.

 

[RichmondNative]

Davis finished 3 points shy of Maravich's record for college points. gave it an amazing run, coming close when nobody else has. yes, 5 years vs 3 years. but still. heck of a shooter.

Detroit Mercy coach is now lobbying for a CBI invite. I get it. he wants it for the kid. but the team is 14-19. come on. it's over. or does the CBI invite them just for the ratings?

So five years isn’t enough, let him play in a post season tournament that the team didn’t earn? I don’t think the NCAA should even respond. Second place is good enough and I doubt the NCAA wants any additional questioning on its decision making.

 

[SFspidur]

The CBI isn't run by the NCAA.

Maybe if he'd gotten his teammates the ball for some better shots instead of going 7-for-26 against double-teams, he might still be playing today with another shot at the record.

 

[Wood Hall]

Davis also leads the team in assists. By all accounts, he's a team player (yes, I also follow UDM sports, I have no life).

Maravich took 3,166 shots and had 1,152 free-throw attempts. Davis took 2,987 shots and 715 free throws. Yes, Davis had the 3-pointer, and he made 588 of them. Maravich also played in an era when players shot one free throw for a common foul before the bonus went into effect, in each half. So he got some FT attempts that Davis didn't. Davis was also a better FT shooter (.892 v .775), so he gained some points there as well.

Davis isn't Maravich, who remains a legend 50 years after he played, and deservedly so. They played in different eras, under different rules. They are both the premier scorers of their generation, that's good enough for me.

The CBI has a $50k entry fee. Detroit probably can't afford it, as it only averaged about 2,000 fans a game this season. But head coach Mike Davis says if offered, they'll accept.

 

[SFspidur]

Agree he seems like a team player based on the comments I've seen from him, and I didn't watch yesterday's game, but just from the box score he only had two assists. If YSU's plan was to double-team him, just feels like he should have ended up with more assists than that rather than having his worst percentage shooting night of the season on high volume.

But again, I didn't watch the game, so maybe I'm off base. And not saying it necessarily would have worked...they did well to hang with the conference champ as it was.

 

[SpiderRick]

All this talk about Maravich's scoring, ever watched a highlight film of his passing? And I wonder how many more assists Maravich would have had if his passes weren't so good that half the time his teammates weren't even ready or looking for the pass.

 

[spiderman]

from what I've read, his teammates learned quickly to always expect the unexpected pass or it might bounce off their head.

 

[Wood Hall]

All this talk about Maravich's scoring, ever watched a highlight film of his passing? And I wonder how many more assists Maravich would have had if his passes weren't so good that half the time his teammates weren't even ready or looking for the pass.

So true, 50 years later it's still Pete's passing, ball-handling skills and court awareness of where his teammates were that really amaze me. And yes, many a teammate got a face full of basketball because they were not looking for the ball when it arrived.

His scoring was great, but the other offensive aspects of his game were extraordinary. Bob McCurdy incorporated many of Pete's dipsy-doodle moves around the basket into his game, to get shots off against taller defenders.

 

[spiderman]

Detroit Mercy's season is over. no CBI invite. Davis fell 3 points short of Maravich.