Hoffarber and the Thousand Point Club

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Six more points is all he needs. Pre-mature congrats young Hoff.
 

1,000pts without ever creating his own shot...new Gopher record?
 

Honest question. Is 1,000 points a big deal anymore? Especially if it's a 4 year player? Minimum is 31 games per season and all you have to do is average roughly 8 ppg.
 

Not as much, but we haven't exactly been flush with 1000 point scorers either.
 

Art Vandelay said:
Honest question. Is 1,000 points a big deal anymore? Especially if it's a 4 year player? Minimum is 31 games per season and all you have to do is average roughly 8 ppg.
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Great point. My Dad and I talked about this the other day. He has had a better career than I expected but 1000pts in college is like 1000pts in high school...it means you played 3 or 4 years and shot a decent amount.

Ralph Sampson III will get 1000...he already has right around 600 and has 50 or so games left in his career.
 


Art Vandelay said:
Honest question. Is 1,000 points a big deal anymore? Especially if it's a 4 year player? Minimum is 31 games per season and all you have to do is average roughly 8 ppg.
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Atta boy Art. 31 games per season X 4 seasons = 124 games. Art, could you have even gotton 124 points in 124 games? Honest question.
 

khoffman43 said:
Great point. My Dad and I talked about this the other day. He has had a better career than I expected but 1000pts in college is like 1000pts in high school...it means you played 3 or 4 years and shot a decent amount.

Ralph Sampson III will get 1000...he already has right around 600 and has 50 or so games left in his career.
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I think 1,000 pts is pretty impressive...regardless of whether it's high school or college. At the college level, it's even more impressive. You seemed to be pretty impressed with your guy Stommes playing against 3A and some 4A competition saying that he scored "1,000 pts, so he can obviously put it in the hoop." Why the differing viewpoint? Giving more credence to your Central Lakes Conference compared to the Big 10 is little silly...

Put it this way, given the guff Hoffarber has gotten from some on this board during his career, and even the crap he was getting on here before he played a single collegiate game ("waste of a scholarship," "he'll never be able to score," "too slow for D1"), scoring 1,000 pts as a Gopher in the Big 10 conference puts him in some pretty special company in my book. But to each his own I guess.

For my part, congrats to Hoffarber.
 

Dr.Don said:
Atta boy Art. 31 games per season X 4 seasons = 124 games. Art, could you have even gotton 124 points in 124 games? Honest question.
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Yep, I'm a FT machine. I'd knock 'em down all day.
 

Considering there are still 20+ games left this season, he could end his career with close to 1300 points. 1300 would put him top 15 all-time for career points and #1 in 3pt FG's by a wide margin.
 




ShowinGoldyLove said:
I think 1,000 pts is pretty impressive...regardless of whether it's high school or college. At the college level, it's even more impressive. You seemed to be pretty impressed with your guy Stommes playing against 3A and some 4A competition saying that he scored "1,000 pts, so he can obviously put it in the hoop." Why the differing viewpoint? Giving more credence to your Central Lakes Conference compared to the Big 10 is little silly...

Interesting, but irrelevant point. I never said it wasn't at all impressive but 1000pts is different now than it use to be. Stommes could put the ball in the hoop in high school and I think I said he scored 1,000pts in college (if not I'm sorry), which he has. I didn't realize the the Central Lakes Conference was now division 1....but I dont really follow the game much anymore and crazy stuff happens.

Anyone who argues that 1,000pts is some fantastic feat is wrong. He shoots a fair amount and will have played 120+ games in his career. Could I have done it? Obviously not. Do I think there are a lot of guys who the Gophers passed on/didn't offer scholarships too that could? Yes. (e.g. Ben Woodside)
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I think it's a significant accomplishment. Only a very small percentage of human beings have ever done it ;)

(pre) Congrats Blake!
 

It means he stayed in school and put in his time, so to me, it's an achievement.

So you could look at it positively and say only the loyal reach this feat or you can be a downer like some on here and say only the mediocre that couldn't leave anyways.
 




JGopher said:
I think it's a significant accomplishment. Only a very small percentage of human beings have ever done it ;)

(pre) Congrats Blake!
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That's all you have to know right there.
 

khoffman43 said:
Do I think there are a lot of guys who the Gophers passed on/didn't offer scholarships too that could? Yes. (e.g. Ben Woodside)
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Seriously?

I don't think that arguing that someone else that the Gophers passed on/didn't offer could've scored 1,000 pts has anything to do with Hoffarber's accomplishment, a feat that a small percentage of Gopher basketball players have achieved.
 

I love how people have bad things to say about a gopher accomplishment
 

Wow. There's a reason that there haven't been many players to do it. And it's not like he's just barely reaching 1,000 at the end of his career or is inefficient. He has a lot of games left to go pretty far past there. I'd like to see this list of players the Gophers passed on who you're assuming could've scored as many point as he has at this point in his career. It's a pretty great accomplishment when you consider how efficient he's been and the fact that he's already basically there.

khoffman43 said:
Anyone who argues that 1,000pts is some fantastic feat is wrong. He shoots a fair amount and will have played 120+ games in his career. Could I have done it? Obviously not. Do I think there are a lot of guys who the Gophers passed on/didn't offer scholarships too that could? Yes. (e.g. Ben Woodside)
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Leave it to Art to be the debbie downer, what a shock. Anyway congrats to Blake thats a great accomplishment.
 





Art Vandelay said:
Honest question. Is 1,000 points a big deal anymore? Especially if it's a 4 year player? Minimum is 31 games per season and all you have to do is average roughly 8 ppg.
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Honest answer: I don't think it screams "elite player". I think it screams "very decent player that has demonstrated consistency and durability".
 

Leave it for people on this board to minimize the significance of one of our own players reaching seldom charted territory.
 

year of the gopher said:
Leave it for people on this board to minimize the significance of one of our own players reaching seldom charted territory.
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Get off your high horse Your Highness. Hoff is a very good player that has demonstrated durability and consistency. For that I applaud him and congratulate him.

I was only agreeing with Art insofar as the points are less impressive than the durability and consistency. GBAWA (Guilt by association with Art)

If you scored 8 points in an NCAA b-ball game, I would say, ho, hum... If you averaged 8 points over your entire career, I would applaud you and declare you a very good player. See the difference?

Sorry Hoff. This was not my intention.
 

Maybe some of the heat in this thread should go outside to melt the snow for the Vikings game...

Sorry for offending people by not applauding Blake. I'm relatively new to the site so I must ask if Dan Coleman got the kind of kudos Blake is getting for this accomplishment? To be fair I like Hoffarber a lot. He changes the game by stretching the floor and is a sneaky good passer. He outperformed my expectations for him (which were none since I never thought he was athletic enough to play) so congrats Blake! Keep knocking down 3's and hopefully leading the team to the glory of 1997 (it didnt happen but I remember it for some reason)
 

khoffman43 said:
Sorry for offending people by not applauding Blake. I'm relatively new to the site so I must ask if Dan Coleman got the kind of kudos Blake is getting for this accomplishment?
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Absolutely he did, as did Westbrook, Mo, Bauer, etc...you obviously weren't around here back then.

I don't think a thread congratulating a player for scoring 1,000 pts as a Gopher is excessive "kudos," considering less than 40 players in the history of the our 100+ year basketball program have scored 1,000 pts.
 


BarnBoy said:
Get off your high horse Your Highness. Hoff is a very good player that has demonstrated durability and consistency. For that I applaud him and congratulate him.

I was only agreeing with Art insofar as the points are less impressive than the durability and consistency. GBAWA (Guilt by association with Art)

If you scored 8 points in an NCAA b-ball game, I would say, ho, hum... If you averaged 8 points over your entire career, I would applaud you and declare you a very good player. See the difference?

Sorry Hoff. This was not my intention.
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Wow, sensitive are we? Did I quote you or call you out by name?

No, I was just saying that like with many things on this board, some posters have to find a negative way to spin EVERYTHING.

Lashing out like that makes you look rather immature.

Has anyone suggested we retire Blake's number for his accomplishment? Of course not and neither would I but there's no reason to downplay a significant milestone in the career of one of the players who has helped rebuild this basketball program through a lot of hard work.
 

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