Sanders Moves to #6 All-Time in CAA blocked shots!

[districtballer]

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Sanders Moves Up To #6 On CAA Blocks Chart: VCU junior Larry Sanders has moved up to sixth on the CAA’s career blocked shots list with 211 after swatting five shots in the Rams’ victory over Richmond last Saturday. He needs just nine more rejections to pass ODU’s Cal Bowdler for fifth. Sanders leads the CAA with 24 blocks this season.

Congrats to Larry! He's doing great things as a Ram!

 

[Whoooosh]

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Sanders Moves Up To #6 On CAA Blocks Chart: VCU junior Larry Sanders has moved up to sixth on the CAA’s career blocked shots list with 211 after swatting five shots in the Rams’ victory over Richmond last Saturday. He needs just nine more rejections to pass ODU’s Cal Bowdler for fifth. Sanders leads the CAA with 24 blocks this season.

Congrats to Larry! He's doing great things as a Ram!

And we're only 8 games in! He still has 22+ games left to rack 'em up. At this pace, he'll be looking at about 90-100 blocks this season, much more if (when?) we win all our CAA tourney games and a couple rounds in the NCAAs

 

[VCU Finance 2008]

Good stuff, this is no small achievement to be this high on an all time conference list 8 games into his Jr. season. It seems like most of them come in the first half too. Once he swats a few early in the game they don't come any where near him at the end.

I was impressed by T's shot blocking Saturday night as well. Could be trouble for the CAA when Larry and T are on the court at the same time.

 

[4RunningRam]

Larry is also currently 13th in the nation in blocks per game! What a pleasure he's been to watch develop!

Of course that kind of thing doesnt matter to the haters...

 

[Rambunctious]

Larry is also currently 13th in the nation in blocks per game! What a pleasure he's been to watch develop!

Of course that kind of thing doesnt matter to the haters...

I think you are on the wrong board to find people that hate on Larry much, so perhaps you are referring to fans of other teams in the CAA?

 

[4RunningRam]

Certainly the ODU ilk are going to take their biased pot-shots, but those are easily dismissed.

But I'm referring to the folks on this board who cant say anything positive about our best player without saying 3 things critical about him...

It's a real headscratcher to me.

Larry's a fantastic player who just keeps getting better and better. He's developed in 3 years time like no one I've seen, as far as how raw he was and how far he's come..with still plenty of room to get even better. He's a great kid with an infectious personality and a passion for the game. Sometimes it seems that there are too many of our own fans who dont seem to appreciate all that, that's all I'm saying.

Sixth all time in CAA blocks. I'd love to see how many min per game each of the 5 fellas ahead of him did their damage in compared to Larry. I'd venture to say Larry's right up there at the top in block's per mins played.

 

[Ramball]

It's a real headscratcher to me.

Larry's a fantastic player who just keeps getting better and better. He's developed in 3 years time like no one I've seen, as far as how raw he was and how far he's come..with still plenty of room to get even better. He's a great kid with an infectious personality and a passion for the game. Sometimes it seems that there are too many of our own fans who dont seem to appreciate all that, that's all I'm saying.

Couldn't agree more.

 

[VRam]

Exactly.

 

[VCUbusinessgrad]

odds on him breaking officer watsons number?

 

[VCU Finance 2008]

odds on him breaking officer watsons number?

Slim in my mind even if he stays all 4 years, and impossible if he does not. Watson has 391. If he comes back next year it could be worth tracking though. I think it will depend on how many games we play in the post season this year, and what our schedule looks like next year.

 

[ViCtorioUs]

It seems like most of them come in the first half too. Once he swats a few early in the game they don't come any where near him at the end.

QFT. You can almost hear the tires screeching as they see Larry looming large in front of them. Wonder which skid marks are more pronounced- the ones on the floor or the ones in their shorts?

 

[L72boy]

odds on him breaking officer watsons number?

Slim in my mind even if he stays all 4 years, and impossible if he does not. Watson has 391. If he comes back next year it could be worth tracking though. I think it will depend on how many games we play in the post season this year, and what our schedule looks like next year.

David Robinson – Navy – 1983-87 – Woodbridge, Va.
• AP Player of the Year, Naismith Player of the Year and Wooden Award Winner in 1987
• CAA’s all-time leader in points (2,669), rebounds (1,314) and blocked shots (516)
• Ten-time NBA All-Star, three-time Olympian and one of the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players

Those numbers are tough to beat!

 

[ramramthankyoumaam]

odds on him breaking officer watsons number?

Slim in my mind even if he stays all 4 years, and impossible if he does not. Watson has 391. If he comes back next year it could be worth tracking though. I think it will depend on how many games we play in the post season this year, and what our schedule looks like next year.

Seems I remember reading somewhere that they didn't start tracking blocks until Ren's sophmore year. I could be wrong about that, but if it's true it makes Ren's actual numbers all that more unobtainable (i.e. 391 in three years!!!!).

 

[VCU Finance 2008]

odds on him breaking officer watsons number?

Slim in my mind even if he stays all 4 years, and impossible if he does not. Watson has 391. If he comes back next year it could be worth tracking though. I think it will depend on how many games we play in the post season this year, and what our schedule looks like next year.

Seems I remember reading somewhere that they didn't start tracking blocks until Ren's sophmore year. I could be wrong about that, but if it's true it makes Ren's actual numbers all that more unobtainable (i.e. 391 in three years!!!!).

I think you are right. His per game avg was an unreal number.

 

[ramramthankyoumaam]

""
Ren Watson, the "Ren-aissance Man," holds the Black 'n' Gold career record with 391 - but it was a "career" in which he is not credited for any blocks as a freshman.

Blocked shots were not tabulated until Watson's sophomore seson, 76-77. Watson's whopping total was based on just 79 games as a sophomore, junior, senior.

As a Ram freshman under coach Chuck Noe, Watson (who led Buckingham to the State Group A title as a senior) averaged 19.6 minutes per game (averaging 6.2 pts, 7.5 rebs). It is reasonable to assume he had at least 50 blocks in the brief 25-game slate.

Add half-a-hundred to Watson's cart (making 441) and it's unlikely even the towering, intimidating Sanders could run him down, even with more than 120 career games.

With 391 the bench mark, four seasons of Sanders could make for an interesting, statistical changing of the guard, just as the Maynor/Creech career points controversy popped up last winter.

Unlike Creech (now disabled), Lorenza is easy to find and very chatty as a veteran campus policeman and frequent game-night security guard behind visiting team folding chairs.""

Posted 4/20/09 by the prolific Bighorn.