Yet more on Hawaii point Kareem Nitoto

Note to Kareem's father: please keep those checks coming my way, do increase the amounts a little higher if possible.

Just joshing of course but here's yet another newspaper post about Kareem Nitoto by the Hawaii newspapers. But it's true that Nitoto is going to have a major responsibility this season in how the Hawaii basketball season turns out.

Nitoto gets the point: Let everyone else score
Dave Reardon
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
November 2, 2008

In gyms all over the country, 5s are becoming 4s, 4s converting to 3s, 3s to 2s -- and perhaps most prevalent and key to their teams' success or failure -- 2s learning to be 1s.

There's a simple reason for all this number shrinkage in college basketball: height.

Big men in high school are often tweeners at the next level. Shooting guards and wing players aren't tall enough for the same roles beyond the prep ranks.

At 6-feet-2, Kareem Nitoto was always projected as a college point guard, but his scoring skills made him a shoot-first guy in high school at McClymonds and San Leandro in the Bay Area...

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