Excellent feature on Hawaii's Kareem Nitoto

Here's an in-depth feature on one of Hawaii's unsung players:

'Bows' Nitoto a work in progress
Dayton Morinaga
Honolulu Advertiser

In defense of Kareem Nitoto, statistics don't always tell the whole story of a basketball player.

Defensive discipline is hard to measure in numbers.

So is personal discipline.

Nitoto has excelled at both this season with the University of Hawai'i men's basketball team.

"I don't really look at the numbers," said Nitoto, a sophomore point guard. "If you play basketball, you know you're going to have rough times. Nobody comes out and has a great game every night, except maybe Kobe (Bryant), and I'm not Kobe. Every game is a chance to start fresh. That's how I look at it."

That outlook has worked wonders in recent weeks...

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