BYU basketball: Bulls' Rose loves Jimmer Fredette's game

Published: Monday, March 21, 2011 10:11 a.m. MDT

By Jeff Call, Deseret News

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Jimmer Fredette

From the archive

• BYU basketball: Jimmer Fredette is SI.com's national player of the year – March 9, 2011
• Blue roundup: BYU's projected seeding drops – March 7, 2011
• BYU roundup: Rocky Long weighs in on Cougars' future – Feb. 4, 2011
• BYU roundup: National media eating up Jimmer – Jan. 27, 2011
• National media weighs in on Jimmer, BYU – Jan. 26, 2011

For months, BYU guard Jimmer Fredette has been drawing high praise from NBA stars like Kevin Durrant and Deron Williams. The latest to chime in is the Chicago Bulls' Derrick Rose, who played with Fredette last summer during Team USA training camp.
Rose told The Sporting News that he's not surprised "at all" by what Fredette has accomplished so far this season. Fredette has averaged 33 points a game in leading BYU to the Sweet 16.
Speaking of the Sweet 16 and the Cougars' upcoming match-up with Florida, here's a commentary from the Palm Beach Post about Fredette.
"The nation's leading scorer at 28.8 points per game, Jimmer shoots from anywhere and everywhere, without conscience and without mercy. He makes BYU a national championship contender all by himself, and gives Florida a challenge so different from Saturday's gritty win over UCLA that it hardly seems that we're even talking about the same game."
The Florida-Times Union has this look at BYU and the Southeast Region. And Sporting News' Mike DeCourcy asks, "Who's the real Curry: Seth or Jimmer?"