Devo Davis Receives Highest Accolade an Arkansas Basketball Player Can Receive

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – There are accolades in school sports activities which are good to have after which there are issues imply the world and stick for a lifetime.

Late Wednesday afternoon, former Arkansas nationwide championship coach Nolan Richardson proclaimed his love Razorback guard Davonte Davis one among his all-time favourite gamers whereas speaking with DriveTime Sports activities on 103.7 The Buzz in Little Rock..

“Devo to me has all the time been one among my all-time favorites as a result of he is one of many few within the nation who performs so onerous on each ends,” Richardson mentioned. “Plenty of guys play onerous on one finish and play fairly good on the opposite, however he performs onerous on each ends of the ground and he is relentless.”

Based mostly on the feedback by Arkansas guard Davonte Davis and Eric Musselman after the win over LSU Tuesday night time, Davis in all probability did not hear it as a result of he was most certainly within the gymnasium placing in work.

The Jacksonville native has labored himself right into a participant who may have slot in any period and would have undoubtedly been a goal for Richardson as a recruit.

“These are the form of guys who win you championships,” Richardson mentioned. “You have bought a couple of of these on the staff.”

Whereas the 90s Razorbacks did not have captains, they did have pure leaders. For the nationwide championship staff, it was Corey Beck, whom Richardson sees loads of in Davis.

We had a man that everybody paid consideration to large time and that was Corey Beck and to some extent Clint McDaniel. 

“My guards Clint McDaniel and Corey Beck had been actually robust guys,” Richardson mentioned. “They performed onerous day by day in observe and each sport, so the management is there. Management to me is creating your observe exercise. Some guys take a time without work or per week of in observe, however these guys they got here to work each single day.” 

That is the mannequin Richardson sees in Davis.

“I nonetheless imagine that while you get these form of gamers just like the Devos, you do not have to be a man who’s on the market barking it,” Richardson mentioned. “You bought to be the man who’s on the market displaying it.”

And present it he has. Regardless of the hype guard Anthony Black brings with him and duties he carries on the ground, he is fast to affirm that he sees the identical issues in Davis that Richardson does.

“He’s taking part in how we anticipate him to play and a little bit higher,” Black mentioned. “Flattening pictures, commanding the offense more often than not and being a pacesetter. Simply being Devo – taking part in with loads of power and taking their greatest participant out of the sport each time, making them appear like how they do not normally look.” 

By evaluating Davis to these gamers, the previous Corridor of Fame coach labeled him a winner earlier than he bought off the air.

“There are those that play to play and people who play to win,” Richardson mentioned. “The blokes I had on these groups, they actually performed to win.”

And if Arkansas is to maintain profitable, it might want to rely closely on one among Richardson’s favourite Razorbacks of all time.

Davonte Davis.

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