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RE: lol man I loved watching Sutherland play
Posted on: May 12, 2021 at 10:21:08 CT
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https://comomag.com/2019/07/30/beyond-the-arena/
With a grizzled beard and hands weathered from construction work, Jason Sutherland looks more like a man forged in the Black Hills of South Dakota now than he did 22 years ago as a clean-shaven kid draining threes in the Hearnes Center.
That arena, the former home of Mizzou basketball, is where Jason scored most of his 1,194 career points, where he never lost to Kansas, and where he went undefeated in Big Eight play (home and away) as a member of the 1993–1994 Tigers.
But Jason wouldn’t have made it to Columbia from Spearfish, South Dakota — just north of historic Deadwood — if not for a gravel-voiced legend from the Show-Me State.
“Coach [Norm Stewart] called to recruit me, and my best friend sitting in the room asked who it was,” Jason says. “I was like, ‘I don’t know, some Norm Stewart guy.’ He liked the way I played hard, competitive basketball. A player in his own mold.”
It’s no surprise then that Jason’s post-basketball career has taken him to construction. As co-owner of the custom home and remodeling outfit Timberwood Homes and its sister landscaping company, Outdoor Solutions, Jason revels in the hands-on labor.
Unlike many firms that subcontract most of their work, Jason and his colleagues do the building — minus HVAC, electrical, and plumbing — themselves.
“I’m working on a custom home right now for some people out of St. Louis, and they remembered how intense I was on the court,” says Jason. “They said, ‘You build houses the same way.’”
Jason left Mizzou holding school records in consecutive free throws made, with 39, and a career 3-point field goal percentage of 46.6. Although Jason never played in the NBA, he did play professionally in Germany and Italy, where he once played against current Mizzou basketball coach Cuonzo Martin.
These days, Jason and his wife, Jennifer, spend most of their time keeping up with their 9-year-old daughter, Sidney, a competitive swimmer, and 3-year-old Lincoln, “a pretty good Spider-Man,” Jason says. The Sutherlands vacation at their cabin in Deadwood, and Dad will even deploy an occasional pearl of wisdom from Stormin’ Norman.
“Listen to what I’m saying, not how I’m saying it,” says a chuckling Jason, remembering a hard-headed interaction with his old coach. “I guess that’s why they say you get wiser with age.”
https://comomag.com/2019/07/30/beyond-the-arena/
With a grizzled beard and hands weathered from construction work, Jason Sutherland looks more like a man forged in the Black Hills of South Dakota now than he did 22 years ago as a clean-shaven kid draining threes in the Hearnes Center.
That arena, the former home of Mizzou basketball, is where Jason scored most of his 1,194 career points, where he never lost to Kansas, and where he went undefeated in Big Eight play (home and away) as a member of the 1993–1994 Tigers.
But Jason wouldn’t have made it to Columbia from Spearfish, South Dakota — just north of historic Deadwood — if not for a gravel-voiced legend from the Show-Me State.
“Coach [Norm Stewart] called to recruit me, and my best friend sitting in the room asked who it was,” Jason says. “I was like, ‘I don’t know, some Norm Stewart guy.’ He liked the way I played hard, competitive basketball. A player in his own mold.”
It’s no surprise then that Jason’s post-basketball career has taken him to construction. As co-owner of the custom home and remodeling outfit Timberwood Homes and its sister landscaping company, Outdoor Solutions, Jason revels in the hands-on labor.
Unlike many firms that subcontract most of their work, Jason and his colleagues do the building — minus HVAC, electrical, and plumbing — themselves.
“I’m working on a custom home right now for some people out of St. Louis, and they remembered how intense I was on the court,” says Jason. “They said, ‘You build houses the same way.’”
Jason left Mizzou holding school records in consecutive free throws made, with 39, and a career 3-point field goal percentage of 46.6. Although Jason never played in the NBA, he did play professionally in Germany and Italy, where he once played against current Mizzou basketball coach Cuonzo Martin.
These days, Jason and his wife, Jennifer, spend most of their time keeping up with their 9-year-old daughter, Sidney, a competitive swimmer, and 3-year-old Lincoln, “a pretty good Spider-Man,” Jason says. The Sutherlands vacation at their cabin in Deadwood, and Dad will even deploy an occasional pearl of wisdom from Stormin’ Norman.
“Listen to what I’m saying, not how I’m saying it,” says a chuckling Jason, remembering a hard-headed interaction with his old coach. “I guess that’s why they say you get wiser with age.”
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