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Stanford will be relying heavily on Landry Fields for offensive production this coming season, and Fields showed on Tuesday he might be able to give the Cardinal what it needs.
Fields scored 44 points to help his team, the Oakland Believers, pull out a 121-120 overtime victory over East Bay in the San Francisco Pro-Am summer league at Kezar Pavilion.
Fields, who will be a senior this coming season, did not begin the evening as if he were going to have a big night. He scored just four points in the first quarter, but warmed up in the second when he added 14. He scored 22 points in the second half and added six more in the overtime while playing all 45 minutes.
Some feel the 6-foot-8 Fields has a chance to get drafted by the NBA next summer if he continues to improve, and he will have every opportunity to show his skills this season. He is the only established scorer the Cardinal will return from this past season's team.
He was the team's third-leading scorer last season, averaging 12.6 points, and Stanford will need a lot more from him next season. Stanford's only other returning starter is center Josh Owens, who will be a junior next season and also plays for the Oakland Believers. Owens added 15 points on Tuesday.
But the main offensive weapon Tuesday was Fields, and perhaps his most encouraging statistic was his 12-for-12 shooting from the foul line. Last season, he shot just 65 percent from the foul line, a number he desperately needs to improve, particularly since he went to the line 120 times, second most on the team.
The competition in the San Francisco Pro-Am is not at the Pac-10 level, but most of the players are current or former Division I college players.
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