Greatest UT Duo In History?

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Thunder Good-Oil said:
King was also unstoppable cutting to the basket. He had the range to hit 3s, but he would have benefited a lot had there been a 3PL because Grunfeld, Jackson, and Woods-Darden-Bertelkamp would have forced defenses to respect them taking 3-point shots.

Don’t forget that the college 3PL has always been shorter than the NBA 3. The rosters those 3 years would have thrived with the 3s being available.
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I'm not sure Bernard had the range to make 3 pointers since he didn't shoot them in his HOF years. Yeah, when it was 19'9" he might have made a few. Bernard gave a detailed description in a forum a few years ago how he attacked from either side. He developed different types of shots from his complex grid attack
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
I'm not sure Bernard had the range to make 3 pointers since he didn't shoot them in his HOF years. Yeah, when it was 19'9" he might have made a few. Bernard gave a detailed description in a forum a few years ago how he attacked from either side. He developed different types of shots from his complex grid attack
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His best weapon was driving to the rim. Whether on a fast break or in the half court. He was unstoppable with his size and quickness.

He probably gets a few more offensive rebounds from missed 3 pointers. He already had a career average of 13RPGs and without a shot clock to increase the number of possessions on the defensive end. A shot clock wouldn’t have affected TN’s pace on offense much at all though.
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
Johnson won an NCAA tournament game with DeVoe in his first year.
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GUNTERSVOL said:
Getting old, can’t remember if it was Haywood or King who was reported to have folks put 50 cent prices on the top of the backboard and he would go up and get them. Seems Spencer worked at Rice Olds his one summer here. I could walk to the Rice house from mine in safety and within 2 minutes in Deane Hill. It is amazing how cloudy a guys memory can get in 58 years.

Rice was prominent in the Orange Tie Section in the early Mears years. We were in the second wave of folks that filled it up. Some family friends were all in early and provided the hot tip. The vests were all orange, the ties had more blue than ORANGE stripes????
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BernardKingGOAT said:
Yeah, I know Haywood was a super talented player. Would have been a treat had he been able to play at UT. Could have possibly been the second best player in team history
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Greatest thing Spencer did was rep Tennessee a little when he went in the NBA Hall of Fame a few years ago. He didn’t have to do so; everyone had forgotten by then but him!
 
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