Volsfan895
Formerly Bobby Light
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Bernard King??? For those of us that were around to watch Bernard play, can you think of anyone else the Vols have had since BK that would rival what I think Stokes is going to bring to the table? Sure, we've only seen him play 17 minutes, but that's all it has taken for me to think he may be the best since Bernard, who IMO is one of the top 2-3 players to ever play in the SEC.
Good grief! He's played one game.....come on.
He said "since Bernard King" smart guy.
Learn to read.
You don't trust your ability to evaluate talent?
I don't see why everybody is ripping into the OP for speculating about Stokes' future. What are message boards for?
"Yeah, let's wait until his career is over and then we'll know if he was the best".
And I'm sure that will be an interesting conversation.
Have y'all not read the book "Blink"? Snap judgments are often correct. And none of y'all should go into gambling with that wait-and-see approach.
You don't trust your ability to evaluate talent?
I don't see why everybody is ripping into the OP for speculating about Stokes' future. What are message boards for?
"Yeah, let's wait until his career is over and then we'll know if he was the best".
And I'm sure that will be an interesting conversation.
Have y'all not read the book "Blink"? Snap judgments are often correct. And none of y'all should go into gambling with that wait-and-see approach.
The way our 3 post players have played these past 3 games against some of the best posts in the country is very telling. They need to dominate against the lesser talented post they are about to face and take advantage of their abilities. Hopefully the confidence they have gained by hanging with these posts will benefit them going forward.At this point Stokes is the best post player we've had since Maymon. Although I will further concede he is better than Major Wingate.
Stokes interior passing showed flashes of brilliance against Kentucky. Our offense thrives on ball screens and getting the ball to the block. If we have the ability to score from either block, and, distribute the ball from the block, it adds a dimension to Tennessee basketball that has not been present for a long while - interior basketball.
I am impressed with Maymon, Hall, and Stokes. On both ends.
If only we could get Tony back to work on the turnovas
Bernard King??? For those of us that were around to watch Bernard play, can you think of anyone else the Vols have had since BK that would rival what I think Stokes is going to bring to the table? Sure, we've only seen him play 17 minutes, but that's all it has taken for me to think he may be the best since Bernard, who IMO is one of the top 2-3 players to ever play in the SEC.
Still early. King scored 24 and had double digit rebounds in his freshman debut. Granted it was against much weaker competition (Wisconsin-Milwaukee, IIRC). We shall soon see.
I think were all getting ahead of ourselves here, however the way Stokes and the team as a whole looked Saturday. If Stanton can come in in next year and play well, and we get another PG in here so Golden can move to his natural SG position we could be pretty darn good. This might be a dumb question but is there any news on Chris Jones, or do we know if he will still try and come here? he's doing very well at NF State.
3-4 definitely come before him. O'neal, Mara., Issel, Allen Houston...just a few.
It's really hard to compare players from different generations. And the sec is so deep, very hard to rank players.
3-4 definitely come before him. O'neal, Mara., Issel, Allen Houston...just a few.
It's really hard to compare players from different generations. And the sec is so deep, very hard to rank players.