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#51
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
Fox Den stepped up really quickly inviting Wade to join their club.

Just another example of Dickey wrecking our basketball program. The 20 year long dumpster fire of being irrelevant was under his watch. While the NCAAT became a huge event.

DAD is a POS. He sold Shaklee nutritional supplements back to the athletic department that he was running. He knew it was wrong so he arranged for the transactions to be laundered through Jack “the fax” Sells (IIRC) to avoid the conflict of interest.
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He was still holding on to his petty grievance with Mears. I say petty, because why would Dickey have cared, with his success and responsibility for the football program, about Mears' simultaneous success with the basketball program? "Big Orange Country" was coined by Mears. We were rolling in FB. Dickey shouldn't have given a damn
 
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LAVol1 said:
...three point shooter?
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I would go with Houston over Lofton by a
smidge. Lofton made a ton of big contested shots despite only being 6’2. Also, if they had the 3 pt shot when Michael Brooks played he would have been remembered more fondly. Guy shot 50% FG for his career and a lot of his shots were from DEEP. His form was funky but he was a great shooter.
 
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Mears used to run a play where Doug Ashworth would come to the top of the key and pick off Grunfeld's man. Ernie would then stop and pop a bomb from the top of the key. I swear it was nothing but bottom every time. I think Grunfeld would have been an epic 3 point shooter had it been available then.
 
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I may not be the oldest poster here ... but I'm likely in the top 25 ...
I am not looking for agreement, nor arguing that I have more knowledge, this is my personal list ...
There are a lot of good candidates ... (I am factoring number of years as a variable ... in my equation ...)
Allan Houston, mister smooth operator, should be in the running ... but he literally had to carry the team on his back ... cause he did not have very much help. #4 NBA 12 years
Bernard King, if had stayed 4 years AND stayed healthy would be in the running ... I always thought that he left because the other half of the team graduated. #2 NBA 14 years
Chris Lofton, might have better numbers if he had taken a year off to recover from his cancer, which likely would have improved his profile. JaJuan helped! #5 NBA none
Dalton Knecht, if he had 4 years here might have been in the running on a lot of lists ... but he didn't ... he was only here one year. #1 NBA 1 year*
Ernie Grunfeld, man did he have attitude and moxie, he is high on my favorites list. Shot 50% for his career, never lower than 45.9 and finished 53.6 #3 NBA 11 years

I really thought that David Moss was going to be leader of this list, but life dealt him an ugly hand.
 
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SN-A-C Orange said:
I may not be the oldest poster here ... but I'm likely in the top 25 ...
I am not looking for agreement, nor arguing that I have more knowledge, this is my person list ...
There are a lot of good candidates ... (I am factoring number of years as a variable ... in my equation ...)
Allan Houston, mister smooth operator, should be in the running ... but he literally had to carry the team on his back ... cause he did not have very much help. #4 NBA 12 years
Bernard King, if had stayed 4 years AND stayed healthy would be in the running ... I always thought that he left because the other half of the team graduated. #2 NBA 14 years
Chris Lofton, might have better numbers if he had taken a year off to recover from his cancer, which likely would have improved his profile. JaJuan helped! #5 NBA none
Dalton Knecht, if he had 4 years here might have been in the running on a lot of lists ... but he didn't ... he was only here one year. #1 NBA 1 year*
Ernie Grunfeld, man did he have attitude and moxie, he is high on my favorites list. Shot 50% for his career, never lower than 45.9 and finished 53.6 #3 NBA 11 years

I really thought that David Moss was going to be leader of this list, but life dealt him an ugly hand.
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Stokely used to be a great show. Getting there early to see the freshman team play was a big part of the experience. Moss and Jackson starred on that 1973-74 freshman team while Grunfeld was the first freshman starting on the varsity team in the modern era that year. Players from each team would sit behind the bench wearing orange sport coats while the other team played their game. IIRC AW Davis would coach the freshman games.
 
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Someone else who hasn’t been mentioned because the 3pt line had just come into existence as he was wrapping up his career is Tony White. 24.5 ppg as a senior and only hit 28 threes (out of 68 attempts). The entire team only attempted 6.7 per game, which is hard to believe, considering how the game has evolved since then. He’d be launching 10-12 per game if he played today.
 
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SN-A-C Orange said:
I may not be the oldest poster here ... but I'm likely in the top 25 ...
I am not looking for agreement, nor arguing that I have more knowledge, this is my personal list ...
There are a lot of good candidates ... (I am factoring number of years as a variable ... in my equation ...)
Allan Houston, mister smooth operator, should be in the running ... but he literally had to carry the team on his back ... cause he did not have very much help. #4 NBA 12 years
Bernard King, if had stayed 4 years AND stayed healthy would be in the running ... I always thought that he left because the other half of the team graduated. #2 NBA 14 years
Chris Lofton, might have better numbers if he had taken a year off to recover from his cancer, which likely would have improved his profile. JaJuan helped! #5 NBA none
Dalton Knecht, if he had 4 years here might have been in the running on a lot of lists ... but he didn't ... he was only here one year. #1 NBA 1 year*
Ernie Grunfeld, man did he have attitude and moxie, he is high on my favorites list. Shot 50% for his career, never lower than 45.9 and finished 53.6 #3 NBA 11 years

I really thought that David Moss was going to be leader of this list, but life dealt him an ugly hand.
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UT GOAT list?
 
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