List of the Day 8-15.... @Diesel and @Shakes agree!!!!

[Diesel]

Very simple... You college players top 10 alltime...  And yes, this time I stuck to 10...

My Favorite College players of all time. 

1. Jamal Mashburn
2. Allen Iverson
3. Alonzo Morning 
4. Vince Carter
5. Dennis Scott 
6. Dominique 
7. Stephon Marbury
8. Stacey Augmon
9. Rex Chapman
10. Kenny Anderson 

[Diesel]

Just a quick dip into the memories. 

I remember Dominique and Vern Fleming losing to Purdue in the finals of the NIT - actually one of the best college games I have ever watched.   That was my introduction, I thought it was a big deal at the time. 

I should be a Ga Tech Lifer but my favorite team has always been Kentucky.  The monster Mash beating up on Duke....  Mash was a player who had everything. Every skill.  I remember all the love was headed to Laettner at the time but Mash (to me) was the best player I had seen in College. 

Another team that I feel in Love with was UNLV.  You remember Larry Johnson and them...  Before they called him grandmama..  LJ was a beast... somebody who could possibly go toe toe with a monster like Shaq.  I liked UNLV (even though they got mixed up in Crime) because of their games with Arkansas!!!  Those were wars!!!

Im going to stop right here because...

Spoiler

Tomorrow's list will be top ten college Teams!!!!  Unless nobody responds to today's thread...

 

 

 

[shakes]

I'm gonna have to think about this for a bit and get back to you.   I will definitely have one former ATL Hawk on there who I bet most of you don't remember or never heard of.....Howard Nathan, RIP.

[shakes]

Just now, Diesel said:

LJ was a beast... somebody who could possibly go toe toe with a monster like Shaq. 

 

LJ was a beast, but no.   

 

only people in the history of college ball who could go toe to toe with Shaq were the refs.   They ran him out of college ball with their anti big man biased reffing.  No one got beat up with no calls more than Shaq.

[Diesel]

17 minutes ago, shakes said:

LJ was a beast, but no.   

 

only people in the history of college ball who could go toe to toe with Shaq were the refs.   They ran him out of college ball with their anti big man biased reffing.  No one got beat up with no calls more than Shaq.

  

 

This guy says, He can Still give Shaq that work!  This guy made Shaq sit down...

[macdaddy]

I'm not a big college ball guy but here goes

Nique

Kenny Anderson

3D

John Salley

Harpring

Sampson

Trae

Glen Rice

Frank Selvy

Brian Oliver

[Diesel]

Just now, macdaddy said:

I'm not a big college ball guy but here goes

Nique

Kenny Anderson

3D

John Salley

Harpring

Sampson

Trae

Glen Rice

Frank Selvy

Brian Oliver

Damnit do you know I forgot all about Harpring and Glen Rice!!  How could i forget Glen Freakin Rice and Marcus Camby and C Webb??

 

[JayBirdHawk]

Vince Carter - first time I really watched college basketball in depth.

[Diesel]

It's funny... it always seemed like UNC basketball program tended to suppress the players abilities...i.e. they were better pros than college players and Duke tended to overexpress the players abilities...i.e. they were better college players than Pros.  Of course there are a few exceptions both ways. 

 

 

[shakes]

This should be fun.  I'm a massive college bball guy, way moreso than the NBA.   I started following around 1984-85 season.  My first championship game was teh amazing coked up Villanova Wildcats shooting 80% from the field to beat Ewing and Georgetown.  For this list I tend to favor guys who were there longer since I got to cheer them on more.    

1.  Chris Jackson:  I became an LSU fan in 1987.  Sstill have the SI mag with him on the cover, "He's a Pistol".

2.  Steve Alford:  I started as an Indiana fan and he was the star who led them to my first ever championship of my sports fandom life in 1987.

3.  Chris Mullin:   first player I stanned.  I learned how to shoot from looking at black and white still photos of his post release form in Street & Smith magazine.

4.  Christian Laettner:   Was a Duke fan back then (barf) and was a massive fan of those first title runs.  Loved Laettner, such a great college player.  So clutch.

5.  Rocket Rod Strickland:  First DePaul player on the list, but he won't be the last.  Watching him battle and beat his childhood rival Mark Jackson in OT in the first round of the NCAA at Rosemont Horizon as as 17 year old was still the greatest game I've ever seen in person.

6.  Derek Rose:  Followed him since sophmore year of high school, my highest ranked 1 and done.

7.  Bobby Hurley:   Same with Laettner, such a great college PG.  I think he went the entire tourny the second repeat and committed one TO the entire 7 games.   And clutch too despite not being a great shooter.

8.    Trae Young:   The next 1 and done to make my list.  Fell in sports love with him the second I saw him play in the PK80 tourny and haven't missed a game he's played since either college or pro

9.  Tommy Kleinschmidt/DePaul:  2nd DePaul player, all american who went toe to toe with Penny.   I'll admit he's high on this list because he was also my drinking buddy in college.

10.  Mark Aguirre/DePaul:  my first favorite player but a little before my time.  We had season tickets his last year when they were #1 all season long and then choked in the first round of the tourney yet again.

11.  Howard Nathan/DePaul:  IMO one of the greatest what if's in basketball history.   He was so good his freshman year and dominated senior Nick Van Exel all season long in every matchup.   Some people remember where they were when they found out a President got shot.  For me, i stil remember where I was when I heard that Nathan had failed out of school after his freshman year.  Such a travesty he later became paralyzed and then died a few years ago.

12.  Scott Skiles:  such a stud. He's the reason they don't allow teams to host games in the tournament anymore.  The way he got screwed by the time keeper IN Kansas vs Kansas is still one of the worst moments in NCAA history

13.  Lonzo Ball:  Another one and done, he's the guy who brought me back to basketball after 15 year hiatus

14.  Jalen Brunson:    Followed him since high school since he's from the town next to mine and went to wife's high school (and Jamie Gertz).  

15.  Quentin Richardson/DePaul:   hard to believe that this lunch pail hard hat undersized PF who dominated inside in college would turn around and become a 3pt specialist in the NBA.  Maybe he was the true precursor of what was to come to the game even before Curry made everyone pay attention

16.  Jason Kidd:   Loved the way he played and loved seeing him play vs Grant Hill and Bobby Hurley in person in the tourney

17.  Shaq:  Another LSU legend.  Too bad the refs treated him like crap

18.  Hersey Hawkins:   Chicago legend who played center till he got to college which explains why he only got recruited by Bradley

19.  Tremont Waters/LSU  Almost like a poor man's Trae in college.  he had some of tghe best off the glass finishes I've ever seen.

20.  Glen Robinson:  Big Dog!