re: SI's cover, 24 years ago today

Posted on 2/20/13 at 8:10 pm to Mobiletiger

Posted by Topwater Trout

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Posted on 2/20/13 at 8:10 pm to Mobiletiger

Damn. In high school he made something like 286 FT in a row after practice

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Posted by glassman

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Posted on 2/20/13 at 9:41 pm to Topwater Trout

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Damn. In high school he made something like 286 FT in a row after practice

I saw a game where he and James Robinson who was from Jackson, MS Murrah played. It was unreal. Robinson had like 51 and CJ had 49. Still hard to wrap my mind around that game.

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Posted by King Joey

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Posted on 2/20/13 at 11:35 pm to Topwater Trout

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Damn. In high school he made something like 286 FT in a row after practice

283. And it was in practice. Their coach made them shoot 25 freethrows at the end of practice every day, but you couldn't stop shooting if it would break a streak. So he shot his 25 and made his last one, so he kept on shooting til he missed. When it was all said and done, he'd made 283 in a row. He was a Junior when he did that.

I was the same year as CJ, and my high school coach my Junior year had been an assistant at Gulfport (where CJ played) the year before. So we hear alllll about Chris Jackson that year (the coach wasn't very good, so he was only there for a year). I was so excited when I found out he was heading to LSU the same time I was. Between him and Vernel Singleton (who I got to play with in high school in Natchez once) and the other guys, that '88-'89 season was one of the most fun teams I've ever watched. Maybe the most fun non-Final Four LSU basketball team I've ever seen. Just excitement and entertainment almost every trip up the court, almost every night. That was some fun times in the PMAC. And beating Georgetown in the SuperDome was freaking awesome!