re: Is JaVonte Smart the most accomplished Louisiana HS Basketball player ever? (Srs Question)

1. Randy Livingston- Hands down the best ever in La. maybe the nation...Smoothest guy I ever saw play the game.

2. Michael Cutwright- Zwolle at the time Class A or AA. What he did at the Assembly Center in a high school top 24 was amazing. I believe it was in 1986 when I graduated high school. He could pull up past the NBA 3 point line and drain them constantly. Never seen shooting like that. Dale Brown was sitting near me with John Williams' mother as he was recruiting him or he had already enrolled. Cutwright played for the Denver Nuggets.

3. Greg Procell- Ebarb High School Class C
Points in High School- 6,702 most ever in the USA with 3,173 points in his senior season (47.6 Average). He scored 51 points in a game as a freshman and had a 100 point game in a tournament game. He scored 20 or more in 138 consecutive games. All of this without a 3 point line. Ebarb was a small school with only 39 boys in the whole 9-12 grades and they played top BB schools with enrollments of 1,000-2,400 students like Woodlawn and Haughton and held their own for being a Class C school.

4. Willie Jackson- Sibley in Webster Parrish from 1977-1980 Class B. In 1978- 1979 and 79-80 season they won 100 straight games and Jackson averaged in the 30's. They went 58-0 in the 79-80 season where I saw him play against my home town of Arnaudville where they edged us out in the Semis of the Top 24 tournament in Alexandria.

5. Me- Averaged 24 ppg in high school- Arnaudville High, also Class B... We small school guys could ball!!

Other greats, Honorable Mention- Karl Malone, Joe Dumars, Robert Parish, Bill Russell, Benny Anders, John "Hotrod" Williams, Greg Monroe