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You remember correctly Caddo, but I feel bad Fess gets the blame. He actually played maybe his best game for LSU that day, scored 14 points and 2-3 from three point land.

That one was on Dale, we're up 9 and they absolutely can't stop Nikita Wilson, they have no answer for him.

But Dale goes four corners and stops getting Nikita the ball. Kudos for getting up 9 on a more talented team but Dale shite the bed with his end game strategy. Fess was a symptom of a bad decision by Dale, he doesn't deserve the footnote he gets, IMHO.

I didn’t miss a home game and only missed a few one the road. Man, we had that game and like you said Dale froze it. Sucked. Man, those times were fun. From ‘79-‘92 there were some incredible athletes and teams.

‘86 was my favorite though.

The one that had the best shot was the ‘80-‘81 Team until Rudy got hurt in NO.

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Posted by Tiger Ugly

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Posted on 3/24/18 at 7:23 pm to Tiger1988

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The one that had the best shot was the ‘80-‘81 Team until Rudy got hurt in NO.

No brainer I agree, probably not IMHO Dale's most talented team but a lot of experience playing together with seniors Macklin, Ethan, Cookie and Sims complemented by frosh Swat Mitchell and soph Hi-C.

Not much depth at all on that team though which is why Rudy getting hurt was so big. Johhny Jones, John Tudor and Tyron Black were reserves but in big games Dale and Huckaby really didn't trust them and they didn't play much.

I actually think the 84 and 85 teams had more depth of talent and they both bowed out in lopsided losses to much lower seeds in the first round. of course the 90 team with Shaq, Stanley, CJ, Williamson, Singleton et al was very talented if inexperienced, but at least they lost to a very good team and in the second round. The crime there was being seeded 5 because of their underachievement in the regular season.

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