re: Just how good was Randy Livingston in HS?

Randy Livingston was one of the best high school players I've ever seen play. I actually played against him in high school during his senior season. This is one of those games I can vividly remember. During the first half we were tight with Newman and went into halftime only down by 2 points. Randy only had three points in the first half. We went in halftime thinking we were doing a great defensive job against him. That bastard came out in the second half and scored 31 points and blew our arse out BY HIMSELF I think we end up losing by 17 points if I can remember correctly.

He made the 11 points I scored look like shite.

The famous sports orthopedic James Andrews really f'ed up RL's knees. Let him come back to soon. JA has done some good work but RL and Bo Jackson were his oopsies.

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Posted by buford4LSU
Best high school game i had ever seen. Newman vs. Vandebilt Catholic at Nicholls State. Randy Livingston vs Andre Brown (stud who played at Seton Hall under PJ Carlisoma). Best one on one match up ever seen. Randy hit a game winner from about 60 ft. Over 5000 at this game.

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My dad took me to this game when I was really young. I don't remember much about the details but I do remember Livingston getting the ball with little time left and hitting what I remember as a smooth pull up J from just inside mid court for the win.

Incredible.

I saw RL play in high school a little bit. It sounds crazy, but it is not far fetched to put him in that discussion of greatest ever. Like another poster, I remember him being point guard and also doing the opening jump ball. He looked crazy relaxed and next thing you know his hand was a foot over the other teams center for the tap.

For the people questioning the competition, forget Newman, if memory serves me correctly he just about singlehandedly won the national aau championship one year. I remember reading about the games as they progressed in the tournament and the numbers I was reading were just insane against that level of competition. I want to say he was game after game putting up 50 and maybe even 60 points. Like i said my memory is pretty foggy but if I am not dead on, then I am close as to the magnitude of domination. I think it came so easy to him that he could elevate his game as needed and in different aspects of the game. Right or wrong, I always thought that Dale Brown selfishly put his own best interests first in rushing Randy back.

One more CSB on Randy: I have a friend who was an assistant coach at Catholic High in BR at the time and I first heard of Randy when he told me they played against this freshman that dunked the putback of his own free throw miss.... once again as a freshman.

On Chris Jackson, I agree as to the best college player I ever saw. Never saw him in high school. Amazing at the time to see your 6' point guard catch an alley oop for a dunk.