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LSU v. Kentucky - SEC Championship 1980
Posted on 3/7/20 at 1:46 pm
Posted on 3/7/20 at 1:46 pm
I've been looking for this game on YouTube for years. Finally found it. Macklin and Scales, LSU winning the SEC Tournament
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Posted on 3/8/20 at 10:20 am to Manswers
Bumping because of the discussion of greatest dunkers of all time, the name Dewayne Scales came up. I still haven't gotten to watch the whole thing but I think Scales was named MVP in this game. I was in 9th grade and saw some of this game on TV but have never watched the whole thing.
The game back then with no shot clock or 3-point line looks a lot different than today. There was a lot of work to get a good mid-range jump shot, or a post-up turnaround jump shot. I look at Scales' game (he was a good shooter at 6'9") and think how dominant he could have been if he simply posted his man up and elevated over him for a dunk, basically more of a low-post power game, leveraging his incredible leaping ability. I don't know, just wondering. Scales is one of the most exciting players to ever play at LSU and the 1980 team is still my favorite all-time LSU team.
The game back then with no shot clock or 3-point line looks a lot different than today. There was a lot of work to get a good mid-range jump shot, or a post-up turnaround jump shot. I look at Scales' game (he was a good shooter at 6'9") and think how dominant he could have been if he simply posted his man up and elevated over him for a dunk, basically more of a low-post power game, leveraging his incredible leaping ability. I don't know, just wondering. Scales is one of the most exciting players to ever play at LSU and the 1980 team is still my favorite all-time LSU team.
Posted on 3/8/20 at 12:35 pm to Manswers
Oh, I remember that game! That made of winners of two of three against UK that year. We beat them 65-60 in Lexington in January, lost to them in overtime 76-74 in Baton Rouge on Feb 20th, then beat them in the SEC tournament. I was a sixth grade kid in Kentucky at the time. I absolutely LOVED wering my LSU shirt to school the next day. The school librarian taped a sheet of notebook paper over the LSU logo. 
(She turned out to be a wonderful person. We had a perpetual bet of a quart of ice cream on every UK/LSU game for years afterward until she passed away after I had graduated from LSU years later.)
Oh, I miss those great UK/LSU clashes from the 80s!
(She turned out to be a wonderful person. We had a perpetual bet of a quart of ice cream on every UK/LSU game for years afterward until she passed away after I had graduated from LSU years later.) Oh, I miss those great UK/LSU clashes from the 80s!
This post was edited on 3/8/20 at 12:39 pm
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