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re: LSU's all-time basketball team > all
Posted on 6/5/11 at 9:50 am to BayouBengals03
Posted on 6/5/11 at 9:50 am to BayouBengals03
Final score: LSU 119
North Carolina 118
3 OT. Wow.
North Carolina 118
3 OT. Wow.
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Posted on 6/5/11 at 11:22 am to Tiger Ugly
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I've always said, any all-time LSU hoops team of mine has Ethan Martin at point. Pistol and CJ can play off guard and they'll get their touches with E at the point. I wanna win not impress with name recognition.
Agree with everything you said the only thing I would add is you got to have Greg Cook on the team as your enforcer and you cant leave the Supersub Willie Sims off the team he has got to be a bench player.
Posted on 6/5/11 at 11:44 am to Machine
I'd switch out Rickey Blanton for swift.. His versatility would be handy.. I'd make room for Jose Vargas somewhere..just because I loved that guy and his style..
Posted on 6/5/11 at 12:32 pm to Tiger Ugly
Anyone other than Jackson at point is wrong. I really get tired of the obsession with the 80s players. Everyone who was in college in the 80s makes them out to be the best that ever wore a uniform. It's annoying and inaccurate. Yes they were good. None of them should be in the starting 5. Including Macklin.
Posted on 6/5/11 at 12:45 pm to Chazz Reinhold
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Anyone other than Jackson at point is wrong.
Respectfully disagree. I'm still getting CJ his points running off screens and still some occassional ISO's.
But he showed in his soph year that he was not adept and getting the most out of that talented team. Sure part of it was Dale pretty much calling the "everybody get out of the way" offense a bit too much but if you're actually talking about winning a team ball Ethan at the point getting the ball to the scorers (and playing defense for that matter, cause Pete and CJ didn't do much of that) Ethan is the man.
People bring up that '81 team cause it was legitimately the best LSU team ever. And Ethan was a big reason.
Posted on 6/5/11 at 1:45 pm to Tiger Ugly
No point worrying about point guard. Pete wanted the ball. So did CJ.
Posted on 6/5/11 at 2:58 pm to Old Smokey
If you had Pete and Shaq you could just about have a blind draw to fill the rest! However Petitt was and is still thought very highly of by NBA people. I was lucky enough to have seen most of those that are mentioned since I was one of the original front row lunatics during the Dale Brown years
Posted on 6/5/11 at 3:02 pm to Machine
Ricky Blanton?
Posted on 6/5/11 at 6:14 pm to Bobby Moore
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Anyone other than Jackson at point is wrong. I really get tired of the obsession with the 80s players. Everyone who was in college in the 80s makes them out to be the best that ever wore a uniform. It's annoying and inaccurate. Yes they were good. None of them should be in the starting 5. Including Macklin.
Chazz if that is your opinion fine but I think that is bullcrap. Ethan Martin is head and shoulders more valuable as a PG than CJ would be on this team. With Shaq, Pete and Petit you dont need CJ dominating the ball and launching 30 footers like he did when he played with Stanley and Shaq.
Rudy is the best offensive rebounder ever to play at LSU and on this team he would be the perfect weakside rebounder with Pete on a wing, Petit at the high post and Shaq on the block. Rudy pulled down 32 rebounds in a single game as a freshman the only freshman in the history of the NCAA to record 30 or more rebounds in a single game.
Posted on 6/5/11 at 6:31 pm to Machine
Sorry, but as good as Pettit was in the early 50's he wouldn't stand a chance against modern players.
That's true for pretty much any sport, actually. The best players of 1950 in any sport would get absolutely crushed today.
That's true for pretty much any sport, actually. The best players of 1950 in any sport would get absolutely crushed today.
Posted on 6/5/11 at 7:00 pm to Rudy40
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Rudy pulled down 32 rebounds in a single game as a freshman the only freshman in the history of the NCAA to record 30 or more rebounds in a single game.
That was Rudy Macklin's 1st game as a Tiger int he Assembly Center. I was there. Before he blew out his knee, he could literally jump out of the building.
Posted on 6/5/11 at 7:45 pm to foshizzle
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Sorry, but as good as Pettit was in the early 50's he wouldn't stand a chance against modern players. That's true for pretty much any sport, actually. The best players of 1950 in any sport would get absolutely crushed today.
Posted on 6/5/11 at 9:06 pm to Machine
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Sorry, but as good as Pettit was in the early 50's he wouldn't stand a chance against modern players.
Yea I can just see Wilt Chamberlain from the mid to late 50's and dropped into todays NBA and being dominated by Pau Gasol???????? Would never happen Wilt would put a dress on Pau and make him his b_tch. As mentioned on a talk show this weekend when Wilt played each team had like 2 TO's per half not like now when their is like 3 or 4 or more stoppages for TV timeouts and so forth. Let Wilt get that much time to catch breathers and he might average 50 every season. Especially now where there is a lack of true dominant centers with really Dwight Howard being the only true dominant power center. Wilt would rule!!!!!!
Posted on 6/5/11 at 9:18 pm to foshizzle
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Sorry, but as good as Pettit was in the early 50's he wouldn't stand a chance against modern players. That's true for pretty much any sport, actually. The best players of 1950 in any sport would get absolutely crushed today.
You may be right; but we'll never know. They will be saying the same things in 60 years from now about the very people we are immortalizing on this thread. It not their fault they were the best of their eras.
Posted on 6/5/11 at 9:32 pm to foshizzle
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Sorry, but as good as Pettit was in the early 50's he wouldn't stand a chance against modern players
I think that's a reasonable if not air-tight assumption to make. Having not seen him play I wouldn't be able to give a qualified opinion.
I do know he scored 50 points in a game deciding NBA Finals victory over the Celtics with Bill Russel guarding him at times.
I think Russel could play and be and effective defender in today's NBA if not a superstar, for what that's worth.
And I do think there are folks that Petit played against that could play today. Certainly not alot but I do believe there were some.
Posted on 6/5/11 at 11:03 pm to Tiger Ugly
didn't make the list but I always liked Jose Vargas
Posted on 6/5/11 at 11:25 pm to BowDownToLSU
I believe that Bob Petit and Wilt Chamberlin would do very well today. Height and conditioning are still important. Both were tremendous athletes, in addition to being Hall of Fame material.
Posted on 6/6/11 at 12:13 am to Old Smokey
Where do you all think Don Redden would be ranked on all time LSU players
Posted on 6/6/11 at 6:31 am to Rudy40
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Wilt would put a dress on Pau and make him his b_tch.
Knowing what Wilt's off-court, um, "abilities" were, that's just funny.
Posted on 6/6/11 at 6:55 am to BayouBengals03
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LSU ran through their side of the bracket and ended up facing North Carolina in the Final Four. The winner was determined by fan voting, so UNC won.
How did the Rant allow that to happen?
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