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re: The 100 Years of LSU Basketball Thread - your memories
Posted on 1/23/09 at 8:54 pm to PiscesTiger
Posted on 1/23/09 at 8:54 pm to PiscesTiger
Where to start --- my most memorable moment is one of those, YOU HAD TO BE THERE TO BELIEVE IT. Florida in the Assembly Center 1985. Vernon Maxwell is their all everything guy and was having a helluva game. My buddies and I were Front Row Fanatics, and we didn't shut up the entire game. Did everything we could to get in their heads, but were unseccessful until with about 30 seconds to go in the game, Vernon is throwing the ball in right in front of us. My room mate shouts out, "Hey Maxwell, your momma douches with battery acid!" He looks back at us while throwing the ball in, right into Jerry "Ice Man" Reynolds hands. Ice takes it in for an uncontested lay-up, the lead and the game. The look on Vernon's face was priceless, that was 23 years ago and I remember it like it happened last night.
On the books it's just another game and another insignificant play; but I think it empitomzes LSU and college sports. The players make the games great, the fan decide which ones are immortalized.
From 1984 through 1990 I worked at the PMAC as a grunt. We were the guys that put the court together before each game and anytime Dale decided to hold a practice. I was under the goal the night Shaq shattered his first backboard in a practice. I still have the shard of glass from that goal. The pickup games we had against the basketball team were unbelievable. John Williams, Lyle Mouton, Iceman, Jose Vargas, Shaq, CJ, Ricky and Don Redden were all good guys on and off the court. I tip my cap to you brothers, thanks for the memories.
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On the books it's just another game and another insignificant play; but I think it empitomzes LSU and college sports. The players make the games great, the fan decide which ones are immortalized.
From 1984 through 1990 I worked at the PMAC as a grunt. We were the guys that put the court together before each game and anytime Dale decided to hold a practice. I was under the goal the night Shaq shattered his first backboard in a practice. I still have the shard of glass from that goal. The pickup games we had against the basketball team were unbelievable. John Williams, Lyle Mouton, Iceman, Jose Vargas, Shaq, CJ, Ricky and Don Redden were all good guys on and off the court. I tip my cap to you brothers, thanks for the memories.
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Posted on 1/24/09 at 1:25 am to basiletiger
Being in the Cow Palace the night Pete passed the Big O. What a night! 
This post was edited on 1/24/09 at 1:26 am
Posted on 1/24/09 at 2:44 am to bayareatiger
35 point arse whipping nikita and anthony wilson put on kentucky at rupp arena, still the worse defeat ever at kentucky.. the all time winningest program 
Posted on 1/24/09 at 6:51 am to dash-right-93-berlin
May have been posted but my best memory was a really bad loss. it was Dale's 2nd to last year I think in 95 or 96 (can't recall) and we were playing UK. ESPN and Dick V was in town and UK just cleaned the floor with us the entire game.
However, at the end of the game what was left of the crowd started to chat LSU, LSU, LSU for no good reason at all, and we got VERY noisy. We were down by 30+ at least and the UK players and the fans they had there just looked at us like we were stupid. Dale picked up the mike after the game and personally thanked the crowed...
At that point I was sold as a LSU fan for life with the crowd support like that. Good memory.
However, at the end of the game what was left of the crowd started to chat LSU, LSU, LSU for no good reason at all, and we got VERY noisy. We were down by 30+ at least and the UK players and the fans they had there just looked at us like we were stupid. Dale picked up the mike after the game and personally thanked the crowed...
At that point I was sold as a LSU fan for life with the crowd support like that. Good memory.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 7:19 am to PiscesTiger
Ha..Easy one for me. 1986 Everyone was heading off to Florida for Spring Break. Then LSU continued the "miracle run" beat Kentucky and made it to Dallas and the Final Four.
We headed North instead of West with the others. Meanwhile the rest of the gang was getting worried becuase we never showed up in Florida..when we called in and told them sorry baby WE ARE AT THE FINAL FOUR!!!
We headed North instead of West with the others. Meanwhile the rest of the gang was getting worried becuase we never showed up in Florida..when we called in and told them sorry baby WE ARE AT THE FINAL FOUR!!!
Posted on 1/24/09 at 8:07 am to PiscesTiger
The 86 regional in BR during the Final Four run. Skipping class all day Thursday to see the non-LSU games...guys in that region included Dell Curry, Rik Smits, and that whole phenom GT team...Price, Salley, Dalrymple, etc. Then, going back that evening for the LSU-Purdue game that couldn't have started until after 9:00 and then went into double OT. Then going back Saturday for the Anthony Wilson miracle. I think tickets for the whole session cost me like $27 or something.
The 85 loss to UGA when we had the ball with 1 second left and a 1 point lead. People that have forgotten about this don't realize what a monumental feat it was for LSU to end up with a loss.
The 87 run to the Elite Eight, including that drubbing of UK in the regular season that others have previously mentioned.
Chris Jackson in general...I think because of his struggles in the pros and whole national anthem fiasco, people lose appreciation for how talented he was.
How good 86 could have been if we'd had Nikita Wilson who didn't play because of grade troubles or how good 87 would have been if we'd had Blanton who missed the season with an injury. Not to mention losing John Williams who turned pro too early.
The 85 loss to UGA when we had the ball with 1 second left and a 1 point lead. People that have forgotten about this don't realize what a monumental feat it was for LSU to end up with a loss.
The 87 run to the Elite Eight, including that drubbing of UK in the regular season that others have previously mentioned.
Chris Jackson in general...I think because of his struggles in the pros and whole national anthem fiasco, people lose appreciation for how talented he was.
How good 86 could have been if we'd had Nikita Wilson who didn't play because of grade troubles or how good 87 would have been if we'd had Blanton who missed the season with an injury. Not to mention losing John Williams who turned pro too early.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 8:41 am to Obi-Wan Tiger
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Not to mention losing John Williams who turned pro too early.
At the 20-year reunion of that '86 team Big John apologized to the team for not coming back in '87 and nearly broke down.
Who knows if we really do any better w/John as sometimes team dynamics are tricky. But you'd have to think we would've been. He was not a selfish player.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 10:47 am to PiscesTiger
My first big memory of LSU basketball was watching the last 5 or so minutes of the LSU-Georgetown game in 1989. LSU had the lead, then let them back. When that ball was tipped in and time ran out my whole family jumped up and starting yelling and whooping.
It loved whenever LSU did something great because at the time I had just moved to Huntsville, Alabama after growing up in West Monroe. For the first 2 years or so I had an awful identity crisis and had few friends. Unfortunatley, LSU football couldn't pick me up after that but LSU basketball rocked for much of that time period.
It loved whenever LSU did something great because at the time I had just moved to Huntsville, Alabama after growing up in West Monroe. For the first 2 years or so I had an awful identity crisis and had few friends. Unfortunatley, LSU football couldn't pick me up after that but LSU basketball rocked for much of that time period.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 11:15 am to PiscesTiger
I was a student in 1981, went to a loan company, borrowed $750 in order to travel with the LSU group and get SILLY IN PHILLY at the Final Four.
Nuts, yes, but obsession for LSU is no vice.
In 1986, I drove by myself to Atlanta for the NCAA tourney Southeast regional. This tournament was just like an SEC tournament with Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia Tech, and LSU. Suffice to say when we disposed of Kentucky, the few of us LSU fans there were dwarfed by the seas of Big Blue............but we got the last laugh. We beat some outstanding opponents in that regional with Georgia Tech and Kentucky who sent many of those players to the NBA.
Too many fabulous memories all over the country for me to list them all. I loved LSU basketball since 74 and still do so today.
Nuts, yes, but obsession for LSU is no vice.
In 1986, I drove by myself to Atlanta for the NCAA tourney Southeast regional. This tournament was just like an SEC tournament with Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia Tech, and LSU. Suffice to say when we disposed of Kentucky, the few of us LSU fans there were dwarfed by the seas of Big Blue............but we got the last laugh. We beat some outstanding opponents in that regional with Georgia Tech and Kentucky who sent many of those players to the NBA.
Too many fabulous memories all over the country for me to list them all. I loved LSU basketball since 74 and still do so today.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 11:29 am to Purple Forever
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In 1986, I drove by myself to Atlanta for the NCAA tourney Southeast regional. This tournament was just like an SEC tournament with Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia Tech, and LSU. Suffice to say when we disposed of Kentucky, the few of us LSU fans there were dwarfed by the seas of Big Blue............but we got the last laugh. We beat some outstanding opponents in that regional with Georgia Tech and Kentucky who sent many of those players to the NBA.
I was at that Kentucky game. I had been in Lexington two weeks earlier for the SEC-T and had never been so sad and dejected after an LSU game when UK came back and won late. I must have looked kind of pathetic,'cause I remember a woman in blue sitting next to me (there couldn't have been 100 LSU fans there) hugging me at the end and telling me what a great game it was.
That win in Atlanta was amazing. LSU had a 'decent' crowd but you can't compare to Kentucky's fanbase. I was so elated.
I remember passing some UK fans on the way out.One woman had a blue t-shirt that said "FORTY MINUTES TO DALLAS". I asked her if she lived in Ft Worth. She didn't think it was too funny.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 2:39 pm to PiscesTiger
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And fwiw, Shawn Griggs shut down Chris Mills and the two surfer dude guards for AU - Mulenbach and ? - didn't do shite, either.
?=Tolbert I think. At any rate you're spot on about KJ and DV. I was at the game but watched the tape the next day. I'd fast forward every time Jackson started gushing for AU. Remember the Shaq dance after the fast-break dunk near the end of the game? Pete's Palace erupted man.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 3:07 pm to RANDY44
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I'd fast forward every time Jackson started gushing for AU
I've never been one to accuse media of being USC homers and the like, but KJ doesn't know what to do if a Big 10 team or Pac 10 team doesn't win the game.
Yes, it was obvious how much he despised Shaq's reign. While B Williams and Rooks were solid big men who went to average NBA careers, Shaq dominated both.
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Remember the Shaq dance after the fast-break dunk near the end of the game?
Indeed. It was fantastic. Pugh never gets credit for the feed. Griggs with the steal to rub it in the face was great, too.
Too bad Zona smoked us the following year. I'd say, over the years, though, we had the last laugh(s).
Posted on 1/24/09 at 3:37 pm to PiscesTiger
I was in 6th grade in 86 and was on the floor with the team in the Omni when we cut down the nets. Coach Brown let me sit on the bench a couple of times in Athens. Ricky Blanton was my "guardian" in 87 in Athens. I'll never forget listening to Dale in the huddle and chewing Jose Vargas ' arse out.
At the SEC tourney in 87 in the omni, I sat in the stands with Bernard Woodside's family right behind UF head coach Norm Sloan and some of their players. Maxwell and Moten told me they were gonna beat us by 20 the next day. We won and it was never close.
At the SEC tourney in 87 in the omni, I sat in the stands with Bernard Woodside's family right behind UF head coach Norm Sloan and some of their players. Maxwell and Moten told me they were gonna beat us by 20 the next day. We won and it was never close.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 3:45 pm to Tiger Lover
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Coach Brown let me sit on the bench a couple of times in Athens
I sat on the bench once in '88. I played for Don Redden at St. George and Don was able to get one kid from the team on the bench and all of us in the locker room before the game. Dale was super nice to everyone. I do remember Dale really chewing Jose out during the game. Split was just flying out of Brown's mouth on the court. Auburn beat us that game. In the locker room is was obvious that Blanton was the leader of the team. When Dale walked in the locker room after the game Johnny Jones pulled me aside and said "son, you don't want to hear this"
This post was edited on 1/24/09 at 3:55 pm
Posted on 1/24/09 at 3:50 pm to Tiger Lover
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I was in 6th grade in 86 and was on the floor with the team in the Omni when we cut down the nets. Coach Brown let me sit on the bench a couple of times in Athens. Ricky Blanton was my "guardian" in 87 in Athens. I'll never forget listening to Dale in the huddle and chewing Jose Vargas ' arse out.
Very cool. I sat on the bench for the '89 UNLV game (what a memory...you can see me on CBS tape) and prior, ran into the team at their hotel in Starkville. Brown saw me outside and invited me on that night. I got to hear him tell Richard Krejewski, "I oughtta kick your arse for not payin' a damn bit of attention, Richard!"
State kicked our asses that night. It was very cold and icey in Starkville that day. Dale wore a jump suit to the game, on the sidelines. Sone fat arse redneck in the State stands yelled at him, "You look silly Dale!"
This post was edited on 1/24/09 at 3:55 pm
Posted on 1/24/09 at 3:54 pm to JHE1967
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Johnny Jones pulled me aside and said "son, you don't want to hear this
No you didn't want any part of a "Brownout". Jones was a very cool guy. He met me down at the lower level and got me inside the tunnel out onto the court for the UNLV game.
I remember sitting a few seats down from the little boy who died of cancer. He was probably at one of his last games, by that time. Stanley, Mo, and Boudreaux were dressed in LSU jump leisure suits (they were prop 48's) and they were really paying a lot of attention to him. The players, I could tell, were very fond of him.
This post was edited on 1/24/09 at 3:56 pm
Posted on 1/24/09 at 4:00 pm to PiscesTiger
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I remember sitting a few seats down from the little boy who died of cancer.
Yeah, at the end of the bench there was a young kid with downs syndrome and a couple of kids with cancer. It was a big SEC home game but Brown made sure he paid attention to those kids. The guy was a total class act.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 4:55 pm to JHE1967
Yeah, I sat right next to the kid with DS at the UNLV game. He seemed a bit older.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 5:01 pm to PiscesTiger
My first ever LSU sporting event experience was my first year in college. LSU played Arizona, I think it was 2000. The Jabari behind the back fake pass dunk before halftime...the route we put on them...waiting in line for 6 hours before game time to get in in 25 degree weather...man, one of the best experiences I've ever had. I'll never forget that!
This post was edited on 1/24/09 at 5:02 pm
Posted on 1/24/09 at 6:13 pm to PiscesTiger
I have several decades of memories ~
I was a freshman when Pete was a freshman
so I was able to attend all his games. It's
pretty funny how over the years the numbers
have swelled to 10 times the capacity of
the Cow Palace of people claiming they
were there. When he played JV most fans
would leave after their game. But he sure
gave us some sweet memories.
Fast forward to the 80's. I was in Philly
when we lost to Indiana in the Final Four.
The game was unbelievable. The first half
we were incredible and when they came out
for the 2nd half it was like zombies had
taken over their bodies. Very sad...
I was a big Dale Brown fan. Think what you
will ~ he loved LSU.
I was a freshman when Pete was a freshman
so I was able to attend all his games. It's
pretty funny how over the years the numbers
have swelled to 10 times the capacity of
the Cow Palace of people claiming they
were there. When he played JV most fans
would leave after their game. But he sure
gave us some sweet memories.
Fast forward to the 80's. I was in Philly
when we lost to Indiana in the Final Four.
The game was unbelievable. The first half
we were incredible and when they came out
for the 2nd half it was like zombies had
taken over their bodies. Very sad...
I was a big Dale Brown fan. Think what you
will ~ he loved LSU.
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