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re: Was Shaquille the best all around center to ever play for LSU?
Posted on 12/30/23 at 8:10 pm to OysterPoBoy
Posted on 12/30/23 at 8:10 pm to OysterPoBoy
No.
Those of us lucky enough to watch the Trent Johnson era remember the GOAT, Andrew de Piero.
Those of us lucky enough to watch the Trent Johnson era remember the GOAT, Andrew de Piero.
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Posted on 12/30/23 at 9:04 pm to jtweezy
quote:91-92 had Shaq, Singleton, Brandon.
Jamie Brandon was not on that team.
Posted on 12/30/23 at 9:10 pm to Tiger1988
My dad says Rudy Macklin was pretty good
Posted on 12/30/23 at 9:17 pm to MarciMoshes
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My dad says Rudy Macklin was pretty good
His injury cost LSU best team to not play in a final 4. His injury in NOLA cost LSU a title shot at the final four losing to Indiana. Rudy was damn good.
Posted on 12/30/23 at 9:21 pm to OysterPoBoy
Dude he’s top 3 or 4 most dominant centers in the NBA of all time. There’s really no one else like him.
Posted on 12/30/23 at 9:29 pm to MarciMoshes
Rudy Mac was awesome but he was a forward.
Posted on 12/30/23 at 9:50 pm to mdomingue
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Petit was listed as a forward at LSU, But Petit did average more points and more rebounds and was a much better free throw shooter than Shaq at LSU. But I never saw Petit play, I saw Shaq. No one in my lifetime has been as good at center.
I wasn’t sure if Petit played center or not at LSU. I know he played center for the St. Louis Hawks. I saw him way back when.
Posted on 12/30/23 at 11:34 pm to Got Blaze
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During his Sr. year, Pettit averaged 31.4 pts and 17.3 rebounds/ game. Dude was a stud during different era of basketball.
No question he was a better center at LSU than Shaq.
Posted on 12/30/23 at 11:36 pm to lsufan1971
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Best center I ever saw play the game.
Are you in your 20’s?
Posted on 12/30/23 at 11:45 pm to Jojodaddy
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He was probably the best all around to play in college period so yea I’d say he tops LSU list.
Some of you are stupid. So Wilt, Alcindor (Jabbar), Russel, Dream all PLAYED IN COLLEGE. All were better college and pro’s. That is no disrespect to Shaq.
What kind of idiots that don’t remember Olajuwon that came to LSU and stomped a mud hole in our asses in 1983?
How about when he dominated Shaq in the NBA finals. Shaq said it himself many many times how Dream took him to school.
Posted on 12/30/23 at 11:46 pm to LSUBB6366
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Pettit was pretty damn good too. NBA top 50. HOF...
Far better college player.
Posted on 12/30/23 at 11:50 pm to OysterPoBoy
This is page 5. I don't respond when it gets this deep. Please tell me you're under 10 years old or completely drunk. This is really dumb
Posted on 12/31/23 at 12:00 am to doubleb
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I wasn’t sure if Petit played center or not at LSU. I know he played center for the St. Louis Hawks. I saw him way back when.
Petit as a FACT played center at LSU. And he was the best to ever play center at LSU. He did all of that with no shot clock. In the pros he was a forward for the most part making all pro EVERY YEAR HE PLAYED. He was awesome. Could score and rebound like crazy.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 12:01 am to WaydownSouth
We had Stanley Roberts also and vernal Singleton Gerald griggs. Chris Jackson
Posted on 12/31/23 at 12:01 am to Tiger1988
He was great. But he does not compare
Posted on 12/31/23 at 10:02 am to Gonadballbarian
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He was great. But he does not compare
You would be wrong. WHY ARE PEOPLE SO AFRAID TO ADMIT SOMEONE WHO WAS AN ALL TIME GREAT? I had season tickets from the late 70’s through the mid 90’s.
You do realize Petit had a more impressive individual NBA career than Shaq, don’t you? If there wasn’t a team called the Celtics, he wins 5 titles. He took a terrible team and won the title by himself with 50 in the final game.
He won more league MVP titles than Shaq
Was more scoring titles than Shaq.
More first team all NBA than Shaq - 10
Same ROTY
And was once a second team.
MVP of the All Star game more than Shaq.
More rebounding titles
They didn’t have an all defensive team then.
He quit at the top of his game because he wanted to make sure he was healthy when he got old.
Career highlights and awards
NBA champion (1958)
2× NBA Most Valuable Player (1956, 1959)
11× NBA All-Star (1955–1965)
4× NBA All-Star Game MVP (1956, 1958, 1959, 1962)
10× All-NBA First Team (1955–1964)
All-NBA Second Team (1965)
NBA Rookie of the Year (1955)
2× NBA scoring champion (1956, 1959)
NBA rebounding leader (1956)
NBA anniversary team (25th, 35th, 50th, 75th)
No. 9 retired by Atlanta Hawks
Consensus first-team All-American (1954)
Consensus second-team All-American (1953)
No. 50 retired by LSU Tigers
Posted on 12/31/23 at 10:03 am to WaydownSouth
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Yes and the moron old senile frick we named our court after couldn’t even get him to a final 4
and that was with chris jackson and stanley roberts that year we choked against 3D......dennis "great" scott.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 10:17 am to Tiger1988
Olajuwon kicked Shaqs arse in the finals
Posted on 12/31/23 at 11:10 am to Jim Rockford
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People forget how good Pettit was. 11 time NBA all star,
Until Kobe broke his record, Pettit scored the most career points in the NBA all star game.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 11:31 am to TigerintheNO
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Until Kobe broke his record, Pettit scored the most career points in the NBA all star game.
He would take you off the dribble and pull up on you from 10 to 15 feet away. Then he would go inside with incredible, jumping ability and grab a rebound then put it back in. He was an eight offensive rebound game guy. Freaking knack to get the ball wherever it was coming off the board. he played against Bill Russell, who was probably the best big man outside of Mutombo as a defensive player in the paint was still great against him.
Bob Petit was a rebounding and scoring machine plus a damn good defensive player. Ask the Boston Celtics. Yeah, those Celtics that won all those NBA titles in a row.
This post was edited on 12/31/23 at 11:44 am
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