re: Who beats LSU's basketball all-time starting five ?

IMO its starts and finishes with UCLA. This is the most dominate program in the history of college basketball. I think it could be argued that UCLA could put together 3 teams that could beat anyone.

If its based on just 5 names thats one thing but to put together a team that could actually have some type of chemistry is another. Really could Maravich and Jackson play together and be effective?

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G. Pete Maravich
G. Chris jackson
F. Rudy Macklin
F. Bob Petit
C. Shaquille O'Neal

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In terms of talent at the college level I don't think there's any all time team better... but I'm not sure how the offense would work with chris jackson, maravich, and O'Neal all expecting the offense to go through them

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shaq was not in his prime. Like 3 or 4 years from it actually

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he may not have been in his prime, but he was still an elite player, even at 23. Look at his stats his 2nd year, pretty much identical to 2000 which i think is the year he won MVP.

Oh and one other thing, its hard to argue the defending champs weren't the better team, though they were the 6 seed in the West. Orlando had the 2nd best record in the NBA. Horace Grant, Dennis Scott, Nick Anderson and Penny Hardaway (never could figure out why he tanked) were pretty damn good, its not like he took a team of stiffs to the finals.

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. HO on the other hand had one of his best seasons that year.

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definately the peak of his career. The 95 playoff run was amazing, no one, including Shaq and MJ were better than Hakeem was during that playoff run.

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Where did I say LSU was "Clearly" the best? I said IMO if I'm not mistaken didn't I?

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you said it was the best starting 5, that's debatable, but not clear cut. I would put LSU against anyone's 5, if we built teams, depth would kill us imho.

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PG Baron Davis
SG Reggie Miller
SF Marques Johnson
PF Bill Walton
C Kareem Abdul Jabbar
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Kareem and UCLA would dominate everyone

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Agreed, how about a little depth on this team?

Gail Goodrich
Sydney Wicks
Kiki Vandeweghe
David Greenwood
Lucious Allen
Walt Hazzard
Keith Wilkes
Dave Meyers
Ed O'Bannon
Tyus Edney
Kenny Field
Aaron Affalo
Darren Daye
Trevor Ariza
Kevin Love
Russell Westbrook
Darren Collison

+ more Im sure.

for some reason im underwhelmed by ucla's team outside of like three players.

i know that's basically the same for every team though.

probably cause most of it is before your time and we know about the guys that became NBA superstars and even focus on their NBA careers more.

Sidney Wicks and Vandeweighe would start on just about any schools all-time top 5.

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I agree, Shaq from 1997 to 2003 was the baddest center to ever play. The NBA had to change the rules to allow zone defenses to stop him.

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I thought they did it to stop the Iso play that was becoming so prevalent.

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I'm thinking the same thing about UCLA. The depth of excellent players is expected but I'd almost expected to see a couple of more names that impress the way Walton and Alcindor do.

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Thats because he left out Sven Nader.

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Alincdor and Walton were all time great big men, but to say Shaq isnt on their level is stupid

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I don't know who said that, but Shaq was not as good in college as those 2, he was much better in the NBA than Walton, people forget what a Bad MF Jabbar was in the NBA howevah.

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put Shaq on a team back in that era, and it would be freaking ugly. UGLY!!!

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we could say that for anyone. Some one (not you I know) was running donw Duke cause they didn't have NBA stars, now do you really think Laettner couldn't hang with Petit?

ETA: lets also keep in mind the SEC was not fully intergrated from 67-70.