Do You Wanna Dance: Every Game Other Than The HAWKEYES

thedukeofearl said:
Always have liked Creighton

Ever since Paul SIlas played for them

Then the Celts for three NBA Championships

Silas played for Creighton, Then, Silas was a member of three NBA Championship teams (1974,1976,1979) and two NBA All-Defensive First Teams (1975,1976). He joined the Celtics in 1972 and proved to be a crucial addition to a team trying to regain its championship form.
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Red Auerbach may have been the best GM in the history of professional sports.

It's not easy to retool on the fly mini generation after mini gemeration. Or when you usually draft low.

He took advantage of a rule that existed then to get Larry Bird with a year to go in college. Back then any fourth year junior who's original class had graduated was eligible to be drafted even if they hadn't formally declared.

Then he swapped high picks with Golden State and drafted Kevin McHale third overall after Golden state drafted Joe Barry Carroll number 1. Oh, and he also got a backup center named Robert Parish in the deal. Maxwell was probably even a better big game performer that Bird in Larry's early years, Coming up big in their 1981 championship run and in the semifinals in 1984

Boston frontcourts of the 1980's with Bird, Parish McHale, and first Cornbread Maxwell and then Bill Walton were probably the best four man front courts in the history of the league.

Silas would have won the 1979 championship on a Seattle team that included Downtown Freddy Brown!
 
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It's a ballgame Now!

Creighton giving Kansas all they can handle. This is a natural geographical rivalry where Kansas has probably avoided scheduling a team like Creighton.

And now they've drawn them in the second round. And Kansas looks scored. But just got a huge TO and dunk.
 
Northside Hawk said:
Red Auerbach may have been the best GM in the history of professional sports.

It's not easy to retool on the fly mini generation after mini gemeration. Or when you usually draft low.

He took advantage of a rule that existed then to get Larry Bird with a year to go in college. Back then any fourth year junior who's original class had graduated was eligible to be drafted even if they hadn't formally declared.

Then he swapped high picks with Golden State and drafted Kevin McHale third overall after Golden state drafted Joe Barry Carroll number 1. Oh, and he also got a backup center named Robert Parish in the deal.

Boston frontcourts of the 1980's with Bird, Parish McHale, and first Cornbread Maxwell and then Bill Walton were probably the best four man front courts in the history of the league.

Silas would have won the 1979 championship on a Seattle team that included Downtown Freddy Brown!
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Magic, Kareem, Worthy, Rambis, Green and Thompson would like a word with you.
 
Seth53 said:
Magic, Kareem, Worthy, Green and Thompson would like a word with you.
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Magic was a guard, though he stopped guarding jet quick points after his 1981 knee injury.

Jamaal Wikes was the player you were thinking of and he was a tremendous, savvy player and yes those were formidable front lines.

Just my opinion, I think Boston's FRONT COURT was a hair better, and since you went five deep with Thompson Boston still has an edge. They had ML Carr and then Scott Wedman.
 
Northside Hawk said:
Magic was a guard, though he stopped guarding jet quick points after his 1981 knee injury.

Jamaal Wikes was the player you were thinking of and he was a tremendous, savvy player and yes those were formidable front lines.

Just my opinion, I think Boston's FRONT COURT was a hair better, and since you went five deep with Thompson Boston still has an edge. They had ML Carr and then Scott Wedman.
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Jamaal Wilkes who reminds me of Keegan
 
ajdwhs87 said:
Say what you want about Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Howard, he has his teams ready to play in the tournament.
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Credit him for taking advantage of the opportunity. But they should be in the NIT.

This will sound insane today, but in 1970 Al McGuire, coaching at Marquette, turned down an NCAA bid (which had fewer at large berths to award then) in favor of the NIT. He wanted no part of the Wooden UCLA machine, he wanted to win a championship.

Which he did. Back in those days you weren't guaranteed an NCAA bid even if you won your conference. And those NIT games could be wars. Bobby Knight made a name for himself in the late sixties and early seventies by gaining a reputation as a tough out in the NIT with his Army teams.
 
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