Best of the best of Oklahoma bball

[BigTime]

Let's see who you got:

^note: players can be used more than once

Best Dunker:
Best Passer:
Best Ball Handler:
Best at finishing in traffic:
Best Rebounder:
Best Leaper:
Best midrange J:
Best Three point shooter:
Best looking shot:
Best bench Cheerleader:
Best lefty:
Best with the game on the line:
Best post moves:
Best perimeter defender:
Best post defender:
Best "showtime":

I wish I knew more about the Bliss days and beyond but here are my picks:

Best Dunker: Blake Griffin
Best Passer: Bo Overton
Best Ball Handler: Mookie Blaylock
Best at finishing in traffic: Stacey King
Best Rebounder: Blake Griffin
Best Leaper: Blake Griffin
Best midrange J: Post: Wayman Guard: Hollis
Best Three point shooter: Brent Price
Best looking shot: Brent Price
Best bench Cheerleader: Kellen Sampson
Best lefty: Wayman Tisdale
Best with the game on the line: Wayman Tisdale
Best post moves: Wayman Tisdale
Best perimeter defender: Mookie Blaylock
Best post defender: Clifford Ray
Best "showtime": Relly Rell (im biased)
Best "Tough Guy": Post: Najera Guard: Corey Brewer

Who ya got? That was tougher than I thought it would be....

 

[pillmanj]

Best looking shot....I think you could throw Ryan Minor in there as well.

 

[seniorsooner]

Best bench cheerleader: Oleg Retsov

 

[suncoastsooner]

Best Dunker: Blake Griffin
Best Passer: Quanas White
Best Ball Handler: Mookie Blaylock
Best at finishing in traffic: Ace McGee
Best Rebounder: Blake Griffen
Best Leaper: Wayman Tisdale
Best midrange J: Ryan Minor
Best Three point shooter: Brent Price
Best looking shot: Hollis Price
Best bench Cheerleader: Jason Skurcenski
Best lefty: Waymon Tisdale
Best with the game on the line: Ryan Minor
Best post moves: Stacy King
Best perimeter defender: Mookie Blaylock
Best post defender: Blake Griffin
Best "showtime": Correy Brewer

 

[Sooner04]

Best post defender: Blake Griffin

Um........

 

[Tony]

The best passer was Alvan Adams.

 

[Sooner04]

I find it a little troubling that Tony was the first to mention a guy who "only" averaged 23.4 points and 12.9 rebounds for his CAREER at Oklahoma.

You know, that's 4.5 points and 1.0 rebounds MORE than Blake Griffin's averages.

 

[NickZepp]

AA's number was retired in the NBA by the Suns till Grant Hill came along.

He's overlooked because you don't even see highlights of him anymore. None of our games were televised back then. I bet SoonerSports could get a highlight package with him somehow.

 

[Sooner04]

I'd like to see Blake Griffin have a game like Alvan Adams had against the Buffalo Braves on February 22, 1977:

47 points
18 rebounds
12 assists

AA was a stud deluxe. Totally underappreciated.

 

[cfin5256]

AA's number was retired in the NBA by the Suns till Grant Hill came along.

He's overlooked because you don't even see highlights of him anymore. None of our games were televised back then. I bet SoonerSports could get a highlight package with him somehow.

If they did, I would watch it. It would be great to see highlight packages for some of the OU greats of the past.

 

[Tony]

If they did, I would watch it. It would be great to see highlight packages for some of the OU greats of the past.

Hopefully the OU network or whatever it will be called will have a lot of this.

I started filling this out but it got a bit repetitive putting Wayman in every spot

Best 3 point shooter is Hollis Price
Best bench cheerleader is Kellen Sampson
Best showtime is Angelo Hamilton
Best dunker is either Hamilton or Helicopter Bell
Best band director is Roland Barrett

 

[ouboomer]

I thought Tim Heskett was a good bench cheerleader when not on the floor..

 

[DanielOcean]

Best Dunker: Blake Griffin
Best Passer: Terry Evans
Best Ball Handler: Mookie Blaylock
Best at finishing in traffic: Blake Griffin
Best Rebounder: Ernie Abercrombie
Best Leaper: Nate Erdman
Best midrange J:Jeff Webster
Best Three point shooter: Brent Price
Best looking shot: Ryan Minor
Best bench Cheerleader: Romero Osby
Best lefty: Waymon Tisdale
Best with the game on the line: Nolan Johnson iso sets
Best post moves: Ace McGee
Best perimeter defender: Mookie Blaylock
Best post defender: Stacey King
Best "showtime": Blake Griffin/Angelo Hamilton

 

[BigTime]

I find it a little troubling that Tony was the first to mention a guy who "only" averaged 23.4 points and 12.9 rebounds for his CAREER at Oklahoma.

You know, that's 4.5 points and 1.0 rebounds MORE than Blake Griffin's averages.

Very, very impressive. Wish I could see some game film of him at Oklahoma.

 

[suncoastsooner]

Um........

I thought it only fair that I name players who I could really vividly recall playing and really watching. I saw Wayman play a number of games but it was a very young kid tagging along with my father and grandfather to the games. At that age I was more amazed when Top Daug would come up our aisle and grab his ears and shake his head. It wasn't until Mookie and Stacy that I had gotten old enough to really sit through an entire game and appreciate what I was watching.

I also strongly considered Jabari Brown; almost single handedly because of his performance against Maryland the year we ran them off the court and they won the title after Quannas got hurt and we choked to Indiana.

I even almost voted for Ace of Wayman in the leaper category but I have seen enough clips of Wayman to know he had the ups. Ace was one hell of an acrobat though.