Cam's dunk

[Sooner Season]

For you old timers out there (I'm 53) did Cam's dunk Friday night remind you of a memorable dunk from the Billy Tubbs era?

I went home and watched it on the replay, and they are a lot alike. I think it might be fairly easy to guess which one I'm talking about, but does anybody else know which one I'm referring too?

 

[sheepdogs]

Jackie Jones?

 

[Keller Sooner]

Mike? "helicopter" Bell had some roof raisers. :woot

 

[Sooner Season]

I'm actually going back a little further, early 80's, the game kind of put us on the map.

 

[Sooner04]

Two big dunks that I can think of, at least in terms of "whoa" nationally, would be:

1. Wayman's reverse at Syracuse in '84.
2. Anthony Bowie's hellacious follow-up against Georgia Tech in '85.

Of which dunk would you be referring, Sooner Season?

 

[Sooner Season]

I'm thinking of Calvin Pierce's dunk against Syracuse in 83. I actually have it on tape and went back and looked at it and it's very similar. Pierce took the ball on the wing with his back to the basket and then reverse pivoted to the baseline and was challenged at the goal and went up and under for a rim rattling dunk.

It was really his second best dunk of the game. He actually dunked over Pearl Washington on a fast break and Washington set up under the basket to take a charge and got a knee in his face but the ref still called a charge. Billy Packer went wild against the call.

It was bittersweet to see Waymon at his best. He wound up with 33 points and 7 rebounds. Sure miss that guy. Tim McAlister had 26 points. What a team.......Jan Pinell at the point, Choo Kennedy, David Johnson. What great times.

And yes........if I really do have something on TAPE, you KNOW I'm an old timer

 

[Sooner04]

Good call! I've never seen the Pierce dunk, only highlights of Wayman's reverse.

The little bit I've seen of Calvin has shown him to be an all-world Dunking Machine.

 

[Sooner Season]

If I could figure out how to put them on Youtube, they are worth watching. Maybe my sons can help me. Pierce lived for the follow slam off of rebounds. It put him out of position a lot of times to actually get the rebound but when he timed it right and the ball bounced right, he had some incredible put backs.

 

[Sooner04]

For those who know nothing of Calvin Pierce. Check out some of these slams from the '84 Nebraska BBall game:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X625806Snrw[/ame]

 

[DenverSooner]

What was the guys name that palyed for Tubbs around 1991 and had an incredible verticle. He threw down a 360 in Cameron Indoor.

There have been so many incredible players at OU over the last 30 years. I sure hope Kruger can get OU back to being one of the best basketball programs in the country.

 

[DenverSooner]

Jackie Jones?

Jackie Jones was one of my favorite players at OU. I think his flunking out was a huge loss for OU. I think that guy would have had a monster senior season. That 1990/91 teams should have had Jones, Smokey McCovery and Patterson. Imagine Jones, McCovery and Patterson on the team with Webster, Price, Evans, Sallier, and Kermit Holmes. That would have been an incredible 8 man rotation. OU also had an experienced Terrance Mullins on that team.

In 1991, Webster averaged 18 points a game as a freshman. Price averaged 17. Sallier averaged 10. Holmes averaged 14 with 9.3 boards a game. Terry Evans averaged 11 a game. Mullins averaged just under 10 a game. The prior year Jones had averaged 15 a game with 7 boards, McCovery averaged 10 a game and Patterson averaged 11 (in 1992 Patterson averaged 20 a game). I honestly think that team could have been really special.

I honestly don't even know who would have started on that team. I suspect it would have been McCover, Price, Jones, Patterson and Holmes but that means a 17 point per game scorer in Jeff Webster is coming off the bench along with Terry Evans, Bryan Sallie and Terrance Mullins. I really don't think Mullins and Sallier would have played much and they both averaged over 18 minutes a game (Mullins averaged 26 minutes a game in 1991). Good luck keeping those 8 guys under 100 points a game in Billy Tubbs' system.

 

[Tony]

What was the guys name that palyed for Tubbs around 1991 and had an incredible verticle. He threw down a 360 in Cameron Indoor.

Angelo Hamilton! ****ie V's head almost exploded with rage that he would dare do that in a game

 

[Sooner Season]

Yeah, I remember Angelo Hamilton. He was a great athlete but I remember Eschbach taking a lot of grief because he hyped him up so much as the top Juco player in the country but he never really excelled at OU. Kind of like Victor Avila, remember him? The top Juco center in the country that couldn't hardly start at OU. But Hamilton was much better than him.

 

[Tony]

He did dominate Chris Mihm once, though!

 

[DenverSooner]

Angelo Hamilton! ****ie V's head almost exploded with rage that he would dare do that in a game

I think you are only partially correct with this statement. **** Vitale's head almost exploded because he dared to do it against Duke. Had a Dukie done it against someone else he would praised the player and gone on and on about how great Duke is.

 

[Sooner Season]

Haha.......yeah, you are right Tony. I remember that. He went Kevin Mchale on them for one night. Talk about catching lightning in a bottle. He wasn't really a stiff, just not what you would expect at all from "the top juco center in the country". Of course, consider the source.

 

[KCRuf/Nek]

I always remember Pierce playing with the cast on his arm. He was a beast. In some ways that game in the Carrier Dome is my favorite. It was still new but no one went in there and won, let alone a team like us. I remember DJ(from KC!!) was tough in that game.

We were already on the map when we beat GTech but I still think that was the best dunk - when you look at everything like situation, meaning to the game, etc. Always remember Cremins ruined his suit sweating through it. Wayman had a pretty sweet jam at the end of that game too.

And you aren't the only one. My dad has tapes of every game going back to those times. There are boxes and boxes of them in the basement.