My All time Team

[MNsooner]

1 - Lester Lane
2 - Mookie Blaylock
3 - Blake Griffin
4 - Alvan Adams
5 - Wayman Tisdale

Blake absolutely wasn't a 3 in college.

 

[tycat947]

Just some people to consider:

Don Sidle
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/sidledo01.html

Clifford Ray
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/raycl01.html
Rick Barry on offense, and Clifford on defense won the NBA title.

Gar Heard
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/heardga01.html

A number of Sooners:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/colleges.cgi?college=oklahoma

Geez! I forgot all about Clifford and Garfield! I think they were both playing in Norman about the time I started listening to radio broadcasts with my Dad. A long time ago....

I do enjoy seeing them at the OU Alumni game since Lon has been here.

 

[bgrch1350]

Blake absolutely wasn't a 3 in college.

He did bring the ball up quite a bit.

 

[WTSooner]

I'm not going back 50 years, as I want to picture my team playing the current style of ball, and that is tough to do with guys from that far back.

I'm also basing this on their entire time at OU, and not anything before or after, or just one season (sorry Buddy).

I'd go:

PG - Blaylock
SG - Hollis Price
OG - Minor
PF - Ace/Eduardo
C - King

Tough to leave Brewer off the list, and some others. I left Blake off b/c I'm not a big fan. I left Buddy off b/c the other guards had better careers, even though Buddy is probably having the best season ever for an OU guard.

 

[MNsooner]

He did bring the ball up quite a bit.

He really didn't. He occasionally ran the fast break, but WW and AJ brought the ball up on nearly every possession.

 

[KBaden145]

I'm not going back 50 years, as I want to picture my team playing the current style of ball, and that is tough to do with guys from that far back.

I'm also basing this on their entire time at OU, and not anything before or after, or just one season (sorry Buddy).

I'd go:

PG - Blaylock
SG - Hollis Price
OG - Minor
PF - Ace/Eduardo
C - King

Tough to leave Brewer off the list, and some others. I left Blake off b/c I'm not a big fan. I left Buddy off b/c the other guards had better careers, even though Buddy is probably having the best season ever for an OU guard.

Interesting picks. Disagree but interesting.


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[chuckb]

Some of you young guys just don't realize how good Alvan Adams was. He was rated the #1 HS player in the nation. His first game as a freshman he scored 34 points and got 28 rebounds. He left OU after his junior year when he scored 26.5 points and 13.3 rebounds a game. He was NBA rookie of the year and averaged 14.1 points over 13 seasons for the Phoenix Suns. The guy could do it all: Pass, shoot, rebound, and defend.

He has to be on any all-time Sooner team.

Adams absolutely must be on the team. He's as essential as Tisdale.

 

[Soonerlover12]

I don't understand how you can say buddy has had 1 good year? He was big 12 player of the year as a junior and will probably win the wooden award this year. As a sophomore he averaged 15. We all can have an opinion and that's yours. But you can't say buddy has only had 1 year!

I'm not going back 50 years, as I want to picture my team playing the current style of ball, and that is tough to do with guys from that far back.

I'm also basing this on their entire time at OU, and not anything before or after, or just one season (sorry Buddy).

I'd go:

PG - Blaylock
SG - Hollis Price
OG - Minor
PF - Ace/Eduardo
C - King

Tough to leave Brewer off the list, and some others. I left Blake off b/c I'm not a big fan. I left Buddy off b/c the other guards had better careers, even though Buddy is probably having the best season ever for an OU guard.

 

[bgrch1350]

I don't understand how you can say buddy has had 1 good year? He was big 12 player of the year as a junior and will probably win the wooden award this year. As a sophomore he averaged 15. We all can have an opinion and that's yours. But you can't say buddy has only had 1 year!

I can't believe he put ACE and Najera over Griffin and Tisdale and Adams.

 

[perryj74]

Threads like this show you who to read and who to skim past while viewing threads

 

[Sooner04]

Threads like this show you who to read and who to skim past while viewing threads

Hey! Lester Lane was the starting point guard on the 1960 Olympic team! He won a gold medal!

 

[sybarite]

I'm old enough to have watched each of the players mentioned. In fact, the first college game that I saw in person was 1953 in Lincoln in which OU beat Nebraska with Lester Lane at the point. I had no clue about basketball at the time. But, I also got to see Lester Lane in the Olympics. He was pretty good. I also met him and helped him enroll in a class when he went to graduate school about a month or so before he was hired at the coach at OU. His premature death prevented what might have been a very successful coaching career at OU. By today's standards, he wouldn't be a starter. At the time, he was probably among the best ten point guards in the nation in 1960.

I don't know that many of the pre-1990 players could compete today. I suspect that Alvan and Wayman would still find a way to contribute effectively. I think Clifford Ray would still be a good shot blocker and rebounder. But, you don't say that Jim Thorpe was a bad athlete because he couldn't win a highschool track meet today. He was by far the best at that time. By today''s standards, Aristotle was an idiot. We play with what we have at the time.

 

[NickZepp]

We've got so many great post players it's hard to leave one off. Adams, King, Griffin, and Tisdale. Seriously who do you leave off? What about Harvey Grant too?

 

[perryj74]

Hey! Lester Lane was the starting point guard on the 1960 Olympic team! He won a gold medal!

'04 you're definitely safe!

I do love threads like this because it gets me to look at the history of OU hoops and the players.

 

[sybarite]

Grant was a power forward in style.

For a one--game performance by an unremembered OU post, I nominate 6-7 Joe King who in 1958 held the great Wilt Chamberlain down as OU beat KU in Norman, 64-62. OU tied for fourth in the Big Eight in its first year with a 5-7 record, 13-10 overall. It was a gutsy performance.

 

[sybarite]

Gerald Tucker must have been a pretty good post. He took us to the finals against Holy Cross and Bob Cousy in 47. He scored 22 in the finals.

 

[DenverSooner]

We've got so many great post players it's hard to leave one off. Adams, King, Griffin, and Tisdale. Seriously who do you leave off? What about Harvey Grant too?

I agree and you left off Grant, Najerra (if you call him a post) and arguably some others.

 

[bgrch1350]

We've got so many great post players it's hard to leave one off. Adams, King, Griffin, and Tisdale. Seriously who do you leave off? What about Harvey Grant too?

We have quite a few guards to. Price, Hield, Brewer, Erdmann, Minor, Blaylock, McCalister, and many more.

 

[NickZepp]

Outside of Blaylock and maybe Brent Price OU hasn't had a lot of successful guards in the pros. All of the bigs I mentioned were good pros outside of maybe King.

 

[bgrch1350]

Outside of Blaylock and maybe Brent Price OU hasn't had a lot of successful guards in the pros. All of the bigs I mentioned were good pros outside of maybe King.

Thats true...but being a good pro shouldn't take away from their dominant college career.