Your best OU player of all-time.

[cvangild]

There seems to be a plit on this topic. I picked a few years during the Tubbs years and listed the starting backcourt. Who do you think would have started?

-1987 - Rickey Grace & Tim McCallister = I don't see Hollis starting on this team

1988 - Grace & Blaylock - Nope

1989 - Evans & Mookie - if you're talking both of their freshman years, then i pick evans. if it was how good they were as seniors then I say Hollis...Mookie just would have ran the point.

1990 - Evans / McCovery / T. Mullins - I think Hollis would defintely start on this team

1991 - Evans & Price - For Evans, see above. Price > Hollis

Thoughts?

 

[DenverSooner]

I think it is really hard to say with some of those teams but Hollis definitely plays a lot on most of them.

For a change of pace who would you say is the best OSU basketball player of all time? Big Country, Richard Dumas, Byron Houston or someone else?

 

[152219]

I think it is really hard to say with some of those teams but Hollis definitely plays a lot on most of them.

For a change of pace who would you say is the best OSU basketball player of all time? Big Country, Richard Dumas, Byron Houston or someone else?

Bob Kurland in a landslide

 

[sybarite]

I never saw Gerald Tucker, but I have heard that he was about as good as any of them. From what I have seen, given the era, I don't think there is any doubt as to the best all-around player, the player who rebuilt OU---Alvan Adams.

I don't think those of you who favor Wayman so fervently ever watched Adams as both a scorer and a passer. He made everyone better. Without Alvan, that team would have been dead last in an NAIA conference. He made it competitive. I have never seen a better passer in a big man. He wasn't as obvious as Wayman, but he had all the moves. They were just more subtle.

Tisdale is probably the second, although I would like to have seen Tucker. I did see Lester Lane, and he was as cool as a point can get. I have a very high regard for Lane, and I wish he had lived to show OU how good he could have been as a coach.

Mookie, Ray, Sidle, and Najera also earned my respect.

Blake is a bigger pro star than a college star.

 

[NormanPride]

If I'm building a team of greats, I want Hollis on it.

 

[stoops4pres]

I never saw Gerald Tucker, but I have heard that he was about as good as any of them. From what I have seen, given the era, I don't think there is any doubt as to the best all-around player, the player who rebuilt OU---Alvan Adams.

I don't think those of you who favor Wayman so fervently ever watched Adams as both a scorer and a passer. He made everyone better. Without Alvan, that team would have been dead last in an NAIA conference. He made it competitive. I have never seen a better passer in a big man. He wasn't as obvious as Wayman, but he had all the moves. They were just more subtle.

Tisdale is probably the second, although I would like to have seen Tucker. I did see Lester Lane, and he was as cool as a point can get. I have a very high regard for Lane, and I wish he had lived to show OU how good he could have been as a coach.

Mookie, Ray, Sidle, and Najera also earned my respect.

Blake is a bigger pro star than a college star.

"Bigger pro star..." in what terms? Marketability? Relevance? Performance over the opposition?

 

[Dcox]

hollis would not have started on tons of the tubbs teams

+1

 

[MNsooner]

"Bigger pro star..." in what terms? Marketability? Relevance? Performance over the opposition?

Right? He won the Naismith in college. The nearest NBS equivalent is the MVP. Seems to me that he hasn't dominated the NBA like he did college.

 

[skyvue]

So I guess Hollis would have shut down Danny Manning?? Have you seen the game?

I saw the game. It wasn't Manning who beat us; it was his teammates playing over their heads.

Manning always got his points, but we still beat KU twice during the regular season. It was KU's supporting players (with an assist from the home crowd) who made the difference in the title game.

 

[luckyc1423]

My favorite Players:

Note: I didnt start watching OU basketball real heavy until I was like a junior/senior in highschool. I am a "younger" guy so really I can only count from 2000 on.

My list:

1) Hollis
2) Blake
3) Najera
4) Taj Gray (i just loved him at OU, the blocks he had)