Last Game for Dale Ellis at Stokely (ESPN Video)

[VOLnMiami]

Man Stokely was tiny lol. I can't believe we played in there

Oh it was a great place to see a game and a house of horrors for many teams that came in there....Just ask Kentucky...We dominated them there for several years....No team was happier to see UT move into TBA than UK...Stokley held 12,600 and it was loud as hell in there....Lots of great memories of that palce.

 

[VOLnMiami]

thats a good one hat. lol i remember them good ole days. i miss the ole stokley atheletic center. imagine michael brooks playing in the day with a 3point line. i think he could shoot with chris lofton any day. and dale ellis was just a great ball player. i remember he pratically shut down the famous 7 4 ralph sampson in the ncaas

Actually Dale was a forward and never guarded Sampson...Howard Wood shut down Sampson the first time they played...Held him to just 9 points....Jeff Lamb killed us that game...The following year Sampson did much better but We lead the entire game until the end....That game made me sick. :sick:

 

[Ari Silverstein]

Didn't we have one of those rubber floors? Those things were awful - the basketball version of artificial turf.

Yes and it was past awful. I played on several of these floors. The attraction was that is was cheap to install, cheap to maintain.

This rubberized surface could be poured in colors that wood could not. Solid orange perimeters and foul lanes.

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[Ari Silverstein]

Love the counsel on Charles Barkely who was advised to "lose 30-40 pounds and stay away from Mom's cooking"

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[YorkVol]

Does anyone else remember when Sir Charles played at Stokely that everytime he came down the court the fans held up pizza boxes?

They also used to put The Daily Beacon in every seat on the student side for the Ky game and when they annouced the Ky lineup we all held the papers up like we were reading them. Then when they started to announce the UT lineup they were thrown in the air

Yep, and remember we all yelled "Sit Joe Sit" when Brown would pace the sideline, then go crazy when he finally sat down!

But, did you notice the Pitt did the same to us last week, pulled the newspaper trick out of the old hat, but to no avail.:yes:

 

[Chilmonty]

Dale Ellis was fluid grace in motion!

He would get the ball in the post and it would be in the basket before the defender new he had it!

He was a joy to watch! :rock:

 

[All Vol!]

Is it just me, or does the intro voice sound a little like George W?