UT's All-time Greatest Basketball Player

[General Jack]

For comedic purposes only, anyone remember the 1989 starting line up, what a motley crue of characters...

Doug Roth
Dyron Nix
Travis Henry

and Clearance Swearengen (?), who was the only normal looking guy out there.

I forget the 5th starter, someone help me...

 

[TennNC]

For comedic purposes only, anyone remember the 1989 starting line up, what a motley crue of characters...

Doug Roth
Dyron Nix
Travis Henry

and Clearance Swearengen (?), who was the only normal looking guy out there.

I forget the 5th starter, someone help me...

Mark Griffin?

 

[cotton]

And if Lofton has a year like last year or even better this year you can't deny him a spot near Houston just because you feel like basking in his former glory. Also - remember when looking at stats - It was all on Houston then and Lofton had a lot of help his first year with Watson and last year with the frosh talent.

Glad you edited that. I was about to remark that Lofton has no shot at Houston's scoring record.

Chris Lofton is a fine player, and I'm very glad he is in orange. As I said before, he is on the short list of Vol greats in the sport. Allan Houston was simply better. He had Lofton's scoring skills, was a better passer, defender, and rebounder, and was 4 inches taller.

 

[General Jack]

Mark Griffin?

You might be right, sounds like it could be... I tried to find a team picture but to no avail... internet let me down!

What a team that was, 40% of our starting line up came from Karns high school, and Dyron Nix had the soul glow.

 

[Bassmanbruno]

Glad you edited that. I was about to remark that Lofton has no shot at Houston's scoring record.

Chris Lofton is a fine player, and I'm very glad he is in orange. As I said before, he is on the short list of Vol greats in the sport. Allan Houston was simply better. He had Lofton's scoring skills, was a better passer, defender, and rebounder, and was 4 inches taller.

Yeah I caught that - was in the heat of the moment and wasn't paying much attention to what I was writing.

 

[TennNC]

You might be right, sounds like it could be... I tried to find a team picture but to no avail... internet let me down!

What a team that was, 40% of our starting line up came from Karns high school, and Dyron Nix had the soul glow.

Mark Griffin's signature move was, after hitting a three, to raise his arms in the air (the "3" signal) while running back down the court.

Was Greg Bell on that team? He could hit some long-distance shots.

 

[General Jack]

Mark Griffin's signature move was, after hitting a three, to raise his arms in the air (the "3" signal) while running back down the court.

Was Greg Bell on that team? He could hit some long-distance shots.

I thought Bell was a year or two earlier - didn't he play at the inception of the 3 point line and opening of Thomspon Boling Arena (1987)? He was a good shooter. Hadn't thought about guy in a while...

 

[Godfatha]

1. Bernard King... there's not question about this. This guy was dominant even in the NBA and scored like Jordan before getting injured.

2. Dale Ellis

3. Chris Lofton... why Chris Lofton versus Allan Houston? Well, I debated it, and both are great pure shooters on an equal level, in my opinion. Defensively, I would actually give slight advantage to Lofton. Making shots in the clutch...would have to give an advantage to Lofton here as well, although Houston did not get many opportunities to make clutch shots because the teams and the coaching he had were so horrible.

4. Allan Houston

5. Reggie Johnson


Funny list

1. Kevin Nash (he was in Grandma's Boy, what more could you ask for?)
2. Doug Roth (the goggles, the bird)
3. Gannon Goodson (noone could defend Shaq like Gannon)
4. Lang Wiseman (had an awesome mullet)
5. Chris Brand (supposed Mr. Indiana Basketball, played against him in pickup games and he was not impressive at all)