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Post by Elvado on Mar 18, 2014 7:57:38 GMT -5
Clearly Pearl was talented and exciting. That said, he has absolutely no business getting recognition anywhere close to Ewing and Mullin. As pointed out in an earlier post, this was a clear "Bristolization" of history to suit the needs if the Newhouse Alumni Association.
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Post by dungeon ball on Mar 18, 2014 7:57:43 GMT -5
I thought Pearl was fun to watch, even if he did play for SUcks. Was he really more exciting to watch than AI tough, as Boeheim suggests?
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Post by hoyainspirit on Mar 18, 2014 8:14:40 GMT -5
I thought Pearl was fun to watch, even if he did play for SUcks. Was he really more exciting to watch than AI tough, as Boeheim suggests? Nope. He was really exciting, though.
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Post by MCIGuy on Mar 18, 2014 9:54:43 GMT -5
great show but way too much dwayne washington. they made it sound like this guy was as responsible for the success of the league than ewing was. they had small bits mentioning mullin and pinkney but that lard a$$ dwayne takes up half the show. the guy never won anything at syracuse. the only thing he is known for is the half court shot against bc and for being a monumental failure in the pros....and never being able to beat the hoyas when it mattered most. his gloating over the sucker punch to patrick in the BET made me hate him as much as i did watching it live as a 13 year old. he is the perfect poster child for su(ck) hoops... This!!! I started watching Hoya hoops when Mourning came around so Pearl is before my time and thus I never had a chance to see him in action. But in every interview I find him repugnant and smug. He seems to think very highly of himself even though all he was in the end was a very good "college" player who never won anything major and didn't even take his team to the Final Four. He is a local legend in NYC playgrounds and up at Syracuse but the rest of the world has mostly forgotten about him. As someone mentioned above there is no way he should be getting more facetime than Mullin who actually accomplished much more in college, far more in the pros and actually seems like a better human being. But then again I'm of the opinion that maybe folks are pumping up the Gtown-Syracuse rivalty over the Gtown-St. John's rivalry which was I believe the greater rivalry back in the mid 80s, right? Someone tell me if I'm wrong. And it is unimaginable to believe that the Pearl was more exciting than Iverson. Granted the Pearl played more years in college and he was more important to the success of the league than AI. But for a guy who is supposed to be so thrilling to watch you would think folks could come up with more than just the same five highlights they keep showing of him during his time at SU.
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Post by Elvado on Mar 18, 2014 9:57:53 GMT -5
Pearl was a self-important jerk in arrival at SU. Would three years under Magoo's watch make that better or worse?
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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 18, 2014 11:15:40 GMT -5
great show but way too much dwayne washington. they made it sound like this guy was as responsible for the success of the league than ewing was. they had small bits mentioning mullin and pinkney but that lard a$$ dwayne takes up half the show. the guy never won anything at syracuse. the only thing he is known for is the half court shot against bc and for being a monumental failure in the pros....and never being able to beat the hoyas when it mattered most. his gloating over the sucker punch to patrick in the BET made me hate him as much as i did watching it live as a 13 year old. he is the perfect poster child for su(ck) hoops... This!!! I started watching Hoya hoops when Mourning came around so Pearl is before my time and thus I never had a chance to see him in action. But in every interview I find him repugnant and smug. He seems to think very highly of himself even though all he was in the end was a very good "college" player who never won anything major and didn't even take his team to the Final Four. He is a local legend in NYC playgrounds and up at Syracuse but the rest of the world has mostly forgotten about him. As someone mentioned above there is no way he should be getting more facetime than Mullin who actually accomplished much more in college, far more in the pros and actually seems like a better human being. But then again I'm of the opinion that maybe folks are pumping up the Gtown-Syracuse rivalty over the Gtown-St. John's rivalry which was I believe the greater rivalry back in the mid 80s, right? Someone tell me if I'm wrong. And it is unimaginable to believe that the Pearl was more exciting than Iverson. Granted the Pearl played more years in college and he was more important to the success of the league than AI. But for a guy who is supposed to be so thrilling to watch you would think folks could come up with more than just the same five highlights they keep showing of him during his time at SU. It's kind of a mixed bag as to the greater rivalry between Hoyas-Redmen and Hoyas-Orangemen. In the years 82-5 it was probably slightly stronger Georgetown-St Johns because of the Ewing-Mullen overlap, but for the decade it was stronger Georgetown Syracuse, with the Manley game and 1987 being particularly important. And while I hate to say this, Pearl's game against us in the 1984 BET is the best performance against us that I can remember in my 40 years of watching Hoya hoops.
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Post by Filo on Mar 18, 2014 11:31:15 GMT -5
The SJU- GU rivalry should have been better, and it was for that period in 82-85, but the Cuse-GU rivalry then took front stage. A lot easier to truly despise Boeheim, Pearl, Coleman, et al. then anything SJU could bring to the table
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Post by Boz on Mar 18, 2014 11:40:45 GMT -5
And while I hate to say this, Pearl's game against us in the 1984 BET is the best performance against us that I can remember in my 40 years of watching Hoya hoops. Meh. Marshon Brooks says hi. But I will never tire of the 84 game, just because I know I'll get to see Magoo cry about it afterwards.
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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 18, 2014 11:47:37 GMT -5
And while I hate to say this, Pearl's game against us in the 1984 BET is the best performance against us that I can remember in my 40 years of watching Hoya hoops. Meh. Marshon Brooks says hi. But I will never tire of the 84 game, just because I know I'll get to see Magoo cry about it afterwards. Marshon Brooks was not being guarded by Gene Smith.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Mar 18, 2014 11:55:35 GMT -5
Meh. Marshon Brooks says hi. But I will never tire of the 84 game, just because I know I'll get to see Magoo cry about it afterwards. Marshon Brooks was not being guarded by Gene Smith. This. As great a defender as was Gene, that was quite a performance by the Pearl. I'd take Gene in a match up with Brooks any day.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2014 11:56:26 GMT -5
Meh. Marshon Brooks says hi. But I will never tire of the 84 game, just because I know I'll get to see Magoo cry about it afterwards. Marshon Brooks was not being guarded by Gene Smith. As much as I hate him, the JJ Reddick performance against us was pretty impressive. Fortunately, we're able to overlook it because we won....
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Post by Boz on Mar 18, 2014 13:00:25 GMT -5
Good point about Gene Smith. And we won all of those games, Pearl, Brooks and Redick, so they can all eat it!
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Post by Elvado on Mar 18, 2014 13:25:44 GMT -5
I seen to recall Danny Callandrillo hanging 38 on the '82 Hoyas team that had both Gene and Eric Smith, not to mention a pre injury Freddie Briwn.
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Post by HoyaFanNY on Mar 18, 2014 18:23:03 GMT -5
JR Rider shredded us for 40 pts in '93 i think. unlv blew our doors off. that was the most dominant performance against us i have ever watched.
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Post by MCIGuy on Mar 18, 2014 21:10:40 GMT -5
JR Rider shredded us for 40 pts in '93 i think. unlv blew our doors off. that was the most dominant performance against us i have ever watched. Don't even remind me of that debacle.
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Post by hoyasexy on Mar 18, 2014 21:54:28 GMT -5
If we're comparing Pearl to Georgetown guards and measuring by how exciting they were, he's clearly not in AI's class. No one is. The better comparison would be Charles Smith. It's no disrespect to Pearl to say that he and Smitty are comparables.
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Post by Hoyaholic on Mar 19, 2014 1:34:48 GMT -5
Iverson was an athlete the likes of which we hadn't yet seen when he arrived on the hilltop. He also had the much better NBA career. But anyone who claims he had even a fraction of the college impact that Pearl had must not have been alive at the time.
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Post by guru on Mar 19, 2014 4:14:02 GMT -5
Iverson was an athlete the likes of which we hadn't yet seen when he arrived on the hilltop. He also had the much better NBA career. But anyone who claims he had even a fraction of the college impact that Pearl had must not have been alive at the time. 100% correct.
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Post by Filo on Mar 19, 2014 7:48:51 GMT -5
If we're comparing Pearl to Georgetown guards and measuring by how exciting they were, he's clearly not in AI's class. No one is. The better comparison would be Charles Smith. It's no disrespect to Pearl to say that he and Smitty are comparables. Sorry, that's just bad. Not even in the same ballpark. And I detest Cuse and detested Pearl back then.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2014 14:50:12 GMT -5
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