SaxaCD
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Post by SaxaCD on May 8, 2006 4:56:05 GMT -5
Ewing was a very important signing, but he was not the unanimous #1 center in that high school class. There were a lot of those in the media that pushed for Stuart Gray (UCLA) or Greg Dreiling (Wichita State) instead, thinking Ewing was too emotional and that he had not competed against top talent in Boston. Ewing did not even play in the McDonald's A-A game that season, while Gray and Dreiling did. (The center for the East was Louisville recruit Manuel Forrest.) The stars of that game were Adrian Branch and a unheralded UNC recruit named Mike Jordan. I support HoyaChris' assertion that the Dutch-Duren-Shelton signings were critical. Without those three, Georgetown doesn't get to a point that Ewing considers Georgetown among UNC and BC. As I recall, Ewing was considered a notch above those two, at least. It was only during the "silly season" of All-Star games that people started saying "Gray is even better than Ewing" and "Dreiling looks just as good or better than Pat Ewing". But during their recruitment, the only guy I ever saw featured on local news reports with video of dunking off a pass off the backboard was Ewing, and that was during his recruitment. The buzz was a lot higher around him than the other two, at least until the Burger game and a few of the other slopfests.
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FrazierFanatic
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Post by FrazierFanatic on May 8, 2006 14:03:25 GMT -5
Hoya fans were typically outraged that the 2 doofuses were even being mentioned in the same paragraph as Ewing. But there was at least some debate on some levels about the relayive merits and potential of the 3. Still, with the recruitment of a dominant recruit of that caliber, we felt like we were a contender for the national title; before that, we just hoped we could be.
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